FAQs

For the full description of cloud computing, see the WorkXpress article here; http://www.workxpress.com/what-is-cloud-computing

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Solution: Eliminate application security concerns at the platform level The WorkXpress architecture allows developers to build applications that pass application-level security tests…AUTOMATICALLY.

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.

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;

• 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

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.

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/

No.

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.

WorkXpress relies on a variant of the LAMP stack. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL.

Variants of this stack power the largest web applications in the world including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and many more. In fact, as the numbers below suggest, the components of the LAMP stack dominate their respective marketplaces;

Linux accounts for about 80% of all web servers used in the world. Apache powers approximately 60% of all web sites. MySQL accounts for approximately 40% of all database usage by developers globally. PHP is used by approximately 78% of all web servers utilizing server-side programming languages.

Of course.

The two key tenants of WorkXpress are “choice” and “empowerment”. We want to empower you to make all manner of choices about how you build and deploy in the cloud. By turning your existing IT teams loose on a 5GL PaaS environment, you will greatly enhance your organizations software automation capabilities and responsiveness to change in your business environment.

What's more, you can make the choice to empower your business teams as well, while maintaining centrally key aspects of control, security and oversight. WorkXpress is the ideal tool to deploy as the standard platform environment in your organization.

If you standardize around WorkXpress, your organization will become a more potent and flexible competitor.