SEF Technology™ is an innovative patent pending software development platform. It positions Smart Technologies Group (STG) ahead of all other software development houses whereby our platform allows us to produce the fastest Rapid Application Development (RAD) throughout the entire IT industry. SEF Technology can be used to build the simplest of applications to the most sophisticated multi-site enterprise solutions through to web based applications.

SEF Technology strengths for our Customers

Ø       By using our solutions you will gain the ability to develop and integrate new Enterprise Wide application solutions which utilize SQL Server 2005.

Ø       Our SEF Technology allows us to easily and quickly design, build and deploy applications at ½ the price and ½ the time.

Ø       SEF built applications are easily integrated with legacy systems.

Ø       We can cut your time to market in half, accelerating your projects, allowing you more time to focus on business growth and expansion.

Ø       We will reduce your cost base by 50 percent.

Ø       Your data integrity and data security is ensured as well as your database performance.

Ø       Both online and offline capabilities.

Ø       Ease of integration of smart card and biometric solutions.

Ø       Ease to edit and update any deployed application or solutions without downtime or disruption to users.

Ø       Low risk purchasing decision for IT Managers with our systems. We are so confident we can provide your new or integrated solution at 1/2 price and in 1/2 the time we only ask for a 20% deposit once terms have been agreed upon. After the system has been delivered, if it does not meet all the criteria originally set out, we will not ask you to pay a penny more.

Ø       By using our Solution you will gain a strategic advantage over your competition that will allow you to modify your system on-the-fly as your requirements change with no inconvenience to you, your users, or your customers.

SEF Technology

Seamless simplicity and SPEED allows you more time to focus on business functionality rather than technology.

Why SEF Technology

WHAT IS SEF?

SEF is our exciting and dynamic software solution that offers our clients custom application development without the need to write code. Plus the ability to integrate SEF built enterprise application solutions with legacy systems with speed, resilience and ease while insuring data integrity and data security.

WHY SEF?

SEF is a software solution that provides you with Rapid Application Development (RAD) and rapid integration of legacy databases that accelerates your time to market by at least 50 percent without any loss of performance.

SEF is used with Microsoft SQL 2005 Server as our database server of choice because it is fast and reliable and is a known standard in the industry. You can be confident that you have a system that is easy to upgrade and maintain with a long future life ahead.

SEF Technology Product Solutions

Standalone or Enterprise Application Solutions – FAST!

Ø      SEFApp™

End-to-end customer application solution built on SQL Server 2005 database platform

STG has the fastest Rapid Application Development (RAD) cycle in the industry utilizing its patent pending software development platform – SEF Technology. Our development platform is based on industry standard technologies, so customers are assured what we deliver is scalable and easily integrated with other IT technologies.

Middleware Solutions – FAST!

Ø      SEFGlu™

Integration server that allows SEF built systems to seamlessly communicate with any ODBC compliant database

SEF Technology has industry standard database commands, so a SEF built application is easily integrated with legacy systems. All integrated application solutions maintain our high-level data encryption, so data security is maintained at both the application user and support levels.

Versatile Web Development – FAST!

Ø      SEFWeb™

Web-based application development platform

SEF Technology allows us to quickly develop web-based applications. Post deployment SEF built web applications are quickly and seamlessly maintained and upgraded on-the-fly.

SEF Technology Features

SEF Technology not only automates the development of applications it also automates the design and deployment of applications. This leads to substantial cost savings so valuable customer resources are freed up to focus on mission critical corporate functions.

SEF Technology automates all the building blocks in the development cycle of software development.

• Design
• Development
• Deployment

Some Key System Features

v      Easy to use development tools

v      High level of data encryption

v      Secure SEF App Server

Ø       Application User and Tech Support access is controlled through sophisticated SEF access control systems.

v      Fail-safe App Runtime

v      Complete App Customization and Extensibility On-the-Fly with no downtime for users

Ø       This is a major benefit to companies because as their business needs change it requires more capabilities from their software product.

WHY CHOOSE STG TO DEVELOP YOUR APPLICATION SOLUTIONS?

Q.  WHY DON’T I buy a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio to write my own application and SQL Server 2005 and develop my own database?

A.  If you want to fund and manage your own development team you can do that, however, any serious business solution will require at least 5 people, a database expert, an application expert, a security expert, a network developer, an assistant programmer and of course project management. That hasn’t even taken into account Q & A, a system architect and a solution architect.

“WE ARE BUILDING APPS

WITHOUT WRITING CODE!”

Then you start building an application by writing code, which will take you much, much longer time than it will take us to provide your solution and that is assuming you are as efficient as we are. Statistics support that less than 50% of software development is not delivered at all to the end user, mostly due to misinterpretations between requirements and delivery resulting in unnecessary project run on.

On top of that you still won’t have the security features that are already integrated into our technology. Our security features use BLOWFISH at the data level and SSL at the network level. 

You probably won’t have the biometric and smart card features, which are also integrated into our solution.

Q.  How can you do this so much faster?

“THE SECRET IS -

THE CODE HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN!”

A.  Our integrated product suite allows us to go from design to deployment with no code written because our technology has already integrated not only the features, but also the methodology to provide your enterprise solution from end-to-end.

You will have to deal with the translation between customer expectation and delivery. This gap is often widened by the misunderstanding between developers and business operations and it is no surprise since they both come from different planes of thought.

Our solution offers a methodology that doesn’t require developers to write code because all the development has already been done allowing us to focus all our energy on designing and implementing the business solution.

Q.  How can you integrate with my legacy databases?

A. Because of SEF Technology’s tried and tested revolutionary method of communicating with other systems it will integrate with ease.

Q.  How easy is it to make amendments and upgrades once the system is deployed?

A. Inherent in our system is complete customer configurability plus seamless extensibility on-the-fly resulting in easy upgrades with no down time to users. To put it simply, you could leave the office in the evening and in the morning return to your new features.

OUR PLATINUM LEVEL SUPPORT CONTRACT INCLUDES ALL UPGRADES FOR YOUR SYSTEM WHAT EVER THEY MAY BE - WITH OUR NO DOWNTIME GUARANTEE.

Q.  How will my users adapt to new features and upgrades?

A.  Our technology solution has a consistent look and feel throughout the applications it creates, so new features and upgrades are easily understood by users.

Q.  Are your data backup’s auto generated?

A.  Our technology auto backs up existing databases for ad hoc reporting and you can actually control how often your backups are done... People love that because most organizations prefer to use known reporting tools like Crystal Reports or SQL Reporting Services. SEF Technology backup access feature is both user defined and access controlled, solving all privacy issues.

Q.  So how fast are you?

“WE PROVIDE THE FASTEST RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

(RAD)

IN THE ENTIRE IT INDUSTRY!!!”

A.  We can build a complete system end-to-end in less than ½ the time anyone else in the industry can provide that same end to end solution.

ADVANTAGES IN SUMMARY

SEF Technology not only automates the development of applications it also automates the design and deployment of applications. This leads to substantial cost savings as valuable customer resources are freed up to focus on mission critical corporate functions.

If YOU are serious about saving money and time and…

Gaining an enterprise wide solution that gives you total interoperability and

upgradeability on-the-fly