Corizon: Leveraging User Interface Services for Rapid Application Creation
ZapThink frequently speaks about Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs), which ZapThink defines as compositions of Services that implement business processes. While the common context for discussions of SOBAs is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), from the user’s perspective, in many ways the application is the user interface (UI). As a result, achieving the user empowerment promise of SOBAs depends in large part on supporting flexible UI creation and enhancement.
There are many tools on the market now that facilitate the creation of user interfaces for SOBAs, but one company, Corizon, stands alone with its UI Services approach. UI Services are an abstracted representation of an element of UI functionality that users can compose into applications. By building and supporting UI Services, Corizon focuses on where the business user lives–at the user interface. Corizon addresses the challenge of enabling IT and lines of business to work together by supporting iterative development and incremental innovation at the UI by leveraging UI Services in a Service-oriented manner.