The family of Cast Iron Integration Appliances comprises three products — iA2500, iA4000 and iA4000HA — designed to meet different customer needs. The functional comparisons between these three salesforce.com integration appliances are:
Entry-level enterprise class appliance for multiple integration projects between a few applications. Useful for companies that seek to secure, standards-based way to connect a few applications. This is an attractive alternative to custom code. Also available as a virtual appliance that can be installed on a company's own hardware.
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The iA4000 is the enterprise class flagship solution that solves integration problems between multiple applications. Useful for companies that seek a standards-based platform for their application integration needs and find software-based integration solutions too complex. Also available as a virtual appliance that can be installed on a company’s own hardware.
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The iA4000HA is Cast Iron's High Availability product for mission critical projects. Comprised of a pair of iA4000 appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability and is useful for companies that need a hot standby option.
Each appliance in the iA4000HA pair has the following specifications:
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Cast Iron's solution for enterprise application integration comprises three distinct appliances — the iA2500, iA4000 and iA4000HA. While these appliances share the same technology foundation, each product is designed to meet specific customer needs.
Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the appliance with a single click.
The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The WMC also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.
The Cast Iron Integration Appliance family comprises three distinct appliances — the iA2500, iA4000 and iA4000HA. While the family shares the same technology foundation, each product is designed to meet specific customer needs.
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| Rapid integration with Template Integration Processes (TIPs) and self-guided wizards |
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| Low monthly subscription pricing |
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| 24 * 7 Production support |
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| No restrictions on number of users |
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| Graphical data transformation |
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| Standards-based connectivity with third-party data enrichment tools |
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| Out-of-the-box connectivity to hundreds of enterprise and custom applications |
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| Rules-based workflow |
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| Lights-out management and error notifications |
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| Guaranteed delivery of transactions |
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| Web-based monitoring of integrations |
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| Secure management and data communication |
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| Bi-directional real-time and batch integration |
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| Designed for high reliability across multiple projects (built-in battery backup) |
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| Optimized for high-throughput projects |
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| Redundant components |
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| Two quad core CPUs for enhanced performance |
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| Automatic failover capability |
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