The biggest strength of HostFront's Application Integration components is its ability to provide e-business solutions by integrating the host environment with the Web. By simply extending Microsoft's COM object technology, the Host Application Integration Toolkit easily rejuvenates host applications with either a Windows-like or an HTML-based GUI. As a result, companies can integrate their IBM AS/400 or Mainframe hosts applications with Web- or Windows-based applications without making any modifications to the host applications. For example, third-party Windows-based Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications can easily access host information through the HostFront COM interface.