The family of Cast Iron Integration Appliances for RightNow comprises of three products — iA2500-RN, iA4000-RN and iA4000HA-RN — designed to meet different customer needs. The functional comparisons between these three RightNow integration appliances are:
Entry-level enterprise class appliance for integrating RightNow and other applications for multiple projects. Useful for companies that seek to secure, standards-based way to connect RightNow with 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-RN is the enterprise class flagship solution that solves integration problems between RightNow and 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-RN is Cast Iron's High Availability product for RightNow customers. Comprised of a pair of iA4000-RN appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability and is useful for companies that need a hot standby option.
Each appliance in the iA4000HA-RN pair has the following specifications:
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The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for RightNow provides three components to configure, deploy and manage your application integration projects.
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 Web Management Console 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 family of Cast Iron Integration Appliances for RightNow comprises of four products — iA2000-RN, iA2500-RN, iA4000-RN and iA4000HA-RN — designed to meet different customer needs. The functional comparisons between these three RightNow integration appliances are:
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| Supports all RightNow objects including objects with custom fields |
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| Web Services wrapper for RightNow XML API |
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| Preconfigured templates for RightNow integration |
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| Powerful data migration and data quality features |
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| Simplified 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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| Content-based data routing |
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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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| Secured 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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| Unlimited enterprise application connectivity |
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| Redundant hot-swappable components |
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| Two quad core CPUs for enhanced performance |
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| High-throughput projects |
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| Automatic failover capability |
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| Hot-standby appliance |
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