Planet Crust Review

1. Companies need critical software to run their operations and processes. Often, they have unique requirements that existing software doesn’t meet. Often, they also need their software on their own servers for security reasons. Hiring software developers, whether internal or external, to create new software is expensive and time-consuming.
Customers can install our Corteza low-code platform on-premise and can use the software to create whatever data-based web applications they need using simple drag-and-drop tools and a visual workflow builder, meaning that they don’t need to hire expensive software developers. It also means they can deploy apps in hours or days instead of waiting weeks or months.

2. Organizations of all types, whether they’re business enterprises, governmental organizations, municipal governments, non-profits, NGOs, disaster relief agencies and so on, all depend on data that comes from different sources that use their own data standard. But getting those standards to talk to each other and work with each other is a technological mess.

The result is that they can’t consolidate data from different parts of your own operations, let alone from outside sources. Business processes fail when their people can’t connect, use or share data from different departments and sources. Cities can’t get the information they need to properly respond to traffic situations, utility needs, accidents or emergencies. Disaster relief agencies can’t share vital information with other agencies due to incompatible data or security concerns. And so on.

By being able to connect to any data source and then transforming that data into an open format, Corteza makes it easier than ever to collaborate in a standardized way within or between any organization. In addition, Corteza’s ability to federate on a many-to-many basis allows users to share selected data at scale in near real-time to stay ahead of problems or accelerate innovation.

The result is that companies are no longer locked in a silo or stuck on a local scale. Businesses can scale globally and both operate and cooperate more efficiently. Cities can respond to situations and emergencies faster and with the right resources. Disaster relief agencies can share data and innovate solutions without bumping into security protocols.

3. Organizations connect data to their software platform and use that platform to build applications. But when they want to switch to a new platform, they’re stuck. They can only extract their data in a non-standardized format which is unusable on any other platform unless they first standardize it, which is a tedious and expensive process. Even worse, the organization doesn’t actually own the apps it has built on the platform and can’t export them from the platform. The result is that organizations are stuck with their platform – a situation known as vendor lock-in.

With Corteza, there is no vendor lock-in. Corteza standardizes all the data that it connects with so that it’s easy to share with other platforms or export in the event the organization wants or needs to switch platforms. Additionally, the organization can export all the apps it has built on Corteza and retains complete ownership of them to use on any other platform. The result is that the organization has full flexibility, freedom and control over its data and IP.