Stand-Alone or Networked: Same System

The COSS desktop applications that run on your desktop PC share many components with the COSS Web applications that run on your company's IT servers. From a development perspective, the desktop and Web applications are nearly the same. You can deploy COSS solutions as stand-alone desktop applications, install networked versions on your intranet, or install them on your extranet for full Internet access.

Shared components of COSS applications are customized for your unique products and services. The Business Rule component interprets Visual Basic code for the desktop application and generates JavaScript code for Web applications—changes to the user interface are automatically updated in both applications. This common-component approach saves you time and money and eliminates unnecessary duplication of efforts.

COSS calculation engines are also identical for both desktop and Web applications. Once you determine a calculation engine is working correctly on the desktop, there is no need to go through the same validation for Web applications.

Finally, COSS’s shared software components belong to tiers in a multi-tiered system that includes presentation, business logic and data tiers. Tier separation decouples the dependency between components in different tiers and allows deployment of Web applications on very complex server configurations.