Unify releases NXJ 10.5

Unify Corporation has released Unify NXJ 10.5, an application platform that offers a rapid solution for creating and extending process-centric, "people-intensive" applications. Targeted at medium- to large-sized organizations that need applications immediately, Unify NXJ 10.5 securely and effectively automates business processes and extends critical information to customers, partners, suppliers and employees.

"Competitive pressures, limited IT resources and budgets in an accelerating business climate mean process automation initiatives are becoming the cornerstone for companies to manage costs and react to competitive threats or business dynamics," said Jim Sinur, vice president and distinguished analyst for Gartner. "Companies know they need to automate processes, particularly human-to-human processes, and advance their means of collaboration both internally and externally to continually transform, thrive and grow."

Delivering people-intensive, information-rich applications requires IT organizations to build systems that combine process and data integration. Prior to NXJ 10.5, IT was required to choose between using either business process management products or application development offerings, both of which then required extensive custom hand coding to complete this type of application. With a remarkable new breakthrough capability known as a Process Activity Form, Unify NXJ 10.5 eliminates all of this low-level coding with its highly automated framework. Using Unify NXJ Process Activity Forms, IT teams are able to build process automation, information-intensive applications in significantly less time compared to competing alternatives.

For Unify customer Cast & Crew, Unify NXJ is helping the company automate people-intensive processes to streamline efficiencies, as well as offer new client services that keep them ahead of the competition. "Cast & Crew prides itself on our responsiveness to our clients, which include major motion picture studios and television production companies," said Unify customer Sadhu Nadesan, CIO for Cast & Crew Entertainment Services. "Unify NXJ allows us to build applications rapidly, and more importantly, to make critical information accessible to our clients in real-time. Our customers will get accurate numbers instead of using estimates, so they can make better business decisions. We will be using Unify NXJ to provide one-of-a-kind services in our industry, which is key to retaining current clients as well as acquiring potential new ones."

Unify NXJ addresses the complexity of delivering process automation applications with a comprehensive application platform that includes business process management, web services, interactive forms processing, reporting, portal integration, and enterprise application connectivity. Unify NXJ 10.5 is available as a complementary offering for delivering applications that deploy across all leading J2EE infrastructure stacks including BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere and Oracle 10g or as a fully integrated application platform with the JBoss application server.

Unify NXJ 10.5 accelerates application delivery by extending the agility of a services-oriented architecture with clear separation of workflows, processes and activities from all presentation-layer and application-layer services. Unify NXJ`s advanced modelling, fabrication, and assembly capabilities coupled with robust, pre-built application components and services results in accelerated application delivery time, reduced complexity for internal developers and lower maintenance costs for a faster and dramatic IT ROI.

Key additions and unique features of Unify NXJ 10.5 include:

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Process Activity Forms are advanced interface controls which provide a rich, thin-client, web interface to data aggregated from multiple sources including business processes, databases, web services, XML and Microsoft Office documents all in real time, with virtually no coding. This eliminates the burden of manual processes and communication delays to boost business velocity and productivity of end users by delivering needed information for quicker action and better decision-making.

Web Services offers an easy-to-use, high performance environment for creating, deploying and orchestrating web services in Java and J2EE applications. With unrivalled interoperability including Microsoft .NET, Unify NXJ Web Services supports application integration projects in heterogeneous environments making new web services available internally and externally.

Integrated Portal Services - Unify`s NXJ`s enterprise portal framework simplifies the development, customization, and maintenance of business information portals to provide rich, real-time information delivery to end users. Through its advanced single sign-on and personalization capabilities, end users have direct access to all information and applications for which they have been authorized.

Advanced Component Reuse System -NXJ 10.5 provides the capability to reuse forms and form controls in multiple application components throughout multiple application projects. This along with a repository-based development and reuse library saves developers days, weeks or months of development time since they can re-use code across several projects and quickly assemble applications.

Expanded Connectivity Services - NXJ offers standards-based, JCA-compliant connectivity with leading enterprise and packaged applications including SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle e-Business, JD Edwards, CICS, and IMS to Unify NXJ applications.

"External factors, often out of the control of the IT organization, are creating an urgent need for CIOs to build and extend applications," said Unify CTO Dave Glende "Whether it`s responding to a competitive action, an inability to scale headcount or exposing applications outside the four walls, IT organizations are faced with an urgency to create these applications quickly, yet they must be highly secure, functionally rich, easy to change and intuitively easy to use. This is a tall order for IT shops that are under budget pressures, swamped with enterprise rollouts and burdened with legacy system maintenance. Unify NXJ 10.5 fulfils all these needs, but its chief benefit is-it can do it FAST."