General

 

  True web
  applications

iPort Applications are web applications with an HTML-based interface.

- Users only need an Internet browser such as Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla and others to operate their applications. No additional software is required to be downloaded or installed.

- iPort Applications can work in an office without Internet connectivity. Users in the office can access their applications via local area network using an Internet browser.

- iPort Applications can be easily integrated with existing web sites of an organization.

  Technology based
  on SQL-compliant
  databases

iPort Applications utilize industry standard MySQL Database technology

  Multiple users

iPort applications allow multiple users to access an application at the same time. We impose no limits on the number of concurrent users.

  Multiple languages

Applications can be developed in English, German Spanish or French.

  Data definition and search
  Flexible search

iPort Applications offer a number of powerful and flexible data search capabilities.

  Document and picture
  data types

Documents and pictures can be stored in the database just like any other data. While pictures are automatically displayed on forms, documents can be viewed within a browser by the appropriate document editor.

  Database transactions

iPort Applications automatically use database transactions to track all data changes within a single operation. If the operation fails at any stage, no changes are saved. This feature relieves users from having to manually reverse results of incomplete operations.

  Export and import

iPort Apps allow extracting data out of the system in bulk and inserting data into the system while preserving links between related data. This feature is useful for initial transfer of data to your iPort Application from existing databases, spreadsheets, text files, etc. It can also be used for regular data exchange with applications that do not support other forms of communication.

  Task scheduling

iPort Apps allow starting data processing tasks at the specified time. For example, certain periodic processes, such as report generation, document printing, sending reminder e-mails, etc., can be scheduled to run overnight.

  Data presentation

iPort Applications excel in providing access to data, view forms, query results, html presentations, pdf reports and more.

  Calendar view

iPort Applications allow displaying appointments or other time-based data in a calendar view similar to a diary. There are five separate calendar views: day, week, working week, month, and year. Users can switch between the views or create a new appointment with a single mouse click.

  Documents, reports and e-mail
  Reports

Robust reporting is available as standard.

- Nested grouping of data with summaries for each group. For example, a time-tracking report for an organization arranged by departments, teams within departments and individuals within teams.

- Sub-reports including nested sub-reports. For example, a report on customers where data for each customer includes a list of orders placed by the customer and each order has a list of order line items.

- Conditional aggregate operations. For example, a report on customers where data for each customer includes a total amount for all orders placed by the customer and shipped by a certain date.

- Conditional data presentation where the same report field can show data differently depending on some conditions specified for the field. For example, account balance can be shown in black if it is positive, red if it is negative or shown as a special icon if it is zero.

  Document
  management

iPort Applications allow working with any type of electronic document or file. Documents can be stored, retrieved, printed, exported and saved to disk, imported from disk, attached to e-mails and viewed within a browser with the appropriate editor.

  Personalized
  documents

iPort Apps can automatically generate personalized documents from  document templates that users can create in MS Word, MS Excel, HTML and plain  text formats and import into iPort. Document templates may include:

- Placeholders for data (like client name) to be  taken from the database and inserted into the generated document (also known as "mail or document merge"). 

- Placeholders for related data to be shown as lists in the generated document. For example, a customer letter may include  details of all orders of the customer.

- Conditions indicating when a particular section of the template should be included into the generated document.

- Sub-documents to improve structure and formatting of complex templates.

  Outgoing e-mails

iPort Apps can automatically send e-mails. Business rules are used to specify conditions when e-mails should be sent. E-mails can be easily personalized:

- Subject and body of an e-mail may include placeholders for data (like client name) to be  taken from the database and inserted into the e-mail.

- E-mail attachments can be specified as document templates, which are automatically converted into personalized documents when e-mail is sent.

  Incoming e-mails

iPort Apps can receive e-mails sent  to a particular e-mail address and automatically take actions based on the e-mail contents as instructed by business rules. For example, Aware IM can recognize a customer by e-mail address and register the e-mail with the customer.  Aware IM can even register customer orders sent through e-mail provided that order details are specified in a particular way.

  Access to data

iPort Apps support access restrictions based on user categories and access restrictions based on data ownership: 

- Access restrictions based on categories of users allow selecting, on a very detailed level, which data is  available to users of different categories.

- Access restrictions based on data ownership restrict users other than the data owner from viewing/changing the owner's data. For example, staff members may be allowed to change their own details but not those of other staff members; customers may be allowed to change their own details, but not even see details of other customers.

  Access to operations
  and documents

iPort Apps support access restrictions to operations and documents based on user categories. Operations and documents disallowed for a particular user are automatically removed from menus and other operation  lists. 

  Conditional access

Access restrictions may be specified conditionally using business rules. For example, no order details can be changed after it has been submitted.

  Authentication

Access to system can be password-protected. iPort Apps also support public access, which can be used to allow visitors to see non-confidential information without having to log in.

  Web services

iPort Apps support web services, a communication protocol commonly used for business transactions over the Internet. iPort can use electronic services provided by other software systems. It automatically discovers web services provided by other systems and converts their parameters into iPort assets .

  Communication   with other software

iPort Apps can communicate with other software systems or devices via standard or custom-built channels.

 

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