Web Services Suite
With ATS Web Services, you can integrate iMIS with any .NET, ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP website. Using iMIS API's, you can read and write information to your iMIS database while leveraging all of the functionality and design benefits of Microsoft® .NET programming language or another Web Service application.
One advantage is the ability to quickly implement solutions with minimal iMIS knowledge. ATS Web Services are built upon the Advanced Solutions International .NET iMIS Business Objects making the web services backwards compatible with iMIS 10.2 and forward compatible with iMIS 15, iMIS 20 and iMIS EMS in some cases. This compatibility allows organizations to leverage their investment for today and tomorrow. In our tests, the performance of the ATS Web Services exceeds that of direct ODBC connections to the database when the Web server and the database are at separate physical locations. The web services have a direct advantage over reading and writing data to iMIS using a database connection because they apply the business rules setup in iMIS. For example, if you have setup iMIS to create an entry in a change log when a field is updated, the ATS Web Services updates the change log meaning you don’t have to “reverse engineer” what iMIS does when you build your Web applications.
By using ATS Web Services, you give your developers all the tools necessary to create dynamic and productive web pages without the need to redesign the look and feel or even the functionality to work under the constructs of the iMIS API's. ATS Web Services bridges the gaps between many different platforms and the iMIS database.