Backbase Ajax 360
Backbase Ajax 360 is a complete enterprise Ajax solution. It includes everything needed for efficient, risk-free browser-based RIA development and life cycle management.
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With over five years of Ajax development experience, Backbase is the clear leader in the fragmented Ajax market. Fortune 500 organizations, leading ISVs, and tens of thousands Web developers rely on Backbase software, In the face of a market characterized by immature solutions, rapidly evolving standards, and a growing demand for RIAs, customers have asked the company to take a bigger role in maturing Ajax technology for broader adoption within the enterprise. Backbase's single focus is on Ajax. The company's leading position as a commercial Ajax vendor makes this a perfect fit between Backbase's goals and enterprise customer needs.
Ajax 360 is Backbase's comprehensive solution for ensuring successful Ajax implementations, especially within the enterprise. Numbers tell the story: Backbase software is today's most widely used enterprise Ajax Framework.
First, Backbase Ajax 360 delivers a complete set of development tools designed to significantly improve developer productivity. Second, the company adds comprehensive services on top of the Framework. Customers can count on Backbase for Ajax-based RIA architecture expertise, Ajax training, professional development services and enterprise premium support. Backbase also works closely with standards organizations and strategic technology vendors to make sure that enterprise customers realize maximum value from their RIA and Web 2.0 investments.
Ajax 360 = Complete Enterprise Solution
Open Standards
Backbase is committed to supporting the leading Web standards established by organizations like W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance. Backbase Enterprise Ajax Framework includes the entire DHTML stack: (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, XMLHttpRequest, etc. It also supports XPath, XMLEvents, SMIL, XInclude, XMLSchema, and XSLTransform. In addition, Backbase also supports Java standards such as JSF, Facelets, Struts, Spring MVC, JSR 168 and JSR 286. Unlike proprietary approaches, Backbase's standards-based solutions work with existing applications and technology; allowing companies to easily add RIAs to existing infrastructure. By leveraging existing investments and open standards, Backbase Ajax 360 reduces risks and accelerates development cycles.
Enterprise Ajax Framework
Backbase Ajax 360 supplies a comprehensive solution for creating rich user interfaces, it accelerates initial development and eliminates application maintenance burdens by keeping new code development to a minimum. The framework ensures widget interoperability, communication, and binding control to data sources. Backbase also takes care of all routine tasks and requirements, allowing developers to focus on the unique aspects of an application, the business logic and UI composition.
Rapid Ajax Development
To increase developer productivity, Backbase Enterprise Ajax includes a comprehensive set of development tools. . The system includes more than 250 pre-built and pre-tested Ajax Widgets and functions, sample applications, and IDE plug-ins for code completion and syntax highlighting. IDE plug-ins are also available for the Eclipse development platform and Adobe Dreamweaver. In addition, Backbase provides real time debugging functionality directly from within the Web browser.
RIA Lifecycle Optimization
An Ajax application is not developed in isolation: it must match business requirements and fit into the same application lifecycle as any other enterprise application. Backbase supports the entire application lifecycle — from initial idea development to maintenance several years after the application's release.
Code reuse, agile development methodologies, integrated testing (including user interface), and application guidelines speed up development and promote maintainable code. This approach lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) for RIAs by eliminating the fragmention and poor coding practices found in today’s JavaScript development.Enterprise Integration
Backbase Enterprise Ajax is designed to leverage existing IT investments across all server platforms.Backbase Ajax client technology is fully server agnostic as well. The software seamlessly integrates with common Web servers, application servers, and portal and SOA mashup servers. It is compatible with any server: Java EE, .NET, PHP, or ColdFusion. In addition to its client technology, Backbase provides additional pre-build connectors and/or runtimes for the Java server platform (e.g. Struts, JSF, Portal, Spring MVC).
Best Practices and Blueprints
A commitment to continuously advancing its body of implementation best practices is Backbase's key to achieving Ajax practice leadership. . Backbase collaborates with customers, partners and the Ajax community to solve real world business problems. By encapsulating best practices whenever possible directly into subsequent product releases, training materials and implementation guidelines, Backbase products and services help the Ajax community drive down development time, risk, and cost. Backbase consulting and training services have helped many customers to develop solid RIA prototypes that can be rapidly extended to production applications.
Compliance and Governance
Backbase is committed to supporting the leading industry standards and enforcing government regulations through its software. Unlike proprietary RIA technologies like Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flex, Backbase fully supports open industry standards and common browser technologies. Additionally, Backbase has made significant R&D investments to maximize the support for the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) as defined by W3C and required by Section 508 (USA).
With Backbase customers govern their Ajax development using an object oriented programming model, a powerful inheritance model, and XML-namespaces. These features prevent unstructured and disorganized coding, and maximize code re-use and code maintainability. The framework dramatically simplifies both custom code maintenance and third party components. To protect our customers, Backbase offers a commercial license with full legal protection against patent infringement claims.
Partner Ecosystem
Backbase is dedicated to the success of Ajax in the enterprise and we work closely with customers and partners to deliver a best-of-breed RIA software solutions based on enterprise customer needs. To deliver ongoing value to customers, Backbase works closely with leading system integrators and "boutique" service providers to identify innovative applications of Ajax techniques.. The company is committed to providing the largest number of integrations with software development and lifecycle management tools.
Professional Services
To ensure project success, Backbase customers can count on comprehensive mentoring, consulting services, and skills transfer. . These services include tailored classroom training as well as on-site and Web-based courses. In addition, Backbase makes its Ajax development expertise available to customers for designing high-level Ajax application architecture. Professional services are also available to support customers and developers during all stages of development.
Premium Support
Backbase offers several technical support levels, from free online support to premium technical support with 24x7 availability.: a premium technical support package with unlimited telephone or email support for one year, four authorized customer contacts, four-hour response time per telephone incident, and hot fixes to address urgent product issues.
Summary
With Ajax 360, Backbase is making Ajax ready for the enterprise. Ajax is the only open standards-based alternative in the world of RIA technologies, and Backbase is the only proven enterprise solution in the world of Ajax. Backbase uniquely increases developer productivity, shortens development cycles, decreases maintenance and integration costs, lowers cost of ownership, and delivers legal peace-of-mind. And it's no further than a phone call away.
