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DataWeb brings Hosted SaaS tool development to the Business User

DataWeb Corporation (http://www.dataweb.com/) is a hosted platform provider for web application development and is helping business people accomplish their jobs more effectively, using its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools. DataWeb’s platform is unique in that it enables applications to be created by businesspeople with moderate technical skills, not just developers. All of the tools a businessperson needs to develop, manage and deploy very sophisticated applications are delivered through the browser; nothing is downloaded to a local computer.

DataWeb’s HostRAD™ (Hosted Rapid Application Development) platform is a completely browser-based tool providing fully-hosted, turnkey solutions for developing, deploying and running custom applications on the web. DataWeb leverages Microsoft technology in its hosted environment using Microsoft Windows Server, Windows Internet Information Server (IIS), and SQL Server.

HostRAD™ allows users to define and edit data tables, layout data-centric web pages, edit HTML, write scripts and manage multi-level security, building all kinds of web applications. Users access HostRAD from any Internet-enabled computer, eliminating the need to install client software and keep different versions and libraries in sync. The results are low-cost, high performance, secure online applications built to your business requirements. Many businesses have used the HostRAD Platform to manage complex sales processes; issue invoices to customers; control and manage inventory and achieve better control of multi-step work processes.

These businesses range from tiny to enterprise scale customers. A case study recently authored by DataWeb highlights how their platform has been used by Microsoft Certified Partner, OpSource (www.opsource.net), a Santa Clara, CA-based developer of SaaS enablement and delivery platforms.

OpSource's products and services are designed to help other software companies to establish and offer web-based SaaS solutions to their clients. Using DataWeb's HostRAD, OpSource was able to create a web-based application that consolidates all of their customer and sales data into a single online database. The OpSource DataWeb application serves as a central repository for all customer and sales information used by each of OpSource's three internal groups.

Once the client, product, or service data is entered into the OpSource DataWeb application, it can then be imported into an Excel spreadsheet. The user can then create a Refreshable Web Query in Excel that will automatically retrieve current data from the OpSource DataWeb application and update that data in the Excel spreadsheet on demand.

This basic Excel spreadsheet, integrated with a Refreshable Web Query, can then be circulated around to all the members of all the OpSource groups. When OpSource employees need a real-time report of the latest up-to-date customer and sales data, they simply open their Excel spreadsheet and use the Refreshable Web Query to import the latest data from the OpSource DataWeb application. The Refreshable Web Query automatically populates the fields in the Excel spreadsheet with the latest customer and sales data.

For an in depth look into DataWeb and OpSource, go to the DataWeb web site for more detail.

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Published Monday, May 19, 2008 12:18 PM by Kenik Hassel

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About Kenik Hassel

At Microsoft, my focus is on entrepreneurs, innovative startups and the agents representing them, that are looking to engage with Microsoft on Business Development. Whether these companies are building on the Microsoft platform or not, I look for opportunities where they and Microsoft can build respective value propositions through partnering and potential M&A. These efforts are both proactive and reactive in nature; I mine Venture Capital data searching for high potential startups, as well as managing Microsoft’s Opportunity Management Web Portal, which allows anyone to submit a business proposal to Microsoft. My goal is to support Microsoft’s commitment to providing an open and accessible face to the world that is helping shape tomorrow’s technology and to provide value to everyone that wants to engage Microsoft. Originally from Central California and an Army brat, I am a long time Washington State transplant. I received my BS in Industrial Design from Western Washington University and later received my MBA from the University of Washington. I spent my formative career years innovating in the world of hardware, exhibit and interior architectural design, before being bitten by the User Interface and User experience bug at the peak of the tech boom in 1999.