With the emergence of open standards and the Web, CaterXpert™ saw the opportunity
to create an advanced information solution for caterers based on the same powerful
productivity enhancing technologies afforded by Fortune 100 companies.CaterXpert™ integrates several technologies—enterprise resource planning, groupware, relational databases, workflow automation, and XML. To drive down costs for customers, the solution resides on a secured, hosted environment and is delivered over the Web. The platform architecture is open and scalable. Customers have no additional hardware to buy or software to maintain. Migration issues with upgrades or enhancements are eliminated.
The Key: Applications Architecture
The software applications architecture employs a highly flexible business logic layer. This permits caterers to easily tailor CaterXpert™ to their particular business rules, practices, and definitions. The architecture and data capture schemes allows unparalleled flexibility and accuracy in recording, tracking, and managing companyactivities. The architecture is continually building libraries and extending its APIs to new front-end devices and enterprise systems.
The applications reside in a highly redundant and secure operational environment that is designed for high-availability. Customer information and transaction data are backed up daily, redundant databases ensure data permanence, UPS battery power supply all back-up systems, and rollover T-1 facilities standby in case of network failures. All web servers are fire-walled and use secure server technology for authentication and encryption.
