The Problem: Your Business Needs More from its Information Systems

Globalization, competition, regulation, technology: your environment is changing fast. To keep up, your business is also changing to run faster, smoother, leaner, and smarter.

To make these changes work, you need more from your information systems. More from your mainframes than hard-to-access, hard-to-change information and applications. More from your personal computers than hard-to-manage, isolated islands of duplicated information. And more from your network than simple sharing of files and printers.

Faced with these same pressures, many of your peers, suppliers, and competitors are turning to client-server computing.

Client-server computing promises to merge the benefits of personal computers-economy, flexibility, and ease of use-with the traditional benefits of mainframes: power, manageability, and easy sharing of data and applications.

However, pioneering client-server applications have often suffered from:

• Expensive, fragile, inflexible custom-developed links between networks, systems, and applications that weren't designed to work together.

• Reliance on limited server software that lacked mission-critical reliability, or the scalability to keep up with growing business requirements.

• Weak centralized management tools that increased operating costs and decreased control.

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