American Software’s Host-Access uses the IBM WebSphere® Host Access Transformation Server (HATS) software, a component of IBM’s powerful WebSphere Host Integration Solution suite (HIS) and a member of the IBM WebSphere family of products. American Software’s Host-Access utilizes the HATS advanced rules-based transformation engine to apply American Software’s enterprise application rules and screen customization, delivering HTML directly to the desktop requiring only a web browser. American Software has extended this web browser solution with additional web features such as cascading menu driven navigation, popup calendars, and popup selection windows to aid data entry. American Software’s Host-Access provides a consistent web presentation to the company’s strong supply chain management ERP solutions. Host-Access helps maximize end user productivity while taking advantage of the proven, security-rich, enterprise-class performance of IBM’s Host Integration Solution.

American Software’s Host-Access provides users with a number of benefits including:

• Low cost of web enabling legacy applications
• Extends life of existing back office systems through use of advanced technology
• Improvement in the look and feel of the application, contributing to ease-of-use
• Improvement of the integration of back office and web-based applications
• Improved workflow through combining of information from multiple sources
• Focusing on the end user, providing easy access from virtually anywhere to the back office