George James Business Systems as a systems integrator, are specialists in Manufacturing Systems Integration. We have successfully completed many system integration projects. Below is a description of systems integration, and its benefits.

Systems Integration refers to the inclusion of apparently disparate pieces of equipment into a cohesive system. Users need not worry themselves about whether a piece of kit, for example a terminal, is compatible with their current equipment but rather they can concentrate on purchasing the right equipment for the operation.

George James Business Systems has a product called The Integrator. The Integrator operates on a wide range of platforms from hand held terminals to mainframes. The product is written in Ansi C and thus can be run on any computer that has a C compiler.

In simple terms The Integrator is a message routing piece of software that guarantees the delivery of a packet of data. The packet of data will eventually arrive at its destination be handled by another piece of software which we name the Data Control Program (DCP). The DCP has the responsibility of formatting the data so that it can be used to update the main system.

The DCP also has the responsibility of handling the interactive validation. In these cases the DCP accepts the message from the terminal, formats into an SQL statement, queries the database, retrieves the information, formats the data retrieved or a suitable reply and then sends the results back to the terminal.