Adapters On Demand

The iWay Universal Adapter Suite currently provides 300 adapters that support sophisticated metadata generation, event handling, and service interactions. But if you have a requirement that we don't currently support – application, data source, protocol, envelope, format, platform, or other technology, iWay Software can create adapters on demand to suit your specific environment.

Instead of writing new adapters (or hiring a small army of consultants to do so), you can let iWay Software be your adapter factory – just as we are the adapter factory for leading integration vendors like BEA, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Sonic. The iWay Universal Adapter Suite allows our experienced staff to create new adapters much more rapidly than you could starting from scratch or using an adapter development kit, largely because of our superior support for adaptive technology along four dimensions:

	Protocol for sending a receiving messages, such as HTTP or MQSeries
	Envelope for addressing and delivering the messages, such as SOAP
	Format schema for message payload, such XML with XML Schema
	Platform, such as BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft BizTalk Server, or SAP NetWeaver

Adapters can be created on demand for applications, data sources, and other infrastructure to suit your needs along any of these dimensions. If you change your environment later, then we can support your needs using existing iWay adapters or extensions along the dimension you need.

Our on-demand adapters use the iWay Universal Adapter Suite as their foundation, so they provide the same benefits as those that we have already built:

	Support from a committed vendor instead of your in-house or consulting resources
	Middleware created to support exactly the use cases you need
	Extensibility along any dimension with minimal effort (e.g., for deployment in a new server)
	Reuse of adapter capabilities along any dimension that doesn't need to be created (e.g., for reuse with EDIINT as well as Web services)
	Full documentation, like any other middleware product
	Cost reductions achieved by spreading development expenses among all companies that need an adapter for that type of product

In short, acquiring an on-demand adapter from iWay Software has many benefits, combining all the best features of "buy" with the best features of "build."