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Email2DB - Using Email To Link Separate Systems

Another use for Email2DB is to link separate computer systems.

Regardless of how two or more computer systems are separated, geographically, operating system, database type, hardware type etc. One thing that can always be used as a way of communication between the two systems is Email.

 

An example:

A business has several separate sites and a head office. The remote sites each run a personnel system. The head office also runs a personnel system that has to be kept up to date with each site's data. Currently the business maintains VPN links to each site and data between the systems is synchronised in a batch process. The VPN links often go down causing data problems.

 

Email2DB could be used as an alternative way to link the separate systems. Each remote site could send an email whenever an employee record is changed. The email could be sent using secure SMTP. Email2DB running at the head office could read these emails and update the main personnel system. No complex VPN links would need to be maintained.. and the link would not be affected by network problems or outages at either end. Data at the head office would also be more up to date since emails from each site would come in as their data is updated.

 

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