Success Story
Interleaf Opts For Outsourcing BladeRunner Project to Auriga
Early in 2000, Auriga successfully completed the RDM Project for Interleaf, Inc. On this occasion, Chris McGrath, VP of Engineering, e-Publishing Solutions, Interleaf, Inc., wrote: "Congratulations on a
job well done! RDM 3.0 passed Product Verification successfully and will be sent to manufacturing. As you know this product removes the last technology barrier from the path of the RDMX strategy. This opens the door for our RDM customers to move their document repository contents to BladeRunner. I would like to thank all members of the Auriga team responsible for its design, development, testing and verification. We are grateful for your dedication and the extra effort put forth in this important project. Thank you." It was only
natural for Interleaf to outsource BladeRunner Project to Auriga, too. At the same time, Interleaf became a division of BroadVision, Inc. and BladeRunner became known as BroadVision One-To-One Publishing.
BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN, Neuer Markt: BDN) develops and delivers an integrated suite of packaged applications for conducting ecommerce interactions and transactions. Global enterprises and government entities use these applications to sell, buy and exchange information over the web and on wireless devices. The BroadVision e-commerce application suite enables a corporation to become more competitive and profitable by establishing and sustaining high yield relationships with customers, suppliers and employees.
The objective of the project was to create BroadVision One-To-One Publishing system which turns static business information into personalized, structured content, transforms a company’s ad hoc publishing efforts into a streamlined and comprehensive process, increasing consistency, efficiency, and productivity. BroadVision One-To-One Publishing should enable users to: Create, review, and manage content easily – via a flexible, Windows-based interface that can be customized for each content creator’s specific tasks and is integrated with the project workflow. Streamline the publishing process – by facilitating collaborative teamwork on content creation and review. Allows teams to easily track and control the simplest to the most complex projects with comprehensive workflow processes. Tailor content for audiences worldwide – by publishing web content in Western European and Asian languages, meeting the needs of the Global 2000. Future-proof content – by creating it once and storing it in a central repository. Auriga’s contribution to the project: Workflow Designer development. Workflow Designer allows you to draw graphical representations of various activities in a workflow, referred to as a process definition, to attach roles to tasks, and set typical turn around times for tasks. Later, through Workflow Manager, you can assign specific staff members to tasks and set specific deadlines for their completion. Workflow Manager development. Workflow Manager is used to manage workflow users, create aliases, and put a workflow into effect, allowing Information Manager to forward tasks and related information from one user to another. Information Manager Desktop enhancement. The Information Manager Desktop provides functions for checking out, editing and checking in data to a repository. Installing the Information Manager client also installs additional GUIs that provide workflow functionality and an XML Compare utility for Information Manager users. Due to joint efforts of Auriga and BroadVision, one of the most effective Web content management applications was developed. On this occasion, Joe Lacik, Vice President, Information Services, Aviall, wrote: “Building content for both the web and PDAs will be critical to our success, and BroadVision One-ToOne Publishing makes that easy. BroadVision’s Content Management solution allows us to create a strategic infrastructure for customers, suppliers, and internal sales worldwide.”
Success Story
The Interleaf Choice: To Outsource Relation Document Manager to Auriga
At the end of 1997, Interleaf faced a lot of problems with its current RDM version: Y2K bugs fixing, porting RDM to all major UNIX platforms, modern operating systems/DBMS support, French, German and Japanese languages localization.
