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Solution: Legacy Data Integration
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| Quest Technology Group began the project by working
with the client to define the report criteria that would return the most
immediate benefit to the agents. Since this server environment had proven
tremendously cost-effective in terms of application distribution and management
over the years, Quest introduced a web application architecture for this
project. This eliminated the need for any distributed applications, and
the maintenance burden associated with them. |
| Web pages were designed by Quest with easy-to-follow
steps for report selection. The majority of the 1,500+ users had little
or no experience with Web applications so ease of use was essential. The
reports were generated by Unix query scripts invoked by CGI scripts, eliminating
the need for any client investment in new software. Throughout the 20-year
life of the agency applications, Quest had developed not only a complete
data access layer to C-ISAM but also many database utility programs. These
tools enabled Quest to easily extract the data based on specific user criteria
just as if this were a true relational database.
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| To enable these web applications, Quest developed a completely
unattended installation of the Netscape FastTrack Server that is packaged
with SCO Open Server. Since there were no system administrators at any
agency, all Unix and Windows administration tasks were always accomplished
through unattended programs.The result was Agency
Place Reports™, a component of Agency Place™. Here agency and home
office users throughout the organization gained access to point-in-time
data that enabled them to evaluate, manage and develop
profitable
books of business. |
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