Technology
EASA permits the rapid creation and deployment of custom, web-enabled tools without the need for skilled programmers, helping organizations save time and money by improving the efficiency of their processes. EASA applications, or EASAPs, can be deployed over a corporate intranet or over the internet.
A custom EASAP (EASA Application) can drive multiple underlying software tools installed on existing systems throughout the enterprise. The underlying software may be anything from complex “expert only” applications, to legacy systems, modern databases, and spreadsheets.
For example, a single EASAP may permit interaction with a database server, several spreadsheets, and a mainframe legacy application, and be accessed by users on desktop or mobile platforms:
Each EASAP is built for a specific need within the organization. EASAPs are available over your intranet to authorized users throughout the enterprise, providing secure, simplified access to the company's processes, best practices, expertise and software assets.
EASA's codeless application builder is used to create a user interface, to link the interface to underlying software and databases, and if required, to create custom reports. This eliminates complicated and time-consuming coding of custom applications with tools such as C++, VB, and Java, which might take weeks, months, or even longer. By comparison, EASA allows new custom applications to be created, tested, and deployed in as little as a few hours.
EASA has been used to create a wide variety of solutions. These include:
- Simplify and customize an existing software product so that it is easier to use for a specific task(s), with less likelihood of errors, and with a reduced learning curve
- Extend the capabilities of an existing software product that doesn’t entirely meet requirements
- Combine and integrate one or more existing software products into a new, compound application
- Automate a repetitive sequence of tasks involving one or more underlying software tools
- Facilitate the usage, management and control of spreadsheets
- Deploy "wrappers" around databases
- Create modern user interfaces for legacy or "home-grown" codes and databases
- Provide (sometimes in conjunction with tools such as MS Sharepoint or an existing corporate portal or PLM system) a central location from which users can search for and launch the appropriate application for the task at hand
EASA is protected by patents in the US and the UK.