AnywhereApplication

While the number of web-based applications continues to grow within the enterprise, non web-enabled, legacy applications - those that reside on centralized Windows, UNIX/Linux, OS390 and AS/400 machines - still form the critical business application in use today. For companies seeking to provide secure remote access for employees and business partners, the challenge is to provide access to these critical legacy applications in a simple way that provides the same access-on-demand as they get for their web-enabled applications.

AccessAnywhere solves this remote access challenge by providing clientless, remote access to legacy applications through web-enabling technology integrated directly into the the platform. In this approach, both the client and server portions of an application remain hosted in the corporate data centre. The key benefit of this approach is that like web-enabled applications, remote users now need only a browser to access these legacy applications; no additional software or configuration of the remote PC is required.

AnywhereApplication makes client/server applications available to remote users through the web, allowing companies to leverage their existing legacy application infrastructure without costly software re-writes or time consuming web application development and integration. Any program, running on any Windows, UNIX/LINUX, or OS/390 and AS/400 platform can be easily made available to remote users.

AnywhereApplication uses a dynamic protocol from Tarantella Inc that delivers only the application's display to the remote user's web browser. The AccessAnywhere appliance supports this capability by downlaoding a small Java applet to the browser if their profile is configured for AnywhereApplication. To the remote user they see and interact with the application as if it was installed and running on the user's local machine.