Softlibrary and Kern4cloud on Windows Azure

Softlibrary was founded in 1988 in Barcelona (Spain). Since then, it has been involved in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13617.html "> Information management and providing our customers with cutting-edge custom solutions." To that end, the company accepted Microsoft's platform and architecture from the outset.

Kern4cloud is a multi-tenant service that focuses on information management regardless of whether it is business or not. It handles all information lifecycle and provides a range of tools for publishing, sorting and grading, lexical-semantic and dictionary systems, versioning, multilingual, online translation, and workflow processes.

We chose Windows Azure because it resides in a Certified data center where information and services are stored in a reliable and secure manner. Windows Azure resources can scale to provide high-performance solutions.

Each part of the existing information in the system is saved in XML format, so we can also see Kern4cloud as a black box that converts heterogeneous data sources into standard and internationalized formats.

Let's see how to use Kern4cloud to complete a typical stream. Your company is likely to have a privacy policy statement and may change over time. Once you have imported the first version, you can create new versions, copy existing versions, and even use the main translation engine as part of your solution. The system can convert files to pure XML format so that you can later edit them using your own editor, the Wysiwym editor called X.edit. All of this can be done using a Web component called K4c.workplace. Your company may be in some departments before the release must provide permission. In this case, you can start by creating a workflow that forces those and only those who participate in the publishing process to read and write and modify the statements, check their compliance, correct translations, and ultimately obtain their consent, so that the document can be published and put into use.

Challenges facing

When we first contacted Windows Azure, we realized that the architecture and design phases should include cost-effective policies. When migrating from a solution on Windows Azure or creating a solution from scratch, you must consider some billing drivers. Fortunately, Microsoft offers a number of additional features and features that make the process much easier. Give a few examples:

There are other tools, but you can also look at some of the cost-benefit strategies that are beyond that. So that's the main challenge: design, migrate, adapt, and write code in a way that developers never did. Each shareholder in the project must consider a new parameter: cost. We're not saying that Windows Azure costs more than just in other ways.

When we redesign the core components, we face another challenge. How do I verify the users in a multi-tenant service? Windows Azure has access control services (ACS). ACS lets us process identities in a transparent manner, concentrating on the authorization process.