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UniData RedBack
The Complete Solution
For Building Transactional Web Applications UniData
RedBack is a comprehensive, database-independent solution
for building and delivering scalable, transactional
applications for the Internet and corporate intranets.
RedBack lowers web technology barriers and makes it
easier to integrate web-based systems with existing
data and applications. RedBack delivers applications
that are more portable, maintainable, accessible and
affordable, while offering advantages over other products
in development productivity, scalability, and environment
independence. |
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Web Opportunity
The rapidity with which Internet technology has come to
dominate the business climate has been both remarkable
and unsettling to many decision makers. This sea of change
in information technology is being driven by the transformation
of the web from an electronic publishing medium to the
core of a new application architecture.
The technical advantages of this architecture-application
portability, superior user interface functionality,
and low administration costs-have captured the attention
of IT organizations challenged by the development complexity
and high administration overhead of conventional client/server
applications. Add to this the ubiquitous access and
standards-based interoperability offered by the Internet,
plus the attendant opportunities for new kinds of business-to-consumer
and business-to business interaction, and the arguments
for web applications become even more compelling. |
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NEW TOOLS FOR
NEW REQUIREMENTS
Harnessing the potential of this new web platform calls
for application development tools that can deliver traditional
capabilities, including interactive forms and transactions,
plus new capabilities supported by web technology, such
as multimedia presentation and deployment using "thin"
clients. |
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| The great majority of
existing web development products can address only part
of this requirement: |
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Tools designed originally for building conventional
client/server applications are based on data-passing
and "fat-client" architectures, and do
not take full advantage of the web model. |
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HTML authoring tools are well suited to defining
web pages, but lack facilities for specifying the
complex business logic needed to control interaction
with web users and databases. |
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Applet development tools based on Java or ActiveX
provide useful extensions to web client functionality,
but don't address other important elements of web
applications. |
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| In addition, almost all current web development tools
suffer from common deficiencies, including complex development,
poor support for component reuse, inability to tie into
existing applications, inadequate scalability, and environment
dependent implementations. |
