InformationWeek
Defining The Business Value Of Technology
November 17, 1997
Intranet Teamwork
Development tool allows collaboration in creating sites
iNet Developer comes with a Web page editor, a programming environment, and an application server. The editor lets users design pages and manage entire sites by dragging and dropping images and text. The editor generates objects that describe pages and sites. The objects are stored in the application server's database, which interfaces with any Web server. Objects in the database instruct a Web server to dynamically generate HTML pages.
Companies can use the programming environment in iNet Developer to write new applications in Pictorius' object-oriented language, Pr
ograph. That's what Maritime Telephone & Telegraph in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is doing. The company's marketing department has developed an application for tracking the process of marketing products. Programmers develop applications in Prograph, and the marketing staff uses the editor to design pages.
"The natural styles of these two groups is not to work together," says Monty Sharma, a project manager at MT&T. "Being able to work on a common platform makes it easy for everyone."
Pictorius iNet Developer 3.0- including the page editor, application server, and programming environment-is available now for $1,495. A pack of three page editors is priced at $1,495.
ictorius Inc. last week shipped iNet Developer 3.0, a tool that lets non-programmers and programmers build intranet sites together. The upgrade adds support for Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) to link Web pages to back-end applications written in languages such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Delphi. The tool also lets businesspeople create Web pages without writing code.
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