The Design Studio at the JD Edwards Honors Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is designing and developing the Codename SWISS system for i2rd (Interactive Information R&D), a local software research and development firm. SWISS is a content management system at heart, but it's much more than that-with innovative capabilities of information customization and distribution unlike anything available today, SWISS has the real potential to add incredible value to nearly any organization.

SWISS allows organizations that sell information services, such as human resources companies, law offices, and a diverse spectrum of other groups to distribute that information to clients with significantly greater efficiency. Service can be customized to meet the needs of individual clients, yet at the same time SWISS allows the providers to provide new information to their customers instantaneously. In the past, content writing and development for hundreds or even thousands of clients was an insurmountable task, even with a content management system. SWISS eliminates redundancy and makes distribution automatic, increasing a firm's revenues for each new client, and significantly reducing maintenance costs.
...created through collaboration between industry and the academic world

The JD Edwards Design Studio and i2rd have collaborated together throughout the project design process, and the result is a product design that combines the strengths of today's new technologies with contemporary software engineering practices. We are confident that, at the end of the semester, i2rd will find that the collective minds of these eight students will have helped them create a product that is stronger, more durable, and even more revolutionary.
SWISS At A Glance

SWISS is a multi-tier system that includes client-side software on the side of the content provider, a thin-client interface for the content provider's customers, server components, a database that encompasses all of the content that the system is managing, and XML data query and response services.

The current SWISS system utilizes a wide variety of technologies, including:

Java
Servlets
Tomcat Java Server Pages
MySQL
XML
XSLT