- Why Choose Nexus

Read the reasons why you should choose Nexus

• Benefits
• Incredibly Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Nexus Portal is backed by an Industry Leader
• Expect and Get World Class Support

Benefits

1. Configure multiple portal instances—Configure multiple portal instances 'sites' running on the same iSeries server, with a single copy of Nexus Portal software to provide different portal offerings for different business functions of your enterprise.
2. Manage and secure access—Nexus Portal provides secure, manageable access to enterprise information.
3. Readily accessible information—Make enterprise information more readily accessible via thin clients (browsers).
4. Minimize workload—Nexus Portal integrates easily with existing iSeries security features, to minimize portal administration workload.
5. Provide secure environment—Implements security at many points, including with web server extensions, thus providing a much more secure environment for managing enterprise information than otherwise.
6. Restrict or allow access to information—Nexus Portal allows you to easily restrict or open up different areas of your portal based on the login information.
7. Easily change look and feel—Nexus Portal allows you to change the entire look and feel of your site by modifying just the front-end pages.
8. No programming skills required—Easily add or remove links to pages, either at a global level or individual level, without any coding required - simply use the administration web interface to add, change or remove links.
9. Seamless integration with Catapult—Nexus Portal integrates seamlessly with Catapult, so iSeries spool files can be distributed and published automatically in Nexus Portal, making reports available via a simple web interface.
10. Find information fast—Nexus Portal provides comprehensive search facilities for documents, that can be customized within portlets.
11. Easily implement EIS—Nexus Portal allows easy implementation of Executive Information Systems (EIS) through the seamless integration with Catapult.
12. Seamless integration with WebSmart—Integrates seamlessly with existing WebSmart applications (uses the same Web Application Server component) or with any other web applications or pages.
13. Value add options—Nexus Portal comes with many value-add applications at no extra cost, including task management, web-based calendaring, news tickers and hierarchical menus.
14. Nexus is HIPAA compliant because it has security features that can limit access to specific documents or software applications by user or by groups of users. Security is implemented as an Apache Module, in addition to using standard iSeries - i5 user profile and object level security, making it an extremely secure solution. In addition, Nexus can optionally audit access to patient information that is published to the Nexus ECM. Access to the audit trails can be restricted to only those authorized users.

Incredibly Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Nexus is licensed per Server - there are NO LIMITS on the number of Nexus users, sites per server or administrators- NO additional hidden costs. Nexus runs on EXISTING iSeries operating system components - IT DOES NOT USE OR NEED expensive, resource-hogging middleware such as WebSphere Application Server.

Nexus Portal is backed by an Industry Leader

You can comfortably put your trust in BCD and our 15 years of experience in developing leading edge development tools, and our 25+ years as an industry leader. Thousands of customers have enjoyed great success with our technology, support and ongoing development efforts.

To date, we have successfully installed over 3,500 Web and iSeries development tools from the smallest to the largest organizations. We take the iSeries and Web Application seriously and provide the best Development technology and solutions available in the iSeries marketplace.

Expect and Get World Class Support

Our quality of support is ranked in the 98th percentile in customer satisfaction surveys. When you use BCD Development tools, you have a direct line to our support group to answer any questions, to offer advice and to take ownership of whatever issue you have until you are satisfied. We gladly include unlimited support calls when you are a BCD customer.

Live Web Demos, our unique web-based communications technology, provides a unique support service at no extra charge for our clients. It enables us to either view or work directly with your workstation in order to solve or diagnose problems, instruct you on product features, or provide advice for the most effective way to use our products.

We encourage our clients and prospects to call whenever we can be of help. We average closing 15,000+ support calls across our product line each year.We are here to support you.