Stardraw Bows Web-Enabled Technology

Software provider Stardraw has chosen InfoComm 02 to unveil a new suite of design applications. While they follow the principles of the developer’s established product range, Stardraw AV, Stardraw Audio, Stardraw Lighting 2D etc, the new applications are fully web-enabled and users simply hit a web page to use the software within their Internet browser.

Stardraw MD David Snipp explains “Our conventional applications have established the sorts of tools that integrators find easy to use and valuable for system design and documentation. The web-enabled applications have been written from the ground up to provide comparable functionality, but they are designed to run within a web page. This is brand new technology and Stardraw is, as far as we know, the first company anywhere in the world to offer full CAD capability via the web. It's a significant development and we're very excited about it.”

Where conventional software is shipped on CD and installed, Stardraw’s web-enabled applications are delivered through HTML pages, using tools which download themselves as and when they are needed. This means that all of the functionality, for instance Cut, Copy, Paste commands or drawing lines, is executed on the client side for speed, and symbols libraries, pricing etc are stored in databases on the server. An advantage of the client/server split is that even if your internet connection is broken, you can still continue to work and save your files locally.

Snipp continued, “We are showing these new applications to manufacturers and other corporate clients who are looking for flexible, scalable, custom software solutions. The beauty of a centralised, web-delivered application is that it’s very easy to maintain and update, and it can link to realtime data like pricing, stock levels and special offers. Our first custom web-based application, PanelBuilder, which went live on the RCI Custom website last month has already been a huge hit.”

Samples of custom web-based applications can be seen and used at www.stardraw.com

Notes to Editor

Since 1995 Stardraw.com has been a leading provider of software solutions to the entertainment technology sector, offering a range of award-winning system design, documentation and control applications as well as providing OEM software solutions for corporate customers. With offices in London and New York, regional partners and an installed customer base of almost 30,000 users spanning 82 countries, Stardraw.com is focussed on serving the international marketplace, and delivers leading-edge solutions that exploit the very latest in software technologies.

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