Transform Your Passive Network into an Active Business Advantage.

Tabriz AgentWare for Your Web Site and Enterprise Networks.

If you're serious about gaining a competitive advantage through the Internet or maximizing the effectiveness of your corporate intranet, you can't afford to be passive. Take action against static networks with Tabriz AgentWare from General Magic. Powered by our innovative Telescript language, Tabriz AgentWare enables you to transform your passive networks into active resources that work hard for end users and for your business.

Let Agents Do the Grunt Work. Tabriz AgentWare allows Telescript "agents" or software processes to perform tasks proactively over the network. For example, Tabriz agents can mine Web sites for requested information, saving the user the drudgery of sorting through mountains of data manually; or they can be used on the corporate intranet to automatically move data between previously disparate, geographically isolated legacy systems and the client-server network.

The Advantage: Active, Persistent, Secure Agents. Tabriz AgentWare technology is truly unique in the industry because Tabriz agents are simultaneously active, persistent, and secure.

Active: Tabriz agents can travel anywhere on any type of network--interacting with other agents, gathering information, monitoring changes to that information, even automating transactions. And because Telescript is an object-oriented language, developers don't have to write low-level code to enable this unlimited mobility.

Persistent: With Tabriz AgentWare applications, your network can offer services continuously. Users can send a command and go on to do something else--fire and forget--because the user interaction is de-coupled from the task. If the network goes down, agents retain their instructions and the information they've located for the user--so when the network comes back up, they're right back on the job. Commerce continues. The search for information goes on. Automatically.

Secure: Equally important, Tabriz is inherently designed for security. Authentication, access control, privacy, and resource allocation features are built in, ensuring that each agent goes only where it is supposed to go and does only what it is supposed to do. Agents act only on the user's authority, and cannot be forged. At the same time, Tabriz enables users to quickly and easily specify permissions with fine granularity. For example, each employee's agents could be allowed access to his or her own file at Human Resources, while specified HR employees could be given access to multiple files, and agents from outside the company could be denied access completely.

Complements and Supports Java. Tabriz and Java are complementary. Tabriz agents can set parameters for Java applets, and Java applets can call Tabriz operations on the server. This interoperability allows developers to create solutions that leverage the power of the two languages: Java can be used to manage the user experience, while Tabriz AgentWare can manage transactions, instructions, events, and processes.

Active Technology for Active Imaginations. The applications for Tabriz AgentWare are as limitless as your imagination. Your development team can create Web applications that let users shop for the best airfare without searching through dozens of Web sites. Or continuously monitor their bank account balances without constantly logging onto the bank's server. Or match buyers and sellers without playing cyberspace phone tag.

And your corporate intranet can employ Tabriz AgentWare to automate tasks that previously required multiple steps and frequent user intervention. For example, you could use agents in your order entry system to automatically check inventory and update shipping. Or you could use agents to schedule meetings and automatically notify participants of the time and place.

It's All in One Box. Best of all, we've made it easy for developers to create these exciting next-generation applications quickly and efficiently. Tabriz includes a complete developer's tool suite with everything they need to create active, agent-based applications. Developers who write in C++ will be prepared to start developing active applications quickly. As they become experienced Telescript programmers, they'll be able to quickly create many more applications than they would developing similar applications with other languages.

Built for Bottom-Line Business Benefits. Tabriz AgentWare technology gets you past the era of passive networks. By making active, agent-based services available, your business can:

• Create a competitive advantage through distinctive customer service
• Raise the value of Web site content, because active agent applications offer higher productivity and convenience to end users
• Deploy secure distributed services on the enterprise intranet, enabling the company to better serve both internal and external customers
• Control resource allocation and consumption with greater precision through Tabriz access control mechanisms
• Take full advantage of a new paradigm in network computing

For businesses, these new capabilities translate into higher productivity for end users, enabling them to deploy applications that have a competitive edge that results in higher profitability.

Activate the Full Power of the Network.

Tabriz AgentWare unleashes the full potential of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and your corporate intranet. The product line includes the Telescript engine; all the components you need to host an application; management facilities to manage the server, subscribers, and applications; demo applications, and the Tabriz Agent Tools development environment.

Tabriz Features

Active agents
Tabriz agents provide unlimited mobility, enabling interactive processes.

• The Telescript language hides the complexity of creating active agents from developers.
  
