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Quick, Yet Accurate, Software Delivery Results with Skyway Software
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- Use modeling or coding to deliver functional RIAs and Web Services
- Validate requirements visually to reduce your SDLC by 30%
- Customers
Skyway Visual Perspectives is a breakthrough model-centric technology that allows organizations to rapidly develop and deploy RIAs and Web Services across the enterprise significantly faster and more accurately than ever before. By encouraging a workspace development approach where customers and developers work together in an iterative and interactive manner, business requirements turn into quality applications that meet the needs of the customer on the first release.
Business Benefits of Using Skyway Visual Perspectives
- Accuracy
Skyway’s model-centric, graphical development and deployment workspace enables developers and their customers to prototype business requirements collaboratively with their customers in almost-real-time. Quick iterations allow customers to participate and guide prototypes in the right direction from the beginning. Developers are then able to impose accuracy into the development process at the beginning of the project, thereby ensuring the right solution is delivered to the customer the first time.
- Productivity
As the developer and customer work together prototyping the business requirements, a standard JEE application is beginning to form. When the prototype is deployed to test its adherence to the business requirements, a well behaved standard Java application is generated. Unique to Skyway, this generated prototype may or may not require additional development to become the production application. Blending the lines between prototyping and development allows the solution to be placed into the customer’s hands significantly faster than via traditional methods.
- Flexibility
Skyway Visual Perspectives creates a shared space where developers and customers leverage work performed by any individual on the team because the models are managed in a single place, allowing them to be viewed, used as templates, or reused altogether in a completely different application. Collaboration ensures that distributed development teams can pass requirements, specifications, and models between Teammates without concern for geographic location. Using Skyway Visual Perspectives, organizations now have flexibility over how they structure their development teams without the fear of miscommunication or incomplete hand-offs.
- Economy
Unlike existing application delivery tools, developers now can interactively prototype (using Skyway Visual Perspectives) along side their customer to easily turn their prototypes into production applications of the highest quality at the lowest cost -- and do so a rate that is significantly faster than ever before.
Use modeling or coding to deliver functional RIAs and Web Services
Rapid Application Development with Next Generation Modeling
Skyway Builder allows developers to construct quality SOA-based business applications and services graphically, through a model-centric development and deployment approach. Skyway Visual Perspectives takes modeling applications much further than the traditional model-driven design tools of the past. Traditional Model Driven Design tools stop short of achieving the final goal of offloading coding and these tools simply provide a framework for the application that developers must fill in with custom coding, whereas Skyway Visual Perspectives delivers completed JEE applications.
Build Rich Internet Applications Faster using Familiar Tools
Skyway Visual Perspectives integrates popular HTML editors like Dreamweaver, so that the developer does not have to exit and enter many different development platforms in order to build a complete web application. Skyway Builder tackles the automation of the business logic in addition to automating the standard and predictable parts of the application such as input and output. In addition, Skyway Visual Perspectives has automated the creation of applications that require rich user interfaces and the implementation of Web 2.0 capabilities. Skyway Visual Perspectives also automates the process of connecting the UI with the business logic – a task that has historically been tedious, manual and brittle.
Provide Quality Release Engineering via Automation and Control
With Skyway Visual Perspectives, software release engineering teams use a graphical interface to generate the application and deploy it natively across chosen application servers and databases. No longer is there a need to create handed-coded scripts for deploying distributed applications. And equally significant is Skyway Visual Perspectives' unique ability to separate the business logic from its execution so that the deployment platform infrastructure (opensource and commercial databases and application servers) can be selected at a moment's notice -- and at the last minute. This compresses a significant portion of the development timeline since historically this infrastructure needed to be decided upon long before the actual application development process began.
Parallel Development and Planning Processes
Today with Skyway Visual Perspectives, the decision process for selecting deployment infrastructure can take place in parallel to the development of the application. And even more importantly, a decision to change the deployment infrastructure can be made at any time without affecting the application itself. A simple redeploy of the application (by pointing it to the new deployment infrastructure) is all that is needed. Finally, applications that must execute on multiple infrastructure deployment platforms can be supported by a single line of code.
Customer Proof of Value: Enporion
Enporion had no choice other than to move in a new direction. The commercial supplier for their exchange platform decided to take the product in a new direction and they were losing needed functionality with every software release. They made the decision to replace the commercial platform for one built internally. Using Skyway Visual Perspectives, Enporion developed and deployed their custom exchange faster and with significantly less resources than their previous platform supplier - the annualized cost savings is a staggering $3.8M.
“My developers tend to take Skyway’s capabilities for granted…….until they have to go to work in the other platforms. They look forward to returning to Skyway Visual Perspectives.”
Jim Garcia, CTO, Enporion
Validate requirements visually to reduce your SDLC by 30%
Turn Time into a Competitive Advantage
Skyway Visual Perspectives is not like model driven design techniques of the past, where models produced only use cases or high-level code skeletons and still required a lot of time to actually code the solution. Skyway Builder goes much further, where developers model the actual business functionality without worrying about the underlying code. Skyway Visual Perspectives itself then produces standard Java code from the models and that code can be compiled and deployed anywhere throughout the enterprise. This code-reduction aspect results in much faster generation of solutions, anywhere from 3x – 10x depending upon the skill of the developer.
Quality is Naturally Infused into Skyway-Built Applications
Skyway-built solutions also result in fewer defects and higher-quality code because JUnit tests are automatically created by Skyway Builder. Unlike manual coding, where the quality of a solution is limited by the weakest member of the development team, Skyway Visual Perspecitves generates efficient, optimized Java code that follows best practices, and consistently delivers high-end performance and scalability. Superstar developers become even more valuable to the enterprise by delivering solutions at a pace never before seen – while even average developers can deliver customer applications at superstar speeds.
Applications Now May Evolve with the Business
Applications that are developed using our model-centric approach - rather than hand coded - are far easier to maintain and enhance. The original developers don't need to stay purely around to maintain and enhance the code for a Skyway application; new developers become productive within weeks on a Skyway-based application instead of months on one that is code-based. This allows the original developers to move on to the next critical application, which are typically those that contribute most significantly to the business. This simplified transition from one developer to another also substantially mitigates the risks associated to attrition. IT organizations will no longer be crippled by the departure of a single resource who may have been the lead developer of a critical piece of business functionality.
Customer Proof of Value: Southern States Cooperative
The cooperative’s retailers were finding it difficult to react to competitive pricing pressure in their local markets, making them unable compete effectively. To solve this, Southern States had to modify their legacy ERP application with a flexible pricing model called “Zone Pricing”. They looked to the ERP vendor’s 4GL and were astounded at the delivery estimate for this enhancement. They turned to Skyway Visual Perspectives for the actual implementation once they compared both products closely. Southern States found that not only did they save $43K by reducing their time to deliver the application, but also made $402K by deploying the application 37% faster.
“The magnitude of the impact Skyway’s Visual Perspectives has on real business issues can be measured by our Zone Pricing project. Zone pricing is a critical issue for Southern States. If the price is not modified quickly, Southern States could lose a sale. The Zone Pricing project effort alone is projected to generate millions of dollars per year in revenue for Southern States.”
Karen Lankford, VP of Information Systems
Customers
Learn how our customers use Skyway Visual Perspectives to develop and deploy standard JEE, SOA-based applications faster than ever before – and how they are delivering these applications accurately across highly distributed environments and specifically for their particular firm or industry.
