CorasWorks

CorasWorks AppEngine

The CorasWorks AppEngine is the driver of our Business Applications.  Drop the AppEngine on your server and you’re ready to run any of the business applications built by CorasWorks or our third-party AppPublisher partners.  With the AppEngine, you can:

• Run any business app from the CorasWorks App Store
• Customize the apps to meet your specific needs
• Manage and maintain your apps
• Build your own apps from the ground up.

Customizing and managing your apps with the AppEngine is accomplished through point-and-click wizards. However, for those coders out there, you can also leverage the AppEngine to make more sophisticated changes to your apps, including integrating external data.  There’s something for everyone!

Benefits of the AppEngine
The key benefit of the AppEngine is that it lowers your Total Cost of Ownership and reduces the risk, cost, and complexity associated with traditional applications and point solutions.  Plus, it makes your life a whole lot easier.  Run your apps on the same platform, customize and manage them the same way, and even build apps using the same set of tools and practices.

Specific benefits of the AppEngine include:

1. Single, common platform for your apps
2. Unified environment for running, managing, customizing, and building apps
3. Runs all the apps and solutions from CorasWorks and our third-party AppPublisher partners
4. Consistent, standard set of technologies designed to work together – platform interoperability
5. Comprehensive—includes all the technology required to run, customize, and build
6. Ease of customization – same customization tools for all the apps
7. Centralized management and governance of apps
8. Periodic updates and upgrades with new features and capabilities
9. We handle Microsoft and SharePoint – reduce your testing and migration burden for new SharePoint versions
10. Standardization and Best practices
11. Community of users and “helpers”
12. Decreases support and training costs for users – works the same across all apps
13.  “Ecosystem” of customers, partners, and CorasWorks all building apps and solutions that run on the platform.

Features of the AppEngine include:

1. Run any CorasWorks-based application
2. Point-and-click Wizards for easy customization of apps
3. One-touch Management system for app governance, management, and maintenance
4. Data and application integration
5. Extend apps with XML / XSLT
6. Enterprise Mashups
7. Workflow
8. Mobility
9. Online help
10. Runs on all versions of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 or 2010.