The IT organization is under continual pressures to add value, provide better service, and gain more control, all while cutting costs.  Thus, the rapid growth of the Internet has encouraged partnerships between service providers and in-house systems to provide greater functionality in faster, better, and more cost-effective ways.

Centerprise has developed an application architecture, along with a full set of services, to respond to IT pressures and take advantage of new technologies while protecting current IT investments.  The key to the success of Centerprise’s CenterSphere application is its advanced architecture.  Proven vendor products are easily integrated with custom-developed modules to provide a Web-based application service that can be tailored to meet the needs of each customer.

An exploded view of a multi-tiered business Service Module, linked into and accessed via a message-based networking backbone.

CenterSphere’s architecture has been designed to be open and flexible.  State-of-the-art technologies such as Java, Enterprise JavaBeans, and XML are combined with proven technologies such as Oracle, DB2, and MQSeries to facilitate interoperability and integration both within the system and among external service providers and users.  Application modules are designed in a multitier structure.   End-user presentation, business processes and business entities, and data storage layers are separated into well-defined components with clean interfaces.  This greatly simplifies integration and promotes module reuse.  Our component-based development methodology allows for rapid and controlled function development and deployment in a robust and highly scalable run-time environment (i.e., the EJB/Java application server tier).  Our customizable User Interface framework allows for rapid personalization of front-end views deployed to a variety of platforms, including HTML browsers and Win32 clients.

	IBM—Leader in E-Business Enterprise Solutions
	Centerprise has partnered with IBM to implement a large number of our application services upon several of IBM’s technology platforms and products, which are wellsuited to the needs and demands of not only e-business applications but also enterprisewide applications. Our partnership with IBM also provides access to its global network of infrastructure and integration support services, which is key to a successful deployment of CenterSphere within your enterprise.