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CodeFutures Cuts Software Development Costs By At Least 30% With Java Code Generator
Full press release available here:
/company/press/2004/10/5/Why is this Story Newsworthy?
- There is still a lot of pressure on corporate software development organizations to cut costs.
- Software development managers are looking for "quick wins".
- It's rare to have a technology product where an immediate return on investment can be calculated (simply ask the number of database tables in the project, calculate the number of hours of manual coding saved).
- Several CodeFutures customers have used code generation as an alternative to outsourcing.
Additional Customer Comments
The customer comments below are new and have not been used elsewhere. The comments are approved for use.
"I've been developing software for more than 10 years and at least 30 percent of that time has been spent writing code in the data access layer. FireStorm/DAO virtually eliminates coding data access, leaving much more time to focus on the business problem at hand."
James Bowling, Senior Software Engineer, SkyCreek Corporation
"FireStorm /DAO helped us to reduce the development time by around 30%. We have a lot of medium sized databases (MySQL, SQL Server) and writing the database access code for all tables used to be a nightmare. Using FireStorm/DAO writing database access code is a breeze."
Vinny George, IT Operations Lead, Carrera Communications
FireStorm/DAO has allowed us to write better applications in a shorter amount of time. Great product!"
Rodney Distler, Missouri Lottery
"We've found the code generated by FireStorm/DAO to be almost identical to hand written code we had already finished. The difference is that FireStorm/DAO takes a few minutes to do what could take several days of hand coding several days or even weeks. Because we were dealing with almost 300 tables, we achieved vast time savings.
Alex Shmelev, President, Alerois Corporation
"FireStorm/DAO is sold at a fixed price, with no hidden costs. On a project that was 3 months long, I estimate that we saved 200 hours of manual coding. Our return on investment was almost immediate."
Cris Daniluk, VP of Technology, DSNet
All comments are approved for use.
Additional CodeFutures Comments
"It's good to have a product where you can easily calculate an immediate return on investment - ROI. I often start a conversation by asking developers how many tables and views are in their database. Even a small database with 5 tables means a saving of a few hundred hours of manual coding." Dan Froelich, VP Sales, CodeFutures
"The long term costs of maintaining a custom code base is often overlooked. Developers change roles and move on. So when a change is required, it's often very time-consuming to update code that someone else has developed. FireStorm/DAO reduces this problem significantly. While it's not easy to forecast a precise cost saving, it's reassuring to know that when the need arises for changes, the cost will be less than if the code was written manually." Dan Froelich, VP Sales, CodeFutures
"FireStorm/DAO generates about 100,000 lines of Java code for a small database with 5 tables in a few seconds. After developers have seen FireStorm/DAO in action, there's just no way that they will want to write the code manually."
Andy Grove, CTO, CodeFutures
"The quality of the code generated by FireStorm/DAO is an important cost saving factor that is often overlooked. Developers spend a lot of time and effort of tracking down coding errors such as typos. FireStorm/DAO completely eliminates this cost."
Andy Grove, CTO, CodeFutures
FireStorm/DAO generates a complete application directly from a database. Database projects can almost go directly from database design straight to end-to-end testing. Not only does save a lot of money, but it presents opportunities for rapid protoptyping.
Andy Grove, CTO, CodeFutures
There's something almost magical about seeing hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code being generated in a few seconds. Writing all that code by hand is hugely costly and a complete waste of valuable development resources.
Andy Grove, CTO, CodeFutures
All comments are approved for use.
Frequently Asked Questions
Question: Where can I find screenshots?
Answer: A full tutorial with screenshots is available here:
Question: What cost savings were identified by CodeFutures customers?
Answer: A wide range of cost savings were identified:
- Initial coding costs are reduced by up to 70%
- Debugging costs are reduced, because "perfect" code is generated
- Testing costs are reduced, because the test cycle is much faster due to the quality of the code
- Change requests are cheaper to deal with, because database changes can be made and then the data access code regenerated
- Ongoing maintenance is much cheaper because there is a smaller hand written code base to manage
Question: Were the customer quotes used in the press release the full text?
Answer: The full-length customer quotes are:
"FireStorm/DAO streamlines the development of our Web-based applications. In seconds, it generates flawless code that could take development staff days to produce and then test. We also get the added benefits of a robust, consistent, and maintainable data access model, rather than hand-coded SQL statements throughout the code base."
Tom Patterson, Eoscene Corporation
"FireStorm/DAO has enabled us to focus more on our business functionality rather than the infrastructure code. We have found that in a typical project we reduce the project time by 30% generating our data access layer. The reduction is a combination of initial development, testing, and debugging time."
Robert Peck, Lead Architect, Ahold USA
Question: Are there any other approved customer comments on productivity and cost savings?
Answer: Cost savings are the primary benefit of CodeFutures' java code generation products, so customers have often offered comments on the subject.
Some additional approved customer quotes are:
"The key to successful software development projects is increasing productivity and removing unnecessary time and cost. Using FireStorm/DAO, our customer saved three months of development effort on a Web Services project by generating the persistence tier for a 500-table legacy database in a matter of minutes. Now that's productivity."
Annrai O'Toole, CEO - Cape Clear Software.
"Automatically generating code is always going to be much faster than hand coding. Using FireStorm/DAO is about twenty times faster for a database with 20 tables."
Jim Michael, CEO, 10 Squared Corporation
"My project was small, just a few tables, but still FireStorm/DAO saved me a week or more of work. And when your timeline is 2 months, that's extremely valuable. I found the tool easy and intuitive to use. And the support has been excellent."
Alan Bowsher of Cardinal Solutions.
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Andy Grove, CodeFutures Chief Technology Officer, is available to discuss industry issues such as software development tools, Java standards and specifications, software architecture, and Web Services.
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