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| Implications |
Composite Applications that are "smart" and "inter-networked" will supplant traditional client/server and web applications because they make possible a sea of change in the business value enterprises can derive from their information assets by delivering more functionality to users at lower cost to IT. Digital Harbor enables all of the following:
- Internet applications acquire the usability of the desktop
- Internet applications finally have the usability required for mainstream enterprise use.
- Internet applications can contain live content and interactivity because a new component-based architecture uses Java and XML-based web services to overcome the limitations of the web's page-based architecture.
- Single page experience delivers unprecedented context
- No page refreshing - everything on the screen is an object that is streamed just-in-time, with just enough information to provide both presentation and behavior.
- Application linking and embedding (ALE) enables integration of any content from any application into any other application/content.
- Composite applications enable people, processes and data to interact in the context of one application, not in separate places.
- Integration for mainstream usage
- It is now practical to construct cross-functional Internet applications with the low cost of ownership and short time-to-market necessary for widespread adoption.
- Integration moves from the narrow domain of hard-core technologists toward the broader world of business analysts.
- Leverage all information assets: not just data, but people, processes and events - together.
- Model relationships at a concept-level, not a code-level.
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| Benefits |
Digital Harbor enables enterprises to reduce costs, improve efficiency, provide greater visibility, minimize errors and drive a faster return on investment.
- Capabilities
- Make Internet applications more usable by infusing properties of correlation and collaboration
- Provide a higher level of integration, including a relationship model for web services
- Empower cross-functional workers with cross-functional applications
- Leverage all of a company's information assets - people, processes, events, rules and data
- Extend the use of software as services
- Business Benefits
- Increase the usability and applicability of existing applications
- Provide user-specific views of information
- Reduce error rates and crisis management maintenance by providing better visibility
- Speed insight with live updates, real-time notifications and active correlation
- Increase efficiency and lower costs with real-time context
- Deliver a common operating picture so users work from the same information
- Query across systems seamlessly without having to understand the underlying infrastructure
- Enable users to "connect the dots" among pieces of data
- IT Benefits
- Lower the time and costs of integration
- Enable integration of mainstream applications, not just strategic projects
- Improve user satisfaction with highly usable, interactive and intuitive interfaces
- Move integration from the domain of developers to business analysts
- Increase flexibility of change and scale to business needs
- Reduce need and costs of re-training
- Reduce cost to extend functionality
- Easier development translates to faster time-to-market
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