Products & Frameworks

Lost Wax offers a portfolio of products and software frameworks on a licence basis. We are committed to the continuous improvement of our intellectual property. A key commitment in our client proposition is to leverage our productivity. For this reason produce the core building blocks that underpin many of the business solutions we deliver to our clients.

Key Benefits
We have developed software components that solve some of the frequently occurring design problems faced by advanced online and distributed systems. The key benefit to our clients of using our software components is to minimise unnecessary development effort and to manage risk. We recognise that our clients are seeking business advantage by developing unique propositions and innovative solutions. By using our software components we can focus on the overall quality of the business solution - factors that will determine success in the marketplace - rather than the underlying software engineering challenges.

E-Commerce Platform
Our e-Commerce platform addresses a range of issues faced by multiple buyers and sellers interacting through online trading systems and e-markets. This includes the matching of complex requirements to a variety of full or partial responses by suppliers. We offer modules for all of the leading auction models. The ability to handle dynamic negotiation strategies is an important breakthrough. This addresses the problem of complex interaction models where there are multiple options and multiple outcomes.

Agent Framework
Our Agent Framework provides the developer with the functionality required for the development of multi-agent systems. We have used our online negotiation protocols (originally developed for e-markets) to enable software agents to negotiate service requests and responses in an adaptive supply chain. We are further extending these components to handle the complex software interactions anticipated in web services and service-orientated architectures.

Mobile Applications
We are developing a number of mobile application components. The increased availability in the market of MIDP1 and MIDP2 mobile phones and devices plays to our strength in Java software. There is now the opportunity to deliver functionally rich, reliable and secure applications in a wide variety of business sectors. We have invested in the development of a number of generic applications and a security solution based on an open source cryptographic model. We are working with selected clients to deploy these components into new and exciting business models and applications.