new update on softwareIt's amazing to me that Alphinat has such a good product that 3 of the 5 bidders for the French contract used SmartGuide in their bid. I also wonder at their low overhead. This new version may help them break into the commercial Canadian and US markets. I have to believe there are many companies that would love to do away with a few programmers and still improve access to their information data bases.
MONTREAL, Feb. 11 /CNW Telbec/ - Alphinat Inc. (TSX Venture Exchange:NPA - News), the company that pioneered guided webinteractions, today announces therelease of version 4 of SmartGuide(TM). With a range of powerful newfeatures,this release represents the most significant evolution of SmartGuide(TM)sinceits inception in 2005. New features in version 4 include:
- Completely revamped Ajax-based interfaces for even faster application
development;
- Function editor allowing business experts to integrate complex business
rules without any coding;
- Ability to build applications by importing PDF forms, XML schemas, web
services and extension functions;
- Auto-generation of schema-compliant XML based on user-input;
- Improved rules engine which further simplifies management of compound
field visibility, page branching and if/then conditions;
- Online theme management that includes support for auto-creating dynamic
PDF documents;
- Improved knowledge base management that allows guiding people to
information that's 100% relevant to their needs.
"The latest iteration of SmartGuide(TM), represents an enormousimprovement in what was already a highly productive tool to createguidedself-service applications," said CEO, Philippe Lecoq. "With the additionofthese new features, SmartGuide(TM) can help to reduce even more the timeandcost associated with the development of Web applications that get thingsdone".
SmartGuide is available now for both J2EE and .NET environmentsand canrun on either open source or commercial middleware.