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Solution Product Guide for Obsydian |
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Obsydian enables organizations to rapidly develop, deploy and maintain distributed enterprise-scale applications. Applications generated by Obsydian are automatically "Designed for Microsoft BackOffice" logo compliant.
Obsydian for Windows NT/BackOffice was developed jointly by Microsoft and Synon to accelerate the delivery of enterprise-strength applications for the Microsoft BackOffice family.
Check also the Guide to Reviewing and Evaluating Obsydian for Windows NT/BackOffice
Benefits
of Obsydian for Windows/NT BackOffice
Why
your customers need Obsydian for Windows NT/BackOffice
Key
features of Obsydian for Windows NT/BackOffice
Integration with
Microsoft BackOffice
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products checklists Obsydian-built applications can be deployed in a variety of multitier Client-Server configurations using Microsoft SQL Server as the server database and a variety of desktop options for the client, including Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT Workstation operating systems. In addition, data can be exchanged among all Microsoft office products through OLE, providing comprehensive integration from desktop to server. |
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Obsydian customers reap significant benefits from the product’s sound architectural design and rich functionality.
Increased developer productivity
Obsydian’s automatic generation of "Designed for Microsoft BackOffice" logo-compliant code buffers application developers from the compliance rules as well as the complexities of low-level coding. This double insulation allows developers to focus on the business model and delivers significant improvements in productivity.
Enterprise success
The combination of Obsydian’s model-based approach, large-scale reusable objects, enterprise workgroup structure, and automatic generation of BackOffice compliant code, ensures that applications can be developed for enterprise-scale Windows NT-based solutions.
Responsive and efficient applications
For any application to deliver tangible business benefits, it must truly reflect the nature, rules and structure of the business. With many application development environments, this is extremely difficult to achieve. Obsydian is different because the business rules are mapped tightly into the applications. It’s full life-cycle approach ensures that the very same business rules identified and modeled at the beginning of the development cycle appear as logic in the generated applications.
Dramatically curbed maintenance costs.
Maintenance accounts for the largest of all information technology costs¾up to 80 percent, according to some estimates. With Obsydian, you can reduce application maintenance cost significantly by providing a model-based environment flexible enough to cope with the pace of change dictated by today’s business world. Because the application design is held in a high-level business model, changes to a design component automatically ripple through to related components, reducing the maintenance effort. Obsydian enables application developers to focus on refining the business model and application design rather than maintaining code.
International applications made easy with national language support
Because applications are increasingly deployed across national boundaries, national language support is crucial. Obsydian supports a wide variety of national languages, representative of the use of Synon tools and technologies in more than 80 countries around the world.
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To succeed in today’s fast-changing business environment, organisations must have the ability to rapidly build and maintain applications that enable the competitive edge.
Scalability
Performance
Productivity
Maintainability
Internationalization
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Automatic
generation of "Microsoft Designed for BackOffice" logo-compliant applications
Obsydian is the first and only application development tool to automatically generate BackOffice-based applications that embed all of the BackOffice standards.
Internet/intranet enabled
Obsydian generates Internet/intranet applications that seamlessly integrate with BackOffice, providing end users with secured access to system data worldwide.
Full life-cycle development
Obsydian is a full life-cycle application development environment. This benefits software developers significantly, enabling the entire development process¾ from design through to deployment¾ to be executed in a single environment.
Powerful
combination of model based design and large-scale objects
Application design and delivery are accelerated through Obsydian’s model-based approach and large-scale business objects. More than 100 functions are contained within each Obsydian business object. This offers dramatic time savings and reduces the need for complex assembly or hand-coding.
Enterprise workgroup environments
Obsydian enables the BackOffice family to handle the needs of enterprise
application development by effective management of workgroup development, typically
required in large-scale projects. Obsydian’s configuration management facilities are
used to maintain applications that may have multiple versions and release levels,
different target platforms, and national language implementations.
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Obsydian-generated applications integrate fully with the Microsoft BackOffice family of server products, including:
At the desktop level, Obsydian-built applications can be deployed for clients running Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, or Windows NT workstation.
System Information
Obsydian ships on CD-ROM and requires current versions of Microsoft Visual C++ development environment and the BackOffice suite. Obsydian ships with many Business Object Class Libraries, and there are may more available through Synon and its business partners.
Related Document:
A Guide to Reviewing and Evaluating Obsydian for Windows NT/BackOffice
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