Last month Akorri announced it’s release of BalancePoint 2.0. This is an important release for us and it’s been a long time in the making. In the next few blog postings I’ll talk about some of the new features and functionality that BalancePoint 2.0 brings to the market.

Today though I want to talk about one of the major enhancements we made in BalancePoint V2.0 that is not obvious to our customers. That enhancement is the implementation of a “services based architecture” (SBA).

There is a lot of discussion in the industry today about service based architectures but for Akorri the main reason to implement a SBA is the flexibility and agility it provides in offering new features and applications. Having well defined infrastructure services such as data access, reporting, security, etc will make the delivery of new features and applications easier and quicker to develop and deliver to the marketplace. Our SBA implementation will allow us to offer new applications without have to “rip up and replace” any of the existing infrastructure. Scalability, overall performance, and adaptability are other benefits we’ll see with this architecture.

In an upcoming post I’ll talk about another important feature of BalancePoint 2.0 which is our delivery of BalancePoint as a virtual appliance. There are a lot of exciting things happening in the virtual appliance world and I’ll discuss some of the benefits we get from offering a virtual appliance as well as some of the challenges we faced.

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