Coghead is a multi-tenant, on-demand platform allowing you to rapidly create, customize, deploy, share and use robust business applications from anywhere all through a browser. Key capabilities and features include:

100% Web based Platform-as-a-Service

Develop, customize, deploy, share and use business applications - all you need is a browser and an internet connection

• 100% web-based – no hardware or software to install, and no servers to maintain
• Browser safe – Full support for all major Windows and Mac browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari).
• On-demand platform – providing full 24x7 application hosting services for Coghead applications
• Easy to use – Intuitive web-based user interface. All applications share the same UI framework
• Collaborate with anyone – Easily collaborate and share data within the company, with customers and vendors by inviting users into your account.

Drag and Drop Application Development

Rapidly develop and customize any application to meet your unique business needs. With powerful drag & drop editors, you can visually define custom data models and business logic, and design custom user interfaces all from a browser.

• Integrated Online Development – Applications are built and customized entirely within your browser by creating, combining and configuring tabs, objects, fields and business logic components to work together seamlessly.
• Drag and Drop Forms Editor – Create applications in a fully graphical environment with drag-n-drop UI components, flexible controls, and powerful widgets (no coding required).
• Starter Solutions – Create applications from scratch, or by customizing existing application starter solutions, templates and snippets
• Collections – Basic building blocks of all applications that define data model, application forms and views. Each collection can represent any kind of business data such as a Customer, Employee, Product, Quote, Invoice, Purchase Order, etc.
• Widgets – Widgets are the building blocks of collections that represents data fields, buttons, layout, etc.
• Relationships – Relationships can easily be created between any number of collections within and across applications.
• Actions – Custom Application logic allowing almost unlimited creation of unique application behavior to match your business needs

Application and Form Widgets

Each collection can be defined by an unlimited number of widgets that

• Layout – Easily define clean and intuitive form layout using configurable multi-column widget and dynamic sections
• Field widgets – Text box, date, drop-down, images, attachment, multi-select, check boxes, URL links, relationships, labels and buttons. Each widget has default properties that can be easily modified to your needs
• Advanced Widget behavior – Each widget has a set of advanced capabilities such as data pre-population, calculation, hiding, special formatting, editability.
• Grids – Grids are a type of widgets that are unique to Coghead and allow you to easily define dynamic tabular grids for data entry, calculation and display within a form. Mostly used to support line item details functionality for Order Management, Invoice, and related applications.

Robust Application Management and Deployment

Easily manage versioning, deployment and usage for your own applications and the applications of your customers from your Admin page.

• Prototyping – Create application prototypes, test and preview changes prior to production deployment.
• Versioning – Full application version management for rollback, historical and audit purposes.
• Migration of Apps – Import & export application definitions with both schema and data; manage applications between accounts.
• Deployment – Deployment and cloning of applications is as easy as copying an app from one account to another.
• Gallery – The Coghead application marketplace is tightly integrated into your account and allows you to test drive and install applications at any time. Coghead Partners are also able to publish their custom applications to the Gallery.

Process and Workflow Management

Coghead provides sophisticated process management and workflow capabilities to match your unique business needs.

• Custom actions – Actions representing unique business logic can easily be created, combined with each other and reused. They can trigger anything from sending an email alert, to creating a new record, to updating the value of specific fields, to pop-up messages and launching other actions.
• Scheduled actions – Define actions to be scheduled based on various time intervals -- be it hourly, daily or once a month.
• Action Editor – A drag-and-drop editor to create and customize application workflow processes that include: Conditions, mapping, alerts, loops, etc.
• Additional input – Ability to create highly interactive user dialogue boxes driven by user action and data input.
• Alerts and notifications – automatically send email notifications.
• Mappings – easily define mappings to convert and update records based on events and conditions.
• Standard actions – Standard actions such as create, update and delete can easily be customized.

Account and User Management/Administration

Central administration for managing and configuring all aspects of your accounts and users, with complete access control.

• Accounts – Manage users, privileges and applications within and across accounts.
• Role-based security model – Control user access to applications, collections and associated data.
• Permissions – Define read/write/delete/admin access for individuals, or groups of users.
• Data driven access – Set up dynamic permission templates based on the value of application data.

Secure Software-as-a-Service Delivery

Platform and applications are delivered as a service with world-class security, and a reliable and scalable hosting environment provided by Amazon.com

• Encryption – Coghead provides a 128-bit secure browser connection for system login. Coghead uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure that any data entered into the web site is encrypted.
• Proven Infrastructure – Amazon.com combines best-of-breed hardware/software, proven processes and policy management tools, and experienced security engineers for the 24x7 protection of IT infrastructure, including managed firewall/VPN and managed Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
• Perimeter Defense – Coghead is hosted in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced technology to prevent interference or access from outside intruders.

Reporting and Data Management

Coghead provides flexible reporting, analysis and data management capabilities that leverage existing desktop applications such as EXCEL and Business Intelligence packages.

• Print to Template – Document Templates are designed to rapidly generate customized documents (Word, Excel) based on record data such as order, invoices, quotes, etc.
• Import and Export – Every application has automatic import and export capabilities. Import records easily from a spreadsheet or CSV file using the Import wizard and export, or filter, data based on customized Views.
• Excel Connector – Installable connector allows you to dynamically view, update, and modify a set of data using MS-Excel.
• Views – Views provide simple reporting capabilities and can be easily exported to Excel for further data analysis.
• Dashboard and reporting – Single record collections allow you to quickly set up dashboards that collect and display data within and across applications.

Usability and Personalization

• Search – Search application data using simple keywords.
• Advanced search syntax – Create sophisticated searches using advanced query by example capabilities.
• User driven layout – Each user can choose between 4 different application layouts that combine a View and Form arranged horizontally, vertically, or with form-only, or view-only arrangements.
• Custom Branding – Ability to add a custom logo to your application to provide company branding across all applications in an account.

Scalable Architecture and Service Platform

• Multi-tenant architecture – all users and applications share a single, common infrastructure and code base that is centrally maintained. This scalable architecture makes it possible to create applications whose logic is independent of the data they control, allowing almost unlimited customization.
• Automatic Platform Upgrades – Customers and partners are always operating on the latest version of our platform and all application customizations and integrations are preserved through upgrades with minimal impact to end users.
• Instant Deployment – Application deployment is fast and easy with minimal ongoing maintenance and easy application upgrade procedures supported through a robust versioning system.
• On Demand – Coghead and Amazon.com deliver a reliable and scalable service that immediately reacts to changing demands in usage and performance – so you don’t have to worry about adding servers, networks and bandwidth
• Gallery – an ever growing marketplace provides a “built-in” capability instantly install the latest applications and to sell your applications to a growing international Coghead community with a click of a button.

Integration

Coghead provides a number of ways to integrate and extend the platform to work across applications and with external systems.

• Web services API – A full set of REST APIs are available for integration Coghead data into your website, business intelligence applications and more. Both design-time and run-time APIs are available to provide a full range of control.
• Integration Connectors – Coghead provides a growing set of Integration Connectors designed for out-of the box integration with specific applications such as SAP, British Telecom telephony services and other leading software and service vendors.
• Linked Application – Integrate multiple Coghead applications all stored on the same platform. Seamlessly invoke other external web based application through secure HTTPS. Create mash-outs with Google maps, and more.
• Coglets – Coglets are a powerful and flexible way to share external-facing application functionality through your website or intranet. This method allows you to easily and securely include customers, partners, suppliers, and other external users into your business process.