The SiriInfotech product line remains unparalleled in the breadth and depth of its comprehensive tool set for the development of cooperative processing and client-server applications. It is a completely open technology, which can be used with any development tool and with any emulator.

There are four key elements to the real world development, delivery, and maintenance of client-server applications, and all are supported by the Siri Infotech Product Line. These include front-end processing, peer-to-peer, client-server processing, the integration of front-ending and client-server processing into the same application, and application integrity control and software distribution management.

Front-ending allows you to take an existing mainframe application and enhance and modernize it with a PC-based interface, without changing any mainframe code. This allows companies to leverage the PC capabilities for presenting mainframe data to users in a way that is intuitive, easy to use and highly productive. The PC can provide field-by-field help, context sensitive help, application level help, pop-up selection lists, local editing and validation, calculations, inter-field logic and a myriad of other facilities designed to improve the usability of mainframe applications.

Peer-to-Peer, Client-Server Processing allows you to create client-server applications, where the PC is used for the client portion of the application, i.e. all user interaction and dialogue flow, and the mainframe system is used for the server portion of the applications, i.e. management of database interaction, data integrity and security. In this architecture, only data and messages are passed between the PC and host, which results in a highly streamlined and optimized production application.

Integrity Control and Software Distribution Management allows you to use the host system to centrally manage the integrity of the workstation logic and distribute new versions of application logic. In a production client-server application, the PC is being used as an extension of server processing activities. It is, therefore, absolutely critical to ensure that the programs, files and data residing on the PC are correct before the user starts the application. When changes are made to the workstation logic, the host is also used to manage the distribution of these changes. A real world cooperative processing application should not be rolled out to production without this type of host-based management.