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After months of hunkering down in our NWC Inc. lab, we believe that any product tested will meet most companies' integration needs. The question is, which will do it for the least cash?
Our answer: Sybase's Integration Orchestrator. Orchestrator is a masterful stroke in the EAI realm, blending cutting-edge Web services technology with tried-and-true open transport concepts on a hub-and-spoke architecture. UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) support and the ability--unique among rivals--to "package" an EAI "service" as a Web service are major pluses in today's adaptive IT architectures. Making an EAI transaction that can be called from any Web page removes your dependency on database transactions or custom code to kick off a transaction. Dollar for dollar, Integration Orchestrator delivers more functionality and better management capabilities at a quarter of the cost of any other product we tested, earning it our Editor's Choice award.
Integration Orchestrator 4.0 is a brand-new product. The disk set we got for testing was still warm from the oven--it was the same set that went to manufacturing for this release.
Orchestrator stands out from the crowd in many ways. Some of its added functionality is just a question of release timing, but it shows a clear future vision that pegs Web services as an integral part of EAI.
The installation process involved several well-documented steps, and it went off without a hitch. Configuration was pretty simple as well, with the exception of making JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) work correctly--this problem also plagued most other products. Once we had the system installed, we started to set up the transactions, first by making a database connection that could be used by the business process. Orchestrator, like almost all the other products we tested, became troublesome at this point. Connecting to databases using JDBC, as well as getting the connection to return valid data, was difficult.
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