Pointwing Recruiting Software Technology Foundation Designed To Power the Success of Your Staffing and Recruiting Firm
Dynamic Staffing and Recruiting Market Requires Flexible, Scalable Technology
Over the 30-plus years that VCG has delivered staffing and recruiting software, technology has changed dramatically. Gone are massive mainframes and arcane code, replaced by nimble computing networks and software designed to deliver the speed and performance required in the fast-paced and ever-changing staffing and recruiting market. In fact, the market and its technology requirements have changed so fast and so dramatically that staffing and recruiting software solutions developed several years ago are now hard-pressed to effectively meet those needs.
With that in mind, VCG developed Pointwing – basing it on a flexible and scalable technology foundation designed to easily adapt to changing market dynamics. Pointwing’s technology is grounded in industry standards that assure staffing and recruiting firms that their software solution will meet their dynamic needs and have a long lifecycle. This translates into lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and better return on your investment (ROI).
Pointwing recruiting software is built on a Microsoft technology stack. This means that the client application, the server and the database are all solutions based on Microsoft's .NET 2.0 Framework. The Microsoft stack provides greater product consistency, quality and support. This approach enables VCG to invest in business functionality rather than multi-vendor cross platform technologies. Using this technology, Pointwing offers seamless integration with other business applications, rich functionality, high performance and scalability along with excellent price/performance ratio.
So what makes Pointwing Recruiting software different?
Service Oriented Architecture
First, Pointwing is a service oriented architecture (SOA) staffing and recruiting software solution that enables the reuse of software components. Instead of having a monolithic application with hard-to-change source code, SOA organizes business software into components so that common functions can be used interchangeably. SOA thus extends your existing investments so that these functions can be easily developed and/or integrated to virtually any business application or Web service, regardless of the programming language or technology platform that it may use. Equally important, Pointwing’s use of SOA technology helps to improve the speed, quality and maintainability of future software development, again reducing your TCO.
Smart Client Interface
Second, Pointwing is a smart client application. Part of Microsoft's .NET initiative, a smart client has the robustness of a rich client application but is thin in size and intrusiveness and is downloaded from a Web server via HTTP. When the program is launched, the local copy is loaded and used as long as a new version is not present on the server. If a new version is available, it is auto-downloaded seamlessly and replaces the local version. This means that it takes advantage of local processing power, but has the deployment ease of Web-based computing. Smart client applications combine the best of both fat and thin client applications and have numerous benefits including a rich User Interface (UI), increasing user productivity and reducing operational costs.
Open API
Third, Pointwing's open API (application program interface) is Web Services and SOAP XML-based. You don't need to have a specific technology platform to integrate with Pointwing. Various platforms such as Java, .NET, AJAX can easily 'talk' with Pointwing. Furthermore, the API enables a higher level of flexibility. For example, you can extend your existing applications and integrate Pointwing with other business applications and Web services or create custom applications or interfaces to support your strategy and vision.
SIDES Compliance
Finally, Pointwing is also SIDES (Staffing Industry Data Exchange Standards) compliant. SIDES offers a cost effective means of exchanging data over the Internet using XML by standardizing data elements and attributes and the way they are exchanged. SIDES compliance will assist in eliminating duplicate effort and streamlining processes and cross-company data exchanges. Through standardized XML data exchanges, staffing suppliers, staffing customers and third party vendor managers, such as VMS applications and job boards, may share orders, assignments, resumes, etc. SIDES is part of a larger organization called the HR-XML consortium.
A recruiting software platform for extensibility, scalability and success
VCG developed Pointwing with your business needs in mind - today and tomorrow. Pointwing was created by and for recruiting and staffing professionals. It helps you excel at placing the right talent in every job and streamlines your unique business processes while helping to control costs and manage margins.
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