Zend Con Harris Data Case Study

IBM i and PHP for Enterprise Applications The HarrisData Case Study Lane Nelson President HarrisData

Agenda About HarrisData Why PHP? Successes

HarrisData Solutions Suppliers Customers SRM CRM ERP MES WMS HRIS Employees

PHP is the perfect fit for HarrisData applications WHY PHP?

Why PHP? Competing Technologies In 1999… Evaluated • Java • RPG through CGI • Lotus • IBM Net.Data • Screen-scraping/WebFacing Selected IBM Net.Data • There was no viable PHP option!

Why PHP? Fits Ideal Architecture Powerful development language Procedural or OO IBM DB2 and IBM i extensions Professional IDE Improves productivity Improves quality Market Acceptance

Why PHP? Ideal application architecture Server-centric Reliable Secure Flexible Customizable

Ideal Architecture Presentation Browser HTML/XML Application App Server Business Logic Programs Programs Programs SQL Database RDBMS

IBM i Infrastructure Platforms IBM Power Operating Systems IBM i Databases DB2 Application Servers Apache Development WDSc / Zend Environments Clients Internet Browser

Why PHP? Modernize IBM i applications The HarrisData Roadmap

The HarrisData Roadmap Application 5250 RPG

The HarrisData Roadmap Presentation 5250 Application RPG Database DB2

The HarrisData Roadmap Presentation 5250 Application RPG/ILE Business Logic RPG/ILE RPG/ILE RPG/ILE Programs Programs Programs Database DB2

The HarrisData Roadmap Presentation Browser 5250 Application HTTP/PHP RPG/ILE Business Logic RPG/ILE RPG/ILE RPG/ILE Programs Programs Programs Database DB2

The HarrisData Roadmap Presentation Browser 5250 Application HTTP/PHP RPG/ILE Business Logic ILE ILE ILE Programs Programs Programs Database DB2

How PHP is transforming HarrisData SUCCESSES

The HarrisData Customer Zone

Web Marketing

Modernized Applications Traditional ‘green-screen’ applications modernized to browser-based equivalents - only better!

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Zend Con Harris Data Case Study

by ZendCon on Sep 23, 2008

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