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

A figure illustrating the SequeLink solution to scenario 2. A Windows 2000 client connects to SequeLink Server for Oracle for employee information in an Oracle database on AIX. A UNIX client accesses production information in a DB2 database on z/OS.

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.