CaseMaster®A Platform for Innovative Back-Office Solutions

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InformationPowerInformation is power; never more so than today. Yet, time and time again we see organizations settling for second-best when it comes to their business software by going for a standard software solution. By doing so, they are likely to compromise their information requirements. Often, organisations have to change their processes to meet their software requirements… One-size-fits-all is good for some things but not when it comes to your mission critical business solution.

Unique organizations require unique solutions. We are proud to have been chosen by Flügel NV Netherlands to implement their sales force support system

StandardBespokeBespoke solutions are often associated with high risk, costs, delays and even failure. Not a pleasant prospect when it comes to your software solution.

CaseMaster® is a unique and highly innovative application platform designed for the rapid development of back-office solutions. This strict focus may not suit every development

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This gives you the best of both worlds: the speed, cost and re-assurance of standard software and the perfect fit of a bespoke solution.

Belfast City Airport has implemented a CaseMaster® solution to ensure compliance with the strict civil aviation regulations

FlexibleSolutionsThese are dynamic times and only agile companies will be successful. You constantly have to adapt to changing circumstances. Software that can’t change with you can turn from an asset to legacy in a matter of months.

CaseMaster® solutions are inherently flexible. CaseMaster® has been designed from the ground-up to make it easy to

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Avanta has selected CaseMaster® as the platform of choice to help many thousands of job seekers a year get back into a job

SingleViewThe unique architecture of CaseMaster® makes it easy to integrate with other systems.

Whether you want to integrate with your web-shop, the order system of your key clients or the stock management system of your logistics providers, CaseMaster® systems can provide a transparent, single view over multiple systems and multiple partners in your information chain.

InnovativeTechnologyCaseMaster® is a highly innovative platform. At the core is the concept of ‘self-describing business objects’. The theory is simple:

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system unique; it is the data you want to do it with.

Compare the following two typical scenarios:

Scenario A Scenario BBank employee searches for an account by client name

Airline employee searches for a flight by origin and destination

System shows possible matching accounts

Systems shows flights scheduled for that day

User selects one of the accounts User selects the 12:00 flightSystem shows basic details for the selected account

System shows basic details for the selected flight

User clicks on ‘Show recent transactions’

User clicks on ‘Show availability’

System shows recent transactions for the selected account

Systems shows available seats for the selected flight

At the core of CaseMaster® is the ability to define the structure of your data: what does a bank account look like? What are the fields that make up a flight? What about a transaction? What about an available seat on a flight?

CaseMaster® also boasts an extensive collection of ‘actions’. An ‘action’ is a piece of functionality that can be applied to a business object. Examples of actions are: a search feature, a result list feature, a calendar, an edit form, etc.

A CaseMaster® application is ‘developed’ by combining actions (‘what do you want to do’) with self-describing business objects (‘what do you want to do this with?’) in a specific sequence.

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Scenario A is now implemented as follows:

Functionality BO Action

Bank employee searches for an account by client name

Client Search

System shows possible matching accounts

Client List

User selects one of the accountsSystem shows basic details for the selected account

Client View details

User clicks on ‘Show recent transactions’System shows recent transactions for the selected account

Transaction List

The action modules have been proven and tested and are optimized for best performance and scalability. They can be used over and over again with different self-describing business objects.

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Kensington Financial Management recognizes that the

flexibility of CaseMaster® is instrumental to their continued success

KnowMore?

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