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User-To-System integration can be expanded to address different aspects of this technology:
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User Interfaces and Productivity Tools: Includes reports, screens, web pages,
portals and documents. These are the software components most visible to the user
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Data Access Technology: Productivity Tools usually contain their own data access processes;
however there now exists a category of software which specifically addresses the complexities of data access,
called Enterprise Information Integration (EII). EII middleware is used to provide a common
gateway and one-point database access, in order to simplify the data access
process.
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These user-interface categories are all common in business computing:
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Reports | Data from one or more database applications
can be queried and reported to the user in a read-only manner (on screen, paper, PDF, etc).
Reporting is part of most applications, but can also be performed externally by a reporting tool
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Legacy Apps | The term "Legacy Application"
means any existing database application with its own user interface. User interfaces
range from terminal-based, to DOS/character-based, to Windows and Web-based.
Data access is two-way through a dedicated, stand-alone program. |
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Portals | Portals were created to increase user
efficiency by customizing the interface to legacy applications. They are typically
Web-based and combine access to multiple data sources. Data access can be two-way
and is "manual," meaning that the user initiates data lookup's. |
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Documents | Productivity tools, such as Word, Excel and Outlook
are document-based applications. The documents, themselves, become part of an organization's
information collection (documents are called "unstructured" data because they do not reside in a database).
The content of documents also relates to traditional structured data in the enterprise.
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How Do These User Interface Categories Relate to Veraterm?
Veraterm creates document-based links to relevant information, based on the content of the user's workspace.
Data access can be one or two-way and is "automatic," meaning that the user does not need to initiate
data lookup's. Veraterm integration is automatic and context-sensitive.
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Veraterm can be used to open reports from within a document. Which reports?
The ones that are relevant to the information in the document! |
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Veraterm can be used to access data in Legacy Apps from within a document. Which data?
The records of entities (accounts, clients, patients, customers, products, seminars, services, etc)
identified by the Veraterm parser so that the user does not need to initiate lookup's. |
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Veraterm operates as a portal to information in multiple systems.
The difference is the automatic document interface inherent to Veraterm
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Veraterm is complimentary to Legacy Applications, Reporting and Productivity Tools.
Veraterm and Portals overlap in functionality, with separate indications.
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 Portals and Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
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