.NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process

Summarizing the Suite

The power of ProductX and most of the Company ABC product suite is on the server. Once integrated into an existing financial front end, all payment processing happens behind the scenes using the server plumbing provided to each merchant by Company ABC. Here, transactions are managed, sent, received, and reported on. In the end, the merchant saves money transaction by transaction and receives many other benefits awarded by each product in the product suite. For example, if a company uses Microsoft Great Plains to manage customer receivables, ProductX can help automate the receipt and transfer of all necessary funds by providing a means to transfer cash electronically. If that same accounting package is used to manage employee ...