| Company Profile |
Prism Technologies Limited is a
software development company based in the north of
England employing 30 people and is recognised as a world
leader in the application of advanced software
technologies, particularly object-orientation, to produce
IT solutions for manufacturing industry. Prism has major
industrial clients in oil exploration and production,
automotive, aerospace, chemical, pharmaceutical, and
refining, both in Europe and in the USA. Prism has
particular expertise in the development of IT strategies,
migration plans and software products to take full
advantage of emerging computing technologies, whilst
still protecting past investments.
Prism Technologies Limited has recently been
named an ITEA'95 (IT European Awards) Winner and received
the award at the European IT Conference in Brussels in
member. This award perhaps best exemplifies the success
of Prism in previous collaborative development projects
in turning good ideas into successful products. The
ITEA'95 award was specifically for "OpenBase",
Prism's software integration platform, which plays a
central role in the OBOE project.
Prism's product OpenBase is the first
open object platform for framework-based distributed
applications. An object platform (or software integration
platform), provides an industry-standard software
environment for building and running complex distributed
applications assembled from frameworks of software
components. Users of object platforms benefit from:
higher productivity, lower integration and maintenance
costs, freedom from ties to proprietary architectures
(best-of-breed choice), infrastructure and application
flexibility, code re-use (as framework libraries appear
in different domains), and standards compliance. OpenBase
consists of a distributed object platform, tools to build
and manipulate software components, and frameworks
(object libraries) of compatible functional components.
Despite its innovative nature, OpenBase has been designed
from first principles to meet industry standards:
OMG/CORBA, OSF/DCE, IEEE/POSIX, and OSF/Motif are
incorporated as base computing standards. Information
modelling is supported via ISO/STEP and EXPRESS. Emerging
industry integration platform standards are supported
such as POSC (oil exploration and production) and AIT
(automotive and aerospace).
Prism Technologies is a SME and a
member of POSC and the OMG. Prism has close ties to
several ESPRIT User Reference Groups including AIT,
URGENT, PRIMA, and ELSEWISE and has been involved in
several collaborative development projects. Prism's core
competencies include object oriented development,
distributed object systems and the implementation of the
POSC and OMG standards.
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