Empower Stands the test of Time

In January of 1998 Eastern Software released its 32-bit Client Server product Empower. They chose not to introduce the product until all components (modules and interfaces) were completed. Empower was designed and developed in 32-Bit from its inception. The Multi-Dimensional Workflow Engine, Artificial Intelligence Engine and comprehensive design and development Tools have quickly become the benchmark by which all other systems are measured. The simplicity coupled with overall completeness and flexibility has remained true to our company’s philosophy.

Empower Client Server was developed using an object-oriented architecture since its inception. This design allowed lenders to add and organize features, pages and functions to adapt to their specific process and user experience. Empower has been proven time and again to meet the needs of the industry’s most demanding and expert lenders.

Tried and True Design

Empower for Client Server has been enhanced and refined for nearly a decade. The design of the functional components, or software objects, has been tested and proven to be versatile and scalable.

Empower Client Server became the perfect “design spec” for Empower for .Net and gave FIS Empower a huge advantage as it set out to accomplish its goals  based on the  .Net and SOA architecture. The products are more than strikingly similar, they are purposefully similar. Using the best of FIS' experience and knowledge to completely refactor those objects and components into an entirely new suite of software objects and tools based in .Net.

Empower for .Net

Empower for .Net provides an additional platform option for loan origination technology that is based on a true Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It was formally released on August 7, 2006.

With the .Net initiative, there was an opportunity to utilize some industry standard tools, instead of the proprietary methods used in the past. For example, Smart Client screens can be written utilizing Microsoft’s Visual Studio which eliminated the need to build a proprietary tool. Likewise, FIS opted to utilize Fair Isaac’s Blaze Rules Engine in the business logic layer of the architecture versus a proprietary tool.

Benefits of the Next Generation

• FIS Empower expertly adapts to your business model.  Empower should be viewed as a long-term, organization-wide solution to address every facet of the loan process, from initial lead contact through funding and post-closing. The flexibility and depth of the application accommodates, but is not limited to, conforming, retail, wholesale, correspondent, home equity, non-conforming and sub-prime. 

• Empower for .Net delivers and allows both “Smart Client” and “Web Client” presentation layers to maximize performance and offer various distribution models of the application. A lender can choose to deploy Empower for .Net “thick”, utilizing Smart Client screens, or “thin” utilizing HTML pages.

• Empower accommodates retail, wholesale and correspondent business models and addresses the needs of the nation’s largest lenders. It is delivered as one complete application, not in disparate parts.
• A few years ago, Empower Client Server participated in a series of independent tests proving the scalability of Empower on SQL and Oracle databases.  Empower scaled to 5,000 concurrent users on a 1.5 Million record database. On similar tests, Empower for .Net saw even more favorable results.

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