By providing a flexible deployment mechanism, businesses can harness the computing power of end-users machines or choose to centralize the processing on a server, and achieve a new dimension to scalability. The Builder component of Syndicator provides a common environment for assembling and managing data and transactions from disparate sources. This provides the core functionality of allowing users to visually locate and connect content and web services to create highly flexible, open applications. This functionality is supported through the XML Gateway , SOAP Gateway , and Database Adapters. The Content Monitor is a stand-alone application that is bundled with the Syndicator to provide a convenient mechanism by which to track changes in web items created from websites, web services, or any business connection in which the user expects changes to occur.
Users can set email alerts to be sent to specified email addresses for particular events.
Also, continuous logging is done which records the status of operations. This provides the capability to create filtering rules for content or web service results. These filters are specified by Regular Expressions common to many programming languages such as Java, PERL, and Python. The Regular Expressions are applied to web item results before output to a third-party software system or display device. The flexible Application Generator is a convenient wizard, which guides users through the process of generating an application.