GApple teams up with .Net
.NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information,
people, systems, and devices through software. Integrated across the
Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability to quickly
build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions
with Web services. .NET-connected solutions enable businesses to
integrate their systems more rapidly and in a more agile manner and
help them realize the promise of information anytime, anywhere, on any
device.
According to Microsoft :
" Say you have a stand-alone
inventory system. If you don't connect it to anything else, it's not as
valuable as it could be. The system can track inventory, but not much
more. You may have to enter inventory information twice—once in your
accounting system and once in your customer relationship management
system. The inventory system may be unable to automatically place
orders to suppliers. The benefits of such an inventory system are
diminished by high overhead costs.
However, if you connect your
inventory system to your accounting system, it gets more interesting.
Now, whenever you buy or sell something, the implications for your
inventory and your cash flow can be tracked in one step. If you go
further, and connect your warehouse management system, customer
ordering system, supplier ordering systems, and your shipping company,
suddenly that inventory management system is worth a lot. You can do
end-to-end management of your business while dealing with each
transaction only once, instead of once for every system it affects.
That's a lot less work—and a lot less opportunity for errors.
These
connections can be made easily using Web services. Web services allow
the applications to share information through the Internet, regardless
of the operating system or back-end software that the application is
using. "
GApple and Its Database
GApple Enterprise's backbone is SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2005 is a comprehensive database software platform providing
enterprise-class data management and integrated business intelligence
(BI) tools. The SQL Server 2005 database engine provides more secure,
reliable storage for a relational database format or XML. By supporting
both a relational database format and XML, the SQL Server 2005 database
engine provides the flexibility necessary to support the way you work.
It also enables you to build and manage highly available,
well-performing database software applications that you and your people
can use to take your business to the next level.
GApple Standard and Professional's backbone is the very powerful Access
database. We utilize Microsoft Access, which supports hundreds and
thousands of data. It also offers an
enterprise class reliability along with dynamic
backup-and-restore. It is the most popular relational database on
Microsoft Windows. It also has significant new security
enhancements, by not only offering the highest level of security
available in the industry, but by also making it much easier to
achieve that level.
GApple's Reporting
GApple incorporates Crystal Reports for Visual
Studio .NET and brings to your business an industry standard that
changes the way you interact with your data.
Crystal Reports provides
more data connectivity and control options. You can process reports faster and use network
resources more efficiently since Crystal Reports uses
multi-threaded report processing capabilities. GApple users
have the opportunity to export reports formatted the way they
want. Export reports to popular formats, including:
XML and Webservice
The use of XML—an open standard managed by the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)—removes barriers to data sharing
and software integration. XML makes it easy to exchange data, and
our .NET software gives the users an ability to work with this
data once it's received. The problems arising from
Interoperability, integration, and application extensibility are
difficult and expensive. Thus by using XML, GApple provides
your business with a widely-embraced, open standard technology for
data exchange and transformation, overcoming barriers to
application and service interoperability and integration.