The Synapse™ architecture provides a framework with which the modern electronic business can react to change. The world is rapidly becoming inter-connected and inter-dependent. For a business to compete effectively, it needs an efficient environment with which it can produce a rapid solution that integrates with existing legacy systems and yet-to-be-defined future systems. The traditional approach of custom programming (even RAD - Rapid Application Development) cannot keep up with this new demand. Mergers, electronic trading partners, portals, collaborative manufacturing, and customer resource management all bring constantly changing business processes, requiring continuous maintenance to the informational systems supporting these processes.
A new architecture is needed that reacts in business terms not programmer terms - an environment capable of defining and maintaining the entire business' topology in business process terms. It must extend the functionality of legacy systems, integrate rapidly, and provide for business functionality extension. It must be extendable to quickly embrace and deploy new standards as they emerge without starting over to re-create the application. This new architecture is Synapse. from Integrated Business Systems and Services, Inc.
On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Businesses today routinely do millions of sub-second real-time transactions per day. Systems that support these operations can have hundreds or even thousands of concurrent users. Synapse was designed to specifically handle this level of transaction load. Synapse was originally created to be an OLTP engine and later evolved to a complete application development environment based on this engine. As a result, applications created in Synapse allow virtually unlimited scalability across as many computer systems as required and are capable of handling exceptionally high volumes of transactions. Additional OLTP features also include:
- User authentication and authorization
- Distributed transaction processing
- Workload balancing
- Transaction queuing and prioritization
- Application parallelization
- ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable) transactions and data routing
- Synapse architectural benefits beyond DNDO. (Dynamic Networked Distributed OLTP)
Additional Features
Platform Independence - The Synapse model brings other important flexibility benefits. Synapse is operating systems independent, not dictating the use of any particular computer hardware or operating system. Similar to a JAVA virtual machine, Synapse configurations will move unchanged to any platform that is running the Synapse engine. Currently Synapse is supported on the most popular OLTP environments: IBM AIX, HPUX, Solaris, MPRAS, True UNIX64, LINUX, and Windows 2000. Other platforms can be added rapidly as customers request them.
Database independence - Synapse has within its development environment an optimized direct file system for assuring the fastest response time for quick OLTP transactions. This file system can be used in lieu of a relational database or in conjunction with any of the ODBC compliant RDBMS. This capability gives Synapse developers the ultimate flexibility. Applications can be optimized by having the OLTP transactions served by the Synapse direct file system while the history of completed transactions are fed real-time to any ODBC compliant RDBMS. This allows extensive reporting and historical analysis to not interfere with the response time of the OLTP application. A third alternative is to have the Synapse file system utilized only as high-speed work space and the RDBMS be the database for the complete application. This feature allows the benefit of creating a database independent application that will support multiple database products. By having your application logic described in Synapse rules rather than within stored procedures of an individual database product, the same application can be efficiently utilized with multiple relation database products.
Application Extensibility - The Synapse environment allows the complete application to be described within one model. As a result adding new protocols or physical layer interfaces can be done quickly without changing any existing applications.
Web-enablement - All Synapse applications are inherently web-enable via the ThinWeb. feature. ThinWeb. makes use of highly efficient "thin client" browser technology that is browser neutral, and requires no browser "plug-ins." It eliminates the nagging problems of inconsistent response times, limited scalability, and application inflexibility that often plague competing web-based technologies. This is particularly beneficial to companies who operate in high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) environments. ThinWeb. also features an extremely small footprint, a distributed Synapse agent that quickly loads onto a customer's web server for immediate integration with Synapse applications. The Synapse ThinWeb. agent provides unparalleled scalability to new and existing web server farms.
Synapse Composer - The Ultimate in Application Development Productivity & Efficiency!
Synapse Composer is a complete integrated development environment that allows the user to define and maintain all elements of a Synapse, web-based application from a single screen. The Composer has a "Windows Tree" look and feel that allows access to all levels of the development environment. From within this single control panel the user can define Data Elements/Structures, User Interfaces, Security Levels, Business Functionality/Rules, Application Interfaces and System Topology.
In addition, Composer offers developers and administrators a real-time view of the configuration of running applications and identifies logical relationships among configured components. Changes and adjustments to live applications can be made via the Composer in real-time without system outages or interruption.
With Composer you can see the entire application from database, to user interface, to business logic code, to network topology - all with one tool.