The new software generation of abaXX Technology AG, abaXX.components 3.6, combine in many respects an enhanced benefit with innovative technology. Completely new basic concepts for portal software were introduced:

Easier building of portals in a shorter time by the 15/51 method.

This approach of abaXX.components outmatches conventional portal development concepts. Within 15 minutes, the first portlets can be created, and after 51 minutes, the first fully operative demo portal will be ready. Thus the time needed for assembling a portal is reduced by up to 80%. Costs for initial skill adaptation, training, and customization decrease correspondingly. The main agents of this achievement are the Portal Builder, which simplifies portal assembly, and the portal framework Vanilla, which provides many prebuilt portal components.

Flexible and customizable business processes for agile organizations by process automation and integration.

The extended and updated process.component of abaXX.components 3.6 allows for a loose coupling of procedures instead of predefined and immutable business processes. Thus, the portal can be customized easily and realized within a very short time. You are always one step ahead of your competitors. Another unique feature is the integration of your portals with the products of IDS Scheer AG. Processes defined with these products can be transferred to the portal in few steps. Their execution can be monitored and they can be customized continuously. For the first time, a company has a holistic view of its business processes?from their definition to their execution and their control.

Complete, highly scalable component-based software instead of inflexible and platform-dependent software colossi.

Apart from the abaXX.components' platform independence, which allows for using many different application servers such as JBoss, BEA, and IBM, scalability and comprehensive functionality are two of the main characteristics of abaXX.components 3.6. Personalization, business process management, predefined portlets, or security?the abaXX.components 3.6 provide all of these functions in the form of easily scalable modules based on a consistent technology. This not only saves maintenance and support costs, but also adds to a homogeneous standard architecture based on J2EE, thus protecting your investments.

High quality with customer-oriented bundling. abaXX Technology AG is well known as a quality-oriented company.

That is: fewer errors, less downtime, higher performance, all of which results in reduced costs. Moreover, with abaXX.components 3.6 new bundlings are introduced, which not only ease the mapping of a specific portal, but also leads to an optimal price/performance ratio. The abaXX.components are now available in three versions: abaXX.portal base edition, abaXX.portal process edition, and abaXX.portal advice edition. The base package comprises the components for core and content services, portal creation using predefined portlets, and the new personalization component. The 'process edition' contains additional modules for business process management, messaging, and tracking. The most comprehensive version offers components for mapping portal advising processes in addition.

With the abaXX.components 3.6, abaXX Technology AG proves once more why it is counted among Europe's leading portal software vendors: customer orientation in conjunction with sophisticated technology.

abaXX elements

abaXX elements is truly "a portal's very nature": a portal environment for building, configuring, and adapting comprehensive and personalized Web applications. Combining extensive graphic tools, a prebuilt portal application and framework functionality, abaXX elements speeds up portal development and eases maintenance and administration of existing portals, thus reducing considerably programming and maintenance efforts.

At a glance: the four elements making abaXX elements indispensable for portal development:

elements Portal Builder
With the Portal Builder, you have full control of your portal: simply switch to "Edit Mode" to customize your portal: create new portlets, customize the portal structure, parametrize existing portlets, and more—with the Portal Builder, you are able to completely configure and customize your portal.

elements Vanilla
Vanilla is abaXX elements' prebuilt frame application. Vanilla eases and speeds up the project start; it is the ideal starting point for creating your Web applications: Vanilla provides for a complete portal framework including various desks, prebuilt portal layout pages, visual styles etc. Using the Portal Builder, the Vanilla portal frame can be adapted to your specific portal requirements.

elements Parts Gallery
The Parts Gallery provides out-of-the box functionality for recurring portal elements: Portlets (displaying dynamic content, for example) Portal elements typically required in a portal (log-in and context-sensitive menus, for example)

elements Paragon
Paragon is a powerful Web application framework for implementing modular portal applications (portlets.) Aspect Framework, Tag Library, and Frontend Widgets allow for conveniently creating user interfaces that can be maintained and modified easily, thus saving you significant development and maintenance efforts.