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Who is a ParaGrafix™ user?
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How long does it take to get up to speed with ParaGrafix?
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What is Frontline Software?
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How do we transfer new or upgraded applications to Frontline users?
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How long does it take to develop applications in ParaGrafix?
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How does ParaGrafix™ interact with my corporate data and business system?
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Does ParaGrafix™ interact with my CAD system?
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Does ParaGrafix™ interact with my existing software?
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Can ParaGrafix™ interact with my UNIX server?
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What is ParaWeb™ Software?
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Who is a ParaGrafix™ user?
ParaGrafix is a non-programming, "point and click" development environment,
requiring no programming skills on the part of the user-developer. Anyone who
is comfortable using software should be able to use ParaGrafix effectively.
Ideally, a ParaGrafix developer should be well versed in the products
you sell (or has ready access to other experts) and be analytical and
problem-solving in disposition. If drawings and graphics are important
to the application, being familiar with CAD or other graphics packages
such as Corel is a big asset. For authoring rules, constraints, and
expressions, experience with Excel or 1-2-3 helps as well. The most
important point is that ParaGrafix application developers do not
have to be software programmers.
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What is Frontline Software?
Frontline is the runtime version of ParaGrafix. It is generally used by
sales, estimating and order entry staff to design or configure
products and pricing. These users cannot modify any rules, data,
or graphics that the ParaGrafix developer does not want them to modify.
Frontline can be used stand-alone on workstations or notebooks
and can be sent out on CD-ROM or diskettes to dealers, agents,
suppliers, etc.
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How does ParaGrafix™ interact with my corporate data / business system?
ParaGrafix can read from and write to any ODBC compliant database.
It can also read comma-delimited text files, INI files, and environment
variables. If the database used by your Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) system is ODBC compliant, you can read the system's customer
stock code, pricing, inventory tables, for example. In addition,
ParaGrafix/Frontline has already been linked to a number of ERP
systems, providing linkage to the estimate and order entry modules.
ParaGrafix's open architecture allows it to easily interact
directly with any ERP vendor.
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What is ParaWeb™ Software?
ParaWeb brings Frontline functionality directly out to the Internet.
This enables your customers, dealers, buyers, agents, etc. to
do their own quotes or product configurations online.
ParaWeb is an NT Server application that works with any
standard Web server (Netscape, Microsoft, etc. ).
ParaWeb is installed as an NT service.
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What do I have to do to deploy a ParaWeb™ server?
You first must make a decision whether you want to host the Web site
internally or have it hosted by an external organization such as an
Internet Service Provider (ISP). In general, ISPs are somewhat reluctant,
for security reasons, to allow customer or third party applications
to reside on their Web servers, so they must be willing to allow
ParaWeb to be installed. If you go with an ISP, it is simply
a matter of installing ParaWeb on the ISP's server(s) and
then installing your ParaWeb applications.
If you want to run your own server, you will require the following:
- Windows NT 4.0
- Web server
- Firewall (recommended )
- Internet connection
- Pentium system with at least 32MB ram, 4GB hard disk space
