The StarPound Enterprise 2.0 Universe
Here you'll find information on all of our open-source enterprise software products. You can use the links to the left to explore our product universe, or click here to start downloading StarPound right now!
Overview
The StarPound CORE™ is a model-driven application development and delivery platform for multi-channel applications. StarPound brings together a diverse set of application functions in one development environment. StarPound applications integrate:
- Business process workflow with skills-based routing and end-to-end task management
- Web collaboration (chat, click-to-talk, click-to-callback, and page sharing)
- Telephony (receiving, initiating, and managing calls)
- Interactive Voice Response (IVR) menus with speech recognition and text-to-speech
- Data management through web services and relational databases
- Web forms
- Incoming and outgoing email and fax
The StarPound Open-Source Stack
StarPound applications are converged and composite by design, so no complex middleware integration is required. And StarPound is built on open source technologies like Linux, Asterisk, and JBoss, which can run on inexpensive commodity hardware. But inexpensive doesn't mean low performance - the StarPound architecture can be implemented in a large-scale robust configuration for optimum performance.
The StarPound CORE™ Platform is a powerful and free Open Source engine for developing Enterprise 2.0 voice and data applications. Use its Eclipse-based visual modeling tool to integrate business processes with voice and data. Then use StarPound CORE™'s open-source J2EE application server to deploy and run these applications.
And if you're using .NET or some other platform, no worries. StarPound CORE™ is fully SOA based.
StarPound Studio runs on a wide variety of hardware and is supported by The StarPound Project and its chief commercial sponsor, StarPound Technologies.
Where and How is StarPound Being Used?
StarPound is currently being used a variety of different scenarios, including:
- Customer contact centers
- B2B Marketplaces
- Office PBX Systems
- Internet community sites
- Enterprise 2.0-rich social networks
- Advanced e-commerce and CRM applications
Organizations are using StarPound to:
- Create and deploy composite web and voice applications
- Create front-end web and voice applications for existing systems
- Receive incoming calls, email, faxes, and web service requests and initiate a process workflow
- Route incoming calls based on skills and permissions, display screens of related data on the caller
- Initiate and manage outbound calls
- Establish chat, click-to-talk, click-to-callback, and web page sharing sessions with customers
Platform Features
A StarPound application can incorporate data and functionality in a way that previously required multiple expensive hardware and software solutions and months of systems integration. StarPound applications can include any of the following capabilities and more:
Our Commitment to Open Source
At StarPound Technologies, we believe that software is fundamentally a services business. That's the way it should be. That's why we released StarPound to the open source community (under a dual-license policy). We believe that StarPound will flourish as an open platform for building voice and data applications to compete with expensive, proprietary solutions.
