Blansh
Technologies
Targeted applications:
Broadband Network System Management
Retail Chain and Warehouse System Management
Manufacturing System Management
Completeness of design and life cycle
List of tasks we have done for your project
FAQ
Partnership opportunity - marketing
Intranet-based Management System Framework documentation (these pages require log-in authorization from Blansh Technologies):
GUI Managed Elements Status Tree
Broadband Network Control Reference Implementation
Broadband Network Control : Modem Simulator
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the stages of your participation and where to start?
At what stage of the development your company can be involved?
What allows you to promise so short a life cycle and low expenses to develop such large system?
Can we use our server platform to install Blansh Server on it?
Do you provide parts of your Blansh Server code to the interested parties?
Do you sell your Reference Implementation server code as off-shelf toolkit?
What is a current status of your Management System Reference Implementation?
Can our company's proprietary hardware which has embedded computer be managed by your system?
Is it guaranteed that you always accept offer to build a management system for interested party?
1.Who can benefit from your Intranet Management System ?
General case : a company which has proprietary hardware (appliances, network elements, medical equipment, surveillance equipment, etc.) needs a persistent management system with remote control.
Some special cases we can integrate with our architecture:
1.Legacy system is available which includes managed elements and database.
2.Multiple databases must be integrated with unified access from GUI
3.Old legacy system got out of control since the vendor/developer is no longer supporting product. Needs a replacement with something simple to manage and maintain.
Application Areas : DSL and Cable Modem broadband, warehouse management, manufacturing plant, surveillance equipment, medical, etc.
2.Why should we choose you ?
Why not ? Seriously, we challenge you to consider the following when choosing a company to deliver Intranet Management System for you:
Many companies claim to deliver a complete or total solution. Ask them the following: Do you provide Web front end, back end interface with proprietary equipment, RDBS, persistent data modeling for the data records of the legacy system and everything in between ? Include custom case scenarios driven from both front end GUI operations and from the back end proprietary equipment.
Did you get estimates from well established reliable companies to deliver such system before you contacted us? We recommend you to do so.
Does a company you contacted offered a free preliminary technical evaluation and free initial architecture design based on their available Reference Implementation ? Did they show you a running demo of their system (potentially similar to your system) ?
And then, again, why not? :=))
3.What are the stages of your participation and where to start ?
Start from contacting our marketing . If you need more information than our opened to the public web site offers, after introducing your business credentials, acquire a password to log into our protected home web site. Learn more.
If our system is what you need, set up an appointment with our representative to show you a demo of the system, to learn your needs and your managed elements and resources and let us see if and how we can build/upgrade your enterprise.
We will make an initial technical requirements for you as well as a draft of architecture.
We provide an estimate along with preliminary schedule of work stages including deployment, trial and payments.
Development and deployment.
Dependent on the size and complexity of the system we maintain running system for some minimum time (estimated in the schedule) to get time for the maintaining personnel to get knowledge of the system.
4.At what stage of the development your company can be involved?
We prefer the very beginning stage whenever the need arose. If somebody's development is half way through and then stalls, if we can't apply your <not complete> architecture to ours, we might only recommend you to start all over.
5.What allows you to promise so short a life cycle and low expenses to develop such large system?
It is the following:
Completeness of design. We don't start coding until we can see it through to the deployment and testing. No surprises allowed.
Usually we eliminate any 3rd party vendors to provide some parts of the system. Such approach simplifies the system and makes it homogeneous and simplifies integration. Typical exceptions are made for the development tools we use and network equipment which bridges your non-IP networks with IP based network.
Most of the system comprises of our Blansh Server code modules which are already developed and tested. Most modules are simply reused and those which should be coded, developed from the existing templates.
6.How trusted is your company ?
Who can be trusted nowadays ? After the last federal court proceedings with the biggest name in the software industry... OK, now really seriously.
We believe that trust must not be based on the name but rather developed and maintained by the way how the project is conducted. Schedule of the development and deliveries should guarantee that customer can see and has valuable result from the previous phase before he commits to the next. There should not be a situation ( as we see often in this industry) that customer continues pouring investments into the project which did not show any interim workable results. How can we show results while in the middle of the development? This is why we base our design on our modular architecture, therefore always having working modules to interface with newly developed modules.
7.Why did you choose JAVA ?
The simplest way to run a project is to have all pieces written in the same language. Especially when this language also has embedded ways for communications with other homogeneous parts. And who knows another language which makes it simple to build everything from front end Web GUI screens to the multi-threading, interfacing with database, with legacy systems and sending E-Mails? Although most of our experience in the past based on C/C++ , but nowadays we don't assume that customers will continue to have unlimited cash reserves to pay to the developer for non-stop cleaning the bugs related to the memory leaks...
8.Can we use our server platform to install Blansh Server on it?
Yes. As our code is in pure JAVA, it is inherently cross-platform. To guarantee this fact we don't use Microsoft tools for development. Though, if other than our Blansh Server platform is used, you take responsibility to administer it during installation.
9.Do you comply with SNMP standards?
If your equipment has embedded SNMP protocol, we will build interface with it and respective scenarios to handle. If you have MIB database which implements SNMP MIB requirements, we will handle it as any other proprietary database. But if you just want it, we will ask you : Why do you need them?
10.Do you provide parts of your Blansh Server code to the interested parties ?
No. We cannot support broken pieces, therefore it would be irresponsible to sell them.
11.Do you sell your Reference Implementation server code as off-shelf toolkit ?
No.
12.What is a current status of your Management System Reference Implementation ?
Although it is complete enough to build many projects on it's modules, we continue it's development. During our meetings we may reveal our future directions if deemed necessary within the context of your requirements.
13.Can our company's proprietary hardware which has embedded computer be managed by your system?
Yes. This is the primary application of our Intranet Management System.
14.Why Web based GUI? Can you build application GUI connected to the LAN?
We can build application GUI without Web involvement. It is actually simpler : no need of one of the tiers - the Web Server. But we found that today most of the businesses desire to have Web based GUI because they:
already have each computer connected to the internet.
don't want to setup and configure computer to run a GUI as a stand alone program. Rather they want to use a browser which is already available on all the computers regardless the platform.
want to access the system from literally anywhere.
15.Is it guaranteed that you always accept offer to build a management system for interested party?
No. Our free initial evaluation process may reveal some peculiarities in your resources , for example exotic communication protocols (and absence of the bridging equipment), etc.
16.How to contact you ?
Send us E-Mail : marketing@blansh.com .
Tel. : (404)247-5299
Fax : (404)806-6108
Address:
Blansh Technologies,
130 Ridge Run Ave.
Alpharetta, GA 30022
