IBM TRIRIGA Application Builder

Intuitive, standards-based development technology

• Delivers a single, self-contained environment to build, configure and deploy IBM TRIRIGA applications.
• Provides intuitive web-based graphical designers to configure, extend and add new application functionality without advanced programming knowledge or technical resources.
• Modifies applications when business needs change and preserves changes made to custom applications during upgrades.
• Adapts applications to work in different countries and languages using multi-language support.
• Takes advantage of n-tiered architecture and performance benchmarks to help achieve enterprise-class scalability.

Prebuilt programming elements

• Provide predefined web portal designs, business objects and reports to help reduce time spent on application development.
• Work with a graphical interface to create and modify applications without changing source code.
• Configure web portals, data definitions, user interfaces, reports and workflows using the same IBM TRIRIGA environment used to perform daily work.

Interoperability features

• Provide Java and XML/SOAP-based integration to streamline security-rich data exchanges with critical enterprise systems to help extend the value of IBM TRIRIGA applications.
• Enable business-logic access by external systems through current web services standards and protocols.
• Take advantage of a high-performance workflow process engine that supports faster integration with critical business systems.
• Export metadata from an application to an XML file for importing to another platform.
• Provide a prebuilt software connector for integration with offline forms created in Microsoft Excel.

A data modeling tool

• Creates and modifies field definitions to configure individual pieces of data.
• Builds and updates customer-defined business objects to store sets of fields.
• Defines associations between business objects to form data relationships.
• Organizes business objects into one module for processing.
• Provides security features to control which users can access and work with specified types of data and workflows.

Configurable user interfaces

• Define and manage forms with the IBM TRIRIGA Application Builder using a tabbed interface for creating, viewing and editing the content of records.
• Create workflows to identify a sequence of tasks to perform automatically.
• Provide a Navigation Builder to create, maintain and organize navigational elements in menus and interfaces.
• Work with a portal builder to create and manage the visual arrangement of data and navigational elements in a web portal.