Cost Effective
FAMIS Software anticipates saving thousands of dollars in on-going maintenance by using Pervasive’s tool-based integration.
Competitive Advantage
With affordable, embedded integration, FAMIS Software is able to address customer migration and integration needs reliably and rapidly, providing it with a competitive advantage across its three market sectors. Further, embedding a robust integration platform frees up FAMIS Software developers to focus on core competencies that further drive business opportunities in existing and new market sectors.
Extensibility
Pervasive Data Integrator gives FAMIS Software the ability to integrate with applications, databases and legacy systems that it formerly could not support. Additionally, as the company brings forward new offerings and targets new markets, it can leverage the 150+ adapters from Pervasive to provide powerful migration and integration.
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Workplace management software firm's customers expect seamless integration
FAMIS Software provides fully adaptive and integrated workplace management software to the education, public sector and corporate markets. The company offers solutions covering all aspects of a facility’s life cycle. FAMIS has allowed customers to achieve improved spatial inventory management, asset tracking and move management, among many other options.
FAMIS Software customers now expect seamless integration when they exchange data between their existing systems and the company’s integrated workplace management solutions. According to the company, all its customers need initial data migration into the FAMIS application, and 80% of them need ongoing integration. To meet increasing customer demand for rapid, predictable data migration and application integration while containing costs and freeing up valuable developers, the company chose the agile, embeddable integration offered by Pervasive® Data Integrator™.
Custom code fails to meet vertical markets' requirements
FAMIS Software wanted to help its customers achieve quick and accurate data migration and cost-effective integration to a variety of back-office systems. Historically, FAMIS Software relied on its own proprietary integration technology. However, FAMIS Software faced increasing challenges in creating custom code to effectively address its different vertical markets, and maintenance and updates were proving costly. Rather than continue to invest large amounts of time, expense and resources to update and maintain proprietary integration, the company sought an alternative approach. It would need to be cost-effective, it needed to be seamlessly embeddable inside FAMIS Software’s applications, and it had to offer integration capabilities that would allow their applications to quickly and affordably integrate with other systems such as financial, ERP, facilities management and various other legacy and IT systems with a range of data formats.
Embedded Pervasive Data Integrator cost-effective, easy-to-deploy for customers in market sectors
FAMIS Software explored third-party tools and quickly found Pervasive Data Integrator™ to be well-suited to the demands of FAMIS Software’s current markets while offering the flexibility to expand effectively into new market segments. FAMIS Software embedded Pervasive Data Integrator in its flagship product, FAMIS Xi & FAMIS 8i. The company now can offer rapid, affordable data migration and ongoing application integration to transfer information between disparate systems as a key competitive differentiator. In addition, FAMIS Software is equipped to deliver more agile and cost-effective integration capabilities to customers that have come to expect flexibility in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.
“Using Pervasive Data Integrator, we have already had successful deployments for both the University of Connecticut and Northwestern University. Pervasive integration tools give us cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solutions for customers in all three of our major market sectors,” said Dave Levenstein, Manager of Business Development for FAMIS Software. Pervasive has allowed an important array of IT, financial and other legacy systems to be successfully integrated with FAMIS Software. As a result, the completeness and accuracy of customers’ purchasing and billing functions have improved and they enjoy more self-service enablement.
In the case of the University of Connecticut, a major project for FAMIS Software that has led to increased recognition of the company’s capabilities, Pervasive Data Integrator helped migrate and integrate flat files generated from a FRS mainframe into FAMIS Software. Not only did Pervasive Data Integrator allow read and creation of multirecord flat files, FAMIS Software consultants quickly and easily mapped FAMIS Software to legacy files using table and form triggers. Consultants also liked the ability to quickly test and validate processes using Pervasive. Pleased with the experience for both FAMIS Software and the University, Levenstein points out that the university of Connecticut can now rely on scheduled bi-directional data integration. For this customer and others, FAMIS Software now can create on-demand interfaces, conduct error logging and archiving, provide more secure FTP transfers and run Oracle code from Pervasive interfaces.
Seamless integration without the burden of custom code
Embedding Pervasive Data Integrator has allowed FAMIS Software to offer scalable, easy, affordable integration to its customers while allocating technical resources to further its industry-leading solutions and develop other solutions for market expansion. As FAMIS Software Manager of Business Development, Dave Levenstein sees it, “Customers and prospects today expect a new vendor to integrate seamlessly with all their systems, including SOA-based applications. We need a solution that can affordably speed data exchange between disparate systems and applications without placing any burden on the customer. Pervasive Data Integrator™ allows us to deliver on that expectation and turn integration into a competitive advantage, today and in the future.”
Levenstein also emphasizes, “The ability to transfer info between systems is paramount in all opportunities. The Pervasive tool leapfrogs all our earlier integration tools. Our old technology was robust but technology changes fast, and in the world of standards-based, SOA architecture – you need to push information back and forth between different systems.”
Pervasive Data Integrator to play role in FAMIS'
Web services
Levenstein wants to grow his company’s value to customers in new and existing lines of business. Looking ahead, he comments, “Today all development is standards-based. Ultimately FAMIS Software hopes to leverage Pervasive Data Integrator™ together with the FAMIS Xi architecture so that using a standards-based, service oriented architecture we can interact with any database, customer portal or workflow engine.”
Levenstein also likes the way Pervasive Data Integrator is keeping pace with industry trends like SOA. “The SOA friendly architecture of Pervasive Data Integrator version 9 complements the Web services-based architecture in the new release of FAMIS Xi,” Levenstein notes “As we enhance our architecture to offer FAMIS capabilities as Web services, we can leverage the continuing innovation that Pervasive demonstrates in its new Pervasive Data Integrator releases.”
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