Business Software Framework

Companies have certain common operations that are supported by a range of software capabilities, in addition to the specific software required for their own core competencies and specialisation.

Legacy Software

Over the years all companies accumulate islands of information, legacy applications and in house expertise in the use and maintenance of those applications. Until recently the great majority of these tools would have been local software, running either directly on the users PCs or on servers and accessed over the local and wide area networks.

We have also seen the proliferation of excel spreadsheets that also solve core business requirements - these also should be a part of the web based business software framework strategy for the company, to ensure maintenance, scalability and permissioned access.

Emergence of web based business software frameworks

With the growing emergence of web based software and its ability to deliver permission based access to not only information but applications, companies are beginning to move more of their applications, as well as their data, onto the web.

For even the relatively small SME sector this has meant that companies now need a coherent approach to leveraging web based business software frameworks. This can be a challenge, as various alternatives will always exist - both in terms of available applications to perform the work, and the deployment models - software as a service or perpetual license are prime examples.

A further complexity is that business software will often have platform restrictions that without a coherent strategy can lead to unnecessarily complex infrastructures. For example certain applications are only available on either windows or Linux servers, or can only run on certain databases ( MySQL MS SQL and Oracle are common examples ).

Advantages of Claromentis as a business software framework

Claromentis provides not only a web based framework with user management, permission systems and interface management but core business applications that are relevant to almost all companies.

In summary the following business software products are available within the business software framework.

• Document management
• Content management
• Sales Opportunity Management
• Business Process Management
• Online Policies and Procedure management
• Project management

For the majority of companies this means that Claromentis can offer a business software framework for significant core business functionality.

Open Source Extendable

Although it is a commercial framework, because Claromentis is open source extendable with a comprehensive API the initial business software can be extended and added to by your own or third party developers.

By managing and making available the information layer, core business functionality and synchronising with user access systems and permissions the Claromentis framework provides a bedrock for business applications to provide specific functionality.

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