According to usability research firm Nielsen Norman Group, "Billions of dollars are wasted every year in lost productivity as people wait for Web pages to perform duties that could have been handled better by a 1984 Macintosh-style graphical user interface application." The Droplets platform allows for highly functional, real-time applications that boost productivity across your enterprise.

Native presentation
The Droplets platform interacts intelligently with whatever devices your end users choose, and presents each user the appropriate, native UI for that device. A UNIX user interacts with a familiar interface and command library, as does a Mac user, Windows user, and so on. The cost benefit? Less time spent "learning" an application, and better integration into the user's daily workflow.

Component-based interface
Unlike the document look and feel of paged-based Web applications, the Droplets platform features components (buttons, drop downs, data fields, etc.) and windows that are manipulated and respond individually to user interaction. No more submitting and receiving entirely refreshed Web pages, or navigating browser-confined form fields.

Real-time data
The Droplets User Interface Server can initiate server-side messages and updates, and responds to individual user-driven requests in real time. By providing asynchronous updates, Droplets cuts out the waiting time and delays to move you from up-to-the minute, to up-to-the-second.

Actionable alerts
Individuals can be notified of specific events, such as the receipt of a message, a change in inventory status, or the posting of a new high bid, even when their application is closed. The Dripline™ real time alerting technology can present these updates as audio alerts, as an icon in the system tray or stand-alone pop-up window, and can be used to launch the application to guide the user to the desired information or action.

Restorable session states
Maintaining a UI state for an application can help save time for users who may need to leave their application midway through a work item, and then need to log back in, even from a different computer. The user's session state is remembered on the server. When the user returns, the interface is restored to the state where they left, with windows open, and data fields in whatever state of completion they were in when work was last done. Users regain connectivity, log in, and proceed right where they left off, which is especially helpful when unpredictable remote connections are dropped or devices lose power.

Benefits of Droplets functionality include:

• Component-based rather than page-based
  
  
• Enables asynchronous communications, even behind proxy servers and firewalls
  
  
• Real-time alerts independent of applications being opened
  
  
• Maintained session states between log-ins or lost connectivity
  
  

To see Droplets applications in action, visit our Case Studies page.

To try out our product, download an evaluation copy of the Droplets UI Server and SDK at http://www.droplets.com/sdk.

For technical support using our product, please visit our Developer Zone, where you will find access to on-line documentation, tutorials, FAQs, and our live Developer Forums.

To license our product, please visit our Licensing Page.