1. CAPS™ overviews and goals

STRAKT™'s CAPS™ (Collaborative Approach to Problem Solving) product is a framework for workflow-intensive applications. CAPS™ eases development of applications to manage projects, resources, or relationships with suppliers, customers or employees. Another field in which CAPS™ enhances developer productivity are applications that help track and handle bugs or helpdesk-cases.

Application frameworks enable rapid development of custom applications. A framework, just like a library, supplies a substantial body of helpful code. A framework, in comparison to a library, enhances productivity by letting application programmers exploit the design and architectural expertise embodied in the framework's structure.

The CAPS™ framework emphasizes collaboration through the storage and sharing of information. CAPS™ functionality includes real-time updates and event handling. CAPS™ is also designed for flexibility, to integrate with other systems already deployed in the enterprise.

CAPS™ embodies principles of Library Science and Information Science, and also principles derived from experience in management and entrepreneurship. As a result, CAPS™ empowers and encourages "best of breed" approaches to collaboration in knowledge-intensive workplaces.

9. Conclusion

The CAPS™ framework employs a scalable and flexible layered architecture, based on solid and proven technologies, yet open to the addition of further new ones. This combination of factors makes CAPS™ a high-productivity platform on which to develop and deploy customized application programs, for internal use or for further resale. Consider CAPS™' advantages when you need to develop workflow-intensive applications. Applications that require extensive storage, retrieval and exchange of information, to coordinate and facilitate the collaboration of multiple knowledge-workers, will be particularly helped by CAPS™' unique strengths.