Name: OPUS Development Environment
Brand: TraceLink
Availability: OnlineOnly

Products

Create and share new, valuable solutions in an open, well-defined, and secure development environment

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Product overview

Native tools to empower innovation

The TraceLink Development Environment (TDE) is a low-code/no-code development environment that enables certified development partners to build solutions for hundreds of thousands of companies working together on the TraceLink Network powered by the OPUS Platform.

Such solutions include multi-enterprise and enterprise applications, add-ons, and enterprise system integrations.

The OPUS Development Environment provides:

Rapid definition of solutions using a metadata-driven model

Interactive development using Java or JavaScript

Rich access to the extensive OPUS Platform, its capabilities and data services

Tools to manage the solution lifecycle

Industry challenges

Understanding the need for open development environments

Today’s developers face immense challenges in creating world-class solutions without critical tools needed to develop, deploy, and manage their solutions. Such challenges often include:

Integrating coding experiences

An integrated coding experience would take full advantage of the platform and its capabilities while minimizing unnecessary infrastructure and architecture detail.

Integrating coding experiences

Testing and debugging

Closed environments inhibit development teams from testing and debugging developed solutions across platform-wide and network-wide use cases.

Testing and debugging

Lifecycle solution management

There are currently limited and insufficient deployment and lifecycle solution management tools available to development teams.

Lifecycle solution management

Product benefits

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.

Product benefits

Access & 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.

Product benefits

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.

Product benefits

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.

Product benefits

Promote a standardized approach

Promote standardized, event-driven programming model for applications.

Capabilities

Unlock the power of OPUS

Our 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.