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Today, increasingly large and complex risk management information systems are being built as distributed component-based applications for client server and web service applications. A new generation of development tools allows us to provide reliable support for complex transaction-based commerce systems. The transactions can be distributed across network servers and scaled to support massive numbers of users.

A whole new way of thinking about the combination of risk management resources is emerging in today’s business environment. Utilizing our unique RiskPro products and services allows users several advantages over other methods of program development.

Features

A familiar development environment and model.

We can leverage our unique RiskPro products with new technology to create cost effective, component-based programs. You purchase only what you need from a wide array of functional products and services to get the most out of your investment. As technology evolves or your business needs change, we are able to assist you in addressing your needs in the most cost effective way by simply addressing the component, not the entire application.

Access to a broad audience.

Our RiskPro applications work with a wide variety of operating systems, so you can easily reach a wide audience. With appropriate security managed through our Administrator Module, all of your strategic partners will be able to access data as needed.

Application Design and Development

Solutions for Local Data Access

Our clients consistently ask us to provide a simple, consistent application that enables users to gain access to and modify a wide variety of data sources. A data source may be as simple as a text file, or as complex as a cluster of different databases. 

Our solutions have evolved by developing components that address the sequence of activities necessary to gain access to and update a data source. Our programming methodology is to develop the set of components that correspond to and implement the final RiskPro business model.

Solutions for Remote Data Access

Our component based methodology enables your application to directly gain access to and modify data sources (sometimes called a two-tier or local client/server system). For example, if your connection is to the data source that contains your data, then that is a direct connection in a two-tier system. However, you may want to access data sources indirectly through an intermediary such as a RiskPro Internet Information Server. This arrangement is sometimes called a three-tier system. For example, your intranet Web page contains an application which connects to RiskPro, which in turn connects to the actual data source, retrieves the data, processes it in some way, and then returns the processed information to your application.

The RiskPro programming model provides the means for you to perform the following sequence of actions:

Specify the program to be activated on the server, and obtain a way to refer to it from the client.

Activate the server program.

The server program then obtains the information from the data source.

The server program returns the information to the client application.

On the client application, the information is put into a form that can be easily used by visual controls.

Any modifications to the information are sent back to the server program, which uses them to update the data source.

This programming model contains certain convenience features. If you don’t need a complex server program to access the data source, and if you provide the required connection and command parameters, the RiskPro programming model will automatically retrieve the specified data with a simple, default server program.

However, if you need more complex processing, we can assist you in developing a custom server program. For example, because a custom server program has the full power of the RiskPro components at its disposal, it could connect to several different data sources, combine their data in some complex way, and then return a simple, processed result to the client application.

Call us for a variety of client server or web services user configurations to meet your needs and budget.

 

Blackburn Group, Inc.
Penfield, NY 14526-0052
(585) 586-4530,  (585) 586-7479 fax,  Email: sales@blackburngroup.com
  

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