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Magic xpa Application Platform

Score8 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is Magic xpa Application Platform?

Magic xpa Application Platform is an application server and infrastructure from Magic Technologies in California.

Top Performing Features

  • Security management

    Integrated security management for applications

    Category average: 8.3

  • Installation

    Ease of download and installation

    Category average: 8.5

  • Administration and management

    Ease of management via administration console

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Application server performance

    Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics

    Category average: 8.3

  • IDE support

    Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs

    Category average: 7.4

  • Open-source standards compliance

    Support for open-source standards like J2EE

    Category average: 7.9

Great Integration framework for a wide variety of applications!

Pros

  • The UI is really simple to use, you have source/destination mapping for the items.
  • The scheduler gives you a lot of options when executing the models.
  • The error handling is usually pretty good and the errors can be corrected fast.

Cons

  • Although the scenarios may be online, the main service usually freezes and the processes can't transact any data. With a single restart of the service, the processes will be functioning again.
  • The support for more applications would be nice, even though there is a nice number of them. Most of the main applications in the market are supported.
  • The licensing for the software may be a little confusing; you can't buy individual licenses as they come in packages of four.

Return on Investment

  • The implementation time for this kind of projects has been greatly reduced.
  • Certifying an In-House resource in the Magix xpi and xpa platforms is probably the best option, considering all of the projects that can be developed in the future without the need of an external consultant.
  • The processes that have been automatized with the Magic xpi platform helped reduce human error and the time those processes took to finish.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics Marketing, Microsoft Project Server