ClearPath ePortal – Coming Soon for OS 2200 Environments

Unisys innovative family of specialty engines has two new members – ClearPath ePortal Business and ClearPath ePortal Enterprise for OS 2200 operating environments. ClearPath ePortal is an end-to-end, integrated, and highly automated solution for extending Unisys ClearPath applications into new business technologies. It allows OS 2200 developers to capitalize on today's mobile device megatrend of making applications usable from Apple® iPhones® and other smartphones (see this issue's Tech Corner for more). ClearPath ePortal also makes it easy to put OS 2200 applications on the Web and have them participate in service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments.

ClearPath ePortal uses a modular, extensible architecture for addressing a wide array of ClearPath application types and allows you to:

• Use your existing ClearPath applications without change or create new ones
• Modernize applications without the need to develop in-depth or special skills related to web, mobile device, or Web Services development and deployment<
• Deploy without impacting your existing ClearPath application or platform
• Manage your applications using highly automated configuration, deployment, and runtime capabilities

And now, versions of ClearPath ePortal Business and ClearPath ePortal Enterprise will be made available and custom fit to work within the OS 2200 environment.

Fast, Cost-effective Application Modernization

With this first release of ClearPath ePortal specialty engines for OS 2200 operating environments, organizations can super-charge development initiatives – making existing OLTP and TIP/HVTIP transactions available via the Web and on mobile devices quickly and easily.

How quickly? One of our OS 2200 early adopter partners had ePortal up and running – and the first transaction web-enabled – in just a few hours. ClearPath ePortal really does get application modernization projects off to a very fast start.

ClearPath ePortal has three major components:

• ePortal Developer, which is a Microsoft® Visual Studio® plug-in that provides a visual, non-programming environment for developing your solutions – and includes all the advanced features and rich capabilities of the Visual Studio environment.
• ePortal Specialty Engines, which are runtime platforms designed specifically for hosting ePortal solutions. They include open-standard, enterprise-class hardware that comes in two forms:
  • - ClearPath ePortal Enterprise provides a clustered server approach for scalability, as well as redundant hardware components to ensure your runtime environment has no single point of failure and scales to meet your workload.
  • - ClearPath ePortal Business is a simple, rack-mounted server solution that provides the same software features, security, and ease-of-use as the Enterprise platform, but without the enterprise-class scalability and hardware redundancy.
• ePortal Manager, which is a point-and-click, browser-based solution that manages all aspects of the ePortal specialty engines, including hardware provisioning, automated application deployment, software upgrades, security configuration, and performance management.

As the following example shows, ePortal leverages many of the advanced capabilities of Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment. Web page controls are automatically generated for common application data types, such as terminal screen fields and COBOL source-record fields. All generated content can be customized, integrated with other web site content, or extended with third-party web controls, client scripting, or other web technologies. Features such as ASP.Net Master pages, ASP.Net Themes, code-behind, and a rich array of Visual Studio development features can be used for presentation development.

OS 2200 application modernization just got a whole lot easier – with ClearPath ePortal Business and ClearPath ePortal Enterprise for OS 2200 operating environments.

To learn more about how ClearPath ePortal can work in your environment, ask your sales executive or view the recording of a recent webinar in the eCommunity.