Companio AG: Cpronto Business Whitepaper

CprontoThe next generation of business software

Business white paperJuly 2013Companio AG

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Introduction

Developers often create business applications in large development environments which they must first familiarize themselves with extensively. In the business software industry, applications are increasingly being created with generators and software engines.

Companio’s Cpronto is a uniquely powerful and easy-to-use software engine. For the first time, users without extensive programming skills have a tool they can use to create their own comprehensive business applications that integrate easily into existing IT landscapes. Cpronto’s unique system design frees users and developers from programming work. With the automated, location-independent and browser-based tool Cpronto, you can quickly create customised applications tailored to meet your individual needs.

With just a few settings and mouse clicks, Cpronto users generate extensive web dia-logues and mobile applications, which easily retrieve, process and enter information from existing IT systems, such as SAP and others. Browser wizards shorten the production time dramatically. With these functions, Cpronto is pioneering a new generation of software.

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Introduction Features Cpronto´s application fields Cpronto tool kit System environment

Cpronto drastically simplifies the design and creation of web applications and radically changes the production process of business applications.

Cpronto reads, lists, processes and writes data from different source systems.

Cpronto enables an optimized UI design - both in technical and economic terms.

With Cpronto, applications can be completely tailored to the users’ own workflows.

Cpronto is a new generation of software. Unlike most standard software tools,a software engine creates applications using an automated process.

Features

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Cpronto´s fields of application

Using the innovative development environment Cpronto, IT consultants and IT-related staff in various company departments can create extensive web applications without the help of software developers or IT departments. Even without extensive programming knowledge, they design – together with the users – applications which are tailored to meet their needs, and in doing so, they optimize business processes. Cpronto-developed applications are easily integrated into existing systems, but can also run independently.

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Company departments are accustomed to relaying their wishes – typically in the form of user requirements – to IT people, who then translate these requirements into technically orientated functional specifications and pass them onto the software developers. With Cpronto, however, departments create their own user-optimized and executable web dia-logues, which IT then embed into existing systems.

Cpronto as prototyping tool

Tablet and mobile business applications have many advantages. With Cpronto, companies can easily create cross-platform mobile web applications that conform perfectly to the different formats of smartphones and tablets and can be controlled by touch operation. Even complex SAP data can be made accessible via the internet and mobile devices – both the connection to the SAP system, as well as the preparation of the data for differentdisplay devices can be done in the blink of an eye.

Cpronto asmobile enablement

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Business and office software is often purely functional and not geared towards the specific tasks and needs of the employees. A sales representative, for example,regularly accesses information from different sources: email, SAP, Office applica-tions. He inputs new information into the various software systems, which in turn save the data in different places. Thus, the employee has no simple and transparent over-view of correspondence, emails, proposals, presentations, contracts, invoices or cus-tomer visits. Cpronto brings all this information together in one single user interface.

Applications created by Cpronto draw information from various existing systems and display it according to the user’s own design wishes in one single user inter-face. The various software systems no longer prevent the user from having a bird’s eye view of all of the essential information. With Cpronto applications, compa-nies provide their staff with exactly the information they need for dialogue- and con-tent-optimized computing – a clear advantage for employees and the company!

Cpronto as an integration tool

Further uses for Cpronto

- Cpronto as a web platform

- Cpronto as a collaboration tool

- Cpronto as a web content management tool

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Inroduction Features Cpronto´s application fields Cpronto tool kit System environment

Cpronto tool kit

For predefi ned tasks, Cpronto provides appropriate soft ware modules or product compo-nents which fulfi l the desired functi onality. In a few simple steps, users can, for example, create an applicati on to log project ti me. The applicati ons can either be integrated into existi ng systems or operate independently; they also run on all major browsers.

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Introducti on Features Cpronto´s applicati on fi elds Cpronto tool kit System environment

With the ContextBuilder, users create their applications’ data model. They decide which data to use and which systems to take it from. Cpronto can easily make available informa-tion from existing in-house systems – such as SAP – as well as from external systems – such as Google – for its web applications. Even in the event that new data sets have to be created, application designers can specify the appropriate location in the ContextBuilder.

Context Builder Features

Creates any business context for web applications with any data source

Easily integrates third-party systems via web services, REST and OData services

Cpronto ContextBuilder

The ApplicationBuilder is an easy-to-use tool for the design of an application’s dialogues and data usage. The web and mobile applications which have been defined by users will immediately run without any additional deployment cycle. Users can install and test the changes immediately. Automatic plausibility checks ensure consistency between theapplication and the data model. The simple dialogues and dialogue sequences as well as the complete freedom when it comes to designing the browser screen allow users to tai-lor applications to meet their exact needs.

ApplicationBuilder Features

Maximum flexibility during screen design process

Automatic adaptation of the application’s look using layout templates to fit in with corporate design

Data display from different perspectives depending on the business context

Flexible design of dialogues and dialogue sequences

Free rein when arranging web dialogues with CustomViews

Simulation and creation of web applications at your fingertips

Cpronto ApplicationBuilder

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With the Cpronto ServiceBuilder, users create on the backend system those services which are needed for their application. They define which data is requested from where and from which service.SAP customers can use the Cpronto ServiceBuilder to configure existing or customised business logics in SAP systems and integrate them into their applications. With just a few clicks, SAP consultants can integrate existing SAP standard modules or in-house modules and use them as services for web applications.

ServiceBuilder Features

Creation of services in the shortest possible time

Integration of SAP technical modules, such as functional modules, BAPIs, ABAP methods

Creation of standardized and central mechanisms for logging SAP accesses

Locking of data

Centralized allocation of data filters

Versioning, SAP transport and reuse of services and service catalogues

Cpronto ServiceBuilder

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The Cpronto ServiceHub is a runtime component for the provision of services on SAP backend systems. SAP customers use the ServiceHub to make their SAP interfaces trans-parent, to use services multiple times, to become independent of interfaces and pro-grammers, and, if applicable, to log and document access from third parties, such as web applications and users.

ServiceHub Features

Installation of ServiceHub via the SAP transport system to SAP backend systems or upstream systems.

The central component for accesses to all ABAP-based SAP applications

Monitoring of web accesses and mobile applications

Cpronto ServiceHub

The Cpronto WebEngine is a runtime component for web applications on the server. The Cpronto WebEngine allows companies to run the created web applications on every serv-er. The only requirement is a Java application server.

WebEngine Features

Dynamically creates user interfaces based on JavaScript and HTML5

Integrates various flexible systems such as SAP, databases, and web services

Generates Office documents based on templates

Supports the integration into the existing IT environment (LDAP integration, single sign-on)

Cpronto WebEngine

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System environment

Based on J2EE 5.0, the Cpronto WebEngine is entirely implemented in Java. To run a web application, the following system requirements must be met:

Either a J2EE 5.0 compatible application serverOr a Servlet 2.4 compliant web container.

MS Internet Explorer version 8.0 or higher

Mozilla Firefox or higher ersion 10 or higher

Apple Safari version 4.0 or higher

Google Chrome version 11.0 or higher

Android 2.1-2.3, 3.2, 4.0 or higher

Windows Phone 7 or higher

Apple IOS 3.2 or higher

Samsung Bada 2.0

Blackberry 6.0 or higher

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Contact

Companio AGMarlene-Dietrich-Strasse 5D-89231 Neu-UlmGermany

Telefon: +49 (0)731 98 58 87 25Fax: +49 (0)731 98 58 87 27Email: [email protected]