Curl Corporation Champions Client/Web Architecture; Curl to Ship Industry's First Client/Web Platform, Rich Client Development for the Web-Enabled Enterprise.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002 Customer and Early Adopter Siemens AG Siemens AG German electrical-equipment manufacturer. The first Siemens company, Siemens & Halske, was founded in Berlin in 1847 to build telegraph installations. Reports Soaring Productivity, Usability Championing the revolution in desktop-driven Web productivity, Curl Corporation today announced the industry's emergent Client/Web architecture, which delivers enterprise-level applications that reclaim the desktop power of Client/Server, while leveraging the deployment efficiencies of the Web. For the first time, enterprise applications built on the Client/Web architecture reap inherent rewards -- richly interactive user interfaces and lightening-fast responsiveness. Within large corporations, like Siemens AG, Client/Web has proven to significantly boost business productivity, while its dramatic system efficiencies lower IT costs. "Screens that refresh faster. Query results that display immediately. And instantaneous data manipulation Processing data. . These are the requirements for today's Web-enabled enterprise," explained John Capobianco John Capobianco (born 1965) is a Canadian corporate executive and activist. He has twice been a political candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada. Capobianco's parents immigrated from Italy in 1960. , executive vice president of planning for Curl Corporation. "While the Web brought us centrally-administered applications, user productivity took a step backwards with `executive click-and-wait.' Running business-critical applications in a browser leaves users staring at a functionally crippled interface, waiting for the server to refresh their requests for information." Today's Web-enabled enterprise applications execute almost exclusively on servers, with the results slowly and inefficiently distributed to "thin client" desktops. The next wave of technology requires the capacity to deliver application code over the network so that it executes on a client, one that's rich enough to run it. Analyst firms Forrester and Gartner have noted the development of a hot new market for so-called "rich-client" solutions. Bringing the Client/Web architecture to market, Curl will ship the industry's first Client/Web platform in early July. After four years of development, the Curl Client/Web Platform(TM) -- a runtime engine Software that certain applications depend on to run in the computer. The runtime engine must be running in the computer in order for the application to execute. It provides common routines and functions that the applications require, and it typically converts the program, which is in an , and an integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment that includes a VB-like visual GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. editor and a fully extensible programming Extensible programming is a term used in computer science to describe a style of computer programming that focuses on mechanisms to extend the programming language(s), compiler and runtime environment. language -- is now ready for enterprise deployment. Applications built on the Curl Client/Web Platform realize performance and productivity advantages that are virtually impossible to achieve with traditional server-side Web technologies. Customer and early adopter Siemens AG further supports these claims with reports of soaring performance and superior usability metrics as the company successfully deployed its Curl-powered Executive Information System. The new EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. gives executives a powerful, flexible interface into the company's business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . For the complete story, see "Siemens Touts Productivity Gains Using Curl Client/Web Platform" at http://www.curl.com/html/about/pressreleases.jsp?id=334. "Rather than re-purpose existing server-side technologies, a true Client/Web platform must be built from the ground up to deliver rich clients, uniting the accessibility of the Web with the power of the user's desktop," added Capobianco. "Yet, despite its client-side focus, the Curl Client/Web architecture is entirely complementary to server-side platforms, like Sun's J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. and Microsoft's .NET, and is perfectly suited for enterprise software as it launches into Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and enterprise portal See corporate portal. projects." Supporting the announcement, Curl issued a white paper, "Curl Client/Web Platform." The ten-page document details the emergence of the new Client/Web computing architecture, the technology behind the Curl platform, and the inherent business value of a Client/Web platform. To view the white paper, please go to http://www.curl.com/html/about/whitepapers.jsp. A New Computing Architecture Emerges: Client/Web Today's Web is optimized for delivering text, not running distributed applications. The Web excels at publishing static and dynamic data, such as newsletters or stock quotes. The Web chokes when running accounting, financial, asset management, business intelligence, and other computationally-intensive enterprise applications. Constant server-side calls degrade performance and productivity. Enterprises that employ client-side Java Virtual Machines This article provides non-exhaustive lists of J2SE Java virtual machines (JVMs). It does not include a large number of Java Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) vendors. Note that J2EE runs on the standard J2SE JVM but that some vendors specialize in providing a modified JVM optimized regularly find that competing JVM See Java Virtual Machine. JVM - Java Virtual Machine implementations prevent applications from executing consistently for all users. These types of disadvantages are driving user frustration to an all-time high. "The Web cripples usability," Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
