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Our Products & Services
Our line of products and services
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Creativyst® Custom Web-Based Software
Development
Our specialty is designing and building
corporate applications
that are web-based AND
platform independent.
If you are currently specifying a project for development in
a spreadsheet or other desktop environment, I'd like to work with you
to re-cast it as a browser based application.
Let me show you how an application can run on any platform
using a browser-based user interface.
Making an application web-based often produces leaping
advantages in access and productivity compared to the desktop-bound
corporate applications of the past.
Creativyst understands, and can help you understand, the many
differences and special
design considerations specific
to browser-based applications. Whether you employ Creativyst or someone
else to develop your web-based applications for you,
be sure you understand -at least- the following:
- An application that only runs on Internet Explorer
is NOT platform independent.
I.E. applications have hooks into the
underlying Windows(tm) operating system and
assume that Windows specific resources are available for their
use. People running non-windows browsers will generally be
excluded from using your application. Who uses
a non-Windows browser? People with mobile devices, people in
high security environments, people using Linux, people using
Apples from their home or school offices, people
in mainframe environments, etc.
- SOA/P and other Web-Services standards are for
platform-locked applications.
SOA/P is designed so that desktop bound applications running
on different platforms can use the web to exchange data
and functionality with each other. Platform-independent
applications
employ these technologies in order to interact with their
platform-locked counterparts and each other.
The thing to remember is that
using SOA/P and web-services does nothing to make
an application platform independent. The two
technologies are both communications standards, but are
otherwise unrelated.
- Desktop user interface development
practices are not transferable to
browser based user interfaces.
A desktop user-interface that is transferred verbatim
to a browser based user interface will be tedious to use at
best. A browser based user interface should
be designed to
work
comfortably whether it is used at DSL speeds or
cell-phone dial-up speeds. Standard, desktop user-interface
practices do not take response turn-around times and
REST styled transactional interfaces into account.
Perhaps not surprisingly,
many of the development tools and frameworks provided
by platform vendors are designed to help
developers easily move their
desktop applications into browsers unchanged.
Don't let this
happen to your browser-based applications.
- Browser-based applications must have
standard security mechanisms built directly
into the application.
A browser based application must be designed from the start
to be secure. This means it must interact with existing,
external security standards as well as implement specific
internal measures commensurate with the criticality of the
security requirement. The short version:
security
must be taken seriously.
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Creativyst® Real Time
Data Acquisition Systems
Our innovative software combined with consulting and systems
integration services can connect your legacy and new systems
together in real-time.
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Creativyst® Gleaner
This software allows you to monitor and automatically respond to
real-time data generated by diverse systems and communicated in
a variety of formats. Whether your data is generated by a legacy
mainframe and transmitted in EBCDIC or it's coming off your
company intranet, this product can capture it, display it, and
instantly act on it as you specify. While display
display is only one of Creativyst® Gleaner's
capabilities, it is currently compatible with LED signboards
(readerboards) from Telegenix and AMS, Plasma displays from
Telegenix, as well as any VGA style graphics display connected to
a serial port or Windows operating system, such as LCDs, and CRTs.
Do those old systems have strange and mysterious interfaces?
Don't worry, we're ready to help you with support, consulting
services, and hardware offerings.
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Creativyst® Website
Development Software & Tools
Our tools and libraries for developers are well documented and
easy to use. If we can't do it better, we don't do it.
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Creativyst® Glossary
Simply the best website glossary script available anywhere.
The first glossary to chain to other glossaries when it
can't find a word. It uses CUF® codes, which make
it easy for your wordsmiths to add tables, illustrations,
and links to their definitions.
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Creativyst® JavaScript Compressor
Use this tool free here on our site, or download it for use
on your own intranet site or browser for a very reasonable price.
Compress your JavaScript code before distribution so you can format
and comment it liberally, and so your pages load quickly no matter
what the browser's bandwidth.
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Creativyst® Browser Tools (bt.js)
A small but very useful library of JavaScript functions.
Most are tested to work in IE4/5x and Netscape 4.7x/6.2.x
What's great about this little library of functions? They
are well documented, and TINY. The entire library only
requires about 10K of browser bandwidth.
