The Accelerator™
Business Objects and Services
Business Objects and Services, BOS, enables you to quickly and easily provide
integration and interoperability with your own business processes and data.
BOS implements a framework that is a part of Surround's Envision Service
Oriented Architecture. The framework consists of server-side Business Objects,
Presentation and Data Service Buses, and Service Adapters.
With BOS it is possible to produce a loosely-coupled, modular, dynamic
(data driven), single underlying (standardized), service oriented architecture
around your data and business processes, out-of-
Interoperability
Built-in service adapters provide the necessary interfaces to integrate with other
applications, business partners and customers. It is also possible to interoperate,
or plug in, parts of your system into other software such as MS Office, SharePoint,
and reporting solutions.
Of course, as with all Surround's software, the framework also provides the backend
operational management, security, and authentication.
Reporting
Quickly and securely build custom reports using any reporting tool that can use XML
including MS Office (Word, Excel), Crystal, Altova, etc.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
BOS provides a true Service Oriented Architecture for your back end data and business
processes. This architecture allows you to quickly respond to industry trends and needs
with adapters for XML, SOAP, REST, Active-X, .NET, XAML/WPF, etc. Because of SOA, BOS
functions under IBM i, Windows, LANSA – virtually any server.