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flexibility. Flexibility to extend existing business applications to
the web.
It's about
being open. Open to develop and employ sophisticated web-based application
strategies.
It's about
opportunity. Opportunity to maximize business opportunities by
leveraging internal data.
It's about
OpenPoint®, a complete application technology that becomes the
foundation of your web-based business solution.
OpenPoint provides the necessary infrastructure for
building and delivering sophisticated
web-enabled applications or for developing and extending the web
capabilities of your existing business applications.
OpenPoint is
comprised of two interrelated components: the OpenPoint Enterprise Manager
and the OpenPoint Application Engine. Together, they form a complete
web-empowering architecture that enables your
organization to develop and extend its
business solutions by employing OpenPoint's methodology and tools.
A Framework for
Web-based Applications
Web-based applications extend and complement an existing IT
infrastructure. However, proliferation of
multiple web-based solutions complicate data access rules.
OpenPoint provides an application framework that ensures independent
access to a broad range of back-end database types
through a single browser motif.
Web Enabling Legacy
and Client/Server Applications
With
OpenPoint's web application framework and specific development toolkits,
web empowerment can be facilitated in less time and
for significantly less cost. IT organizations
can focus attention on GUI consistency rather than on back-end database
inconsistencies. OpenPoint effectively masks the disparate faces of your
legacy and client/server applications, allowing your
organization to leverage IT investments while
extending their capabilities.
Developing Web-based
Applications
OpenPoint
can help enable and extend both existing and non-web capabilities, as
well as provide invaluable assistance with web
application development. Building a web
application without a framework requires a significant amount of effort
to create features like menus, security, and report
viewers that are necessary but do not
contribute directly to achieving your business goals. OpenPoint allows
your organization to focus valuable project
resources on developing value-added functions, not
reinventing the wheel. The technology enables your organization to deliver
web-based applications faster and for less cost than
other development approaches. Regardless of
your business model or strategic business objectives, OpenPoint provides
your organization with an unlimited ability to build
many different types of web-based business
solutions that run on a common application engine.
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