snap is a series of packaged solutions consisting of looksoftware products and services, that reuses your IBM back-end applications and enables easy plug-and-play style integration with almost any other application including:

• Leading front-ends such as Microsoft's Outlook and SharePoint, IBM's Notes and WebSphere Portal, and portals such as Google
  
• SAP, MS Dynamics, Oracle and any web service compliant back-end application
  
• New technologies like Unified Communications, mobile devices like the new iPhone3G

looksoftware’s snap enables reuse of the robust existing back-ends and integration with modern front-end technologies quickly and painlessly, without requiring any changes to the back-end. As business users become more productive by accessing all applications through a modern common front-end, the back-end (which can be insulated from the front-end with a services layer), can be replaced or redeveloped at the customer's convenience.

snap solution pack series includes:

• looksoftware middleware
  • newlook UI widgets
    • rich, thin and mobile UIs
  • soarchitect web services
• Specialized connectors
  • Eg Google Gadgets, SharePoint webparts
• Implementation Consulting

Benefits include:

• Reuse of existing i investments, thereby:
  - reducing the risk associated with change
  - reducing training costs
  - increasing productivity
  - reducing implementation times
  - improving project success
  - reducing carbon emissions
  
• Easy integration with:
  - leading front-ends, MS Office, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Websphere Portal and Google
  - other apps like SAP, MS Dynamics and any application that supports web services
  - web service compliant systems and devices like Unified Communication Systems
  
• Reuse snap components in any web services compliant development environment including .NET and J2EE
  
• Improve acceptance of i applications
  
• Unified view, improved UX
  
• Streamline workflow and automate business processes

Read snap FAQs.