intra-mart Accel Platform / Introduction Version 6 2014-12-01

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2.1. intra-mart Characteristics

Requirements for IT have been shifting from the “Management Support” fields such as cost reduction and operations efficiency to the “Support of customer’s mainline business promotion” fields. intra-mart Accel Platform, your system platform, is furnished with the frameworks that would accelerate your business growth.

2.1.1. IT Platform that accelerates your business

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In the past IT investment was mainly focused on the base system or information system for the cost reduction purpose.
However, you would have a better chance of increasing the revenue by expanding the roles of IT to cover business areas that are essential to your business competitiveness. In this area there would be many interactions with your customers.
NTT DATA INTRAMART Corporation has been emphasizing the importance of IT platform. Now, we can offer the same IT platform that covers the fields of business promotion. By providing the seamless linkage of information from your customers to your back-end system, we can achive even bigger business contribution by the power of IT.
For the acceleration of IT platform business that contributes to the business, there are 4 major IT platform requirements :

2.1.2. Social Mobile

Innovative trends in social networking are something we cannot ignore from the business viewpoint.
On the intra-mart product, these social technologies were incorporated to the system platform in their early stage, and the messages from various information sources such as customers, employees, and systems were integrated. The flow of receiving real-time information, and judging and processing it is thus realized.
[IMBox], which is a collaboration function that is reinforced in intra-mart Accel Platform, can retrieve necessary information on a real-time basis as a Web front for total optimization. In other words, it is a place where all the communication messages that are generated in the enterprise are collected.
Since it watches the system (application) data that are operated on intra-mart Accel Platform, type of information you need can be automatically collected by following it.
You can use it for fostering your community by following the users, for creating the groups and allowing members to share messages and files, and for the place of various communications.
Since it supports smart phones and tables, not only workflows and groupwares but also user-specific business systems using smart phones can be quickly developed and utilized. Since it has the feature of minimizing device type dependencies of smart phones, it is supported by a wide variety of devices and it helps to reduce the test expenses.

2.1.3. Multi-tenant

intra-mart Accel Platform provides 2 different ways of building multi-tenant environment, and can support versatile requirements in multi-tenant environment.
  1. Multi-tenant by Virtual Tenant function
By utilizing the virtual tenant function which logically splits tenants in one WAR file, you can build the multi-tenant environment with high accomodation rate which effectively utilizes resources such as memory.
Just like the multi-tenant by WAR file, database connection destination or storage region can be individually managed and controlled for each tenant, even though the same application is used by each tenant.
You do not need to worry about thus function while developing the application program. PaaS is an essential element in realizing “True Multi-tenant” such as this one.
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  1. Multi-tenant by WAR file
In the multi-tenant by virtual tenant stated in 1, multi-tenant is realized by the same application program. Therefore, it is not possible to do individual customization for each company. By managing each tenant for each Web application (WAR file), and by managing database connection destination for each WAR file, it is possible to deploy unique cloud system for each individual company.
(Since modules are individually managed by WAR files, different application programs may be installed for each tenant.)
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Through the proper combination of the two ways shown as above, you can maximize the commonality of application programs and at the same time allow flexibility and expandability of unique application programs for each company based on the same integrated platform.

Note

Please refer to [Building Multi-tenant type Applications ] for details.

2.1.4. Multi-company Support

intra-mart products provide multi-company support as standard for the enterprise that incorporates multiple companies.
In the past while application programs were commonly used by each tenant, database was managed and operated by splitting schemas for each company. However, now it is possible on intra-mart Accel Platform to support multiple enterprises within 1 tenant (within 1 databse shema).
Moreover, you can logically separate the information for each company by the authorization function, share necessary information among these companies, and retain company-unique information only in the respective companies. This would allow increased number of enterprises to share applications, and along with the multi-tenant support and multi-company support described as above, this would bring about the benefit of application usage efficiency and centralization.

This would also allow the introduction of workflows that are valid across multiple group companies. For example, outsourcing of back office operations by the shared company across all companies in a group can be made possible, thus contributing to the improvement of operations efficiency for the entire group.
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2.1.5. Expandability

IT platform should not be considered as completed once it has been built.
It should continue to grow and be refined to the optimized platform for the enterprise while aggressively incorporating the latest technology elements such as mobile and cloud computing.
In the past multiple different versions of system platforms independently existed, and functional verifications were needed for every version upgrade. Now, since necessary functions can be incorporated by each module basis, your application programs will continue to work and there would be no cost for the upgrade. You can thus establish your own unique system platform and use it for much longer term.
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2.1.6. Cloud Support

intra-mart Accel Platform does not enforce an either-or selection such as on-premise only or cloud only.
You can make a proper selection for each business, and so hybrid operation that has combined on-premise and cloud can be offered. In other words, intra-mart Accel Platform will achieve total optimization with no system location boundary of on-premise or cloud. It is flexible enough to be connected with another cloud service to provide the combined solutions.

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