Press Release
The "Holy Grail" of Web Services and Applications: 10-times ROI from Enterprise Business Automation Offered by Instantis
— With SiteWand 3.0, The Industry's First Transaction-Ready Web Services Platform, Instantis Amazes Corporate America With Enterprise-Scale Applications, Customized-To-Order Within Weeks —
Sunnyvale, CA — October 29, 2001 — Instantis®, a pioneer in the automation of Web services and applications, today announced the immediate availability of SiteWandTM 3.0 to Global 2000 customers. With this release, enterprise customers now have a radically different way to create, deploy, and maintain critical Web services and applications that automate business processes — resulting in Returns On Investment (ROI) of up to 10X in terms of both speed-to-deployment and total cost of solution — delivered with no compromise in enterprise-class robustness and scalability.
"We routinely create complete, robust, transaction-safe Web applications in 3 weeks, which take everyone else 6+ months to do with custom coding. Corporations seeking genuine benefits from Web-based business process automation will achieve their goals with the fastest ROI with Instantis. The power and flexibility of the SiteWand platform is guaranteed to amaze," Instantis CEO Prasad Raje promised.
The new Instantis SiteWand platform is ideal for complex Web applications, including the Web-enabling of internal business processes; processes linked to website interactions; workflow-enabled portals; and, automation of sales and marketing functions.
SiteWand also makes the proud claim of being the industry's first and only transaction-ready Web services platform. All applications, including complex transactional applications, can be integrated as Web services using standard protocols like XML and SOAP. Effective immediately, the company's flagship product is also available as an in-house server deployment, in addition to the fully managed Applications Service. If customers choose, they can get started on the Applications Service for "Day One Availability" and bring SiteWand applications in-house at any time.
"Engines" Provide the Magic Behind SiteWand's ROI Improvement
By operating on what the Delphi Group calls a "meta-tier" abstraction on top of the application layer, SiteWand enables businesses to realize 10X compression in the time required to create and deploy critical Web applications. This deployment speed advantage comes coupled with a concurrent reduction in total cost to solution - a consequence of the reduced resource requirements for deployment and subsequent maintenance of SiteWand applications.
In other words: since SiteWand is so effective and trouble-free, it is 10X quicker and less expensive to design, deploy and manage Web applications and services.
SiteWand's unique approach to application creation is based on configuring units called "engines" rather than writing time-consuming and laborious Java/SQL code for each new application. Each engine is a general-purpose transaction handler of Web requests from users or programs, responding with actions like dynamic Web pages, messaging, and database updates. Business logic is configured on top of engines, and these engines are linked together to create complete applications. Creation and subsequent maintenance of applications are browser-based, and often can be accomplished by non-technical personnel.
Experts Give Instantis The "Thumb's Up"
"Developing world-class Web applications quickly and cost effectively is a major concern of all types of enterprises. Code configuration is time
consuming, complex, and costly," stated Robert McCullough, Director of
Commerce Strategies at the Hurwitz Group. "SiteWand takes the code
configuration off the developers hands, and allows anyone in an organization
to develop robust and customized applications."
Instantis customers already include marketplace heavyweights such as BellSouth, as well as some of the nation's largest telecommunications, financial services and academic institutions. Instantis provides enterprise customers an incredibly diverse range of applications, and delivers ROI from the SiteWand platform within weeks, not months or years.
"Organizations are looking for results, for proof of rapid return on investment (ROI) to ensure that technology investments are paying off in real business benefits," stated Karen Moser, senior research analyst at IDC. "In a recent study on the ROI of ASPs, IDC found that ASP implementations generated an average five year ROI of 404% and almost half of the 53 organizations in the study had payback within 6 months."
A Robust Enterprise Class Platform with "Deep Software Plumbing"
Unlike other companies that provide only tools to speed up the development of Web applications or convert them to Web services, Instantis offers a comprehensive platform including a run-time environment that ensures the robustness of mission critical applications. This powerful run-time environment transparently handles the "deep plumbing" necessary for each application, including features like transaction semantics, deadlock avoidance, clustering support, concurrency handling, multi-user readiness, "no-downtime" business logic changes, load balancing, connection pooling, hardware/software redundancy and automatic fail-over. The application creator is completely freed from worrying about these complexities - they are built-in automatically.
"No other offering provides this unique combination of speed and robustness," Raje concluded. "Any custom Web application in the enterprise is a candidate for SiteWand - if it has a browser interface and a database in the back, leave the heavy lifting in the middle to SiteWand."
About Instantis
Instantis provides business automation software and services for Global 2000
enterprises. Instantis' flagship SiteWand solution transforms custom business processes into Web applications and Web services with unprecedented speed, flexibility, and ease of integration with existing data and applications - leading to a 10X ROI improvement for the enterprise. SiteWand is a complete, end-to-end platform for automating and Web-enabling complex business processes driven by sophisticated, multi-step, informed interactions spanning functional areas like sales, marketing, operations as well as other custom processes. It is the only platform for deploying "transaction-ready" Web services.
SiteWand's advantages are based on innovative technology that raises the level of abstraction through building blocks called engines to create, deploy and maintain complex Web applications involving databases, dynamic content, email messaging and workflow. All SiteWand applications can integrate via XML/SOAP Web service interfaces. SiteWand is available as a fully-managed applications service, which is seamlessly transferable to an in-house server solution.
Instantis customers and partners include BellSouth, Sun, IBM, Intuit, Netopia, the Wharton School and other leading Global 2000 companies. Instantis was founded in 1999 and is backed by leading institutions including JK&B Capital and Goldman Sachs.
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