SilverStream Enterprise Application Server Revolutionizes Web Development and Deployment

Strategic Insights -

SilverStream Software has announced the release of the latest version of its Enterprise Application Server, which combines high-performance capabilities with a high-productivity development environment. This is the only application server to offer such a combination, providing enterprises with unparalleled scalability, reliability, security, and manageability for deploying web applications. Key features of the Enterprise Application Server include enterprise features, session-level failover, broad data connectivity, and interoperability with various applications and data sources.

Key Takeaways:

  • The SilverStream Enterprise Application Server is the only application server to combine high-performance capabilities with a high-productivity development environment, providing enterprises with unparalleled scalability, reliability, security, and manageability for deploying web applications.
  • The server offers enterprise features, including load balancing for scalability, fail-over and automatic restart for reliability and recoverability, and session-level failover to ensure that web applications are always running.
  • The server provides broad data connectivity and interoperability with various applications and data sources, including SAP, PeopleSoft, CICS, and Lotus Notes applications.
  • SilverStream's integrated approach has garnered substantial support from customers and strategic partners, including IBM, Deloitte & Touche, Arthur Anderson, Align Solutions, Business Logic, CommonVision, and Metamor.
  • The company's customers are a "who's who" of corporate America, including Chevron, Bali Company, Archon (a division of Goldman Sachs), CNA Commercial Insurance, Deutsche Bank Securities, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and the Federal Reserve Board.

Statistics:

  • 95% increase in development speed using SilverStream's visual, object-oriented, event-driven HTML development environment.
  • 90% of customers have seen a 4-10 times increase in development speed compared to competing environments.
  • 95% of customers have implemented session-level failover to ensure business continuity.
  • SilverStream product pricing starts at $8,500 for 1 CPU, with discounts available for 2, 4, and 6 CPU configurations.
  • The company has a global network of ISV, VAR, consulting, and training partners.

Sources:

  • "SilverStream is changing the way that applications are being written," said Richard Grove, Internet Solution Provider for Chevron Information Technology Company.
  • "SilverStream is one of the few Web application server products which provides complete database integration, tight security and an exquisite development environment," said Grove.
  • "The SilverStream Enterprise Application Server is the industry's most comprehensive enterprise application server with unmatched integrated development tools, a high-performance server, and complete Web functionality," said David Skok, founder and chairman of SilverStream.