ESAI's L2X SmartApp Legacy Transformation Product

The advent of XML has changed the methods of business forever. The fact is, you have to get on the Web, and you have to do it now. The problem is, how do you choose from the large influx of companies and products advertising to help you? To answer the question, you have to ask yourself what are the distinguishing factors between the competitors. ESAI's L2X SmartApp tool is the only product on the market that actually modifies existing legacy applications themselves to process and generate XML documents in its native environment. No middleware.

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L2X SmartApp: The First "Second-Generation" Solution
The biggest barrier to seamless data exchange between a legacy application and a client/vendor is the legacy application itself. The simple fact is that most legacy applications aren't e-Ready. In their native format, legacy applications can't process XML documents.

There are other companies out there that claim to connect legacy applications to XML. But in reality, what they are really doing is only providing middleware that converts XML documents into flat file documents that the legacy application can understand. They do not change the legacy application to handle XML. Every time change occurs, you must incur the cost of modifying the middleware.

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In reality, this isn't much different than not being on XML. The front end of the process, the Internet side, is using XML but the legacy side, the side where all the data is stored, is still using fixed format processing. L2X SmartApp is a powerful, automated tool that actually modifies your legacy application programs to handle XML documents directly. The logic that other companies maintain in complex, proprietary middleware programs is instead embedded directly into your native application. You have to ask yourself, with today's demand for everything to be in Internet time, can you really afford to put the availability of your operations in the hands of another company's customer support? L2X SmartApp is the only truly integrated XML solution that can be fully maintained by your internal staff.

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