DICE Facilitates Intranet Administration

Rainer Mauth

The Dynamic Intranet Configuration Environment (DICE) 2.0 is designed to help network administrators more effectively organize and manage an intranet. Running on top of Allaire's Cold Fusion Web-database middleware, it dynamically creates HTML pages based on the information in your corporate ODBC databases.

The product comes with a series of design wizards that let you set up the information infrastructure of your intranet from a standard Web browser. The design wizards provide a series of predefined graphical HTML page layouts; help you set up BBSes, discussion forums, and calendars; and let you define an access concept to corporate data on the basis of the LDAP directo ry services standard. A con tent wizard that includes a comprehensive on-line design guide lets you maintain, modify, and update pages graphically without the need for any HTML coding.

Because the system supports open Internet standards such as LDAP, plus ISAPI and NSAPI, it interoperates with Microsoft's as well as Netscape's Web servers. All you need to run DICE is a Windows NT 4.0 server, although a version for Solaris is slated for later this year. Overall, DICE is a powerful administration tool for midsize and large intranets.

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Where to Find

DICE 2.0:

       
SME version starts at DM 1995 (five-user license)


Enterprise version starts at DM 7295 (30-user license)

DVforum
Düsseldorf, Germany
Phone:    +49 211 962 1753
Fax:      +49 211 962 1796
E-mail:   
klaus@dvforum.de

Internet: 
http://www.dvforum.de

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