> # Scenario 2

> International Motor Corporation is an automobile manufacturer with several IT implementations. There is no current centralization, but management has decided to control costs through streamlined, thin-client desktop standardization. The company wants to provide better service to remote sites, eventually evolving a system offering a single, company-wide view of all available information.

> ### Technology Issues

> Technology issues include the reuse of business logic across applications and the deployment of centralized views of company business systems.

> ### Environment

> The current environment includes Windows and UNIX clients. The Windows clients are standardized on Microsoft Office applications as well as specific business intelligence and third-party tools. The UNIX clients run legacy UNIX ODBC applications. Databases are maintained using DB2 for z/OS and Oracle on AIX.

> ### SequeLink® Solution

> The client machines use a combination of applications on Windows and UNIX that require the SequeLink Client for ODBC on both platforms as shown in Figure 2-2.

> Figure 2-2. Scenario 2

> In this example, you install the SequeLink Client for ODBC on the client machine and SequeLink Servers for DB2 for z/OS and Oracle on the database servers.