Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform Selected to Migrate Safewire's ARX Integrated, Multi-Channel Business Software System to the Web.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- New, Web-based Safewire ARX Will Improve Customer Satisfaction and Reduce TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ; Offers Safewire Competitive Advantage and Business Agility Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 applications, today announced that Safewire Ltd. has selected the Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform to deliver a new, Web-based version of its ARX integrated, multi-channel 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 solution. Safewire's ARX is a traditional client/server application that relies on a character-based user interface to deliver customers operational modules for every aspect of their mail order business, from sales order The sales order, sometimes abbreviated as SO, is an order received by a business from a customer. A sales order may be for products and/or services. Given the wide variety of businesses, this means that the orders can be fulfilled in several ways. entry to warehouse management to dynamic website generation, and enables them to analyze their key business drivers without having to worry about purchasing and integrating multiple systems. Using the jRex Conductor and Studio components of Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 platform, Safewire is building the next version of ARX as a visually compelling, browser-based application that delivers the richness and enterprise-qualities of client/server software. "Today, an overwhelming number of customers want to utilize the Internet as their business application platform but are unwilling to sacrifice the scalability, security and performance they've become accustomed to with client/server solutions," said Peter Lowndes, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Safewire Ltd. "Nexaweb's software is enabling us to leapfrog competitive web-based solutions and to deliver ARX as an enterprise-class, platform-independent rich internet application See RIA and rich client. that will improve end-user satisfaction, increase productivity, and reduce ownership costs for our customers." Development cost, skill re-use, and time-to-market were major considerations in Safewire's project planning project planning - project management and technology selection process. Nexaweb's jRex Conductor and Studio tools complement Safewire's 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. engineering expertise and enable an integrated and streamlined UI design and code-generation process. This greatly reduces the need for new training and is allowing Safewire's product developers to rapidly develop and test new UI screens and application functionality. And, because Nexaweb integrates with Safewire's existing InterSystems' CACHE post relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. engine, there is no need to introduce additional servers to the application stack The set of applications typically required by an organization. A typical "enterprise" application stack would include the basic office functions (word processing, spreadsheet, database, etc.), as well as a Web browser and e-mail and instant messaging programs. . "Business agility was also an extremely important factor in our decision making process because we are determined to build the next version of ARX in a way that makes us a more flexible business," continued Lowndes. "Nexaweb's software not only gives us an incredible competitive advantage today, but offers us flexibility in the future including the opportunity to leverage our products to build open-source applications using Ajax or to pursue an ASP business model." "Nexaweb has answered the unique application development challenges of independent software vendors for more than five years, and our current work with Safewire demonstrates our continued leadership in this market," said Chris Heidelberger, CEO at Nexaweb. "We're excited to be working with Safewire to build a market-leading, enterprise-quality, rich Internet application solution that promises to revolutionize the operational business systems marketplace." Using Nexaweb Studio's visual design environment, Safewire is able to quickly design new, XML-based ARX user interface screens. When Safewire's development team has completed a new UI screen, they merge the XML source code into their existing InterSystems' CACHE database. The new XML code is used to create Safewire's CACHE Server A dedicated network server or a service within a server that caches Web pages. Cache servers speed up access to information that has been retrieved previously by the same user or by someone else. See Web cache, origin server, ICP and CARP. Pages that are then rendered as customized, desktop-quality UI's by Nexaweb's jRex Conductor. Nexaweb's jRex Conductor is a declarative de·clar·a·tive adj. 1. Serving to declare or state. 2. Of, relating to, or being an element or construction used to make a statement: a declarative sentence. n. XML engine that enables application access, anytime, within any browser, without any software downloads or plug-ins. About Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform The Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform is a software platform for developing and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) Applications. The Nexaweb platform is a robust, scalable solution that separates business logic from application presentation to simplify the development and deployment of EW 2.0 applications. The Nexaweb deployment platform includes: --Nexaweb Server - intelligently manages all elements of application presentation to provide a highly scalable solution that reduces operational costs --Nexaweb Internet Message Bus (IMB IMB International Mission Board IMB Irish Medicines Board IMB International Maritime Bureau IMB Institute for Molecular Bioscience (Brisbane, Australia) IMB IndyMac Bank (Pasadena, CA) ) - provides reliable, secure, high-performance communication between Web servers and clients --Nexaweb Client - increases user productivity by intelligently managing communications, enabling consistent high performance over any bandwidth, and any kind of network --Nexaweb Conductors - high-performance, declarative XML UI engines that run in any browser, delivering services that support light weight, reliable EW2.0 applications across multiple client technologies The Nexaweb development tools include: --Nexaweb Studio - a plug-in to popular Java IDEs that reduces development costs by making it easier and faster to develop thin-client, high-performance Enterprise Internet Applications Nexaweb's smart client/server runtime infrastructure In computing, run-time infrastructure (RTI) is a middleware that is required when implementing the High Level Architecture. RTI is the fundamental component of HLA. It provides a set of software services that are necessary to support federates to coordinate their operations and and development tool set is implemented using a standards-based, Internet-centric architecture that is compatible with existing Web infrastructure. Using Nexaweb, applications can run equally well in all environments--cross-platform and cross-device. For more information regarding Nexaweb products, please visit the Nexaweb Web site at: http://www.nexaweb.com About Nexaweb Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. provides the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying enterprise Web 2.0 applications. Today, there are more business critical applications deployed on Nexaweb than on any other Web 2.0 platform. Some of Nexaweb's key customers and partners include ARTstor, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Siemens, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Oracle. For more information, visit www.nexaweb.com or call (781) 345-5500. Nexaweb and the Nexaweb logo are registered trademarks of Nexaweb, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. No use of a third-party mark is to be construed to mean such mark's owner endorses Nexaweb products or services. |
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