Corasworks News & Articles

CorasWorks (news, site) has joined the growing number of vendors building social business solutions on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Perfect for the small- to mid-sized business, CIM 2.0 offers a well rounded suite of tools for innovation management.

SharePoint news from the big players has bloomed since the launch of Microsoft's (news, site) 2010 version. But what of the smaller devs offering those practical point solutions that could be so useful? Let's take a look.

CorasWorks (news, site) gets deep into the mobile solutions market with the release of a number of mobile apps for SharePoint.

CorasWorks (news, site) offers solutions to help you develop SharePoint based applications quicker. A recent example of this was the new AppEngine that supports the ability to download and install plug and play applications into the SharePoint environment.

There are a number of CorasWork partners that will take advantage of this AppEngine and other solutions. And CorasWorks wants to make this partnership better so that partners can quickly develop SharePoint applications based on their solutions.

A win win for everyone right? So what enhancements are CorasWorks offering their partners?

New Product Packages and Pricing Structures: The AppEngine now lists for US$ 4,000 for the first server, both CorasWorks Workplace Suite and the Data Integration Toolset list for US$ 10,000. In addition, you can bundled Workplace and the Data Integration Toolset for US$15,000 for a server license. These new pricing structures are for a certain size client, so be sure to check the details there.

New Offering for Application Publishers: A new program for application providers to enable them to build, publish and distribute solutions that include CorasWorks products. This includes the new AppStore where you can purchase add-on solutions for SharePoint.

CorasWorks see the value of its partners which include Value-Added Resellers, Service Providers, OEM Partners, Technology Partners, Training Partners and Application Publisher Partners. Obviously making partners lives easier and more cost friendly goes a long way towards keep CorasWorks profitable.

Get all the details on the revamped Partner Program on their website.

Microsoft SharePoint is very much an application development platform. It enables the design and development of solutions that both leverage and extend its functionality. And a lot of vendors offer solutions that run on SharePoint.

CorasWorks is one of these vendors, offering a number of solutions for SharePoint, including its Modular Application Development System. Their development system provides an easier way to development custom solutions for SharePoint -- without the need to write a lot of code.

Now they make it even easier to install custom solutions on SharePoint with the release of the AppEngine for SharePoint. The AppEngine enables you to download and install plug and play custom applications into the SharePoint environment.

Just yesterday, some major enterprise content management industry heavy weights — Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle and SAP, announced the first ever Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft enabling interoperability across content repositories. By creating a common API, companies can develop write-once, run-anywhere, content and social applications.

As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who can peruse and explore the draft specification. In addition, Alfresco also announced the first CMIS implementation with the latest release of Alfresco Labs 3.

In a recent overview of Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) we outlined the six core elements of MOSS that would catalyze change, both within the content management and the business intelligence arenas.

Seeking to be among the first to jump-start their SharePoint 2007 business is Virginia-based CorasWorks. They’ve just released an enterprise program management application, CorasWorks rPrograms, specifically for the SharePoint platform.