How It All Began

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, it quickly became clear that the world was about to change. Shortly thereafter, Android and the Tablet were added as groundbreaking innovations. Apart from email and calendar, the benefits for businesses were rather limited. If they wanted to use their enterprise applications on the go, they were forced to spend a lot of time developing this applications on each mobile platform from scratch. Even big names such as Microsoft, IBM or Oracle unfortunately did not make any serious efforts to address this problem.

Due to increasingly pressing customer needs, in 2012 the smartest software engineers at ATEGRA AG retreated to a war room and tackled only one question: "What must the optimal software platform of the future look like?" Quickly the key points were clear:

• Critical enterprise applications should be always available and ready to use. Therefore, all possible device classes (desktop, browser, smartphone and tablet) must be supported.
• Mobile applications are only user-friendly if they are offline capable, i.e. if there is no need for a constantly stable and fast Internet connection.
• Applications need to be developed as quickly and efficiently as possible. After all, we live and work in an increasingly fast-moving world.

Today we can be proud to have achieved even more with Protogrid:

• On Protogrid, cross-industry software applications are developed for a wide range of areas.
• When new requirements arise or general conditions change, the necessary adjustments to the applications usually can be made within minutes.
• Anyone can simply register a Protogrid environment and get their first application up and running in less than an hour.

The many satisfied customers and their figures speak for themselves!

Other Features

• After the registration, you are immediately redirected to your new, isolated Protogrid Environment. There you find your personal file system, data base and webserver as well as access to the JavaScript environment. Everything is managed by the Protogrid Cloud. In this Environment you may create as many Apps as you want and connect them.
• List, full text search, sort, and link – all out of the box without you having to develop anything.
• Any relational database model is possible. Thanks to the many different types of fields, you can capture your data in a structured manner and link them arbitrarily using relation fields.
• Thanks to the attachment functionality of every Card, you can manage any desired documents and media in Protogrid.
• Using the print function, data can be forwarded, processed and archived as PDF without any effort.
• New or external users can be easily added using just the browser, without the need to distribute any special software or VPN access.
• Special requirements are no problem, since every App can be extended variously using JavaScript. Due to buttons, triggers and script libraries (client and server side), any comfort functions can be realized.
• Any thinkable web content such as images, dynamically generated charts or diagrams can be provided using blank canvas widgets. Those can be added on every card at any place.
• Multitenancy: For every App, every Proto and every Card, read and write access can be defined individually. This guarantees flexible access by maximal security.
• The data model can be changed anytime. Thanks to the usage of document oriented databases, this flexibility is available even on running systems!
• Backups are done automatically to avoid data loss.
• Flexible integration into existing systems: All data of an application can be read and written by external systems using the JSON-API.
• Single-page application: The entire logic for displaying the user interface is located on the client, so that server requests are as lightweight as possible and the screen load for the user is instantaneous - just like with a native application. As a result, the general performance in version 2.0 has once again been significantly improved compared to version 1.8.
• Interfaces and data migrations: Entire datasets can be easily and automatically imported into the application using import connectors.
• Risk-based authorization and step-up authentication
• Functionality for automated pseudonymization of data sets, e.g. for archiving or to generate test data
• Possibility to implement background agents with JavaScript, which can execute a defined logic when a certain state occurs
• Mutation history for all cards in which it is possible to trace who made each individual data change and when
• Pivot tables respectively functionality for the aggregation of any data
• Functionality to copy entire tables to the clipboard
• Sending mail directly from Protogrid Apps
• Automatic calculations with the data based on predefined formulas
• Integration of "OpenID Connnect" and "Active Directory"
• Rich Text support
• Workflow engine
• Import and Export of entire Protogrid apps or a subset of their Cards

Upcoming Enhancements

The following enhancements are comming soon. Would you like to see something else prioritized, or have something in this list moved up? Please let us know.

• Neural (i.e. semantic and natural language) search using an LLM
• Function for localizing similar Cards using an LLM
• Translation function for any content using an LLM
• Rewriting/optimizing text content using an LLM
• Possibility to talk to the data in the app (i.e. retrieval augmented generation) using an LLM
• End-to-end encryption for particularly confidential data
• Integration with external file hosting services such as Nextcloud
• Freely defineable Card icons

A Reliable Partner

Meet the Team

Protogrid is being developed by members of the highly motivated and qualified Cloud Innovation Team of ATEGRA AG, Zürich, Switzerland.