SAE - Automation, s.r.o. ~ View topic - Integrating software applications efficiently

Software applications that provide communications with various technological devices, web services, databases, input/output devices can be integrated using a programmed integration application. Programming such application is mostly demanding and time consuming because is should, in addition to an application logic, contain also drivers for all connected devices.
Using a middleware enabling configuring of integrated application instead of its programming is mostly much less laborious. Configuration usually takes less time than programming. Also, debugging and tuning the resulting application is easier.
Our product OpcDbGateway represents such a middleware. It has much standard functionality which can be used and configured within integrated application.
However, it can happen that a kind of functionality for a concrete application is missing. If yes, the functionality can be programmed using a high level programming language as C++ as an enhancing DLL. If required programmer API is respected then new module is becoming a part of configurable functionality of OpcDbGateway. Basic philosophy of the product and integration practices you can see in the new linked document.