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What is Epiowave?
Epiowave is a complete product Suite for the fast development, deployment and maintenance of web services based business solutions.  It is a component based, web enabled environment with an N-tier, thin client architecture based on XML/XSL standards. The Epiowave consists of a runtime environment and a rapid development environment.

What browsers will be supported?
Business applications developed using the Epiowave environment will support all the popular browsers, including versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. The HTML template languages supported include Microsoft's Active Server Pages.

Does Epionet Business Server support XML?
Yes. XML and XSL transforms are completely supported by the Epiowave and this technology lies at the core of its platform independence.

Does Epionet Business Server support Active Server Pages?
Yes, because there is total separation of presentation layer, business logic layer and data layer, the system is a fully functioning environment for the delivery of ASP business models.

What makes EpioBuilder a productive development environment?
Epionet has exclusively focused on a product to change the Enterprise Application market -- and component business services form the product's core concept. The EpioBuilder is an integrated environment where applications are rapidly developed based on functionally independent, language-neutral business services. This environment is ideal for small, medium or large organisations. Software installation, upgrading and maintenance as we know it today has been drastically shifted by this product.

How does Epiowave facilitate development of a Business Model?
The Epiowave is a highly productive solution for developing an in-depth business model using our unique design methodology. It facilitates the construction of a business model composed of many interrelated business service components.

What are the features of Epiowave?
Some Epiowave features:
    Enables rapid component business service and enterprise portal development
    Dramatically reduces the need for skilled and scarce resources
    Enables easy integration and real-time connectivity to legacy systems
    Focuses on isolation of technology from business process
    Creates personalised information space
    Application Intercommunication
    Total software life cycle reduction
    Offers dynamic knowledge management
    Incorporates open standards such as XML,XSL,SSL etc
    Includes efficient load balancing and infinite scalability
    Manages sessions, system states and event handling

What metrics are available in the system?
The metrics available in the system are unprecedented and extremely granular. Not only page records but within-page activities are recorded. Also, our playback feature provides complete context for session events.

How does Epiowave manage scalability?
Because of Epiowave’s unique architecture and load balancing features, it is not dependent on one server machine and is completely scalable across hardware.

Does Epiowave come equipped with a User Management System?
Yes. One powerful feature of Epiowave is its control over user handling and user access. As well as a standard 'log in' user recognition and authentication mechanism, Web sessions are validated upon every page access.

Does Epiowave automatically check browser capabilities?
Yes. The system includes auto checks for browser version, cookie support, javascript, operating system details, firewalls, variable IPs, flash frames and many other factors. This means that the collecting of such data will not involve difficult coding on the part of the developer in order to build more compatible Web applications. Construction is based on simple controls and requests more than code creation.

What advantage does Epiowave provide in monitoring and logging of user actions?
The business advantages here include an extremely efficient user feedback system, full context for all events in the log, excellent recovery and session tracking / playback.

What types of application are offered by Epionet?
Epionet's ebusiness solutions are power applications, which deliver the value directly to the user. All applications enable easy integration of current client-server and Web solutions and technologies. This means that access to full business function is offered through one environment.

Are Epionet Applications independent of the development environment?
Yes, although they integrate seamlessly into the environment, the Sales Management, Knowledge Management and Project Management systems remain functionally independent of the Epiowave and of each other.

What advantage does Epionet have over competitors?
Our research indicates that no other company has truly claimed the Web Services 'mindshare' in the ebusiness development environment.  Securing this positioning gives Epionet a 'first mover advantage', which allows the establishment of the epiowave as the standard development solution for Web Services based Applications.

Can I adapt my old applications to become Epiowave applications?
Yes, especially if it is already an ASP application. VB web applications / server side active forms etc. problematic but can but done. Existing ASP/COM applications can be easily ported into Epiowave. Business logic, usually a small part of everything involved in building a web application, is the main focus. Also, if you design an application for use in more than one environment, it will be made instantly portable.

What technology does Epiowave require to run?
Win 2000 Server (with IIS 5)
SQL server 7.0/2000, any engine which processes VB script and COM components
Microsoft message queue
Browser / output device
Server Hardware - recommend: 120M RAM and 8/10G HD (dependent on number of users)

What security technology is incorporated?
    Application activation protocols to protect the applications you develop from piracy
    Rijndael (A.E.S.) is available to protect your information at rest
    SSL, to protect your info in transit
    SHA1 & MD5 to create simple digests or digital signatures
    Secure Random Number Generation
    Secure token generation