Corizon break-through empowers business process owners to rapidly "mash up"Â composite applications using a new, UI service led approach.
Corizon today launches version 4 of its software platform, an industry first which allows User Interface (UI) of enterprise applications to be quickly and safely "mashed"Â together without requiring deep development skills. This ensures that IT can be tuned to solve business problems at the point of need and eliminates the business - IT disconnect that so often plagues enterprises.
Traditionally, business managers supply application requirements to the IT department, which is then tasked with delivering a solution. However, this raises a number of issues: first, the development of specific applications is costly and time-consuming as it requires technical coding and is usually carried out by IT specialists too far removed from the business process to create an effective solution. Second, the IT department is often slow to react as it struggles to address multiple issues from different user groups.
Corizon has addressed this issue with a step-change in application development. It has devised a pioneering approach that eliminates the need for deep technical coding in composite application development through the innovative re-use of user interface "building blocks"Â. These building blocks, called UI Services, provide functionality that is built and controlled by IT but combined into solutions by those with less specialist technical skills but a deeper understanding of business problems. The UI Services can be created from scratch or, to maximise speed and re-use with minimum cost, extracted non-invasively from existing applications. They extend the concept of web services to the user interface and therefore fit well within enterprise architectures.
The Corizon Platform is designed to maximise the benefit of UI services in an enterprise's operational environment. It allows business analysts and operational managers to work with configurers who only need basic web skills to "mash up"Â composite applications. The visual, interactive UI services at the core of the Corizon approach make it easy to design and build solutions targeted at specific business requirements, and to change them accordingly as business needs shift. The Corizon platform provides out of the box capabilities for deployment to large end user populations, including single sign on and user management capabilities. It also provides essential features for in-life solution management and the ability to deploy and modify multiple versions of a solution concurrently. Crucially, its model-based approach allows managers and analysts to define processes and monitor the behaviour of users and systems as they are executed.
With the Corizon Platform, end users of IT - customers, employees and partners - can be more productive with unified composite applications tuned to each role and task. Operational teams can "own"Â and iteratively improve the solutions they need, working independently from IT timescales and backed up by detailed activity monitoring data.
Corizon v4 is based on established technology that has been proven to scale to thousands of end users and deliver a full return on investment in months. It is compatible with solutions built in earlier versions of the Corizon Platform, making its new capabilities immediately available to existing Corizon customers.
Eric Guilloteau, CEO of Corizon, comments: "The excitement around mash ups as part of the web 2.0 trend is raising expectations in the enterprise. CIOs see the apparent ease with which information and functions from many places can be mashed together in the consumer world and wonder why the same principles can't be applied in their businesses. However, they also recognise that they need solutions that put the power of this flexibility to work for business teams, not just coders, and that this needs to be supported by secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure. By putting a face onto software services, the Corizon composite application technology in this release fills a gap in SOA and delivers on their requirements"Â
"Enterprise mashups live at the intersection of Service-Oriented Architecture and Web 2.0," said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink. "Corizon's novel UI Services brings the power of enterprise mashups to the user interface, giving the line of business greater control over their applications in a governed, robust enterprise environment."
Corizon is currently working with existing customers on beta deployments and will be making the product generally available in summer 2007.
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