Prisma Solutions delivers the first step in a distributed architecture for Pulse, its multi-channel content delivery solution. This new architecture allows remote Pulse "Satellites" to communicate with a centralised Pulse Enterprise server and gain full access to all Pulse functionality.
Pulse Enterprise is server-based software that recognises application output, transforms it into widely used formats and routes it to recipients according to the preferences of the recipient. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and application developers who need to enable their applications to deliver information via Internet-based technologies can use Pulse to automatically deliver content through several channels - secure Web server, e-mail, fax, wireless, XML, or distributed print - by embedding Pulse functionality into their applications. Streamlining content delivery using Pulse reduces information distribution costs and speeds up the execution of business transactions.
Pulse Satellite includes an SDK with documentation and code samples to help application developers and ISVs exploit the Pulse API in Windows and Unix applications. "The new distributed architecture of Pulse will let an application communicate with a centralised Pulse Enterprise server via a Pulse Satellite," says Hugo Leuner, Managing Director for Prisma Solutions.
"These applications emit time-critical documents, but organizations running these applications often do not have the resources to implement Pulse Enterprise. With Pulse Satellite, we`ve created an architecture that acts as a thin, mid-tier layer to such applications, and extends to them the ability to exploit the multi-channel content delivery capabilities of a centrally-hosted installed Pulse Enterprise server.
"Our development partners and customers will find it easy to integrate and install as this satellite architecture eliminates the requirement for fax boards, modems and other telephony-enabling hardware, as well as Web and mail server configuration issues at the Satellite site. Only an IP connection is necessary to extend Pulse throughout the enterprise, making deployment quite simple."
Pulse Satellite creates an opportunity for ASPs, ISPs, ISVs, application developers and other carriers to offer multi-channel content delivery services by hosting Pulse Enterprise as a service. The French national postal service, La Poste, has already developed a service to connect Pulse to the innovative Mailev@ "hybrid mail" service.
La Poste developed Mailev@ to enable application-generated documents to be sent with the ease of e-mail. Businesses that regularly print and mail large volumes of bills or statements can automate the delivery of this information by simply redirecting their output to the Mailev@ service via e-mail. Mailev@ receives and translates this information, then prints, folds, stamps and posts the documents, which are sent as traditional mail items. Pulse Satellite will make implementation of services like Mailev@ even easier.
Pulse Satellite provides a low cost extension of Pulse`s ability to recognise application output, transform it into widely used formats, and route it to recipients according to their preferences. Other enhancements in Pulse include Microsoft Exchange 2000 compatibility and S/MIME support for secure document delivery via e-mail.
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