At our recent webinars on options for Sun/SeeBeyond integration customers, Gevik delivered a great presentation summarizing the options and pros/cons of each.  In response to popular demand, we’ve made the presentation available on our new resources page on the NextGate web-site.  Now if you attended the webinar and want a refresher on the options, or if you missed it and would still like to see the presentation, you can do so.

You will see a few other items on the resources page including links to some of our datasheets and a summary of our social networking resources.  We will be adding much more here so come back and visit often, or watch this blog.

We held a webinar today covering what options customers of DataGate, eGate, ICAN, SRE, TRE, and Java CAPS have for their integration strategy going forward and how NextGate can help.  In particular, we addressed how investments in Monk can be leveraged and converted resulting in a 50% cost savings over a complete rewrite of those artifacts.  We had a fantastic turnout and many attendees asked great questions we were happy to answer.

If you missed the webinar today, you are in luck as we have a second one scheduled for next Wednesday June 30th at 8:00 am PDT.  Click here to learn more and register.  If you did attend but still have questions, feel free to contact us at info@nextgate.com.

Since our last blog we have made significant progress towards our newest product: a cost effective and pragmatic interface engine that contains one of the world’s strongest parsing technologies!  Yes, that’s right.  We have developed the NextGate Integration Platform, a powerful, flexible and affordable interface engine combined with full featured parsing technology reminiscent of the capabilities of Monk. Needless to say, the customers and partners we have spoken with recently are ecstatic about what we have available and what is planned on our roadmap.

A) On the Parsing technology — We are code complete and have a full, industry grade, generic message parsing technology in Java which lends itself to faster and optimized (some may call it compact) coding in Java. Those of you who know Monk remember all the cool features such as Node-to-Node copy, data-map, indexed-based-leaf-data-access, and the like. Well, those are now available to you, today, in Java. As a major added benefit, the parser facilitates conversion efforts for STC/SeeBeyond eGate/SRE customers.  The parser enables:

1) Monk Message Structure (SSC/ETD) conversion to Java Classes (100% ready and available)

2) Monk Code (TSC/Monk) conversion to Java Classes (75% of Tier 1 Monk functions converted, including “iq-put”, “iq-get” and “event-send”).

B) On the Interface Engine — We have decided to use JBoss ESB as a base, pragmatic platform for all the value-added features an organization would need in order to have an efficient and affordable interface engine. So, we’ve taken JBoss ESB, added our parsing technology, added HL7 adaptors, and added our Tracking and Monitoring technology for useful, actionable, and user-friendly alerting and troubleshooting procedures.  The system will be ready to roll out in a few short months.

We will be scheduling a webinar soon. Stay tuned for updates and details on the webinar and other product news.

On another note, I must say that I’m a bit miffed at why Apple and Adobe, two companies I deeply respect, are going head to head on Flash. You may have read recently that Steve Jobs claims Flash is more closed than the iPhone and Apple technologies. I love my iPhone and I love Flash and I don’t know how to react. I think these smart people will eventually put their not-so-different differences aside and do what’s good for the users of both technologies.

Happy coding!