Welcome to Afrous !! Afrous Platform is a brand-new mashup development platform for web applications.
What can I do on Afrous ?
Create Mashup Easily, For Everyone.
Before Afrous, it needs programming skills for users to develop a mashup application. Afrous Platform enables you to build web dashboard screens or custom mashup data sources by drag-n-drop user interface or wizard dialogs.
Reduce Initial and Runnning Cost of Mashup Application
Ordinally web application needs to preset database servers or application servers. It takes time and costs in initial phase, and administration load in running phase.
Afrous Platform is a mashup platform that is provided in SaaS style, so no software installation is needed, no server setup is required.
Ready for Enterprise Environment, Business Usage.
The concept of mashup is now not only in the consumer world but also in enterprise environment.
Afrous Platform has a feature which enables to integrate CSV/XML resources even on the local network, so it is worth to consider as a method to integate intranet information systems.
Features
Rich user interface using “Ajax”
Afrous utilizes “Ajax” technologies to achieve more comfortable usability than conventional and static web-based applications.
All drag and drop operation
Alignment of the mashup components or entire page layout can be changed by drag and drop mouse operation. Even if you are not knowing about programming very much, you can create dashboards very easily.
Plenty of widgets, beatuiful graph charts
There’re many reusable widgets (rectangular component elements located in the dashboard view) like grid table, graph charts, calendar, and so on.
Relating between widgets / dynamic update
Some widgets can include relations between the widgets - for example, when you click one of the widget content, other widgets are dynamically updated. It is very useful when you are like to drill-down or drill-through with some mashup-ed data.
Intranet support
In addition to public Internet web serivces like Google or Yahoo, Afrous Dashboard can mashup the information located inside of the intra-network. You can build easily enterprise start pages or business dashboard applications.
Overwhelming delivery speed
Introducing Afrous Dashboard is not so complicated. The only thing for web system administrator is to copy & paste simple HTML tags. No new infrastructures, no new software installation.
Browser Requirements
Followings are the list we checked. Other browsers may be OK, but not confirmed.
- Windows Internet Explorer 6, 7
- Windows/Mac Firefox 3.0
- Mac Safari 3.0
