- Introduction to WorkXpress
- Building Your Application
- Examples and Best Practices
- Technical Manual
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WorkXpress is the world's only 5GL (fifth generation software language) PaaS (Platform as a Service). It is a one-stop-shop for everything necessary to build and deploy custom software solutions.
Using WorkXpress, professional developers and non-programmers alike regularly build sophisticated business applications while saving almost 90% development time and cost. They achieve these amazing results by leveraging an intuitively visual, drag and drop, point-and-click, secure, web-based environment.
WorkXpress eliminates the traditional concepts of coding, data modeling and database querying, while automating common systems administration tasks such as maintenance or disaster recovery. These time and cost savings are all possible without purchase of additional hardware or software.
Additionally, WorkXpress offers mobile capabilities and full integrations with 3rd party applications and the latest web-based technologies. Some examples include SMS, Email, FedEx, DocuSign, Google Maps, currency conversions, IVR, Google language translation, FTP services, and many more.
At the heart of everything we do is WorkXpress's fundamental value proposition;
These are just a few of the analyst comments, awards and publications about WorkXpress over our long history;
Traditional software has been fraught with issues; from failing altogether, to under delivering, to costing far more than projected. In fact, the Standish Group reports that approximately:
The traditional software approach fails so commonly because growing businesses need to be flexible to modify and adapt their processes as new ideas emerge.
For many companies, their software has become an enemy of success. And because it is so ingrained in their culture, they sometimes don’t even realize how they are being held back by software limitations. Employees and developers spend inordinate amounts of time performing activities that are only necessary because it is what the software tool requires.
The new software method, cloud computing, is growing rapidly. It is proving time and again that it is the most efficient way to deliver software and related services. The cloud’s growth is a direct result of its inherent cost-of-use savings, coupled with the emergence of rapid development tools that result in tremendous new savings and flexibility.
These factors have opened the door for organizations to automate processes and integrate their various silos of software creating a huge competitive business advantage. WorkXpress uses the latest proven cloud technologies to ensure fast, powerful and highly adaptable functionality focused 100% on your unique business operations. Our customers enjoy the world’s leading 5GL cloud computing platform advantage as detailed in the herein.
Technology is constantly changing. Today, everyone understands that all new focus is on web based technologies. Most vendors are producing applications that interact via the web. Most integration’s are now occurring using web services.
In fact, even the traditional “big name” vendors are trying to figure out how to retroactively connect their older products into the web.
WorkXpress puts a strategic focus on embracing new technologies on behalf of our clients and adapting those technologies into our client’s applications. A choice for WorkXpress is a choice to have access to all of the leading edge technologies, not just today, but in the future as well. Examples include:
By choosing a 5GL Cloud Computing platform, you are choosing to have access to every modern technology and vendor.
With WorkXpress, you are in control. You can choose:
In short, you are not held hostage to your software.
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;
Additionally, the WorkXpress platform provides critical Data-security tools
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/
If you are considering investing in a custom software solution, the most important question you can answer is whether WorkXpress is good fit for what you are trying to build. If it is, then you can realize all of WorkXpress's quality, cost and other advantages.
If your current processes are not automated, or if they have been previously automated using more basic or older tools, then there is an extremely high likelihood that WorkXpress very quickly and easily take over management of your process. In these examples, you should immediately contact WorkXpress;
Similarly, if you are faced with a large expense developing in 3rd generation languages, WorkXpress may be able to save you significant time, cost and frustration. If you are either starting to build in one of these tools, or if a current project is challenged, we strongly recommend you invest just a few minutes to talk to a WorkXpress representative about your project;
Here is a partial list of the types of applications people have built in WorkXpress
The WX Wiki wiki.workxpress.com is a one-stop source for all things WorkXpress. Whether you are building a simple public webform or a robust ERP system, chances are you will find answers to your questions there.
