The Corizon Platform gives IT and business a way to collaborate that accelerates, simplifies and reduces the cost of delivering integrated solutions to end users.

Why change?

In spite of all the advances in application integration and SOA, creating “joined up” applications for different groups of end users requires slow, expensive custom development. This development is still done pretty much as it always has been:

• Analysts and domain experts work out and specify the functionality needed.
• Developers use their favorite, complex tools to work out and code the screens to reflect layout, flow, validation, error handling and interaction with business logic.
• The resulting application gets debugged, tested, fixed and deployed.

Then a new set of users comes along who want some of this functionality but combined with some from a different domain (as might happen when a CRM user needs to access some billing functionality). And what happens? None of the work on UI is easy to integrate or re-use in the new solution, so the whole thing gets built and maintained again, or the work never gets done.

The agility and re-use claimed for SOA don’t make it all the way to the UI.

In other words, the agility and re-use claimed for SOA don’t make it all the way to the UI. Common standards and process management have moved data-centric integration from a cottage industry dependent on craftsmen to an era closer to mass production, the development of application for end users has not been through a similar transformation.

Enterprise mashups

Corizon’s UI services based approach to enterprise mashups changes all that – now the investment and maintenance effort in UI can be made once and then the result treated as a pre-fabricated blocks for “orchestration” to create different solutions.

Central IT / Service Owners: provide UI services

IT staff working with service owners and the associated core IT functions provide prefabricated UI components using development tools such as Eclipse, or by extracting components from existing application user interfaces.
This kind of work requires traditional IT skills and is ideally suited to being performed off-shore.

Web developers, analysts and process owners: collaborative development

Enterprise mashups allow lines of business to collaboratively build composite applications to define and enforce user processes

• Use business-based developers and analysts to build solutions based on desired use cases.
• Define intuitive easy to follow user interfaces that resulting in less training time, more accuracy, process enforcement, less errors.
• Increase the breadth of user roles and multiskilling by delivering functions in a common, familiar interface and controlling access to advanced functionality.

Adapt to change

Adapting to change can mean the difference between success and failure. New product introductions, new partnerships, new marketing campaigns, merger and acquisitions.

Enterprise mashups allow organisations to roll out changes in process and role to their users in the most efficient way possible. New functions and processes can be deployed with minimal disruption in a familiar environment.

Monitor and improve

Corizon mashups allow operational teams to continually monitor and improve their processes.

User behaviour and process performance can be audited and monitored using built-in User Activity Monitoring functionality. The result is unprecedented insight into individual and overall process performance.

Mashups make it easy to continually innovate, trying out new solutions with groups of users, measuring the results and where appropriate rolling them out to complete user bases

High quality UI means satisfied, productive users

Enterprise mashups provide users with seamless, easy to user applications that are matched to the task and process they are working on. From the user point of view, the results are dramatic.

• One system to learn, common navigation.
• No more remembering process or alt tab.
• Information presented based on what you are doing.
• Much of the routine “drudgery” is removed.
• Focus on task not systems.
• Users can focus on what thet are paid to do, not being human integrators.
• Give better quality of service and users can be more productive and flexible.