| Frequently asked Questions What is Sebring Software
The product enables you to
reach applications in the enterprise and interact with the data and information
from different application and locations. This is made possible with RIA (Rich
Internet Applications) and a variety of net
standards. Sebring Software's server facilitates the communication of
information between the Sebring Software client on your desktop and the particular
application or applications you are interacting with. Sebring Software accomplishes
this with adaptors for each application. The application specific adaptor
accounts for the communication between the server and your Sebring Software desktop
client.
How can I collaborate with others
Sebring Software facilitates access to your
data or to a transitory partnership your company might be enjoying. With the
Sebring Software
technology, you can quickly integrate partners and applications under the
Sebring Software umbrella and exchange information.
How does Sebring Software benefit a business
Up to thirty percent of en employee's time on the
job gets wasted on looking for data and information or effort spent on
repetitive non value-add activities. By connecting business applications using
Sebring Software, this waste is greatly reduced.
Much of the wasted time is spent on dealing with dissimilar and difficult
application program user interfaces. Sebring Software provides one
logical and ergonomic user interface for locating and taking action on data and
information.
Management can directly and quickly access business data to assess risks and
rewards of the daily business activities. This can be your own company's data as
well as that of strategic partners admitted under your Sebring Software
umbrella. The value in seeing the whole picture is invaluable.
How do I get to information when I am outside my office
Typically best in class applications only knows you inside your office, or more
correctly, when you connect to your intranet inside your firewall. With a secure
login and RIA (Rich Internet Application) technology Sebring Software allows
access to data and information from outside the office firewall. This is
particularly important for companies with multiple locations and intranets,
where inter office communication and access to data is required.
What do I need to take advantage of Sebring Software
It is assumed that a successful business has an IT infrastructure in place.
With a RIA (Rich Internet Application) in place awkwardness with which one
accesses data and information is removed. Applications are hosted on a server
which in turn is connected in an internal network. Different applications or
programs serve different company functions. Sebring Software does,
amongst others, two things which are to facilitate connection to different
applications and through one user interface. And it lets you do so inside or
outside the office environment. It reduces the expense of interconnectivity
because Sebring Software provides the connectors which are build on standards.
This reduces the expense of maintenance and eases greatly the task of
modifications to allow for changed or new business process, programs and
employee landscape.
The single "view" to multiple information and applications sources alleviates
employee frustration, reduces training costs, and reduces the user's daily
effort to get their tasks done.
What are the productivity gains with Sebring Software
Reduces to one operation in one user interface
updating data that exists in more than one place or multiple databases. The
user's own business process is supported as opposed to an arbitrary set of
update screens provided by dissimilar application programs.
Users have access to ancillary product, business, and customer information on
one screen. Consequently this enriches the information environment and leads to
better decisions with reduced error rates.
RIA technology with its asynchronous capability for server communication allows
the user to update multiple databases and be protected from erroneous overwrite
of data or information. Concurrent updating of data and information can be configured into the product.
This protects the information from being inadvertent changed by a user or
forgotten about in other vital databases.
A better way to manage documents and products. With proper application setup,
effects of change can be properly communicated to those who need to know.
Sebring Software reduces costly human errors because the user interface
is simple even for a complex business process.
The success of an acquisition much depends on how quickly the acquired company
best products, practices and processes can be cross pollinated and made
accessible to the acquiring company. Often the period of reaching business
harmony between the acquired company and the parent can be so long and
complicated that it can be the death knell of the relationship. Sebring
Software
greatly accelerates the integration of the two company's data and application
programs increasing the likelihood of success and profitability.
How is the Sebring Software solution superior
Sebring Software has been developed of a
period of 10 years and deployed as keystone technology in major corporations
with very complex business processes. Based on non-proprietary standards
requirements such as those promoted by
W3E
(World Wide Web consortium) and
Oasis has helped in forming a product which is not at the mercy of
application programming interface delivered by the best in class applications
vendors. This independence and neutrality is important to give the customers the
flexibility needed in today's changing business environment.
This structured way in doing the interconnectivity between application means a
quick adaptation of Sebring Software to your business and agile in change
when your business changes.
Sebring Software grew up as a product servicing the most complex
environment of PLM, PDM, ERP, and legacy systems by "exposing" them to the
internet in standardized SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) protocol.
With this history and experience, Sebring Software can aptly support the product
and information community.
How secure is data and information with Sebring
Software
The authorization and authentication of a user on
the web uses HTTPS protocol. This the same security used when you purchase
something on the web using your credit card. This security prevents hackers from
seeing your login information. It protects against unwanted access and prevents
approved users from accessing unwanted private or business critical data behind
the firewall unless authorized to do so.
With this security it is also possible to give access to partners and vendors.
It is designed so vendors would not be aware of each other.
What are the benefits
of Rich Internet Application Technology
Richer. They can offer
user-interface behaviors not obtainable using only the HTML widgets available to
standard browser-based Web applications. This richer functionality may include
anything that can be implemented in the technology being used on the client
side, including drag and drop, using a slider to change data, calculations
performed only by the client and which do not need to be sent back to the server
(e.g. an insurance rate calculator), etc.
More responsive. The
interface behaviors are typically much more responsive than those of a standard
Web browser that must always interact with the server.
The most sophisticated examples of RIAs exhibit a look and feel approaching that
of a desktop environment. Using a client engine can also produce other
performance benefits:
Client/Server balance. The
demand for client and server computing resources is better balanced, so that the
Web server need not be the workhorse that it is with a traditional Web
application. This frees server resources, allowing the same server hardware to
handle more client sessions concurrently.
Asynchronous communication.
The client engine can interact with the server asynchronously -- that is,
without waiting for the user to perform an interface action like clicking on a
button or link. This option allows RIA designers to move data between the client
and the server without making the user wait. Perhaps the most common application
of this is prefetching, in which an application anticipates a future need
for certain data, and downloads it to the client before the user requests it,
thereby speeding up a subsequent response. Google Maps uses this technique to
move adjacent map segments to the client before the user scrolls their view.
Network efficiency. The
network traffic may also be significantly reduced because an
application-specific client engine can be more intelligent than a standard Web
browser when deciding what data needs to be exchanged with servers. This can
speed up individual requests or responses because less data is being transferred
for each interaction, and overall network load is reduced. However, use of
asynchronous prefetching techniques can neutralize or even reverse this
potential benefit. Because the code cannot anticipate exactly what every user
will do next, it is common for such techniques to download extra data, not all
of which is actually needed, to many or all clients.
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