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Metaphor provides technologists tools and frameworks that simplify the task of providing reusable core components that can be recombined easily by business users. Because Metaphor has a wide range of built-in functionality, uses a standards-based approach, and easily incorporates existing technology intellectual property, technologists can spend more time focusing on providing core functions.
Frameworks
Metaphor provides out-of-the box answers to common headaches for technology teams: security/encryption, logging/auditing, session and state management, scalability and failover, etc. And, Metaphor easily incorporates custom frameworks leveraging existing intellectual property and best practices.
- Save time on every implementation by utilizing core, reusable foundations
- Allow developers to focus on business functionality not architectural concerns
- Make collaboration and knowledge transfer more efficient because there is a high level of similarity across projects
Easy Recombination
Metaphor offers technologists multiple ways to provide easy reuse and recombination of business functionality components: custom process steps, processes calling other processes as sub-components, web services exposed to processes like any other process step, etc. This means that as development teams provide functions to business users, those business users become more and more self-sufficient, allowing developers to move onto more and more functionality.
- Create custom and reusable business process steps that are exposed to business users as graphical steps in the palette of components
- Easily design even the most complex and recursive processes through the use of Metaphor’s unique “sub-flow” functionality
- Use Metaphor’s built-in web service templates to build functional components, including modernizing previously built functionality quickly
Standards-based Approach
Metaphor builds on the best of service-oriented and event-driven architectures, and puts that power in the hands of developers in an open and standard model. All appropriate standards – WSDL/SOAP, W3C, etc. – are supported so that Metaphor-built and hosted services easily interoperate with other platforms and eases the learning curve for developers.
- Leverage existing development patterns
- Shorten ramp-up time for new developers and ease transition from other technologies
- Interoperate with virtually any technology platform – Unix/Linux, AS/400, mainframe, etc. – and promote evolutionary development
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