- Introduction to WorkXpress
- Building Your Application
- Examples and Best Practices
- Technical Manual
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| - | ====== FAQs ====== | ||
| - | ===== General Knowledge ====== | ||
| - | ==== What is Cloud Computing? ==== | ||
| - | For the full description of cloud computing, see the WorkXpress article here; [[http://www.workxpress.com/what-is-cloud-computing]] | ||
| - | ==== Cloud computing - just infrastructure? ==== | ||
| - | Cloud computing has three components, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Servers and infrastructure are a very small part of the real value proposition of cloud computing. See the WorkXpress website article for a full description of cloud computing [[http://www.workxpress.com/what-is-cloud-computing]] | ||
| - | ==== 5GL - Been tried for years! ==== | ||
| - | People HAVE been trying to build a purely visual development language for years, but other attempts have only yielded partial success. Today, there are quite a few visual development tools on the market, but all suffer from some limitation or another involving lack of access to the data layer, lack of logic capabilities, or lack of presentational capabilities. | ||
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| - | WorkXpress is the first true 5th generation development language. For a full description of what makes WorkXpress the first 5GL please see the website article here; [[http://www.workxpress.com/what-is-a-5gl-paas]] | ||
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| - | For an academic study describing and validating WorkXpress's claim to the 5GL moniker, please see this whitepaper; [[http://www.workxpress.com/case-study/workxpress-whitepaper-5gl-3gl.pdf]] | ||
| - | ===== Technical ===== | ||
| - | ==== Is it Secure? ==== | ||
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| - | The problem with security is that every new application; …is built by a new team, …using different tools and methods, …to build different code, …that includes different security vulnerabilities, …and therefore needs its own security testing, …and ultimately needs its own remediation. | ||
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| - | A Digital Assessment Survey showed on average; ...1 vulnerability for every 8 lines of code, and 1 CRITICAL vulnerability for every 69 lines of code | ||
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| - | Solution: Eliminate application security concerns at the platform level | ||
| - | The WorkXpress architecture allows developers to build applications that pass application-level security tests...AUTOMATICALLY. | ||
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| - | How? WorkXpress is a secure platform with a unique, proprietary architecture. Because of this, the applications built on top of WorkXpress do not need to be independently penetration tested - they are automatically secured according to level of security applied to the platform itself. | ||
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| - | In other words, one secure platform saves thousands of applications from having to be tested and secured individually, avoiding enormous expense of time, cost, training and remediation. Security features include; | ||
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| - | * Encrypted URLs | ||
| - | * Hardened against XSS scripting | ||
| - | * No JS allowed | ||
| - | * Hardened against SQL injection | ||
| - | * Penetration tested | ||
| - | * Unified up‐to‐date package set | ||
| - | * Physical and network security are controllable | ||
| - | * No anonymous API or user access | ||
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| - | Additionally, the WorkXpress platform provides critical Data-security tools | ||
| - | * Data encryption in transit | ||
| - | * Data encryption at rest as needed | ||
| - | * Data redaction of critical privacy information | ||
| - | * Supported infrastructure offers compliance including SAAS70, Federal, HIPAA, HITECH, PCI and more. | ||
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| - | For one example of how a specific public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, supports a range of compliances please see [[http://aws.amazon.com/security/]] | ||
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| - | ==== Do I have to use your servers? ==== | ||
| - | No. | ||
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| - | WorkXpress support both public and private cloud servers. From the WorkXpress perspective, a private cloud server is any OVF-compliant virtual container designated as an "appliance" and provided the WorkXpress private cloud appliance URL. | ||
| - | ==== What is the underlying technology stack? ==== | ||
| - | WorkXpress relies on a variant of the LAMP stack. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL. | ||
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| - | Variants of this stack power the largest web applications in the world including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, ... | ||
| - | ==== Can we use our existing service providers / internal IT teams? ==== | ||
| - | ==== Are we "locked in"? ==== | ||
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| - | ===== Other ===== | ||
| - | ==== What if my team is too busy to take on a new technology right now? ==== | ||
| - | ==== What if we don't have a history of doing custom development? ==== | ||
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| - | ===== Corporate and Legal ====== | ||
| - | ==== How big is your company ==== | ||
| - | ==== What if WorkXpress gets bought out / goes out of business / something goes wrong? ==== | ||
| - | ==== What Contracts will we need? ==== | ||
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| - | ===== Evaluation/Competitive ===== | ||
| - | ==== Do you work in my Industry / Geography / etc.? ==== | ||
| - | ==== Why have I not heard of you before? ==== | ||
| - | ==== Probably a bigger player has something like this in the makings? ==== | ||
| - | ==== How do you stack up against other PaaS providers? ==== | ||
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| - | ===== Partnership ===== | ||
| - | ==== What if we are a committed Microsoft/etc. Partner? ==== | ||
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