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Creativyst® Website Hosting,
Design, & Administration
We will be happy to set up a hosting account for the web based
application we build for you. We also sell hosting accounts
for many other reasons.
Whether you want a simple low-cost web calling card, a full
e-commerce enabled business site, or a community participation
and collaboration site to support your customers or employees
Creativyst has the know-how and resources to help you. We
provide fast, guaranteed, and stress free development at a
surprisingly reasonable price. You may have a desire to do
it yourself or prefer a complete turn-key solution. Either way
we are committed to providing services and knowledge personalized to
your style and expertise.
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Creativyst® Custom Website Design
We at Creativyst have the expertise to custom design any
site for you. We can combine it with our understanding
of data-acquisition to make specific company information visible
on your website. You can provide your customers with
ultra-responsive help-desk and pre-sales support in
online forums, or Instant Messaging. We'll even be happy
to handle the day-to-day site administration tasks for you
if you so choose. Contact us in the forums or
using the link here so that
we may learn what you're requirements are.
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Creativyst® Website Hosting
We sell some of the most reliable low-cost hosting services
you can buy at any price. When combined with our discount
pricing and our commitment to customer service and support
this is an unbeatable hosting deal. Sign up! You will wonder
why you ever hosted with anyone else.
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Creativyst® Script Installation Services
Whether you bought it from us or someone else, our website
script installation services are reasonably prices and
stress free.
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Creativyst® Enterprise
Products & Custom Software Development
We design software systems to automate your business processes
and to make business information and know-how available where
it's needed, when it's needed.
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Creativyst® Custom Software Development
As a business owner your goal is to avoid the stress of a system that
doesn't do exactly what you want it to. If you're looking for custom
designs, our development services will focus energy up front, starting
with knowing, understanding... grasping, your true requirements. We
know from experience it is here, at this earliest stage of
specification, that a project's success often hinges. We've also
learned that this is an intensely collaborative time, when information
must flow in both directions. We're prepared to teach as well as learn
about your business automation requirements. Contact us today to
begin the process, or just to get a better idea of what's involved.
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Creativyst® JobTrack
A job scheduling and tracking application for businesses that
assemble jobs to order. It displays information about a lot
of jobs in a very apparent way, much like that old white board
you use to track jobs. Though, with much more power.
Any valid user, anywhere on your network or the
internet if you put it on a web server (yours or ours) can view
the board, make immediate changes to it, and see changes others
have made. Try out this fully functional
demo installation. The only thing that has been
disabled is the security, so go ahead and add, edit, or
delete jobs as you'd like.
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Hardware
We sell hardware systems and components in support of our consulting
and software offerings. Our hardware philosophy is cut and dry. First
and formost we insist on reliability in the products we carry. Once
that requirement is satisfied we look to provide you with the best bang
for the buck. The goal: to insure you pay the lowest TCO prices for
the hardware products that will reliably meet your needs.
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Creativyst® Enterprise Systems Consulting Services
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Creativyst® Consulting
We provide consulting, specification, and integration services for
hardware and LAN/WLAN systems, cabling, administration, and
third party software configuration services to our clients.
Contact us with your requirements.
A Word About Web Based
Business Applications
Many of the business applications we are developing for our clients and
customers today are designed to run on web-browsers. Whether businesses deploy
them over the Internet to make information available to multiple locations, or
just run them on the office LAN, these applications often have many advantages
over computer-bound applications. Advantages include cross platform
compatabiltiy, Internet readiness, a simple familiar interface that users learn
qucikly, standards based to interoperate with systems from other vendors,
anywhere/anytime availability, etc. These web-based enterprise applications
range from simple
job scheduling and tracking boards to full enterprise information and
support systems.
Developer Tools
& Cooperative Projects
We are always looking for areas where we can help fellow developers in their
effort to provide better solutions to their clients. These efforts include
making free
developer tools
available on our website, entering into
collaborative efforts
when we will all benefit from them, and nurturing ties
and community whenever we see a chance to do so. Our philosophy on cooperation
with other developers is simple: We embrace competition when competing makes us
better people and cooperation when cooperating benefits everyone.
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