Cloud Computing
Gillani Inc., a leading provider of synchronized ERP and Supply Chain management software, presented low cost methods to deploy ERP and SCM solutions for organization via the Cloud Computing environment and showcased the Gillani Endura and FourGen ERP and SCM products with IBM Smart Cube Appliance with Gillani’s FourGen products on the newly released Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Express V11.5 at the GITEX 2009 in Dubai on October 19, 2009.
Gillani demonstrated how its products are deployed via the Cloud or via an Appliance server with very minimal in house technical capabilities required. The out-of-the-box Smart Cube appliance (a fully scalable System x Intel based server) can serve as an application, development, test, and database server. The latest versions V8.3 of Gillani iDistribute and Gillani Financials offer a powerful and scalable application on IDS V11.5, in addition to DB2, running on Linux, AIX, Solaris and HPUX. Combined with the power and scalability of Informix Dynamic Server, FourGen CASE Tools V8.3 and IDS V11.5 bring high performance information management capabilities at a price designed to meet the needs of medium to enterprise level businesses. Now customers can continue to create code and applications without programming a single line of code where the process automatically generates all the code which compiles 100% of the times without errors.
Customers can also pick the hosted solution deployment method via the Cloud computing hosted solution with five-nine (99.999%) reliability of always on, scalable, and modifiable.
"Gillani's partnership with IBM provides medium to large businesses with an exceptional solution for leveraging relationships to improve the effectiveness of their business applications" said Syed Kamal, CEO. "By bringing together Gillani's unique technology for rapid application development with IBM's Data Management leadership, this joint offering will deliver tremendous value to our customers."
"IDS is a key platform for the SMB market and…Gillani iDistribute and Gillani Financials provides a robust ERP and Supply Chain solution ideally suited for this customer set to run their businesses." said Bruce Weed, IBM Informix Program Director.
“We have our customers reducing operating costs by deploying mission critical applications via the Cloud or using Server Appliances to cut their ERP and SCM operating costs by 23-28%” said Susan Spencer, VP of International Business Development-Asia. “Our customers are able to concentrate more on running their businesses instead of figuring out how to deploy an ERP application server or keep the database tuned and always up.” added Ms. Spencer.
The Gillani iDistribute, Endura ERP, FourGen, and Gillani Financials address a number of areas in the latest version where the performance has been significantly improved. These improvements include enhanced Audit Trails, tax processing and Accounts Payable Vendor Aging. Using the out-of-the-box Smart Cube Appliance, the small and medium business owners will be able to harness the capabilities of proven Rapid Application Development (RAD)tools - FourGen(r) CASE Tools, Informix 4GL programming language, Informix 4GL Interactive Debugger and Informix 4GL Compiler - to create sophisticated database applications on IDS at attractive price points and business value-adds.
