The NetDynamics 5 product line offers customers an application server solution that can integrate business processes and deliver them as applications on the Internet. Business portals offer competitive advantage in the network economy through the new portal computing model enabled by application servers, and the NetDynamics 5 application server is the most scalable, robust application server engine behind business portals. To date, application servers have evolved as point products to address specific information technology challenges. While some offerings focus on development, they lack in scalability.
Some products provide scalability and integration, but no rapid application development.
Other application servers provide development and scalability, but cannot deliver enterprise integration. Portal computing integrates business processes to connect customers, partners, suppliers, and employees, and is an evolution from client-server and Web computing. Today, portal computing alleviates many of these problems because it offers a middle-tier application layer that provides the glue between clients and backend systems across multiple hardware and software platforms. The NetDynamics 5 application server provides a proven solution to meet three portal computing requirements. First, the NetDynamics 5 product helps customers deploy scalable, highly available portal applications to more users.