As technology continues to evolve rapidly, and in varying lifecycles and rates, interoperability challenges are becoming more complex than ever. Patches, expensive upgrades and homegrown solutions — each with its own set of disruptions and risks to the business — have historically been used to address these issues. With new releases, updates and accompanying compatibility issues popping up with greater frequency, the traditional methods are becoming a significant hit to IT budgets, delaying and hindering an organization’s ability to invest in innovation. As a result, valuable, high-priority projects such as the adoption of AI or predictive analytics are often postponed, causing organizations to fall behind in their digital transformation goals.
At Rimini Street, we’re focused on solving such real-world problems, putting power and control back where they belong — in our clients’ hands. Rimini Connect™, Rimini Street’s suite of interoperability solutions, is one of the many ways we help deliver transformation without disruption, enabling organizations to focus on higher-value priorities while maximizing the value of their existing systems.
Rimini Connect™ Console takes this promise even further, providing a centralized management tool that can monitor, manage and configure their Rimini Connect solutions. With this extra layer of visibility and control, IT leaders can further optimize and streamline their operations with greater peace of mind.
Incompatibility challenges of existing enterprise software
To perform essential business functions, organizations often depend on established enterprise software. These applications are typically reliable and have been in use for many years. On top of that, they’re frequently customized to meet the organization’s unique needs.
Unfortunately, such software doesn’t always pair well with new web browsers and other updated technology — at least not out of the box. Early versions of enterprise software were originally designed to work with older browsers like Internet Explorer, often making them incompatible with modern browsers. In fact, attempting to upgrade web browsers can break the functionality of enterprise software applications and affect business continuity.
In the past, organizations have been forced to choose among three options to address this problem:
- Forgo updates to modern web browsers
- Upgrade their existing ERP system to the latest version
- Create homegrown, custom solutions
However, none of these options is ideal, as each one has its own set of drawbacks. Choosing the first means missing out on the capabilities of modern browsers, which have evolved to provide new and improved features such as enhanced security, AI and time-saving search functions. Selecting the second is generally costly, time-consuming and disruptive; plus, it’s unnecessary when the existing software is still working as it should and meeting the business’s needs. And going with the third means putting greater pressure on internal IT teams to spend time on highly technical development.
It all boils down to this: Existing enterprise software requires existing browsers. This interoperability challenge is what prompted Rimini Street to develop a real-world solution that is effective and easy to apply — Rimini Connect™ for Browsers.
The Rimini Connect™ for Browsers: A patented, simple solution for complex browser challenges
Rimini Connect for Browsers enables existing enterprise software to function seamlessly with modern web browsers, eliminating costly workarounds and unnecessary upgrades. Our patented solution, which is simple to install, maintains the core functionality of ERP systems by insulating them from changes in technology stacks and compatibility standards. Fast, in-memory execution ensures that the responsiveness of enterprise software is maintained and minimizes disruptions to ERP apps as the result of browser updates.
In effect, this solution allows organizations to decouple their enterprise software from their browser, allowing each roadmap to be managed independently.
With Rimini Connect for Browsers, clients can look forward to several benefits:
- Enjoy peace of mind knowing that part of the technology stack won’t suddenly cause interoperability issues with business-critical systems.
- Proactively plan the business’s technology roadmap to avoid interoperability surprises when technology in environments must be upgraded for additional features or compliance.
- Save potentially millions of dollars by avoiding enterprise software upgrades required to modernize environments, enabling strategic cost planning.
- Focus the IT budget on projects that deliver real value for the business instead of expensive and disruptive upgrades to support compatibility needs.
- Use resources to drive innovation that matters to the business rather than diverting attention to overseeing browser updates and unexpected upgrades.
- Choose the best-fit technologies and quickly connect them to existing ERP solutions — without vendor-imposed restrictions.
And with the recent addition of Rimini Connect Console, clients can easily monitor, manage and configure their Rimini Connect for Browsers ecosystem from a central location.
How Rimini Connect Console makes system management more efficient
Now available for Rimini Connect for Browsers and for additional Rimini Connect solutions in the future, the Rimini Connect Console brings everything together, providing a layer of control and visibility. In essence, it functions as a centralized, single-pane-of-glass management tool that unifies and automates several important capabilities. With it, clients can look forward to the following:
- Simplified monitoring, management and configuration of Rimini Connect services from a central dashboard
- Real-time views of full deployment of Rimini Connect services and related system resources
- In-depth analysis and diagnosis of logs and alerts from all related servers for enterprise-wide insights
- Streamlined administration tasks, such as digital certification inspection and installation
The current release of Rimini Connect Console includes other valuable features that can be accessed via the dashboard.
Services
From the Services page, clients can manage all of the services associated with Rimini Connect for Browsers from a single location rather than having to access multiple environments. The page provides a list of environments, along with the corresponding servers and statuses of each. Clients can take action with the click of a button, which saves time by simplifying the most common processes.
Certificates
The Certificates page allows clients to effortlessly apply certificate updates without having to search for individual server credentials. On this page, clients can upload or create certificates, as well as perform common actions. These features simplify certificate creation and rollout across multiple environments.
Regain power and control — in one interface
With the new Rimini Connect Console, organizations can not only leverage the full scope of Rimini Connect for Browsers but also improve efficiency and gain valuable insight into their ecosystems.
To sum it all up, Rimini Connect Console is an essential part of the Rimini Connect portfolio, which does much more than just solve interoperability issues; it provides organizations with the agility to extend the life of their enterprise software, reduce total cost of ownership and gain a competitive advantage by avoiding unnecessary and disruptive ERP upgrades — enabling modernization without disruption.
Learn more about Rimini Connect Console and discover how our entire Rimini Connect portfolio can allow you to run existing software like Oracle EBS and SAP on modern infrastructure with proven solutions, at a fraction of the cost.
