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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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