Cogent rPrograms Certification

Dallas, TX. February 20, 2007. Cogent completed the CorasWorks rApplications Certification process and becomes the first CorasWorks partner to become certified to develop and deliver CorasWorks rProgram solutions. CorasWorks® rApplications™ are packaged business applications that are designed, built, documented, and supported by CorasWorks. Leveraging its extensive market experience and technology expertise, CorasWorks is building rApplications to build these applications to address a variety of business functions, activities, and processes. 

Recognizing Speed to Value

Cogent has been a CorasWorks partner, trained to implement CorasWorks Suite to accelerate the speed it takes to deliver SharePoint-based solutions for its clients. rApplications builds on that same value proposition to bring specific functional automation to businesses in a fraction of the time it would take to build in SharePoint. "The short of it is this: we can deliver real functionality to our clients using SharePoint in a ridiculously short time," said Marc Hoppers, Cogent Partner. "The rApplication that we're currently working with is rPrograms, a Project Management application. If an organization is willing to adopt the project management models that rPrograms brings with it, it's a fantastic way to get a solution up and running very quickly and leverage the SharePoint platform investment in new ways." In addition to rPrograms, Cogent is also developing its own rApplications. "We're working on building our own rApplications for CorasWorks to offer to their community," said Ty Anderson, Cogent Partner.

The Emerging Workplace — The Next Step in the Evolution of Collaboration

Collaboration has long been associated with the simple process of information sharing. But imagine a workplace environment where your employees, customers and partners can share information within the context of your business — an environment where your customized business applications and business processes (“how you work”) are integrated with your data and information (“what you work on”). This new Integrated Workplace delivers:

• Greater visibility across previously disparate information sources, regardless of location

• Increased responsiveness through accessibility across multiple application

• Streamlined business processes with automation that drives business functions

CorasWorks provides software and pre-built solutions that enable organizations to quickly, easily and cost-effectively create web-based integrated business workplaces on Microsoft SharePoint. CorasWorks software is modular and fully documented, and makes it fast, easy and cost effective to deliver real business value on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Hundreds of thousands of users around the world have found that CorasWorks Workplace Suite provides what they need to create and deploy powerful business solutions on Microsoft SharePoint.

CorasWorks first release of rApplications includes the rPrograms application. rPrograms is a tool using the rApplications' framework for enterprise-wide program management, an integrated “system” of project sites, dashboards, and automated business processes. rPrograms allows you to:

• Associate projects from across the organization with a larger project, program, or initiative

• Track, monitor, and manage those associated projects as a “whole” from a central location

• Provide an element of structure and control over the larger project, program, or initiative