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Okamura

Okamura Corporation manufactures and markets office furniture and public interiors (seating and equipment for theaters, stadiums, hotels and other large public facilities), and is also a global leader in material handling, industrial storage systems and store display equipment. With a strong presence across all these various industries and markets, Okamura maintains an enormous inventory of product offerings, and likewise serves a customer base that is both very large and highly diverse. Given the depth and breadth of its business, Okamura faced challenges generating estimates and price quotes for customers.

Why Curl?

For many years Okamura executives and staff relied on a dedicated client/server application to generate quotes. This application sourced product data from the company's mainframe servers, and used a client-side application to process the data. There were performance problems with this system due to its inability to handle enormous datasets as Okamura's business grew, which got worse over time.

Then in the early days of Internet rich client applications, Okamura decision-makers saw a possible solution to their quote-generation problems, and attempted to adopt a Java applet as a unified interface for its estimating and sales quote activities. The applet took a long time to launch, response was slow, and there were many performance issues. The team decided to evaluate the rich Internet client technologies on the market, one of which was Curl. The Okamura team realized that the Curl rich Internet application environment could indeed provide a development environment for a powerful new kind of client-server web application. Okamura launched its first Curl-powered grid computing web application, and began shifting all its estimation and sales quote operations to the Curl platform shortly thereafter. The results were astoundingly positive.

The Curl Solution:

• Provides Excel-level grid function and a familiar user interface - in a Web-based application
• Enables smooth development and version-up capabilities
• Lowers TCO through reduced development requirements, component reuse and flexible pricing
• Reduces server-side load
• Shortens maintenance times

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