KnowNow Products Overview

Lightweight Internet Middleware

KnowNow’s lightweight Internet Middleware provides a fast, easy and cost effective way for businesses to transition to real-time, event-driven enterprises without disrupting existing applications or infrastructure. Event-driven organizations quickly sense and respond to activities that drive all aspects of the business and use technology to improve return on minutes and investments.

KnowNow solutions enable event-driven organizations by:

• Improving the visibility of critical business information


• Reducing application deployment and maintenance costs


• Leveraging current IT investments to add real-time capabilities


• Allowing organizations to easily migrate to new architectures

Platform

KnowNow Event Routing Platform™ is the underlying technology for KnowNow solutions. It features publish and subscribe messaging over HTTP to capture, distribute and display real-time data to browsers and desktop applications. The platform features KnowNow LiveServer™ to intelligently route messages and a collection of KnowNow LiveConnectors™ that enhance the speed of development and integration for standard languages and protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, .Net, J2EE, ActiveX, C, C# and others.

Solutions

KnowNow offers pre-packaged software solutions for adding live-data to browsers and Excel spreadsheets that feature the KnowNow LiveServer and specialized connectors. These products are KnowNow LiveBrowser™ and KnowNow LiveSheet™.

KnowNow LiveSheet™ is a dynamic software solution that allows users to share information between multiple spreadsheets on multiple systems across the Internet. LiveSheet can be installed on users’ machines in a matter of seconds without intrusion. KnowNow simply adds a graphical toolbar to Excel that allows users to achieve real-time spreadsheet collaboration within a familiar application interface. The toolbar adds powerful LiveSheet capabilities to Excel making it simple to modify, send and receive live information between spreadsheets or other information sources, via the Internet. Using LiveSheet, users can send and receive designated Excel ranges and rows, in real-time, for instant collaboration and increased productivity. Leading enterprises such as FujitsuPC and ING Groep NV use KnowNow LiveSheet to connect hundreds of resellers and employees to their internal database systems.

KnowNow LiveBrowser™ is a dynamic software solution for applications that require real-time data, notifications or alerts. LiveBrowser delivers the usability and productivity of rich, client-server applications to native Web applications without having to install software on the client. LiveBrowser’s dynamic, zero-install components, make Web applications instantly more productive and responsive, whether viewed in desktop browsers or a variety of personal and handheld computing devices. Leading financial services organizations such as FreeMarkets and Iron Planet use KnowNow LiveBrowser to power their web-based trading and procurement applications.
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