Value Proposition and ROI

Fluidapps is designed to simplify and reduce the size and complexity of software applications with the most flexible design in the enterprise software industry. This will provide an impressive value proposition and return on investment (ROI) within the enterprise application market.

The complaints about enterprise software applications have been increasing for years. Enterprise software has become large, complicated, rigid and expensive to purchase, learn, implement and maintain. The IT budget for most companies has gone from 5% to over 20% in the last 20 years. Companies are getting crushed under the weight of software and technology.

The solution is to significantly simplify and reduce the size, complexity and rigidness of enterprise software. These are the primary objectives behind the design of Fluidapps.

The following is a list of the leading value propositions provided by Fluidapps. These value propositions will deliver a significant return on investment (ROI):

• Reduction in system and management requirements: Fluidapps reduces the size and complexity of business applications by eliminating the need to create volumes of complicated code. Fluidapps will have the smallest software footprint in the industry. All of the data view definitions, business logic and enterprise data will be stored within one or more databases. Less code translates into less system resources, operation and maintenance overhead.
• Real productivity: Fluidapps has a combined and seamless development and deployment environment. Because all data views are derived from the same device, the navigation is brutally consistent for all development and business activities. The navigation is simple to learn, and naturally relational. Simplicity, consistency and a powerful relational environment all translates into a significant amount of productivity. Productivity translates into lower costs to learn, implement and maintain.
• Rapid automation of business processes: Fluidapps will provide a 1000% improvement to enterprise automation. A simple two-step process is all that is required to develop an application data view. This translates into rapid, high-quality enterprise automation, and not the rapid generation of volumes of complicated, messy and buggy code.
• Reduction of network traffic: Fluidapps varies significantly from model, table or data-driven products because it does not generate code, forms or objects, which must be assembled remotely and submitted to the client. Instead, a single device, residing on the client, will be copied to memory and the appropriate definitions and logic will be plugged in. This means only client logic and enterprise data will be sent to the client, significantly reducing network traffic and network requirements. This means more business activities can be performed with less network bandwidth and with a faster response time.
• Flexibility: Changes to existing data views may be performed on-the-fly anywhere between the development and end-user levels, without the need to generate or compile code. Fluidapps was originally designed for flexibility. There are over 200 dynamic data view definition options which may be defined anywhere along the development and deployment phase. Some of these options are data selection, sorting, column layout, column visibility, new columns and function rows for totals, sub-totals, averages, etc. Fluidapps will be the most flexible and agile enterprise application in the industry, providing a significant cost-reduction for customizations and enhancements.
• Total freedom: Fluidapps will liberate companies from hardware, operating system, database and computer language barriers, by operating on all of the standard operating systems and databases.
• Maximum enterprise data visibility: Fluidapps will be the only enterprise application in the industry with spreadsheet-like functionality. It will complete the evolution of spreadsheet technology by applying the same data manipulation and visibility concepts. The spreadsheet functionality will provide agility and visibility to all enterprise data and logic avoiding the additional cost of visibility applications such as spreadsheet integration tools, business intelligent applications and extract-transfer-and-load (ETL) products.
• Shortest learning curve: Because all data views are derived from the same universal data view, learning the navigation and functionality of one data view translates into learning all data views. This means Fluidapps will provide the shortest learning curve in the industry. No longer will there be variations in functionality and navigation between screens or forms.
• Scalability: Fluidapps is incredibly scalable, capable of operating on a hand-held device as well as on large distributed, transaction-based system environments. The patented back-end technology will make Fluidapps the most scalable product in the industry. Gone will be the days of disposing, re-purchasing and re-implementing enterprise software.
• Technology agility: Because there is only a single device, Fluidapps will be able to rapidly adapt to changing technology, eliminating the need to constantly upgrade and throw out applications for new technology advances.
• Standard languages: The Fluidapps product does not require learning a new proprietary language. Most of the logic is created through a point-and-click environment or keyboard operations. However, when custom logic is required for data validations and events; these may be written in one of several standard computer languages. These packets of code are stored, labeled and dated within one or more databases, simplifying management, operation and upgrades.
• Upgrade simplification: Upgrading Fluidapps is significantly simplified because of a single user interface. This means updates to the universal data view will instantly apply to all data views without the need to upgrade each and every altered form, inquiry or report. Upgrading applications will also be simplified because all data view definitions and logic are classified, stored and time stamped within one or more databases. Since business logic is stored within a database, identifying the difference between original and customized logic will be a snap. This will significantly reduce the time, cost and headaches involved with upgrades.