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All organizations have special processes or data needs unique to their organizations; these processes must be taken into consideration when implementing any software solution. CIPAce™ is a technology platform designed to accommodate rapid application customization process by utilizing the CIPAce™ Metadata Management modules, new system interface and data elements can be created and integrated into existing business processes on an intuitive web interface without custom programming.

 

The CIPAce™ Metadata Management Module takes care of all customized data storage needs without the needs to directly modifying system database, thus significantly reduce the efforts and complexities involved. Under the CIPAce™ Core Engine Framework, raw data, data attributes, and data structures are managed and processed before they are written to the core system database. With Metadata Management, CIPAce™ allows organizations to rapidly deploy new data types with ease, without compromising core database integrity and impact of future system customization during the upgrade process.

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The factors to customizing of business process can be described as below:

 

Entity: An abstract database object which represents a real world business process, storing business information and rules under a specific context.

 

Attribute: A basic unit of information that belongs to an entity.

 

Relationship: The association or connection between entities, which is built on attributes with the type as Many-to-One or Many-to-Many.

 

Form: A form is a set of associated data that is displayed on a screen of the application as user interface.

 

View: Subset information from a query result of an entity, normally used in displaying, searching or batch editing purposes.

 

Summary of Content

 

Below is a list of the content that can be found in this chapter:

 

Browse Entities

Browse Attributes

Add Attribute

Edit Attribute

Browse Many-to-One Relationships

Edit Many-to-One Relationship

Browse Many-to-Many Relationships

Edit Many-to-Many Relationship

Browse Forms

Edit Form

Browse Views

Edit View

Manage Picklists

Add Custom Entity

Manage Custom Entity

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