Not only did it enable us to be first to market with a comprehensive, Web-based PRM solution, but the sophistication of the platform and the availability of skilled developer resources have enabled us to deliver a new major release with significant functionality enhancements every four to five months. We chose the Microsoft platform because it provided the agility to create and change features rapidly. Not only did it enable us to be first to market with a comprehensive, Web-based PRM solution, but the sophistication of the platform and the availability of skilled developer resources have enabled us to deliver a new release with major functionality enhancements every four to five months. In the hosted environment, Allegis uses multiple data centers to ensure the ultimate level of reliability and disaster recovery. Each server is configured with a minimum of 2 gigabytes of memory, with boot and system files residing on dual SCSI drives in a RAID-1 configuration.
Customer data resides in an external storage cabinet, accessed by a fiber-channel connection.
As a result, we've seen a 300-percent increase in overall application performance. We expect additional improvements when we upgrade to SQL Server 2000, which is planned for the near future. With the Microsoft tools, we can rapidly prototype new features and bring them to market, enabling us to consistently exceed customer expectations. The Allegis Open Links interface uses XML and SOAP to expose functionality as Web services, which can be directly accessed by other applications using the Web. By publishing our functionality in this manner, we have achieved application-level integration regardless of the applications and platforms in use at the other end.