Semantic Browser

Table of contents
What is Semantic Browser?

• Tasks the Semantic Browser Helps Solve

• Distinguishing Features of Semantic Browser

Architecture of Semantic Browser

Description of Semantic Browser

License policy

Conclusion

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Demo movie (20 Мб)

What is Semantic Browser?

Semantic Browser is an effective visual tool for development of graphical user interfaces. Semantic Browser supports semantic navigation and any level of drill-down automatically and allows saving lots of time and money!

The quality of information presentation, development rate, optimization and minimization of development and exploitation costs are very important for management of commercial companies.

Semantic Browser allows an end user to make a graphical interface by giving him semantically related concepts which are typical for the application domain the user is expert in, and rich collection of graphical components. The goal is to reduce costs of development and maintenance of the information system: end users and GUI designers, not IT specialists, who are familiar with the application domain, can develop and maintain the graphical interface and reports.

Tasks the Semantic Browser Helps Solve

Reducing the cost of development
Semantic Browser provides functionality for end users to create their own forms using graphical components. A user shouldn't know information storage structure; he (she) can only know terminology of the appropriate application domain.

Navigation among forms, including drill-down and drill-through, are supported within the platform automatically since form publication without any additional arrangements.

Semantic Browser gives the unified user interface to work with all structured information with possibility to use semantic navigation.

Reducing maintenance costs
Forms developed by designers or end users can be published and shared with other platform users, which reduces participation of programmers in the process of new form creation and maintenance.

Semantic integration of different information systems with simple tuning up
Different information systems can be represented with the semantic layer as one unified, semantically navigable information space. Semantic Browser facilitates users' work with the space, which helps to take data semantics into account during creation of forms.

Distinguishing Features of Semantic Browser

Unified interface and integrated development environment simplify the process of development and maintenance of informational system in the framework of semantic platform.

The application domain-oriented platform lets end users to change and improve applications without strong IT knowledge.

The semantic navigation among forms supported automatically. The feature uses the semantic layers to show users how forms are related one to another in the context of an application domain.

The drill-down mechanism is supported, form publication is sufficient for that.

The product has the flexible license policy and attractive price.

Architecture of Semantic Browser

Semantic Browser is an essential part of Platform of Semantic Development and Integration of Informational Systems (SemanticNet). The browser uses the semantic layer of the platform to access all concept and their associations. Using the semantic layer and the graphical component collection, a user creates forms to manage application domain data.

Description of Semantic Browser

License policy

There are two variants of licensing:

• Server + client licenses, i.e. the platform as a whole. Now such licenses costs 11000$ per organization.

• Client license (Semantic Browser alone). Semantic Browser as a development and an end user tool. Access to server part of Platform is necessary. The cost is 110$ per work place, unlimited developer and user seats license within a single company costs 1100$.

It is a common case of license policy. But we can offer a more suitable and convenient variants of licensing and payment.

Conclusion

Semantic Browser is a convenient and modern tool for development of integrated information systems, including GUI. It has unique functionality, low requirements to IT skills of users.

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

What is the semantic integration?
End users of information systems are always interested in information semantics itself rather that how it is stored or accessed. That is exactly what the platform gives for them. Any user can see concepts and their associations and work within application domain he is expert in.

How Platform and Semantic Browser could speed up development of an information system?
Using the semantic layer and some intuitively clear tools of GUI development, end users can develop and publish forms with rich functionality for common use. This platform has the semantic layer enabling semantic analysis of data either by people or computer agents. The platform provides automatic semantic navigation and drill-down mechanisms requiring no programmers to involve. The platform reduces requirements to GUI developers making it possible for end users to create rich GUI fast and qualitative. Programmers are only responsible for developing a sufficient set of loosely-coupled components and mapping data of information systems to the semantic layer. In addition, any GUI form can be based on data of several heterogeneous data sources without restrictions.

Demo movie

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