What is Red Oak Softwares Application Integration Framework™ (AIF)?
Application Integration Framework is an architectural model and an integrated group of products that provide access and integration of most existing and new critical corporate applications. AIF addresses access to applications that are critical to the success of a corporation, whether the data resides on a host system or a web system. AIF makes it easy to integrate both in-house and off-the-shelf applications. According to The Gartner Group, 70 to 80% of corporate data still resides on host systems, including mainframes, AS/400, Digital and Unix hosts. In addition, the number of corporate applications that have a Web interface is growing rapidly. This includes traditional client/server systems are being delivered using a Web or Browser interface. The combination of host-based systems and web-based systems makes up a considerable percent of current corporate applications. In both cases, applications can be commercial “off-the-shelf” applications, in-house developed applications or a hyb
