We're big believers in the "try before you buy" philosophy. We're also proud enough of our platform that we don't need to hide behind canned demos screenshots, and contact forms. Take Inkling Markets for a spin now by running your own marketplace for 45 days.
Inkling uses the SAS 70 Type II hosting option at Rackspace, one of the leading datacenters in the world, to house our server farm. We understand the sensitivity of your data and take extraordinary precautions to protect it through robust testing and sound development methodology. We store no personal data other than email addresses and can integrate directly with your Single Sign On credential system or LDAP to continue to maintain a single point of access for all your enterprise applications. Contact us for an FAQ about our data and security policies.
Our own public marketplace is regularly blogged and tweeted by CNN, MSNBC, and other news outlets and surges of people come and go, all while hundreds of other hosted sites continue to hum along. As your number of users and transactions increase, your marketplace will grow with you, worry free.
Without even putting a call in to your IT guys, you can start to get real-time updates and trading out of Inkling Markets and on to other applications, simply by using our pre-built widgets. If you want to take it a step farther, we have a robust REST API to create your own widgets, custom reports, or even your own entire marketplace. Read more about our API.
Running on a hosted platform means you don't have to wait until the next "release" to be the recipient of new features and updates. As soon as we build and test new capabilities, we deploy them to every marketplace we host, simultaneously. This also means there are thousands of people using and testing the very same user experience you're using so if there is ever a software bug or process that is less than efficient, we hear about it immediately.
Inkling Markets is a Ruby on Rails application, a web development framework that drives some of the largest and most popular sites on the Internet. While Inkling Markets itself is proprietary, it is supported by open technologies from its development framework to its supporting database and application servers and strictly adheres to open standards and architecture styles like SAML and REST.
Inkling Markets "ships" as a 20K install file that will automatically pull and compile the necessary files to complete the entire installation process, which typically takes 2 to 3 hours. Whether you intend to support hundreds or thousands of users, Inkling Markets is built to easily scale and includes everything but the operating system so you don't need to worry about managing a runtime environment. All we require is a server (virtual or physical) with RedHat Enterprise Linux, version 5.
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