{"id":23,"date":"2011-05-09T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.viadata.co.za\/blog\/catalyst-over-https\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:38:15","slug":"catalyst-over-http","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/catalyst-over-http\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst over HTTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><u>Catalyst over HTTP. <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Catalyst, the powerful business systems engine from ViaData, has been enabled for HTTP connectivity.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Until recently, Catalyst provided a client server solution to its users.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>However, the latest version of Catalyst (version 3) now includes support for connectivity across a standard HTTP connection. This new functionality has paved the way for a new business model with customers able to opt for a hosted server environment rather than purchasing dedicated server and database technologies.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Two of ViaData\u2019s customers have already opted for the hosted solution. IBTC (<a href=\"\/\/www.ibtc.co.za\">www.ibtc.co.za<\/a>) and Avision (<a href=\"\/\/www.avision-africa.com\/\">www.avision-africa.com<\/a>) will be migrating their Back-office booking and CRM databases to the dedicated Catalyst server and will soon be experiencing the benefits associated with this hosted option including:<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced operational costs<\/li>\n<li>Improved data security and disaster recovery<\/li>\n<li>Improved accessibility<\/li>\n<li>Improved support \u2013 as ViaData technicians can easily see the same view of the data seen by the client.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ViaData is planning to implement other hosted applications soon and will also use hosting as a quick and easy prototyping solution for clients needing to test ideas and concepts in a production-like environment. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For more information on hosted Catalyst solutions, contact ViaData on <a href=\"mailto:info@viadata.co.za\">info@viadata.co.za<\/a> or 021-674-3682.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalyst over HTTP. Catalyst, the powerful business systems engine from ViaData, has been enabled for HTTP connectivity.\u00a0 Until recently, Catalyst provided a client server solution to its users.\u00a0 However, the latest version of Catalyst (version 3) now includes support for connectivity across a standard HTTP connection. This new functionality has paved the way for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-systems-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}