Moving application execution to previously untapped desktop processors brings the performance benefits of the Client/Server world to the controlled environment of today's Web-enabled systems. Thus, in the evolution of enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. , the next dominant application architecture will be Client/Web. A diagram showing the evolutions of technology can be found at http://www.curl.com/html/about/collateral.jsp. The Curl Client/Web Platform: Web-Based Enterprise Application Development While others are busy extending server-centric technologies, Curl is the only company to offer a complete Client/Web platform -- a runtime environment A configuration of hardware and software. It includes the CPU type, operating system and any runtime engines or system software required by a particular category of applications. See runtime engine. and an IDE with an extensible programming language -- built from the ground up to create rich client-side enterprise applications, centrally controlled and delivered over the Web. At the same time, the Curl Client/Web Platform complements existing server-side technologies, including Java's J2EE and Microsoft's .NET. Strict adherence to Web standards Web standards is a general term for the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for , such as 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. for transmission of data and HTTP for communication, as well as the ability to run embedded routines from today's applications, lets Curl applications seamlessly integrate with Java and .NET-based backend systems. Curl applications work like this: Upon an initial request from a user, the back-end server sends down the application and its associated data in a compact file that can be half the size of a single 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. page. From that point, the full power of the application is literally in the hands of the user. The application runs on the user's local machine, not the server, and it requests additional data from the network only as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . By caching the application and data locally, Curl lets the application and user continue to work even when they are disconnected from the network, and is a huge boon to the user connected on a spotty or slow line. With all of the presentation work and appropriate business logic executing on the client, Curl optimizes server resources. Similarly, Curl frees the network from carrying constant back-and-forth requests and server-generated Web pages. The huge savings in server power and network bandwidth make Curl-based applications enormously scalable, as well as economical. The runtime environment includes more than 4000 APIs that programmers can use out of the box; developers can build their own features on top, with no limits. The object-oriented power of the Curl platform IDE also means that any Curl-based application is completely extensible as desired. Customer, Siemens AG Embraces Client/Web At Siemens IC Mobile division, a Curl-powered EIS serves as the standard reporting and strategic management system and replaces an earlier EIS built in Java. Leveraging the Curl platform has helped Siemens slash the time in delivering highly actionable information to key decision makers. As a result, Siemens reports across-the-board productivity gains for virtually all executive users of EIS. For example, the Curl-powered EIS has driven an 83% usage increase, 90% faster downloads, and 300% faster turnaround for EIS modifications. At the same time, mobile and remote users enjoy the same high performing, graphically rich content and real-time interactivity as usually reported by only local users. The growing ranks of Curl adopters confirm enterprises and ISVs want to leverage the business advantages of the Curl Client/Web Platform. Financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , biotech, automotive, pharmaceutical, and government enterprise portals are just a few of the markets that systems integrators are targeting with Curl rich client applications. Next week, Curl will be announcing 18 system integrators embracing the Client/Web platform and many of which are actively building enterprise applications to bring Web productivity and usability gains to their customers. The company will also be announcing how an independent software vendor (ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. ) has fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. its flagship enterprise asset management with a robust Curl-powered user interface. Related News Announcements and Background -- Customer and early adopter Siemens AG reports soaring performance and superior usability with the company's successfully deployed Curl-powered Executive Information System http://www.curl.com/html/abou t/pressreleases.jsp?id=334 -- Curl Client/Web Platform white paper http://www.curl.com/html/abou t/whitepapers.jsp -- Technology Revolutions graph http://www.curl.com/html/abou t/collateral.jsp About the Curl Client/Web Platform Curl Client/Web Platform(TM) is the industry's first rich client software suite delivering Web-distributed enterprise applications with smart user interfaces and lightening fast responsiveness. Forging the desktop power of Client/Server and the efficiencies of the Web, the Curl platform offers huge implications for large corporations for business productivity and profitability. The platform comprises a runtime environment and an IDE that includes an extensible programming language. Entirely complementary to server-side platforms like Sun's J2EE and Microsoft's .NET, the Curl Client/Web Platform is ideal for the Web-enabled enterprise launching into Web services and enterprise portal projects. About Curl Corporation Curl Corporation (www.curl.com) delivers the world's first Client/Web software platform for the Web-enabled enterprise, harnessing the power of Client/Server processing with Web-based efficiencies. The Curl Client/Web Platform(TM), comprising a runtime environment and an IDE with a VB-like visual GUI editor and a fully extensible programming language, addresses the needs of Global 2000 enterprises and Independent Software Vendors for enterprise portal, Web services, and other application development projects. Founded in 1995 and privately funded by Baker Capital, Curl Corporation is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . Curl Client/Web Platform is a trademark of Curl Corporation. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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