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Jcorporate provides a complete and modular suite of
open, integrated applications that transforms
all business to e-business at digital speed.
Jcorporate applications enable e-commerce, online publishing and content brokering,
multimedia asset management, business process re-engineering, and community
building.The components are modular, scalable, rapidly deployed, easily customized, and easily integrated with your existing legacy systems without the need to add infrastructure
or skill sets. Your total costs are dramatically reduced, and your time-to-deployment
speeds up.
| Browser-based Interfaces |
The direction of business today is away from infrastructure-heavy systems architecture. Utilizing a standard-based light-infrastructure you can manage your business from any workstation with an Internet browser. |
| Open Standards-based Architecture |
Jcorporate components are based entirely on Java. This powerful merging
of technologies yields rapid site development, adaptable feature sets and
real-time application upgrades. The Expresso Framework is a foundation building block for speeding your own e-business applications to complement the e-business applications we provide. |
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Open Application Development Framework
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Jcorporate components rely on the powerful
integrated Expresso Framework, a rich core
foundation layer of shared services and systems
that provides critical functionality to all
component applications on demand. This extensible
framework manages common tasks like object
persistence, database connectivity, tracing,
error handling and access management. |
| Rapid Deployment |
Jcorporate components are extensible as well as being pluggable into other
components. We emphasize reusable code. Additionally, the Expresso Framework
is designed to be able to significantly jump start your company's web application
development.A cross-platform tool that allows easy construction of application
layers to other products. You can integrate your legacy systems and applications,
leveraging your infrastructure investment and knowledge store, while reducing
your total cost of ownership. |
| Dynamic Data Management |
Utilizing a standards based architecture, this technology is database independent,
and can support and can effectively unify and organize access to disparate
enterprise data sources.Because database entries are infinitely recursive,
you can add objects and object types as they evolve. Your solutions will
continue to scale as your requirements expand - without the cost and inconvenience
of re-engineering. |
Ease of Use
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Jcorporate products deliver intuitive interfaces that are easy to understand,
easy to integrate, quickly implemented, and customizable with existing
skill sets.Jcorporate products enable the rapid development of new, customer-specific
feature sets and interfaces through simple tag modifications. The HTML
templates incorporated into Jcorporate's products are easily customized
and integrated with Java Server Pages (JSP), a standard extension of traditional
HTML encoding. |
The Jcorporate platform is comprised of ePortal and eContent which also
includes the Expresso Framework. We use "platform" to refer to
the base underlying infrastructure or foundation of ebusiness systems.
It is the common foundation with which various components and applications
need to operate. The platform includes language support, protocols, directory
access, user management, messaging, security management and other infrastructure
components. A well-designed and open platform allows for easier integration
of the various components and applications. It also lets technology teams
build faster, more secure and more stable ebusiness systems.
A component is a software element that provides a certain set of functionality
within the system software infrastructure. When integrated, components
provide base capabilities and functions to service complex requests or
accommodate the system management needs of various ebusiness applications.
Through code reuse many efficiencies are gained.
Jcorporate supports open platform development is through the use of open
and widely accepted languages and protocols. These include Java, Java 2
Enterprise Edition (J2EE), XML and LDAP. Jcorporate also supports integration
of a variety of third-party applications. In other words, the architecture
is not locked to products from a single company. This flexibility provides
developers with a greater range of options as they build custom platforms
or integrate legacy systems. In an ideal world, there would be a limited
number of options for any one system and all decisions would be made at
the same time. The real world is not that simple. The need to create custom
feature sets, accommodate legacy systems and support existing vendor relationships
makes it essential that the platform be open and flexible.
Open standards represent sound and stable technical innovations and these technologies continue to evolve in sound and principled ways as directed
by community and collaborative process.As a result, architectures based on these technologies automatically gain
many of the benefits of using superior technologies. For example, J2EE
is a platform for enterprise-scale computing across distributed systems
that consist of several components working together. open standards are
also widely accepted and widely used, resulting in an ever-growing number
of developers and engineers with suitable expertise in these. When staffing
for projects, open standards make it easier to make placements.
