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Xenos Developer Studio
Xenos Developer Studio
Datasheet: Xenos Developer Studio
Xenos Developer Studio
Enterprise Output Management solutions reduce the costs associated with traditional printing while
facilitating better operational performance through improved access to information. Organizations look
to Actuate’s Xenos Group Enterprise Output Management solutions to aid them in providing their lines
of business and ultimately their customers with data and documents, presented in the format that is
most relevant to them and delivered in a way that is suitable for the channel they prefer.
Enterprise Output
Management solutions
reduce the costs associated
with traditional printing
while facilitating better
operational performance
through improved access to
information.
Xenos Developer Studio is a unique and powerful, wizard-driven graphical user interface with intuitive
drag-and-drop functionality that allows developers to easily configure and monitor every aspect of
Xenos Enterprise Server, Xenos Transformation Services for Documents, Xenos Transformation
Services for Data and ebXML Messaging Service.
This process flow, data translation and document transformation design tool for business users and
developers provides access to content stored in archives, documents and structured data and is used
to create rich information applications. Developers can define process flows to control the flow of
information linking various components and processes together including document transformation
and data translation projects. They can also perform a myriad of business logic functions on content
flowing through Xenos Enterprise Server.
Creating Enterprise Output Management Solutions
Xenos Enterprise Server is for organizations seeking to control the flow of content within their lines of
business and extend their information beyond the borders of the enterprise to provide their customers
with relevant information on a channel most convenient for them. Xenos Developer Studio helps
organizations easily create the business processes required to provide documents and real-time data
while monitoring the health and status of the entire platform.
In the past, other technologies have been available to perform Business Process Management (BPM),
document transformation and data translation-each requiring a separate user interface or the manual
editing of configuration files that had to be integrated with custom programming. These disparate
systems caused projects to be delayed, over budget or even worse - fail due to the application
complexity and training requirements. Consequently, IT and internal application development
departments continued to be inundated with requests for new process flows and custom connectors
to existing applications which results in huge backlogs and less time for work on strategic initiatives.
Xenos Developer Studio allows business and data analysts to implement the business logic they need
to provide their businesses with a robust and scalable application delivered on top of the Xenos
Enterprise Server.
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Key Features
Xenos Developer Studio is built on Java, meaning it can be installed on any operating system
supporting JRE 1.5 or higher with a GUI. This can include Windows and Linux environments.
The easy and intuitive drag-and-drop environment will enable users, with varying skill levels from
different areas of the business, to define, test and deploy projects unique to their business role.
Collaborating with other areas of the business is easy from within one development environment.
Some features of Xenos Developer Studio include:
Process Flow Definitions
Xenos Developer Studio includes a full featured Process Flow designer that allows process flows to be
easily constructed by dragging processes or components onto the pallet and connecting them
together. Developers can control the flow of content into the system as well as make logical decisions
based on the content that is being processed.
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Initiate a process flow from virtually anywhere using events to monitor for file drops,
ftp drops, email messages, socket connections or web services.
Drag and drop components onto the palette to process the data as you want without
having to make changes to existing processes.
Easily handle errors at a process or process flow level.
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Visually debug process flows.
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Xenos Developer Studio
includes a full featured
process flow designer
Create simple to complex
process flows through an intuitive
drag-and-drop interface.
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Print Stream Document Transformation Configuration
Xenos Developer Studio also features drag-and-drop print stream transformation project
configuration.
Simply drag one of the document format parsers, the various project flow components and a
document format generator onto the project flow window and configure them all through the built
in wizards.
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Xenos Developer Studio
features drag-and-drop
print stream transformation
configuration.
Visually define text and image
objects on the page with Xenos
Field Technology.
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Mine content directly from the page with Xenos Field Technology.
Define static and floating fields to ensure data can be captured wherever it
exists on the page.
Redact content, insert new content or images and move them around
on the page.
Define reading order and alternate text on images to create PDF documents that
are accessible for the visually impaired using assistive technology.
Use the fields extracted with Xenos Field Technology to write metadata to index
files for loading into Content Management Systems or archives.
Logically burst or split multi-document print streams into individual documents
as required.
Combine documents from multiple sources for manipulation and transformation.
Reduce file sizes by ensuring common resources are used once and only once.
Improve document appearance by changing fonts.
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Structured Data Translation and Mapping
Xenos Developer Studio’s structured data translation capabilities help organizations with their ETL and
application integration projects. Through the convenient drag-and-drop-interface, users can simply
drag source data elements to the target data element and implement a variety of out-of-the box
functions with the function editor.
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Xenos Developer Studio’s
structured data translation
capabilities help organizations
with their ETL and application
integration proejcts.
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Transform and translate data between many formats including: XML, CSV, EDI,
COBOL, databases, text formats and more.
Skip scripting; the drag-and-drop interface means it’s not required for mapping
elements or manipulating data.
Manipulate constructs as you see fit, from aggregating and sorting to filtering and
restructuring.
Manipulate data using over 100 built-in functions including database lookups, date
and string manipulation, mathematical functions and grouping functions.
