PRONTO-Xi Thin Client is designed specifically to provide a low bandwidth, high functionality connection when used with a Unix/Linux based PRONTO-Xi Server. The Microsoft Windows platform has the same benefits with the addition of a terminal server.
PRONTO-Xi Thin Client is fully Internet-compatible and allows you to connect to the PRONTO-Xi server through an Internet connection. The connection is stable and secure. By utilising multiple network topologies, local users can connect to PRONTO-Xi through their Local Area Network (LAN), remote branch or Wide Area Network (WAN).
The user interface is exactly the same whether connected over the Internet or a LAN. That means the same customisations, the same menu access, the same keystrokes and the same security. This reduces training, setup and administration costs.
Integrated Web interface
With a fully functional web browser built into the interface, implementers and administrators of the system can deliver business system information, or any other web-visible information, to users within the PRONTO-Xi environment.
This facility can also be used for quick access to PRONTO-Xi Business Intelligence workspace items such as reports, dashboards and analytics views. Alternatively, use it to display corporate intranets, external websites, corporate noticeboards, executive information systems, interactive workflow diagrams, customised intelligent web pages and anything else that is viewable through a regular web browser.
Web panes can be individually docked at the side of the main PRONTO-Xi workspace, allowing information to be hidden (docked as a ‘tab’) when not required, but still quickly accessible when needed. Personalisation settings allow these dockable windows to be pre-set to launch each time PRONTO-Xi is launched, either pre-docked or in the foreground. You can launch and dock multiple windows, which will keep running in the background even when not in focus. For example, you can run a report while processing a sales order from within the same PRONTO-Xi session.
Additionally, the integrated HTML backpane supports simple workflow processes to be display integrated HTML Web Frames. You can use the embedded HTML Web Frame to increase the speed and simplicity of using PRONTO-Xi. By creating graphical HTML pages with hyperlinks into PRONTO-Xi programs, your users can perform their day to day activities by driving PRONTO-Xi from clearly labeled icons. The benefits of using the Web Frame as a menu include:
- Increased ease and speed of navigation;
- Improve process compliance by organising links to simplify navigation for users and standardise processes;
- Reduce staff training time by only including links to tasks relevant to their role.
Personalisation
PRONTO-Xi allows individual users to specify content that is tailored to their needs and preferences. Through personalisation, users take control of their working environment to make it easier and more enjoyable for them to use and to boost productivity.
Menus can be changed to hide options that the user does not wish to see, change the name and icon on a menu option to make them more relevant to the individual or their role, or add PRONTO-Xi or external URL options to a menu.
Favourites are available that can be used to create shortcuts to processes that users frequently access.
Mode buttons allow quick access to a host of PRONTO-Xi capabilities such as Search, Find and Entry and to launch other PRONTO-Xi screens. These buttons can be positioned to your preference either at the top, bottom or either side of the screen.
Users also have the option to define background images for PRONTO-Xi with user-controlled levels of transparency using one of the supplied themes or an image of their choice. For example, an administrator could apply a company logo to all user screens, to promote brand awareness within their organisation.
Zero Deployment
Management of client software on user machines can be a major drain on system administration resources for some ERP systems. PRONTO-Xi is designed to deploy the powerful client software to all users with minimal administration.
Users can install PRONTO-Xi Thin Client, with all relevant administrator-defined settings, simply by opening a web page and clicking a button. The very next step is logging in to the system.