Companies are investing in open standards based components to allow fast,
easy and simple reuse of the technology across multiple systems and clients.
ebusiness infrastructure is Jcorporate’s business. We work very closely
with web mediaries, companies, ASPs and Internet service providers to improve
their development environments and help them better serve their clients.
As software systems are incredibly complicated,
they are best maintained through design by
breaking them down into simple components
that are easy to understand and promotes
extensibility. Further, the idea is to clearly
document them the servlet code - only then
can a programmer look at the whole and feel
like it's well understood by other people
using the code.
Jcorporate promotes reusability and provides
extensibility. The multi-tier approach isolates
your existing servers and shields the end-users
from platform-dependent concerns. At the
same time, a high level of security is maintained.
Access to the back-end servers and the data
is tightly controlled. This reusability philosophy
is a cornerstone in the components, i.e.
one of the biggest advantages of eContent Management is existing reporting applications
are retained and do not have to be modified.
For most companies, an enterprise information
solution fits well with their corporate direction.
Jcorporate products are designed with this
very strategy in mind. Via the Internet,
application output is now accessible world-wide,
and distribution of reports electronically
just a click away.
An extensible framework is enabled by encapsulating
database tables and groups of tables as objects.
Database objects are built with a extension
layer, allowing customizations to be isolated.
This isolation allows automatic re-integration
of customizations and avoids the creation
of "orphan" versions.
For example, let's say that a company has
a custom field "Employee ID" to
add to the default database object USERLOGIN.
Instead of modifying the base definition
of USERLOGIN, they add their field at the
extension layer. This clearly defines the
code as a custom extension and allows new
versions of the USERLOGIN object to be installed
without problems. The extension layer then
simply extends the new USERLOGIN object,
and all custom modifications continue to
function correctly.
A database object isolates applications from underlying database implementation,
while at the same time taking advantage of database features. Objects can
span more than one table (i.e. Invoice objects might access "INVHEADER"
AND "INVDETAIL" tables), contain virtual fields (e.g. fields
not stored but computed or looked-up from other objects such as code descriptions)
and can manipulate data in ordered sets.
Database objects can have security applied
to them on a per-group basis, with control
over search, add, update, and delete operations. Database objects may be set to log all modifications,
ideal for sensitive or crucial data.
Jcorporate provides integrated solutions
for managing various back-end applications
in an Open Enterprise Environment via intranet
technology thereby integrating heterogeneous
environment(s), including UNIX, NT, VMS,
MVS and AS400. A standard Web browser can
be used as the application front-end. Industry-standard
TCP/IP socket connections and standard TCP/IP
services are used to link various hosts to
form the backbone.
For scheduling reports, information is entered
about the program and the daemon configuration
running on the back-end server. Through a
Web browser users can run their existing
programs in their back-end servers with real-time
response, or use operating-system capabilities
to schedule reports to be run & published
automatically.
They can also distribute generated output
results (i.e. log files or reports) more
widely, through E-mail, to a printer, or
simply review them directly within their
browser. We offer user-friendly software
which provides the user with a rich, plentiful
set of features.
So what does all of these advantages mean in terms of developer productivity.
Simply, getting solutions to market faster. Open standards solutions will
increase utilization ratios of engineers as well as increase the growth
of intellectual capital.
"Utilization ratios" are the ratios of time that engineers are
producing billable work (or productive work in non-service companies),
as opposed to tool development, training and other nonbillable work. By
providing an open platform and solving many of the systems management needs
of developers, Jcorporate reduces the time needed to develop these tools.
"Growth of intellectual capital" is simply a fancy
term for increasing the abilities of people to perform the tasks of an
organization. By using a base platform and a qualified set of applications,
engineers spend less time learning the intricacies of various applications. As a
result, technical architects and senior engineers can delegate more tasks to
less experienced engineers. In addition, the reduced knowledge set can be
reinforced by multiple iterations with a common platform. Support for widely
used and understood languages and protocols also helps. Engineers can leverage
each other’s knowledge and abilities, as well as the knowledge in the
marketplace, to a far greater degree than is possible with proprietary or single
source technologies.
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