Opus Development Environment

The TraceLink Development Environment (TDE) is a low-code/no-code development environment that enables third party development partners to reach, and create transformational value solutions for, the hundreds of thousands of companies working together on the TraceLink Network powered by the Opus Platform. Such solutions include multienterprise and enterprise applications, add-ons, and enterprise system integrations.

Challenges

Traditionally, network platforms are closed environments where a single company's applications may be deployed. Or, if the platform is open to external development, developers face immense challenges in creating world-class solutions because they aren’t provided with the critically important tools needed to develop, deploy, and manage their solutions. Such challenges often include:

Lack of an integrated coding experience that takes full advantage of the platform and its capabilities while minimizing unnecessary infrastructure and architecture detail
Inability to test and debug developed solutions across platform-wide and network-wide use cases
Limited and insufficient deployment and lifecycle solution management tooling

Benefits

The TraceLink Development Environment helps development partners build on top of the Opus Platform, using optimized native tooling to speed the creation of new, value-added solutions on the Opus Platform in an open, well-defined, and secure fashion, making solutions available for use by users and network members on the platform.

Speed Development

Speed development of new applications to meet current / emerging business opportunities or new operational requirements for your business and supply / trade partner network.

Access and Leverage the TraceLink Network

Connect to and leverage the extensive membership of companies and people on the TraceLink Network to reach potential new customers, collaborate with new partners, accelerate user onboarding and solution access, and reduce time-to-value.

Tap Into a Rich Data Lake

Leverage the rich data, the canonical data model and "integrate-once, interoperate-with-everyone" connectivity approach, the Opus experience design componentry, and other capabilities of the Opus Platform and its applications to create rich, value-enhancing solutions.

Capitalize on the Administrative Services

Leverage the administrative services of the Opus Platform to help support user, application, and network administration requirements for new apps built on the Opus Platform.

Promote a Standardized Approcach

Promote standardized, event-driven programming model for applications.

Capabilities

The TraceLink Development Environment provides an integrated coding and deployment experience, a suite of coding, testing, and deployment tooling, and a framework to help developers create and manage new solutions across the entire solution lifecycle on the Opus Platform and TraceLink Network.

Create Project

Define Metadata Model

Define Workflow

Define Actions

Create Events & Message Handlers

Code

Test

Release

The TraceLink Development Environment delivers:

Rapid definition of solutions using a metadata-driven model
Interactive interactive development using Java or JavaScript
Rich access to the extensive Opus Platform, its capabilities and data services:
- Network creation
- Information exchange
- Workflow management
- System and user messaging
- Data transformation and data mesh access
- Role and policy management
- Security
- Audit trailing
Tooling to manage the solution lifecycle
- Create project
- Define metadata model
- Define workflow
- Define actions
- Generate event and message handlers
- Code application
- Deployment into the Test and Validation environments
- Controlled release to the Production environment

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