Interleaf, Inc. (from January 2000, a division of BroadVision, Inc.) delivers enterprise-wide software solutions for content management and complex publishing. These solutions provide Global 2000 customers with a distinct competitive advantage by enabling them to deploy document-based applications that improve their operating efficiency and customer satisfaction, while driving revenue and profitability. Interleaf's software products make it easy for companies to assemble, manage, retrieve, distribute and publish business-critical information across the corporate enterprise and beyond. Interleaf RDM is the most complete document management system available. It is an open, scalable, integrated solution to locate, control, review, revise, and distribute up-to-the minute information that is critical to your business success. From assembly and operating manuals to policy/procedure guides, to regulatory submissions and quality initiatives, RDM is the ideal document management tool. It mirrors your business processes, enabling you to streamline the tasks of accessing, creating, and revising document objects wherever they are used across your organization
At that time, John Emerson Pavlov, Vice President, Engineering, Interleaf, Inc., suggested:
"We have supplemented our software engineering staff with Auriga personnel for over three years. During this time, we started with well-defined projects such as porting to various operating systems. Based on the high quality of work produced, Interleaf should begin to rely upon Auriga for more complex projects. These projects, in addition to software coding effort, encompass:
Product specifications Technical specifications Test plans Quality assurance Documentation
Interleaf has an excellent working relation with all of the Auriga employees and considers them an extension of our internal staff. At times, we have as many as four concurrent projects ongoing that were staffed primarily by Auriga team. With extremely low turnover of our dedicated Auriga staff, we have reliably augmented our staff with highly knowledgeable professionals that are extremely proficient in our software development life cycle and development practices. I would strongly recommend utilizing Auriga's highly skilled professionals to permanently supplement all disciplines within software engineering."
Three years later, Chris McGrath, VP of Engineering, e-Publishing Solutions, Interleaf, Inc., wrote:
"Congratulations on a job well done! RDM 3.0 passed Product Verification successfully and will be sent to manufacturing. As you know this product removes the last technology barrier from the path of the RDMX strategy. This opens the door for our RDM customers to move their document repository contents to BladeRunner. I would like to thank all members of the Auriga team responsible for its design, development, testing and verification. We are grateful for your dedication and the extra effort put forth in this important project. Thank you."
Success Story
Pilot Software Has Found a Solution: To Outsource CCPlus to Auriga
“The Cambridge, Mass., company's customers urgently needed support and maintenance work on their copies of a popular software package Pilot no longer produces. But Pilot's engineers were too busy developing new software to spend time on the job. Pilot found the solution in an unexpected place - the laboratories that make up the campus of Moscow State University. Even more unlikely, perhaps, is that it got the help it needed from a New Hampshirebased software company that has set up a subsidiary on the Moscow campus, where it is doing its small part to help stem the Russian brain drain. The Moscow subsidiary of Auriga, an Amherst, N.H.-based company, …is attracting some of Russia's most talented software designers to work in Moscow. …Russian programmers are taking on jobs without leaving home and making their American clients happy. The Russian programmers work just as well as their American counterparts, but the jobs cost up to 40 percent less because the Russians work for less, said Scott Livermore, engineering manager at Pilot Software. Livermore turned to Auriga after offshore programmers in India did not work out.” The Reversal of Russia's Brain Drain, The Boston Globe, May 5, 2000
The objective of the project was to support the Command Center Plus product line. Command Center Plus (CCPlus) is a software development environment that provides the tools needed to create and support an Executive Information System (EIS). An EIS serves the information needs of top executives and provides rapid access to timely information and direct access to management menus, reports and charts, detailing the operations of their company. CCPlus Key features:
Valuable compiler for CCPlus programming language processing Powerful tools that display data graphically Internal database, supporting many tables with time-series records and "drill-down" capability SQL interface to Oracle, Ingres and Sybase, enabling data capture from external sources Multi-Platform support for CCPlus Server (HP-UX, AIX, MVS, Alpha VMS, VAX VMS) and for CCPlus Client (Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT 3.51/4.0 and Apple Mac 7)
It was a critical-mission project with a tight deadline. To successfully implement it, Auriga built up a dedicated team of top-notch IT professionals - software developers and testers, with extensive experience in the above mentioned operating systems, C and PL/1 programming languages.
Auriga’s contribution to the project:
Supporting all major platforms (HP-UX, AIX, Open VMS, MVS, Windows and Mac) Resolving Y2K problem Bugs fixing Porting the I6-bit CCPlus Client from Windows 3.11 to Win95 and WinNT 4.0
Pilot Software had planned to complete the project in eight months, Auriga finished it in seven, having exceeded the customer’s expectations in quality as well. Pilot Software highly commended the work done by Auriga’s dedicated team and made a decision to enlarge the Russian team to do new projects for it. On this occasion, Scott Livermore, Engineering Manager at Pilot Software, said: "This is definitely the
future of working with Russian programmers!”