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From: kumarr@hparc0.HP.COM (Kumar Rangan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HP NewWave 3.0?
Message-ID: <2770017@hparc0.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 00:33:36 GMT
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Organization: HP Australasian Response Centre (Melbourne)
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HP's integrated business desktop environment NewWave provides 
a seamless access system with a consistent object oriented 
user interface to all applications a user might access on a 
PC. 

A consistent front end to a number of different tools is 
already being provided by various window based GUI 
suppliers. NewWave adds four key features to this type of 
user environment :

Encapsulation:
This feature protects your investment in existing MS-DOS & 
Windows application software, by incorporating these 
applications into the NewWave environment where they appear 
as objects. Encapsulation is provided at 3 levels of 
sophistication. At the highest level, applications can be 
made to look like purpose-built NewWave applications and 
their data can be "shared". At the lowest level you still get 
the application running as an object from your desktop. No 
longer will you need to remember file names, directories etc. 

True Integration of different data types:
NewWave provides true integration of different data types 
(like text, database data, spreadsheets, graphics, scanned 
images) in one document thru its Object Management Facility. 
This means that a spreadsheet stays as a functioning 
spreadsheet rather than a character string even when pasted 
into a page of text, or a piechart is still that, not a 
series of pixels. If you try to edit one of these components, 
the appropriate application program would be fired up. Any 
change made, say in the spreadsheet will result in the 
recalculation of all other related fields.

Information Linking:
A data item (like a spreadsheet, a graphic item etc) can 
either be copied from one object to another or it can be 
"shared". When it is a shared item, any change made to the 
object in one location is automatically & immediately updated 
in all the other locations where all or part of it appears. 
This enables the user to be confident about the validity & 
integrity of the data item(s) that he is presented with.  

Task Automation:
This facility (the Agent) allows the user to record a 
sequence of instructions to be played back at the click of a 
mouse, or scheduled for a given time. It is especially useful 
for the automation of functions that are periodically 
performed using software on the PC/host you may connect to.
The sequence of instructions recorded are stored in an "Agent 
Task" icon which is handed to the Agent to be performed. It 
is also possible to schedule the task on a repetitive basis 
(daily, weekly, monthly etc).The instructions recorded can be 
modified using a powerful Agent Task Language which has an 
English-like command structure.

NewWave is aimed at the "knowledge worker", the non-
technical, professional information processor NOT the "DOS 
Guru". 

If any of u want *more* info, the fastest way may be to contact the 
nearest HP dealer/sales office.

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