Clickmarks Announce The Beta Release
Of Its Innovative Application Development
Platform
FREMONT, CALIFORNIA - January
03, 2002
Clickmarks, a provider of software
infrastructure products for application
development, today announced the
beta release of the Clickmarks Enterprise
Suite. The Clickmarks Enterprise
Suite consists of the Clickmarks
Enterprise Server, the Clickmarks
Presentation Server and the Clickmarks
Studio. This comprehensive product
suite is a development and deployment
environment for creating web and
wireless applications and enables
systems integrators, developers
and enterprise customers to rapidly
build and deploy pervasive applications
by leveraging existing applications
to create new or enhanced business
applications.
"The Clickmarks Enterprise
Suite delivers great value for enterprises
and organizations that aim to build
and deploy a pervasive e-business
infrastructure, at a reasonable
cost, without abandoning their existing
investments in their IT assets,
"said Umair Khan, CTO and Co-founder,
Clickmarks. "The Clickmarks
solution takes the pain and enormous
costs out of creating, deploying
and maintaining a world-class pervasive
e-business infrastructure. It is
the most comprehensive, robust,
proven and scalable application
development platform on the market
today. "
The new Clickmarks Platform significantly
accelerates the development and
the deployment of Web and Wireless
software solutions. It is intended
for system integrators and software
houses looking to create web and
mobile applications, as well as
Corporate IT groups that wish to
create custom enterprise solutions.
It accelerates and enhances the
development of:
- applications that leverage
the functionality and business
logic within existing web, enterprise
and legacy applications, and of
- applications where the business
logic is built from scratch upon
existing data
The Clickmarks Enterprise Suite
meets the challenges faced by web
developers today in leveraging existing
applications efficiently, to develop
and maintain extensible applications
that are ubiquitously available.
- Leverage
existing applications efficiently:
Enterprises today look to extend
the utility and reach of existing
applications: e-business-enable
business processes that span several
systems and users, integrate disparate
applications within a single portal,
extend proprietary applications
to the web, and extend desktop-centric
solutions to mobile devices. With
no efficient way to leverage the
business logic of existing applications,
developers end up extending or
re-writing existing functionality
to fulfill this demand.
- Efficiently
develop and maintain extensible
applications:
There are two fundamental issues
with web application development
today: First, a developer spends
an excessive amount of time writing
basic "plumbing code"
necessary to deploy a web application.
Second, despite improvements in
development tools, it is extremely
difficult to keep the business
and presentation logic within
a web application separate - so
as to ensure ease in maintaining
and extending the applications.
Web applications today are hardly
better than the client-server
applications of yesterday with
their intertwined business and
presentation logic.
- Enable
data and applications to be ubiquitously
available:
The access point for the Internet
is no longer simply a web browser
on a desktop computer. Today one
access critical information and
services over an ever-expanding
choice of clients depending on
the type of device (wireless phone,
PDA, desktop, etc.), markup language
(HTML, WML, iMode, VXML, etc.)
and natural language (English,
Japanese, German, Chinese etc.).
The web application developer,
with the Clickmarks Enterprise
Suite has the ability to deliver
application on a range of access
channels.
The Clickmarks Enterprise Suite
consists of the Enterprise Server,
the Studio and the Presentation
Server.
The Enterprise Server
The Clickmarks Enterprise Server
is the core platform that powers
the Clickmarks Enterprise Suite.
It provides both design time and
run time support for pervasive application
development. All its key capabilities
for data and application integration
and multi-channel access are exposed
to the developer via public APIs.
These capabilities are also exposed
to the developer via the Clickmarks
Studio thus providing a visual programming
paradigm.
The Studio
The Clickmarks Studio is a visual
design environment that allows developers
to integrate data, applications
and external Java code to create
a visual representation of the business
logic for a web or wireless application.
The business logic can be created
within the Clickmarks Studio or
within any popular Java IDE as the
Studio allows any Java code to be
visually referenced. The presentation
logic can likewise be created within
an HTML design environment such
as FrontPage etc., or within Clickmarks
Studio or as a combination of both.
Finally, the studio provides a developer
wit the ability to visually stitch
the business logic together with
the presentation logic. This representation
is interpreted by the enterprise
server to create and deploy the
final application.
The Presentation Server
The Clickmarks Presentation server
is an optional, sophisticated portal
framework that provides a single
point of access and control to applications
developed and content aggregated
using the Clickmarks Studio. It
comes with powerful and intuitive
administrative, reporting, and user
management tools that allow both
Telco carriers and Enterprises to
provide their customers, employees
and partners with personalized,
pervasive access to services and
data.
About Clickmarks
Clickmarks, Inc. is a leading
provider of technology solutions
for the rapid development and deployment
of e-business applications and web
services. Clickmarks’ products
represent an innovative visual approach
to Enterprise Application Integration,
enabling companies to create and
deploy functionally-rich applications
that combine information and business
processes from existing systems.
Applications developed on the Clickmarks
platform can be exposed as portlets
(for integration within portal frameworks),
EJBs and web services, and deployed
on a broad range of mobile devices.
The company’s software has
been commercially deployed at some
of the world’s largest companies,
including Vodafone Group PLC and
Telefonica. Founded in 1999, Clickmarks
(www.clickmarks.com)
is headquartered in Fremont, California.
The company is headquartered at
718 University Avenue # 202
Los Gatos CA 95032
V (408) 399-6120
F (408) 395-5404
Web site:www.clickmarks.com
For more information, please contact:
Dodi Handy, President and CEO
Elite Financial Communications Group
Tel: 407-585-1080
E-mail: dlk@efcg.net |
