Epicor Internet Component Environment 2.0

Epicor Software Corp., a company that provides enterprise business software solutions, unveils its Epicor Internet Component Environment (ICE) 2.0. Epicor ICE 2.0 is the company's next-generation service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution for building dynamic business applications. The product exploits the capabilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008.

Based on proven Web services technologies such as the Microsoft .NET Framework, Epicor ICE 2.0 delivers a truly adaptable SOA that will help businesses reduce costs, increase hardware utilization, optimize infrastructure and server availability, and drive user productivity. Epicor ICE 2.0 fuses Web 2.0 and enterprise SOA concepts to deliver an adaptable framework for creating dynamic applications delivered via rich user experiences. It provides a collaborative and dynamic enterprise application experience, offering new levels of flexibility, usability, and agility in support of application- to-application and business-to-business integration.

Epicor ICE 2.0 also includes on-premise, single-tenant hosted or multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment options. Epicor's technology allows users to personalize and modify application capabilities in a single environment and then deploy them simultaneously in a Windows smart client and/or Ajax-enabled browser to meet increasing demands for composite application development.

Other Web 2.0 innovations include virtualization (Microsoft Hyper-V Server), presence (Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007), and enterprise search and content management (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server).

Company: Epicor Software Corp.

Company URL: www.epicor.com