Generate many of the popular formats in use today making integration with trading
partners and systems easier.
Translate and map structured data
from multiple sources and formats
and apply over 100 out-of-the-box
functions.
Components and Processes
Xenos Developer Studio
includes over 40 out-ofthe-box, configurable
components.
Xenos Developer Studio includes over 40 out-of-the box, configurable components that perform
content, time and variable-based routing, content manipulation, compression/decompression, file
splitting/merging, command line application execution and archive and ECM system loading /retrieving,
to name a few.
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Develop custom components easily with the Xenos Developer Studio Custom
Component Wizard.
Create events, processes and executable components for use within Xenos
Enterprise Server.
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Collaboration
Xenos Developer studio makes it easy to collaborate with team members on projects using the Xenos
ES Configuration Repository. Developers and business analysts can work on various aspects of
complex projects and check them into the configuration repository for use by others within their
business processes.
Xenos Developer Studio
makes it easy to collaborate
with team members
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Collaborate on multi-faceted
projects by checking in and
checking out project files and
components within solutions in the
Configuration Repository. Then,
promote the solutions from
Development to UAT to
production.
Collaborate with team members through the Configuration Repository.
Provide point-release versioning of all files within the Xenos Enterprise Server
ecosystem.
Schedule solution or project deployment.
Deploy changes to solutions within the entire cluster with a single action.
Transition between development, quality assurance, user acceptance testing and
production easily, without the need for custom scripting or costly downtime.
Export solutions and projects to a file system to easily conform to change
management policies.
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System and Job-level Monitoring
Monitoring the health of Xenos Enterprise Server instances either in a standalone configuration or
clustered is easy when connecting Xenos Developer Studio to one of the instances. Once
connected, you can view all key metrics such as average processing time, number of failed
Monitoring the health of Xenos
Enterprise Server instances is
easy using Xenos Developer
Studio
processes, the process flow utilization rate and more. The data behind these graphs and charts
can also be easily exported to CSV format for instant analysis in spreadsheet applications.
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All relevant job and server health
can be monitored through the
Xenos Developer Studio
Dashboard, providing real-time
views of Xenos Enterprise Server
implementations.
View how the server is running using the dashboard.
Remotely view server log files.
Start and stop services.
Monitor transactions throughout the day.
Determine the processing time of jobs across the cluster and identify
bottlenecks for past and current jobs.
Monitor Xenos Enterprise Server memory usage across servers.
Export job data to CSV format.
Schedule jobs to run at certain times to meet SLA requirements.
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Key Benefits
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System Requirements:
Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) or
Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)
JRE 1.5 or higher
Single CPU 1.5GHz
1GB of RAM
2GB of free hard drive space
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www.xenos.com
tel: 1 (888) 242-0692
email: [email protected]
Improves productivity by eliminating custom code and the time it takes to learn
products and parameters required for simple and complex projects.
» Manages all facets of building a process flow from receiving the files and
routing them to transforming them.
» Easily integrates with backend processes through a single user interface,
eliminating the need for custom scripting, configuration file editing and the
integration of multiple tools or applications.
» Reduces training and knowledge transfer time with a single graphical user
interface across all areas of business processing.
Allows developers to create print stream transformation projects without the
need for knowing the constructs behind the print stream.
Simplifies the process of extracting or mining content from the printed page.
» Lets developers create data mining rules and immediately see the results
through a WYSIWYG interface instead of manually editing configuration files.
» Provides real-time feedback of mined content without the need to run the
project and look at the generated results.
Enables easy set up and configuration of new document transformation projects
through intuitive wizards without deep knowledge of the print stream format.
Reduces the time required to transform and translate data with a drag-and-drop
environment.
» Ingests data in virtually any format.
» Allows developers to change the constructs, from aggregating and sorting to
filtering and restructuring.
» Manipulates the data using over 100 built-in functions including database
lookups, date and string manipulation, mathematical functions and grouping
functions.
» Generates many of the popular formats in use today for integration with
trading partners and systems.
Simplifies the project lifecycle management process.
» Allows collaboration with coworkers in other business units without the use
of third-party tools.
» Provides versioned project files and resources, ensuring an audit trail is kept
for all changes.
» Promotes solutions through development, UAT and production without the
need to bundle, compress and move individual files from server to server.
Features an easy-to-use interface to monitor virtually every facet of local and
remote instances of Xenos Enterprise Server, ensuring seamless operations in
lights-out environments. It also eliminates the need to scrape log files from
multiple servers or nodes in a cluster while providing easy views of system
health through the dashboard visualizations, allowing system administrators to
remotely view log files and perform job analysis from within Xenos Developer
Studio.
Increases ROI by allowing developers to quickly implement new projects and
functionality and easily make changes to adapt to changing business
requirements.
UK & Europe North
tel: +44 (0) 207 246 4700
www.xenos.com/xe/europe
France & Europe South
tel: +33 1 47 14 00 96
www.xenos.com/xe/france
Germany
tel: +49 (0) 69 669025-13
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