Attachmate Extends Essential Enterprise Applications to New Users with myEXTRA! Presentation Builder.Business Editors BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2003 Quickly Remodel re·mod·el tr.v. re·mod·eled also re·mod·elled, re·mod·el·ing also re·mod·el·ling, re·mod·els also re·mod·els To make over in structure or style; reconstruct. Host Applications to Align Workflow with Business Needs to Create a More Productive, Efficient and Secure User Experience Attachmate Corporation, delivering breakthrough technology in the legacy application integration space, announced the upcoming release of myEXTRA!(TM) Presentation Builder, a Java-based solution that streamlines a user's interaction with the host. Presentation Builder provides an object-oriented approach to refacing and repurposing mainframe applications for the Web. Scheduled to ship October 17, 2003, myEXTRA! Presentation Builder enables the design of simple, easy-to-use Web presentations that eliminate expensive, specialized application training. myEXTRA! Presentation Builder quickly remodels host applications, creating streamlined workflows to advance today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. demands for host data. The product is designed for the business-level manager who is familiar with host system workflows, but may not have IT developers at their disposal. By rearranging the screens and selecting pertinent fields only, that manager can extend legacy applications - previously available only to highly skilled users - to new employees and workgroups. Two-minute applications for the non-developer In minutes instead of hours, myEXTRA! Presentation Builder can transform host applications into new Web presentations, providing Web-based access to mission-critical applications, without the risks inherent in altering those host applications. With a GUI-based, drag-and-drop development designer, organizations can easily convert, customize and condense con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. an application, such as an in-house order entry legacy application, into a self-service order entry presentation - so that anyone with a browser can access it. Presentation Builder is non-invasive and developers do not make any host code changes. The product uses themes to apply pre-defined rules to different types of data. Developers can use these themes or create their own, which makes it easy to craft comprehensive changes. With an understanding of the host application, they can apply a theme and, in minutes, transform it to a new Web presentation. "Presentation Builder is fast and easy to use, so it solves the issue of limited IT resources by providing host-aware business analysts with the means to quickly 'remodel' host applications and create new presentations of host data," explained Markus Nitschke, Attachmate vice president of marketing and product management. "This helps to solve the increasing demand for host information from a variety of new audiences." Increasing productivity by streamlining workflows With Presentation Builder, designers can simplify an application's flow, eliminating unnecessary steps for improved efficiencies by shortening the time it takes to complete a transaction. This reduces errors and allows designers to customize multiple views for specific business audiences or to create self-service applications A software application that allows a user to obtain information or complete a business transaction on the computer that has traditionally required the help of a human representative. Voice response systems and Web sites are widely used for self-service applications. See kiosk. for the Web. By making the application easier to use, businesses save time and money on training, reduce redundant data entry, and increase the number of transactions per day - giving companies an immediate return on investment. Reducing costs with Centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management myEXTRA! Presentation Builder's graphical design environment allows for rapid presentation development, testing and deployment. Organizations can easily deploy new user presentations to multiple locations over large geographic areas, thereby reducing installation and administration costs. These new Web presentations are easily managed from a central location, virtually eliminating installation and administration costs. Securing the host myEXTRA! Presentation Builder enables compliance with all security regulations, and safeguards any host information that goes beyond the firewall. Managers can easily construct the Web presentation so that each business group sees only the host information it needs; confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead is never physically sent to the client. Presentation Builder provides only XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. or HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. to the client browser; there is no live host connection between the end-user and the host. About Attachmate Attachmate Corporation is a privately held, worldwide supplier of host data and business-logic access and management solutions for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises. The company provides solutions for direct, real-time access to back-office systems, Web-to-host and desktop-to-host solutions, and flexible enterprise application integration and Web service offerings. Attachmate(R) is member of the Web Services Interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. Organization (WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services ), a Microsoft Gold Certified See certification. Partner, Unisys(R) Partner, and BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. (R) Star Partner. News is available at www.attachmate.com, or by calling Attachmate worldwide headquarters in Bellevue, Washington Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, U.S., across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle,[1] it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. , at 425/644-4010. (C) 2003 Attachmate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Attachmate is a registered trademark and myEXTRA! is a trademark of Attachmate Corporation. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. |
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