Ever since NTS New Technology Systems has been founded in 1997 in the Austrian village Dörnbach, SAP interfaces have been developed along with their software solutions. In April 2006 SAP contacted the company NTS New Technology Systems in order to develop a pilot project for the so-called SOA technology.
Magic Word SOA
SOA, signifying service-oriented (software-) architecture is characterized by the encapsulation of important functions into so-called software-services/ independent functional units. Based on these functional units system- and organization wide processes with seamless integration of the existing applications can easily be displayed. The key advantages of SOA are among other things the neat encapsulation of the single functions guaranteeing simple upgrades; high flexibility and fault tolerance; easy integration; change and extension of new and existing services; transparency and control of ongoing service-processes as well as future proof IT-architecture.
SAP FI-CA and NTSwincash as a Comfortable All-in-One Solution
In the course of this pilot project the NTSwincash Point of Sale application for a user-friendly handling of payments has been integrated into the software module SAP FI-CA that has been developed for industries with a high number of business customers. The result of this cooperation is a seamless online integration of these systems for a user-friendly administration of outstanding items using state-of-the art Enterprise SOA with the SAP Netweaver Plattform (XI technology). For companies with a high number of contract customers this all-in-one solution offers new perspectives for a comprehensive customer service and an efficient handling of payments.
The NTSwincash solution has been certified in the course of this project and thus conforms to the demanding guidelines of SAP. NTS New Technology Systems recently got the SAP status ISV (Independent Software Vendor).