Platfarm is a proprietary product of Platfarm LLC, whose development took an year and a half.
It represents an innovative communication and news publishing framework.
The main idea behind Platfarm is the organization of information and
communication services in a seamless, intuitive and accessible way.
It integrates common web services and organizes them as an interactive game .
Platfarm aims to be the authoritative community for higher education institutions.
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Platfarm 's architecture is built upon five crucial principles:
• integration
• accessibility
• speed
• usability
• user input
Platfarm
is composed of a client application,installed on the users' computer,
written entirely in JAVA, and an extremely fast and robust server
written in C++ under Linux. Platfarm framework uses protocols, based on
the XML standard.
It has several built-in services such as:
Plat Contact
contact and address organizer
Plat People
social communication tool for establishing new contacts and partnerships
Plat Event
Allows Platfarm users to create, browse and search private and public
events.Monitor attendance statistics and chat in real time
Plat Event Designated Drivers
Plat Mail
mail client, introducing a completely new approach to
Plat News:
an excitingly easy to use news terminal, allowing Platfarm users to
receive the latest news headlines directly in the application from some
30 online news sources. News can be browsed by source or by category.
Plat News furthermore serves as a news publishing terminal in the higher education community.
Plat Command Line
very exciting feature for those who prefer using the keyboard instead of the mouse
In January 2005, Platfarm was offcially released.
It was successfully implemented in the middle of january in INSEAD a major european university.
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