Unify NXJ accelerates the delivery of applications with a comprehensive platform that includes interactive forms processing, workflow management, web services and powerful reporting.

Rapid Development

While low-level coding projects are costly and time consuming, tools that employ a visual design environment such as Unify NXJ enable organizations to quickly deliver results. Leveraging the power of NXJ forms processing technology, much of the most demanding development is eliminated and the remaining effort is focused on streamlining the business processes. As a result, applications can be built in a fraction of the time on a platform that is easy to maintain and extend through the use of reusable components. Most importantly, Unify NXJ was designed with the business application developer in mind - NXJ works the way the developer thinks it should and wants it to.

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Embedded Services

To meet the requirements of enterprise-class scalability and reduce the delivery time of these types of applications to months rather than years, Unify NXJ provides a comprehensive set of embedded infrastructure services and pre-built components. These integrated, high-performance services and components provide the foundation for J2EE applications, relieving developers from the time-consuming tasks of low-level “plumbing,” and allowing them instead to focus on the creation of immediate business value.

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Process Automation

Business processes involve information, people and systems. The key to creating a connected business is ensuring processes are automated for seamless delivery of information and transactions. Unify enables web services orchestration, business process management and workflow automation:

• Power: Capable of modeling any business process including group assignments, parallel task and complex conditionals.
  
• Speed: Streamline development of the entire process including processes and activities. Integrate into existing systems including web-based and legacy systems, and back-office and packaged applications.
  
  
• Flexibility: Modify processes on the fly to remain agile to changing business requirements.

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Rich, Interactive Information Delivery

Unify NXJ eliminates the typical cumbersome Web application interactions associated with full-page refresh. Using AJAX technology NXJ offers partial-page refresh capability by communicating only the changed data on a page rather than forcing an entire page refresh to display new data.

The result is a highly interactive web application without the complex coding and performance shortcomings of other approaches. Web applications are functionally rich because NXJ does the work for the application without downloads, plug-ins, or Java on the client and uses industry standard interfaces and protocols.

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Web Services and SOA

Unify NXJ enables an organizations to develop and deploy advanced web services and integrated applications, using the skill set of the current development team, in nearly half of the time as compared to standard application development approaches and coding from scratch in J2EE.

With Unify NXJ, developers use a single tool for the production, consumption, orchestration and administration of web services. Using the NXJ, it is now possible to quickly define and generate web services that take advantage of constructs such as embedded SQL and nullable values.

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Configuration Management

Unify NXJ offers bundled deployment of all application components (business processes, services, web forms, reports, etc). NXJ bundles all components into a single unit which can be quickly deployed to an application server in a single operation and managed across security roles, provisioning, and other administrative tasks.

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Robust Security

Unify NXJ provides application-level security to secure all application components across the entire application. Built on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) paradigm NXJ coordinates all facets of application security from design-time roles to runtime provisioning of services and directory integration including LDAP, Active Directory, or proprietary security systems.

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Forms Processing

Unify NXJ forms processing combines the power and openness of Java with the speed and productivity of traditional forms-based development. NXJ enables IT organizations and ISVs to quickly deliver information rich, browser-based, SOA applications that drive business value and meet business objectives.

With Unify NXJ Forms Processing, 70 percent of the application comes “out of the box”. In the development environment, NXJ automates and streamlines the application lifecycle and simplifies J2EE tasks and business rules.