The Connectiware Platform is a suite of software tools that provide all the resources necessary to build and deploy integrations between third party system components quickly and easily. Connectiware empowers teams that need to solve 'connecting' problems...the "how do we get data from one system and send it to another system?" type problems.
The Connectiware Platform comes in four major parts - Connectiware App, Connectiware Agent, Connectiware Share, and Connectiware Endpoint Licenses.
Connectiware App is the Integration Maker. This a portable desktop application that provides everything a person needs to build an integration; incoming communication widgets called 'sources', outgoing communication widgets called 'destinations', monitoring and notification widgets called 'sentinels', lookup widgets called 'libraries' and finally data processing widgets called 'scripts'.
To build your integration you select your source of information (for example data from a point of sale system), your select destination for information (for example a network video recorder), and then you specify how received information is transformed to best suit the destination (in our example, we embed the point of sale receipt into recorded video). Along the way, Connectiware Integration Maker provides robust tools for transformation of data, monitoring data, and even bringing in data from other places. Connectiware Integration Maker allows you to visually test your integration live. You can see raw data coming in, see the transformation, then see it being delivered to the destination.
Connectiware Agent is a windows service that hosts the integration you have made. Yes! You can easily create your own windows service! This allows you to build specific windows services that do exactly what you need to do. Windows services run unattended and the Connectiware Suite features numerous tools and tips on how to create highly available and reliable integrations.
Connectiware Share is a entire set of features that allows you to package your integration, encrypt it, then sell it to other integrators for profit, all with NO reselling fees to Connectiware. All your customer needs to do is purchase Connectiware endpoint licenses, usually from you! You own all rights to the integrations you develop. You can share them or sell them either privately or on the Connectiware Share marketplace. As a Connectiware reseller you have unlimited access to the marketplace.
Connectiware Endpoint Licenses are the way we add 'connections' so Connectiware can communication with other hardware and software systems. Each endpoint license includes a 'source' and a 'destination'. As a reseller of Connectiware, you will need to license the endpoints which you sell to your client. As with all software, licenses are offered with or without a software maintenance agreement (SMA). Connectiware Systems sells licenses to you, you resell them to your clients. SMA's are annual in nature, and by participating, end users will be eligible for free upgrades to the software over the year.
Connectiware enables us to combine different subsystems or components into one cohesive system that functions seamlessly together. It involves connecting various hardware and software components, ensuring that they communicate effectively and work together to achieve the intended objectives or functionalities.
The Connectiware Integration Maker App is used on your client's site by your staff to create and test the integration. Your team will make sure that everything is working to your client's satisfaction. Once the integration is fully tested, you close Connectiware Integration Maker App and start the Connectiware Agent windows service. The integration runs as intended and you are done! Typically the integration is hosted by Connectiware Agent on a server somewhere on the client site. That server must be able to communicate with all sources and all destinations in some manner. Connectiware is extremely light weight and in 90% of installs, it does not need to have it's own dedicated server.
After project completion, the Connectiware Integration Maker App is usually removed from the client's site, but this really depends upon the specific needs and sophistication of your client. Generally speaking, less 'sophisticated' clients typically only get Connectiware Agent and end point licenses. Your clients would reach out to you for changes and upgrades.
As you can appreciate, systems integration can be an incredibly complex task. There are many enterprise class, 'commercial, off the shelf' integrations. These are integrations that manufacturers build into their products. The big manufacturers identify big areas where integrations are worth the effort spent on designing, building, testing and maintaining them. So for large and popular integrations, support is built into products. If an integration has this type of effort behind it - use it! Don't rebuild the wheel!
There are literally thousands of 'niche' integrations requested of large manufacturers annually. These are real needs, real problems needing real solutions by their end users.
But manufacturers today don't have time and resources to add in every little request! It would be like herding cats! Impossible! Unfeasible! Unmanageable! Thankfully, the manufacturers provide other ways like SDKs and REST APIs so that others can build the niche integrations. Unfortunately, it's up to the smaller companies who are closer to the end user to figure out a way to combine sub-systems together. Very few small companies have the time or the skillsets on staff to be able to learn the intricacies of programming even the most modest REST API.
We built a framework that gives the average company all the resources needed to build the 'niche' integration their client is asking for. If your staff can create formulas in an excel spread sheet, they can build an integration! In most instances, NO coding experience is needed to get data moving between subsystems!
Take a look at actual integrations!This fully featured app is your 'Integration Development Environment'. You will use it to specify data source, data destination and which data should be routed from one to the other. Add in your filtering, rules, sentinels and any custom scripts you need and you are done. Features data flow monitoring so you can see your integration working live.
AboutBuyThis license adds the ability for built integrations to take advantage of ChatGPT's AI capabilities. (Note: Requires ChatGPT Api key to be provided. This will incur additional costs from OpenAI)
Coming soon!Systems integration is all about returning great value to clients. We have some expectations that need to be met to be eligible to becoming a reseller.
We expect professionalism to be exercised in all your client relationships. We expect that our resellers have a deep rooted belief in providing quality solutions to their clients. We expect our resellers to have some documented quality assurance policies and procedures. These policies and procedures help Connectiware improve as well. We want and need honest feedback.
To be a reseller of Connectiware, you must have someone trained with current certification. There is a cost to this training and certification. We strive to train on actual integrations. Ideally you will be coming to us with an integration in mind. We can WORK TOGETHER on the integration, training your staff as we implement the integration for your client.
Connectiware's success depends upon the success of our resellers. By working together - the platform becomes stronger. This means participating in the Integrators Marketplace. Share your knowledge. Sell your integrations. Consider buying integrations from other resellers before rebuilding the wheel. Everyone in the eco-system needs to eat, leads are shared equitably by core competency.
Use this form to begin the process of becoming a Connectiware reseller. All applications are reviewed within 3 business days. One of our representatives will reach out to you after that.
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