As you exploit e-business opportunities that leverage host information and extend it to entirely new populations- of users including remote employees, business partners, and customers, your systems will have to bear the brunt of volumes of new access requests. Many of these requests will come from unknown entities, under-scoring security risks inherent in allowing access via the Internet. These dynamics are a recipe for exponentially increasing complexity, escalating costs, and a staggering demand for IT expertise already in short supply.

A one-of-its-kind management platform, e-Vantage is designed to address and manage the complexity e-business brings to host access. It's the only solution that establishes the necessary infrastructure for evolving to e-business.

Unmatched freedom of choice and a clear evolution path.
e-Vantage is a server-based solution that makes it easy to adapt to ever-changing business objectives and leverage advances in technology. With e-Vantage, you're never irreversibly committed to just one technology path. Whether it's the IBM® host integration strategy, the Microsoft® COM/Windows® DNA model, or industry-wide Java™ /CORBA standards, e-Vantage is the only solution that works with it all to give you unmatched freedom of choice.  You're empowered to allow your enterprise to naturally evolve to e-business at its own pace - driven only by your own business objectives.

Organizations moving to e-business face challenges.
e-Vantage clears the evolution path by offering a number of viable options for overcoming those challenges. Its open architecture gives you the flexibility to rapidly adapt to changing business objectives and incorporate technology advances as needed or desired. A common technology foundation ensures that when your organization is ready to progress to the next step, much of what you'll need will already be in place, and the evolution path will be clear-cut.

Capitalize on opportunities faster with custom e-business applications.
The component-based architecture underneath e-Vantage enables IT professionals to rapidly respond to new business opportunities by developing custom e-business applications. An object-oriented foundation - made up of a common set of discrete host access components - serves as a rapid e-business application deployment platform. With e-Vantage, you're poised to respond quickly to emerging market opportunities and begin capturing new business immediately with custom e-business applications that leverage existing data and business logic.

e-Vantage provides complete data presentation flexibility, empowering IT professionals to address the broadest spectrum of user access and interface needs with custom-tailored e-business solutions. Organisations can leverage e-Vantage to blend dissimilar information systems into powerful e-business solutions with custom views of business information.

e-Vantage embraces the technology advances that make it possible to develop e-business applications that rival traditional desktop applications in terms of interactivity and functionality. Developing custom e-business applications with e-Vantage doesn't have to mean learning proprietary technologies or employing scarce, specialized expertise. e-Vantage works with widely used visual development tools as well as industry-standard technologies: Java, ActiveX®, TCP/IP, Windows NT®, and more.