Aonix® Announces the Release of the First Thin-Client, Internet-Enabled, Component Management Tool – Select Component Portal™

BOULDER, Colorado, April 12, 2002: Aonix, a member of the Gores Technology Group and a leading provider of systems design solutions, today announced the release of their new product Select Component Portal.

Component-Based Development (CBD) is now the de facto process for developing successful business-driven web and bespoke applications. This trend has been driven by companies seeking to achieve the Return on Investment and quality benefits, which can only be achieved by using the CBD process. Aonix has been leading the tools space for CBD for over 5 years with its market leading Select Component Factory product suite.

Select Component Portal is based on the widely acclaimed Select Component Manager™ technology – a robust and scalable repository based component management solution – which has been extended to run as a thin client into the Select Component Manager repository.

“We are really excited about Select Component Portal, we believe that the launch of this new product will enable organizations to more effectively use CBD to gain reuse and quality improvements in their web services based development. Select Component Portal revolutionizes the reuse of components for any organization as its scalable, repository based technology is internet/intranet enabled. This product is a must for companies who are buying in, reusing, renting, or designing web services or components,” says Ashley Abdo, CEO, Aonix Corporation.

“It has been proven that companies who adopt CBD can expect a ROI of over 20% in the first year with the ROI figures for subsequent years rising exponentially. Aonix has the solution which enables this process to be executed easily and effectively within organizations of any size”, explains Hedley Apperly, VP Marketing, Aonix Corporation.

Select Component Portal simplifies reuse through its easy-to-use interface, which allows developers and analysts to easily search and find existing components or services, registering interest in the functionality to the owners, as well as finding out versioning, quality and prerequisites for running through the web based thin client. Select Component Portal also allows a design view of the component for components, which have been designed using Select Component Factory™.

The Select Component Portal Features include:
Component Browser technology within Select Component Portal enables an internet/intranet view of all components (common component stored include web services, WSDL, J2EE java beans, COM and COM+ components), which are available for reuse within an organization. This technology can link an entire organization (and its partners, if appropriate) to its component assets becoming the central hub for promoting and managing the CBD process.

The thin client view of the repository ensures that the management of components remains centralized decreasing the overhead of managing multi repositories locally. It also gives organizations the option of centralizing the publishing of components enabling quality and testing procedures to be run before the component goes live within Select Component Portal.

The component repository has built in security and management functionality so that organizations can manage effectively the use and reuse of components not only ensuring the integrity and reuse of the components but also giving an overall measurement of the ROI.

Pricing and Availability
Select Component Portal is priced at $100 per seat.