Hello Voice, Meet Data.
The StarPound CORE™ Platform is a remarkable new open-source platform that represents a beautiful fusion of business process management (BPM), IP telephony, and enterprise web services (SOA). It allows you to visually mash up voice, data, business processes, and web services in ways previously only imagined.
StarPound also provides an on-demand hosted platform to enable companies of all sizes to deliver and adapt web services and communication-enabled business processes in a fraction of the time and cost. Developers can also take advantage of StarPound DevNet, a fully functional sandbox environment — which makes it super easy to deploy and test working voice-enabled applications and web services.
Our software is available free to developers and business process owners. They use it to integrate voice and data with workflow and business processes, creating fully converged voice and data applications on the Web.
It is a beautiful blend of a visual business process modeling tool, an SOA/web services framework, and enterprise telephony functionality. All open-source. All free.
Background
The platform's versatility makes it ideal for creating converged Internet-based applications, communications routing, automated business processes, Web chat collaboration and other similar functionality. Composite applications (also known as Enterprise 2.0 mashups) are now a reality.
The StarPound platform puts the vast majority of the creation of communication-enabled business processes and web services into the hands of analysts, instead of expensive Java programmers. Drag an IVR task here, drop a computer-driven phone call task there. Want to add a call to Salesforce.com to retrieve customer information, or make a call to one of your own web services to perform a task? Drag it, drop it, and deploy it. It's amazingly powerful stuff. Check out our developer tutorials to see it in action!
These capabilities can immediately be put to work in many applications, including customer contact centers, multimedia phone companies, backend transaction systems, ERP integration, online marketplaces, and even online communities, social networks and virtual worlds. And because StarPound Studio™ models the entire process visually, it enhances productivity of development teams, and cleanly encapsulates business logic.
Initially started by the founders of Internet banking pioneer S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE), the StarPound Project has been four years in the making. More than 100 man years of development and a multi-million dollar investment have made The StarPound Project a compelling reality.
The StarPound Difference
The StarPound CORE™ platform can work wonders for the company with big ideas and a small budget.
Our development platform is free, Open Source and BPM-enabled. That adds up to a huge advantage: It puts small and medium-sized companies on a level playing field with the IT shops of much larger companies. Disparate voice and data functions can be integrated in days instead of months. And just about any application can quickly be "communication enabled."
So now your web services dreams can become a reality, your contact center can be driven by BPMN-compliant business processes and can easily handle any mix of web or voice traffic, and your customer support portal can incorporate the latest cool Enterprise 2.0 services. If you can envision it, the platform can handle it.
The competition? Once they wake up, they'll be wondering how many programmers you've hired.
