Whats the benefit for customers to use the IBM Integrated Solutions Console?
Many companies that provide installed administrative consoles are being pressured by customers to provide Web-based consoles so that administrators can configure and manage servers remotely without having to install and maintain console software on their desktops. These customers want to do this without creating a parallel but separate infrastructure from their e-business investment. The same problems of user interface design, personalized presentation, security, reliability, and availability must be solved for administrative and end-user applications. There is a growing awareness of the expense of solving the technical problems accompanying conversion from an installed to a Web-based console. By providing a way to reuse existing hardened technologies for administration, specifically application server and portal technologies that already solve many of these problems for end-user applications, the Integrated Solutions Console gives products a less expensive way to bridge to the Web.
