Securing Legacy Applications with exteNd Composer and Novell iChain

Kirk NorenApplication Services SpecialistNovell, Inc.

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Novell exteNd solutions provide you with a range of advanced Web application development tools to liberate information and create more effective business solutions for your customers, partners, and employees.

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We will cover:

• Why create applications from legacy systems?

• What legacy applications can we use?• Who would want or need exteNd

Composer?• When should we create applications from

legacy systems?• How do we create an application? - Demo• How do we secure the application? - Demo

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Why create applications from legacy systems?

• Legacy systems were there before you and they will be there when you're gone.

• Legacy systems contain vast amounts of data stored in perfectly good systems.

• The people who once took care of the system may now be dead.

• Bottom line - cost

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Broad Range of Non-invasive Connectivity

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What legacy applicationscan we use?

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Who would want or need exteNd Composer™?

• People who don't have the skills to make new applications in the existing system.

• People who want to “web-enable” applications from legacy systems.

• People who are legacy developers that have no JAVA coding skills.

• People that would want to look so good that they get promoted to CIO.

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When should we create applications from legacy systems?

• When you require a non invasive method for reducing the impact of integrating the enterprise.

• When the likelihood that the legacy system will be around for a long time.

• When you need to quickly make legacy applications available from a browser.

• When all of the other “solutions” you've tried never come to fruition and cost you a fortune.

How do we create an application?

How do we secure the application?

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