Interesting info from Yahoo for those who are new here:
eSNAPP: Version 1 released in November 1999. A connectivity tool which works like an agent between a remote device (cell phone, hand-held, smart device, ?) and the database to pass on requests and answers. Has just been selected by ETS to be implemented on the remote devices for German national health care system. Very impressive accomplishment for a product that has just been released. CEO said there is no like product in the market place as he knew of. The advantages of this product over currently synchronization technology are:
1. Up-to-date Data: data is retrieved from database when needed vs. synchronization where multiple copies of data is preloaded and exists in each hand-held device. If data in the database or any one device is changed, all copies are inconsistent yet users of data don't know about it until the data is synchronized again typically at the end of a business day. Additional support structure and synchronization rules need to be set up to ensure the correctness of data in the database and all devices especially when more than one person have changed it.
PUMA a camera, a photograph, a still picture of info.
CNTR a video recorder, rewind,play,stop,ffwd of info.
2. Small Footprint: The remote device only contain two modules - one to interface with users and the other to connect and deliver a request to the central server. The central server is responsible for finding the right code module which will process the request; it then will pass the answer back to the device once the code module is done. As a result, eSNAPP doesn't require a lot of memory and battery to run on the remote device - very important in the world of remote device.
Thousands of Data Base managers will be laid off.
3. Less Maintenance/Fast Modification: the code modules that do the real work are located on the central server unlike the synchronization method where processing code modules are located in each and every remote device. Unless the user interface also changes, to implement or change a business process, one only need to change the code modules on the central server and doesn't need to bring in all the remote devices, could be hundreds or even thousands for a large organization, so the processing modules in each device can be updated.
The GIANT IBM computer does the processing.
PUMA hand held(processes info), goes to mainframe, info sits there, until DB manager,updates to other modules the next day.
Very time consuming,expensive and old info.
CNTR hand held(sends info) to mainframe,mainframe processes it in one second, updated info goes back to the ALL the employees that have the hand held.Real time, on time,on line,no download. This is the killer, right here.
4. Speed, Security, and Functionality: The pairing of remote device connection module and central server processing modules enables fast connection and encryption for security. Also, not restricted by the limited computing power and battery power of the remote device, more functions can be provided to the users; and these functions will be processed at the server speed which is 10 to 100 times faster.
Encryption, behind the firewall, hackers can't break in. The GIANT IBM mainframe does the work, 1000s of times quicker than the handheld.The power of Centura lies also in the fact that they have those wonderful embeddable databases (i.e. databases built standard into a product, opposed to many other databases, that were never designed for that) and strong encryption techniques for their databases. They acquired some industry standard and hyper-performance database products with Raima (e.g. in Lucents WaveStar and Nortel products) and are speeding up their development efforts to become more of a standard, shorten time too market and support as many applications as required.
Look at the Velocis clients on the website. Very promising. Several interesting applications and especially e-commerce.
Nice development tools too.
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