CDS is also Climax Manufacturing's J. D. Edwards business partner. It is designed to provide a Web-based customer service center. This is provided securely through the Internet at the customer's convenience. The executives at Climax Manufacturing were impressed. With Domino it was easy to use a roles based model so that each individual user logs into the portal and sees different information, as determined by the administrator.
Domino also provides a way to access the enterprise data on the back end.
Domino provides the calls to the business logic, which retrieves data from the J. D. Edwards system in real-time. Because we separated the business logic from the portal itself, we can simply create different sets of business logic depending on the back-end logic, and use the portal on top of it. Up and running quickly In May 2000, Climax Manufacturing got started implementing their new service to customers. The next morning, employees were using the system. Wright recalls it was easy to personalize the portal and to configure the information customers could view through a Web browser.