When Encanvas was trialled in 2005, few IT people had heard the term composite application framework. Even fewer had come across mash-ups! But suddenly, with media interest fanned by the huge investments of IT industry titans, Encanvas and products like it are rapidly becoming the new black dress of IT.
A Composite Application Framework (CAF) is a computing platform used to design and operate applications composed of information gathered from different sources that form a new process or information flow. They vary in size, completeness and scope of use. Most of the major software titans - SAP, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft - are committed to the development of their own enterprise integration toolkits that now closely resemble Composite Application Frameworks. In addition to this traditional set of enterprise computing software players, there are a number of software heavyweights such as Cordys, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and Ingres that also provide enterprise scaled platforms.
What makes Encanvas particularly different is that it has been designed for repeatable authoring of platform agnostic information flows by non-technical users and does not require coding skills. Business analysts are able to author prototype systems that can be eventually deployed as live systems without the need of a coding phase. Achieving remarkable results is made simpler by the baked-in applications that Encanvas provides out of the box such as multiple data-sourcing, filtered context search, reports, business intelligence, GIS, web content management and document management. But for all of its simplicity and ease of use, Encanvas delivers corporate ready solutions that have the security, scalability, resilience and administrative controls for enterprise-scale applications.
The market for SOA integration tools is hotting up and is expected to touch over 95% of large organizations by 2011. Analysts anticipate more than $17.1 billion will be invested in this technology over this period. That means most organizations will be selecting a composite application framework of one form or another to fit their needs.
About Encanvas
Encanvas is situational application development software. Organizations seeking a competitive advantage employ encanvas to exploit their Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to create unique information experiences for their staff, customers and partners.
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