SaaS Platform Architecture

Vecco’s CAF business applications platform with its service oriented, model-driven architecture powers the VCRP™ suite of business network solutions and offers the following key features:

  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Services are recursive, inter-accessible, scalable and support synchronous, asynchronous and time-scheduled access modes
  • All services are exposed as Web Services and accessible externally

In-Memory Data and Process

  • CAF works in memory in real-time with long term persistent data storage

Deployment by Configuration

  • No coding required — Applications are created rapidly by configuration using built-in tools Applications are quickly adapted to accommodate changing requirements with CAF’s Studio and
  • Network Configuration tools
  • Power users configure new processes and modify/maintain existing value chain flows without programs or scripts. CAF Tools have simple drag and drop built-in blocks, drop down menus and easy to use pre-defined actions with “mass change” capabilities

Business Object Based

  • Business objects are the primary data structures in the system, shielding the low-level relational data layer
  • The Business Object Modeler supports graphical definition and quick deployment of business objects
  • The Business Object Engine supports runtime dynamic mapping between the business object model and the underlying relational data model as well as data query and manipulation operations

Business Process Enabled

  • Business Process Framework allows for easy mapping between actual business processes and system-executable processes to speed implementation

Agent Powered

  • Agent Framework provides rapid generation and deployment of business logic and business integration using intelligent agents

Event Driven

  • Events and alerts are generated and propagated in real-time throughout the system
  •  Publish/Subscribe methodology enables efficient “push” of event-triggered actions by agents and users

Interoperable

  • Supports most standard communication protocols for integration (Web Services, HTTP, MOM, database, COM, CORBA, sockets, FTP, files, etc)
  • Graphical process editing and data mapping for rapid and low-cost integration

Highly Scalable & Reliable

  •  Stateless server architecture supports load balancing and on-demand scalability
  • Fully supports 24×7 availability, guaranteed delivery and fail-over throughout the system
  • Hot backup/Hot fail-over options

Internationalized

  • Full multi-language and multi-currency support
  • Absolutely no engineering changes required to add new languages

CAF and VCRP are multi-tenant SaaS Solutions

  • Vecco runs VCRP Solutions for clients in our secure US “DOD grade” secure datacenter
  • Vecco offers options to run single tenant instances of VCRP in a large client’s own datacenters at extra cost.
The Refrain is the Same: Can You See Me Now?

The Refrain is the Same: Can You See Me Now?

Every year there are several surveys asking supply chain executives to rank the challenges they face. And, for as long as I can remember, supply chain visibility ranks at or near the top. This year’s reincarnation of the control tower metaphor is being applied to supply chain visibility. Can you see me now? If it’s so critical, why haven’t we implemented it? —Rich Sherman, Supply Chain Discipline Expert at Trissential The supply chain landscape is composed of many different applications and systems often within an enterprise, let alone the inclusion of the customers and suppliers required to achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility. It’s a complex functional and technical network. There are many vendors addressing the issue; after all, in many ways it represents the Holy Grail. However, the problem is that for supply chain visibility to work, many systems from many vendors are going to have to interoperate. And, which company in the supply network is going to be the “mother ship”? Your customer and supplier base are composed of competitors to one another and you’re not their only trading partner. Like them, you have competitors that are their customers and suppliers. Aha! Perhaps this is the reason that for as long as we can remember, supply visibility is the most desired yet underserved solution in supply chain. That is not to take away from the number of vendors that are providing visibility to a limited subset of the supply chain. There are some solutions in transportation, electronic transaction exchange, procurement, intra-industry collaboration, and other functional capabilities that provide control-tower-like applications. Just no one seems to be addressing a company’s entire supply chain. Well, no one except Hewlett-Packard. In contract with Vecco International, H-P defined and developed a technology agnostic collaboration platform, primarily to incorporate their supplier base... read more

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