CodeFutures Press Releases

CodeFutures, the Java code generation tool vendor, today announced results in the third quarter, confirming the recent increasing momentum in sales. CodeFutures sales doubled in Q3 compared with the previous quarter, mainly due to the launch of its flagship FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition, repeat business from existing customers, and a marked improvement in Information Technology investment.

The award-winning FireStorm/DAO makes Java software developers more productive by generating the business logic for accessing databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' code generation approach are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.

High profile customers added to CodeFutures' impressive customer list included Turner Broadcasting, EMC, AREVA, JP Morgan BankOne, Business Wire, and Siemens Business Services. Additional large systems integrators using FireStorm/DAO in customer projects included Agnitio Group, Ajilon, Ergo Integration, IDC Global, and Resource Consultants, Inc.

"We're particularly happy to add independent software vendors such as Brocade Communication Systems and Peace Software to our customer list because they tend to provide great product feedback" explains Andy Grove, CodeFutures Chief Architect.

CodeFutures also added two new government sector customers: Missouri Lottery and the Canadian Institute of Health Information.

"We anticipate continued growth in sales through the end of the year, keeping pace with the renewed growth in the Java development market and increased interest in Java code generators" says Dan Froelich, VP Sales, CodeFutures.

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures' products are used by corporate Java software programmers for Java persistence in sectors such as television (BBC Technology, Turner Broadcasting), finance (Lehman Brothers, BACS), military systems (BAE, Lockheed Martin), government(Missouri Lottery, Port of Barcelona), IT consulting (Siemens Business Systems, LogicaCMG, BearingPoint), retail(MetCash, Ahold USA), high technology (EMC, Macromedia), and industry (Suzuki, AREVA).

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DSNet, the Ohio-based Web hosting services and consultancy provider, has completed a major overhaul of an eCommerce Web site using FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition to generate the Java code for a new data persistence tier directly from the database, without any manual Java programming.

DSNet started the project with an eCommerce system that was over 7 years old containing over 500,000 lines of code. The eCommerce Web site handles $10 million annual turnover and up to 400 concurrent users. Several consulting companies had been involved at different times, leading to a very chaotic data persistence architecture. “The chaos was almost exclusively centered on data access and data persistence” explains Cris Daniluk, Vice President of Technology, DSNet.

“DSNet was one of the first companies to take advantage of the advanced features in FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition. They have implemented a truly world-class solution” says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures.

“Firestorm/DAO saved us at least 300 hours of development in unifying the legacy data persistence code, developing test harnesses, implementing a caching subsystem, and eliminating bugs caused by out-of-sync data access code.” says Daniluk.

“A 400% return on investment was made on the project. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition paid for itself four times over in time savings alone in the first three months of use. The longer term cost savings will be substantially more as new functionality is added to the eCommerce site” explains Daniluk.

A full technical case study is available here:

www.codefutures.com/dsnet/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures' products are used by corporate Java software programmers for Java persistence in sectors such as television (BBC Technology, Turner Broadcasting), finance (Lehman Brothers, BACS), military systems (BAE, Lockheed Martin), government(Missouri Lottery, Port of Barcelona), IT consulting (Siemens Business Systems, LogicaCMG, BearingPoint), retail(MetCash, Ahold USA), high technology (EMC, Macromedia), and industry (Suzuki, AREVA).

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CodeFutures' Java database development tool, FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating the business logic for accessing relational databases. The result is lower development costs due to much less hand coding, fewer bugs and therefore less testing, and lower ongoing maintenance costs because there is less hand written code to maintain.

CodeFutures surveyed its customers to determine the cost savings achieved by generating rather than manually writing Java code. Dan Froelich, CodeFutures Vice President of Sales, reveals the survey results: "Every customer had a different story because every project is different, but estimates of time savings on enterprise projects were never less than 30%. Labor costs are usually the primary costs in a development project, so a 30% saving in developer time means a 30% saving in project costs. The cost savings can be much more - up to 70% if the project has a very large database."

Andy Grove, CodeFutures Chief Architect explains, "Generating code by definition is always going to be much faster than hand coding. FireStorm/DAO accelerates development projects by removing much of the manual coding portion of the design, code, and test development cycle." This is confirmed by Robert Peck, lead architect with Ahold USA, a leading food provider that operates more than 1,600 stores along the US eastern seaboard. "We have found that in a typical project, we reduce the project time by 30% by generating our data access layer. The reduction is a combination of initial development, testing, and debugging time."

FireStorm/DAO generates thousands of lines of Java code - ready for immediate use. "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." Tom Patterson, senior developer at Eoscene Corporation, the innovative decision support software vendor.

The FireStorm/DAO product range is priced from $195 per developer. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition is priced at $3,495 per developer. There are no runtime deployment licensing fees.

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures' products are used by corporate Java software programmers for Java persistence in sectors such as television (BBC Technology, Turner Broadcasting), finance (Lehman Brothers, BACS), military systems (BAE, Lockheed Martin), government(Missouri Lottery, Port of Barcelona), IT consulting (Siemens Business Systems, LogicaCMG, BearingPoint), retail(MetCash, Ahold USA), high technology (EMC, Macromedia), and industry (Suzuki, AREVA).

Labels: Data Access Object, Database Access Tool, FireStorm/DAO