What to look for in an Enterprise Communications Platform

The Thunderhead NOW enterprise communications platform was engineered for the enterprise. What this means is that, unlike many traditional document automation or generation solutions, the NOW platform was specifically architected to meet the needs of today's modern enterprise IT environments.

• Open, Standards-Based Architecture - Thunderhead NOW is a native XML application developed entirely on open standards. Our XML architecture underpins every aspect of the NOW platform's design and production environments, with multi-channel composition and rendering enabled through NOW's native XSLT and XSL-FO core. Our commitment to open standards means that Thunderhead NOW truly is a future-proof software solution. Thunderhead NOW is not based on proprietary technology and simply does not present the same risks of obsolescence as other, non-standards-based systems.
• Scalability and High Availability - Thunderhead NOW takes full advantage of its modern, Java Enterprise architecture to deliver the robust scalability and high availability that our customers demand from their full production solutions.
• Integration - You can be confident that Thunderhead NOW will integrate easily with your existing applications - it was built to do just that. Our commitment to open standards and XML means it will fit easily with your existing systems. Thunderhead NOW will work with all the market-leading ECM (Enterprise Content Management) and BPM (Business Process Management) solution, and can be adapted easily, and will grow with your organization.
• Improving Time-to-Value - At Thunderhead, we are very conscious of the implicit service costs that usually accompany software purchases. Unlike many other software solutions, we developed our solution to install easily, deploy rapidly, and deliver significant value out-of-the-box. Most of our customers also find that they can deploy their first Thunderhead communications within weeks of their purchase. Further, our customers find that their business users can be trained and working with the software in just days.
• Sharing content - easily across your organization will save you time, reduce your costs and ensure common standards. The NOW Object Repository allows content to be saved, archived and shared for increased efficiency and control. If the idea of sharing content brings up security issues, don't worry. Thunderhead NOW gives you security across your templates, content and data. Only those individuals with the right levels of access can make changes, preventing costly errors.