• In a distributed application, the user's mobile agents move ("go") between cooperating Tabriz sites (each with its own engine).

Persistence

• Agents are implicitly "persistent"; all data is automatically saved in the object store, on disk.
  
• Agents mine cooperative Web sites for information even when the user is off-line.
  
• State is preserved from page to page while disconnected from the Web browser and on subsequent user logins. State is also preserved across multiple Tabriz servers and in system reboots or restarts.

Built-in security

• Authentication ensures that every agent acts only on the user's authority and has privileges only on authorized sites.
  
• Access control and privacy features ensure that agents have no direct access to system resources, and that access to any resource is always predefined and controllable.
  
• Fine-grained controls such as agent permits and authorities enable developers and operators to govern resource consumption and uniquely identify agents.

Multithreaded process interaction model

• Agents can "meet" and interact, performing transactions on behalf of individual users while the users are disconnected from the Web.

Support for standard browsers

• Applications can be accessed by any standard Web browser, including Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and others, so your company can access applications to virtually any client on the Internet or your corporate intranet.

Compatible with any HTTP server

• Tabriz AgentWare enhances the functions of standard Web servers that provide a CGI interface, including Netscape, NCSA, and Apache servers, so applications are supported by most Internet servers.

Multiple applications hosted per server

• A single Tabriz AgentWare server can host multiple active applications simultaneously, allowing you to deploy a wide range of end user services on the Internet or intranets.
  
• All hosted applications are listed in the Application Registry for easy identification.

Easy to use

• Tabriz AgentWare is easy to install, configure, and administer via an intuitive, graphical, browser-based user interface.

Intuitive, powerful administration and management

• Tabriz AgentWare provides comprehensive management facilities via a simple, easy-to-use browser interface.
  
• The management console makes it simple to install applications, manage user registrations, track subscriber activity, conduct system backups and restores, and monitor server traffic.
  
• Advanced server management capabilities provide powerful features for managing multiple applications and managing scalability.

Scalable

• Additional Telescript engines can be added to a Tabriz cloud on either the same physical host or over multiple machines to handle larger numbers of users and higher volumes of traffic.

Multiple notification options

• Agents mining the Web can notify the user when a request has been completed via e-mail and paging.
  
• Support for text-based Internet mail notification via SMTP is included, along with reference implementations for other notification means such as paging.

Object-oriented language with graphical development tools

• The language greatly simplifies the creation of active, persistent services over other languages such as C/C++ or Perl.
  
• The language and graphical development tools together provide an easy-to-use development environment for rapid application development, reducing development cycles.

Tabriz Web libraries
The developer's toolkit includes a full set of Web class libraries including:

• Tabriz AgentWare libraries, which enable access to Telescript from the Web
  
• HTML support libraries, which enable the representation of HTML pages as a collection of Telescript objects for programmatically generating and manipulating HTML
  
• Tabriz Web accessing libraries, which permit agents to make HTTP requests of other Web servers that are not hosting a Tabriz AgentWare server
  

System Requirements

1. One of the following systems:
   • Hewlett-Packard 700/800 series running HP UX version 9.04 or 9.05 with C 9.61 and C++ 3.50
     
   • Sun SPARCstation running Solaris 2.5 with C 2.0.1 and C++ 2.0.1
     
   • SGI IRIS Indigo running IRIX 5.3 with C 3.1.8 and C++ 3.2.1
     
2. A minimum of 32 MB RAM for Tabriz Agent Tools; a minimum of 64 MB RAM for Tabriz AgentWare.
3. 200 MB free disk space for full installation of both Tabriz Agent Tools and Tabriz AgentWare, 105 MB for minimum Tabriz AgentWare installation.
4. Perl version 5.0
5. Color X terminal or a black-and-white X terminal supporting 256 shades of gray.
6. For Tabriz Agent Tools, a text editor available to edit Telescript, C, and C++ source files and makefiles.
7. C and C++, if you will be developing external processes using Tabriz Agent Tools.

It's Time to Take Action.

Network services are about to take a dramatic step forward. You have a choice: transform your passive networks into active resources, or fall behind. We urge you to take a proactive step toward a more productive future. Pick up the phone and call us at 1-408-774-4043 for more information about Tabriz AgentWare. Or visit the General Magic Web site at http://www.genmagic.com.

Or better yet: have your agent call our agent.

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