Alero's approach to development is unique in the market place. By providing a function-rich set of integrated products that virtualizes the enterprise, Alero allows developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV's), and systems integrators (SI's) to shift a large percentage of the development emphasis from programming to configuration tasks. And by standardizing the approach to integration, you can now easily develop your own "Build once, sell many" integration modules, delivering consistent, easy-to-use, maintain and support integrated composite solutions in a fraction of the time and costs associated with traditional development and integration methodologies, while significantly reducing the risks associated with customized solutions.

With Alero, simple to complex development and integration projects can be accomplished without having to worry about many of the complex issues—such as communications, scalability, reliability, integration, fault tolerance, administration, operation, and matters of dependencies like operating systems, databases, vendors, and data types—that development projects must deal with. By taking care of these issues, Alero allows developers to concentrate on the logic of their solutions and core competencies.

Designed for development efficiencies without imposing proprietary technology or techniques, the Alero Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a complete set of programming interfaces that facilitate the creation, integration, and deployment of integrated composite solutions that can have an ECM, BPM ECI, or EII foundation. Unlike other products in the market, Alero lets you decide which programming interface best suits your skills, solution's architecture and/or preferences. Following are the programming interfaces supported by the Alero SDK's.

• Web Services set for Windows or Java development

• .NET Managed Code API set for C#, VB for .NET, etc. development

• Windows 32-bit API library set for C, C++, VB, ActiveX development

• Java API/JB/EJB set for Java development

• UNIX-C API library set for C development

In addition to providing application programming interfaces, the Alero SDK also includes a Java-based "Server SDK", which allows you to extend the Alero framework to meet your own market requirements. Developing and deploying your own customized adapters services, security modules, filters, etc. in an integrated solution are just days or weeks versus months or years away.

Finally, Alero also provides extensive user, administration, and operation facilities to simplify the initial configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Alero services; and a technical support team that is available for development, configuration, integration, and implementation assistance.

Through any of these programming interfaces, developers can develop complete new solutions or interface Alero services with their own existing applications in a fraction of the time required with more traditional solutions.

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