Aestiva Software

Aestiva Software is a computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, and licenses business process automation software products. Headquartered in Torrance, California, USA, the company is the originator of HTML/OS.

History

The company was founded on January 11, 1996, to develop and sell an HTML-centric operating platform for the emerging World-Wide-Web. The platform, was originally called Aestiva Overlays and then was renamed to HTML/OS. HTML/OS includes a web programming language and 4GL database engine in a single integrated, multi-platform environment. The price for the engine has fluctuated between $799, $1499, and $4995. In 2010 a free version of the engine was released to the web development community. The engine is supported by Aestiva and the independent development community.

As of the first quarter of 2010, the company marketed Aestiva Array, the development environment for the HTML/OS engine, and office automation products. The company fields business products in six distinct areas; Purchasing and Procurement, Expense management, HR and Operations, Inventory Management, RFQ and Quotation, and Time Tracking.

Terminology

  • HTML/OS - Acronym for HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Operating System (OS). The programming language and kernel used to perform database and programming operations. Not to be confused with hardware-centric operating systems such as Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X
  • Aestiva Array - The HTML/OS Virtual machine supported by the HTML/OS kernel which includes a web-based desktop, web-based file manager, and HTML/OS programming tools.

Products

The company's business process automation products are delivered as software solutions and as hosted software as a service (SaaS) solutions. Products include:

  • Aestiva Array
  • Aestiva Expense Report
  • Aestiva Help Desk
  • Aestiva Inventory
  • Aestiva Leave Request
  • Aestiva Purchase Order
  • Aestiva Quotation
  • Aestiva Sourcing RFQ
  • Aestiva Timesheet

See also

  • Database Management System
  • 4GL
  • Business process automation
  • Purchase Order
  • Timesheet
  • Inventory
  • Expense Management
  • Cloud computing
  • Web application
  • Request for quotation
  • Help Desk