Agile Platform

Overview

The Agile Platform is used by IT teams to quickly develop and manage flexible web applications and Business Processes using agile methodologies. It includes all tools needed to Integrate, Develop, Deploy, Manage and Change web applications and business processes. The integrated modeling approach, built-in execution engine and full e-mail integration capabilities make it easy to quickly create and manage enterprise-wide business processes.

The Agile Platform includes 4 main tools:

Service Studio: a desktop environment targeted at business-minded developers to rapidly develop and change web applications and business processes using visual models. With Service Studio developers assemble all components necessary to completely define a web application and business processes, without writing any code. The tool enables the modeling of Web 2.0 User Interfaces, Business Logic, Business Processes, Databases, Integration Components, Web Services, Security Rules and Scheduling activities and Business Process modeling

Integration Studio: a desktop environment for developers to quickly create custom components to integrate external applications and databases. Integration Studio includes wizards to automate the integration of databases, library APIs and popular third party applications such as SAP. It works with Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse to assist in the creation of custom integration adapters. Integration adapters are published with 1-click and then reused many times in different web business applications.

Service Center: a web console that enables the operational management of the platform.It provides version control and configuration management of all web business applications, services, integration adapters and other application resources including processes. It also allows operation teams to monitor and audit running applications to detect and isolate performance and quality issues, and to manage highly scalable, 24x7 application server farms.

Benefits

Increase Productivity: Users of the agile platform report a productivity increase of at least 25% on the first projects - this is a result of using a model driven development approach where applications are completely defined visually without resorting to low level coding. Automated 1-click deployment and roll-back also increase productivity and reduce the deployment effort and errors.

Reduce cost of change: Changing applications is done using the same visual modeling tool and makes extensive use of the True Change engine - a full reference checking and self-healing engine that assures error-free and robust change across all application components. Whenever you modify any artifact of your application - either at the user interface, the business logic, the data model, or the access control rules levels - the TrueChange™ engine will check the consistency of all dependent services and applications. It will safely rebuild the sections of your application that can be automatically inferred and issue recommendations on what might still need changes, thereby preventing inconsistencies and improving performance.

Robustness and Scalability: The code generated by the Agile Platform is automatically optimized for robustness and all applications are prepared to scale from dozens to thousands of users without any additional development needed. The generated code is standard .NET or Java code, and is fully accessible and readable - This ensures you can stop using the Agile Platform and be able to maintain your applications' code using other tools available in the market.