Chameleon Overview

Chameleon is a general purpose data automation tool developed by Black Knight Technology. Chameleon allows developers to easily create custom tailored automation solutions in the form of Chameleon plug-ins. These plug-ins are quicker to develop than full stand-alone tools, because the Chameleon client provides a standard set of re-usable features such as GUI and command line interfaces, input validation, automatic updates, and more. The developer can practically write the business logic directly, and have a complete automation solution quickly. Chameleon plug-ins can do almost anything, including by not limited to testing, analysis, data conversion, data formatting, validation, and metrics calculation. Chameleon users will benefit in reduced training time, by having such a heterogeneous mix of functionality available from within the same easy-to-use client.

Key Features

• Openly adaptable via plug-ins written in .Net or Python
• Intuitive graphical user interface
• Efficient command line client
• Highly scalable
• Automatic updates on your LAN
• Full documentation
• Mature and stable

Chameleon has been in development and use since April 2005. Over this time, Chameleon has evolved into a stable and mature product capable of handling a wide variety of tasks. Chameleon itself is only limited by the plug-ins it has to run. Black Knight strives to provide complete, concise, and coherent documentation that makes using Chameleon and writing plug-ins for Chameleon as easy as possible.

Benefits

• Save on development - use Chameleon instead of rolling custom user interfaces for tools
• Common user interface reduces training and complexity
• Three degrees of automation come free (multiple files, multiple plug-ins, run automatically) - save time and reduce errors
• Easily leverage existing technologies and code

Chameleon makes your team better by not requiring that you reinvent the wheel. Let your developers concentrate on the hard stuff: developing algorithms, tests, and metrics. Chameleon supplies you with a ready to use, stable user interface. By framing the context of your project as a plug-in instead of a program, you can cut your work in half leaving more time to concentrate on the business logic and not the development (and headaches) of designing and implementing a full-fledged application. Further, the open plug-in architecture lends itself to sharing information (and work load) by sharing plug-ins. Now, others can easily benefit from your work, and you can benefit from the work of others.

Support

• Mailing list updates for new releases and milestones
• Bug tracker (usually receives a response in 1 business day or less)
• Access to plug-in source code upon request
• Online access to the Chameleon Plug-in API
• Online manual / in-tool help
• Direct email/phone support from a Chameleon developer

Chameleon is a fully-supported product. Between the mailing list, bug tracker, on- and offline help documentation, and direct support from our staff, our full-featured support network keeps you up and running.