In the post dotcom world, more than ever before, companies are faced with a need to evaluate the best and safest technology to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency. All corporations are in the information business and the best use of information technology produces the required competitive advantage and bottom-line results. But one overriding factor has a tremendous bearing - it has to be the right technology, otherwise critical response times are not achieved and important information is neither used nor managed effectively.

The NetPlus information systems development environment offers a solution to many of these concerns. By concentrating on the development of business systems the complexity of the toolset is reduced and this, in conjunction with the ability to base all your systems around a dictionary of re-usable components results in a fast, easy-to-use and highly cost-effective solution. The net result is a significant reduction in the elapsed time between design and delivery of any specific application. By doing so, it enables companies to invest their often overworked resources at the key design phase.

The flexibility of the NetPlus deployment architecture is such that you can deploy an application easily, using the traditional client/server methods, or on the Web using thin client architectures and either ASP or dedicated application server technologies. Or any combination of the above, as your business needs dictate.

Incorporated in the product, our unique PRISM technology ensures transaction integrity without complexity, and provides an isolation layer, the MultiView, which allows users to have information presented flexibly to their requirements with a minimum of regard to the underlying data model - bottom line, information can be presented, as the business requires it, not as the database dictates.

This becomes especially important as systems age and requirements not considered at the design stage materialise.

The SCALE engine, which incorporates PRISM, permits easy integration of multiple data sources within a single application, or multiple applications based on a single database. In addition, it allows for the reverse engineering of data or logic components created using other tools into the NetPlus environment. This provides for easy integration and adaptation of disparate systems in an evolving business environment.

The core of the NetPlus development environment is the meta-data repository: This is a corporate wide repository of business rules and logic from which your NetPlus applications are built. The use of the repository both speeds up application development and deployment and makes the management of maintenance and improvements quicker and simpler. The repository works with the MultiView technology to provide systems that retain maximum flexibility throughout their lifespan.

As a consequence of these unique strengths, NetPlus truly delivers on the promise of integrated eEnterprise computing. It handles the rapid application development and deployment of mission-critical enterprise wide solutions easily and quickly, giving you important cost savings over the life cycle of the applications compared to competing technologies."