The merits of embedded business technology

By: piru

With the issue of process innovation gaining importance the organizations are undergoing a lot of device integration by the method of embedded business technology or better termed as embedded software service solutions. Such kind of integrated technology services help the customers in reducing the cost, the size and complexity of the devices.

HCL, Microsoft and Oracle are one of the leading software integrators and have pioneered in providing these kind of solutions to satiate the demands of the present day customers.

The embedded technology of system integration has been used to integrate business process management by way of functioning in a particular enterprise application. The integrated and the modular architecture in this kind of embedded business application helps to manage and monitor the most critical business processes. The embedded software is generally customized to a particular device. The hardware companies while integrating the embedded software into any product or devices have encountered numerous challenges but have been successful.

Recently. Microsoft has unveiled a new line of its Windows Embedded product with a new naming business strategy. The new products under the new naming are

* Windows Embedded Standard which is the next generation of Windows XP Embedded
* The next generation of Windows Embedded CE or Windows Embedded Compact
* Windows Embedded Enterprise which is a combination product of windows Vista and Windows XP and
* Windows Embedded POS(Point Of service).

This new Embedded products will provide device-makers with certain market-specific features so that they can build and ship the next generation of service-oriented devices in a much faster way.

Let us look at the benefits of this embedded business solution :

Embedded OS helps to market device faster: The best example of the embedded OS is Windows Embedded Operating Systems. Windows Embedded CE and Windows Embedded XP deliver all kinds of tools and technology so that the device can be marketed faster. Even if one chooses a different OS, the Windows Embedded OS in any case provides substantial benefits.

Requires less time to complete the project: The embedded OS like Windows Embedded OS have easy-to-use developer tools which help to reduce the time required to complete the projects. Since there is less dependence on the custom development, the project takes less overall development hours.

Enables less upfront cost: The Embedded OS and the development tools are normally economical and less costly. Hence, one has to spend less on investment.Windows Embedded OS allows the developer to evaluate and test the system at no cost by providing kits.

The business model of Microsoft is such that it offers simple prices and engagement model to OEMs, distributors, independent hardware and software vendors.

* Less costing for the runtimes: Windows Embedded CE has been licensed based on the following runtime alternatives - Windows Embedded CE Core which includes the basic CE components, Windows Embedded CE Professional which includes PDF, Office file viewers alongwith CE and the Windows Embedded Plus Version.

* Low upfront-investment : As long as the product has not been shipped, you do not require to pay for the upfront investment. Pay only after your device has been shipped based on the per unit license with tier volume discounts. This is because Windows Embedded allows you to defer your upfront investment.

* Sharing of Embedded software source code: Shared sourcing allows customers and the developers to access the embedded source code while at the same time safeguarding the IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) of the software licensing framework.

Windows Embedded CE enabled developers to use the source code while allowing at the same time to create and ship the commercial derivatives of the OS.

* The wider opportunity to increase revenues: The Embedded software enables previous projects to be reused so that they can be easily updated. Further, the product line extensions can be made by using the existing code.

The Embedded platforms in general are backed by huge R&D support systems of the software service providers.

There remains to be a basic challenge in front of the system integrators as high skills are required to coordinate with software developers, to test and evaluate the embedded software into the devices to be integrated and to deliver the speed and accuracy to reach the business partners so as to market the final embedded product.

Oracle Corp. is one another company who has entered into the Embedded software manufacturing, a sudden shift from the corporate computing market. The embedded software business of the Oracle Corp. grew by almost 60% in the year 2005.

It has further plans of making the embedded versions of its main software products like Database 10g Enterprise and Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle E-business Suite. Further, the plans ahead to establish the R&D labs as regards the embedded technology in China. Singapore, Japan, South Korea and India.

Today the EBI(Embedded Business Intelligence) is gaining concept and the day will not be far off when there would be lesser number of business portals as the Business Intelligence take real-time decisions and the need for Data warehousing needs is minimized.

The customers of Embedded technology can range from Telecom, Aerospace, Defense and Medical to Industrial Automation. The long-term availability of the Embedded hardware products is desired by the customers.

HCL has customized its embedded services with its unique know-how across various domains in order to meet the different industry requirements. One of its core embedded products is Empresent which is a powerful embedded GUI (Graphical User Interface).It has wide variety of features which include support for different screen size and resolution, a much wider range of ready made widgets, automated ANSI Code generation, event driven architecture, wide look and feel of applications among a host of other benefits too.

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Embedded business technology or better termed as embedded software service solutions help the customers in reducing the cost, the size and complexity of the devices. The article underlines the various benefits of this technology.

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