As a current ATG customer you probably know that it is not good enough to just have a good deployment of the ATG product stack but it is also important to be able to seamlessly integrate ATG applications to other business applications and systems in delivering services to your clients. For example, integrate ATG to content management systems, Legacy order-fulfillment systems, and fast and effective search systems like Verity, Tax software, etc. The need for integration with a multitude of systems is only increasing.

We define ‘Systems Integration’ as a means to connect systems, applications or businesses with people. PA has solved several complex integration problems. The way we approach Integration today is vastly different from the way we used to. Today newer tools and better architecture are available for Integration.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) conceives systems as a set of services that are invoked by applications configured to design an automated business process. In this current SOA model, the assumption of universal connectors has changed. The end points of source and target applications are not bound by the rules of infrastructure i.e. formats, identifiers and protocols. The endpoints of systems could be on a true “network” across different application servers, operating systems, languages and traditional network boundaries. This new way of communicating using generic identifiers, formats and protocols following industry standards can be termed as “Web Services”.