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merapi - e-business suite
Introduction
In the past, monolithic applications were sufficient to fulfill the requirements of enterprises in their efforts to perform business with the help of Information Technology (IT).
Today, e-Business models change in increasingly shorter time intervals. To compete, companies must be able to incorporate new and innovative services on a continuous basis.
As a result, a gap has emerged between what is required and what is available - a gap that is growing rapidly.
This gap can be overcome by using component-based e-business applications like the merapi e-business solution that have been assembled on a standard processing platform. Many of today's most successful corporations are using this approach to adapt to, and actively influence the progressive e-business visions.
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merapi e-business framework
Newest Technologies for Future Development
The merapi e-business solution is based on a modular and component based, object oriented structure: the merapi e-business framework.
The merapi e-business framework is standardized set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) combined with a scalable runtime infrastructure as a basis for a reliable and secure system landscape.
The key features of the merapi e-business framework are:
- Modular Design
A modular design is intended so that new modules can be added or deleted as required, hence the implementation a Merapi system can be tailored to the user requirements.
- Scalable
The system is designed to be scalable; that is a merapi implementation must be able to handle different business environments. A merapi implementation must be able to be upgraded to multiple application servers and/or RDBMS engines to handle different load factors in different environments.
- ACID Transactions
A merapi system must implement ACID (Atomic, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactions to ensure reliability and quality of an enterprise's business process.
- A Parameterized System
Basic functions of the system can be altered/updated by altering parameters (e.g.: New transactions can be defined by adding and/or altering parameters).
- Handles Multiple Client Types
A merapi implementation will be able to handle requests from different clients with no or very little difference in functionality, except where it is required. The different clients will be: web clients, Java applications, and non-Java applications.
- Open Database Connectivity
A merapi implementation does not rely on any particular RDBMS vendor. Database connectivity is based on open standards (JDBC) and relies on the ANSI SQL standard to programmatically creating, accessing, updating, and accessing data stores.
- Based on Java2 Enterprise
A merapi implementation is based on Sun Microsystem's J2EE framework.
merapi components
- Customer Managemet
Ensures the efficient management of all customer data. This includes master data, standard contracts, sales/purchase history, ranking system and special customer profiles.
- Product Catalogue
Contains information about all available products and services. merapi's product classification is based on the UNSPSC-Specification, a commonly used 8-digit classification code. Its highly flexible and customizable characteristics system assigns units according to the product specifications. Furthermore, item prices can be assigned - either to all customers or on an individual basis.
- Sales and Procurement
Ensure fast and efficient purchasing procedures. This can either be direct orders (based on standard contracts), classified advertisements, reverse auctions or a classical exchange (1 to many, many to many). Integrated order management allows supervision of the orders during all phases of the fulfillment.
- Content Management
Enables fast and easy distribution of information to your customer and clients. Whether basic company information, definition and description of procedures, news and events, with the merapi e-business solutions publishing, updating and management of content can be carried out fast and easy.
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