Nsite Intros Breakthrough On Demand AJAX Enterprise Application Platform

April 12, 2006; 01:58 AM
Nsite, a leading software-as-a-service company, today announced the availability of Nsite 6.0, a completely browser-based, Ajax-enabled platform that simplifies application usage and creation for small and medium sized companies. Nsite minimizes the hassle of customization, by bringing together existing enterprise applications with easy ways to build, tailor, integrate and activate new applications.

"What once required IT professional resources can now be done by business analysts," said Bob Jandro, president and CEO of Nsite. "We've taken application creation and simplified it, so companies can have what they want, when they want it. In a few days, users can build and customize the applications they need, with no coding, just as they would a blog or podcast."

"While Software-as-a-Service is gaining widespread acceptance among users of all sizes, many organizations are still hesitant to adopt on-demand applications because they lack the technical skills to customize them to meet their needs," said Jeffrey Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies. "Nsite has leveraged its extensive experience customizing traditional workflow applications to create an online platform and innovative set of enterprise objects which enable non-technical users to build and customize web-based applications via a browser to achieve their business objectives."

Nsite 6.0: The On Demand Enterprise

With Version 6.0 Nsite is delivering The On Demand Enterprise. The On Demand Enterprise is a better way for companies to finally have applications that work the way their business works. The On Demand Enterprise consists of two distinct areas -- The Nsite Application Center and The Nsite Application Builder -- and is designed for middle market companies that have specific application needs but limited financial and engineering resources.

The Nsite Application Center currently includes channel, quote, and proposal management solutions, built on the Nsite platform. These ready to go applications enable companies to start immediately gaining visibility and control of their entire channel, quoting, and proposal management cycle. Additional applications across functional and vertical areas are being built by partners and will be added to the Nsite Application Center library of solutions.

The Nsite Application Builder, on the other hand, is a simple but powerful application development environment for developers, IT professionals and business analysts who prefer to create solutions from scratch. From a completely browser-based platform that leverages simple drag-and-drop techniques and requires zero coding, users can build robust, industry and business-specific enterprise applications in a matter of days. All applications are based on a common user interface, database, workflow, security model, and analytics, allowing companies to automate various functional areas with one solution. Advanced features such as Action Builder also allow users to extend their application functionality with JavaScript.

Among the Application Builder features available in Nsite 6.0 are:

-- Dynamic enterprise objects -- another first-to-market for Nsite, our dynamic enterprise object framework allows you to create and reuse objects to meet any business requirement

-- Dynamic page layout -- all user interface pages get automatically generated through simple drag-and-drop and drag-and-move

-- Integration -- out-of-the-box bi-directional web services integration to salesforce.com and Siebel CRM On Demand enables users to quickly link Nsite applications to CRM systems

-- Analytics -- enhanced dashboards and reports provide actionable metrics and personalized real time views into data

-- Workflow -- the Nsite patent-pending predictive routing capability and process control builder for rules-based routing gives visibility into process bottlenecks

-- Application Lifecycle Management -- full testing and versioning control are part of the platform and ensures that applications get deployed to the right users at the right time

-- Security -- role-based control ensures that users will access only the information that is appropriate to them

Nsite 6.0 costs $40 per user per month and is available to existing customers immediately at no additional cost.

About Nsite

Nsite is a leading software-as-a-service company that provides customers and partners with a breakthrough AJAX-enabled On Demand platform for customizing and building applications faster than ever before. Today, over 10,000 users in 22 countries are accessing Nsite to customize, build and automate a wide variety of applications and processes. Nsite is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. For more information, call 925-249-4100, or visit www.nsite.com.

Nsite is a trademark of Nsite, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.