CodeFutures Press Releases

CodeFutures has accelerated telecommunications application development for Carrera Communications with its award-winning FireStorm/DAO database access tool that generates the Java persistence code for accessing databases using the Data Access Object design pattern.

Carrera Communications offers local and long distance phone services to residential and small business customers. To provide the best possible customer service, Carrera Communications have developed online systems such as order processing, online payments, customer service help and live chat capabilities. Because telecommunications customer support systems are data intensive, database access is a key component of any new system that is developed. By automating development of data access, Carrera Communications has reduced development times, thereby providing costs savings and quicker response times to new business requirements.

"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

"The telecommunications industry is well-known to be data-intensive. We're very pleased that Carrera Communications is using CodeFutures FireStorm/DAO in so many mission critical applications" says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

FireStorm/DAO is available in Enterprise , Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates .

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
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FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
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About Carrera Communications

Carrera Communications offers local and long distance phone services to residential and small business customers, but the offerings don't stop there. We also offer internet service, voice mail service and low cost calling cards with high quality connections and no connect fees. Our goal is to provide our customers with great savings and high quality service. To tackle this goal we have developed online systems such as order processing, online payments, customer service help and live chat capabilities. Founded in the later part of 1998, Carrera Communications simply began by offering long distance phone service to residential and small business customers. By the end of 1999, we had expanded our product offerings to include local phone services to residential and small business customers. www.callcarrera.com

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

CodeFutures, the database access tool vendor, today announced results for the first quarter of 2005, confirming the recent increasing momentum in sales. CodeFutures had its best quarter to date, with over 50% quarterly sales growth and more than 10 times more Q12004 sales. For the first time, CodeFutures had significant volumes of new customers purchasing Architect Edition licenses. This is significant for CodeFutures because its sales cycle to date has involved customers initially purchasing Enterprise Edition licenses and then upgrading later.

CodeFutures continued to add high profile customers in Q1, such as Kraft Foods, Inc. CodeFutures has also made progress in new markets, such as signing Technology Reply in Italy and Trend S.p.a. High profile new government sector customers include the Deptartment of National Defence - Canadian Forces and the Government of Singapore's Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technology.

"What's particularly good about CodeFutures sales is that February 2005 was the best month on record. We hope that we can continue to avoid the traditional software industry sales cycle with most sales are made in the last few weeks of the quarter." says PJ Murray, VP Product Management, CodeFutures Software.

CodeFutures continues to make market progress with information technology consultancies using FireStorm/DAO to gain competitive advantage and reduce costs, including BT Applied Technologies and ENSCO, Inc. "Obviously, we're keen to promote the use of FireStorm/DAO within IT consultancies because they tend to provide good feedback about using FireStorm/DAO with a wide range of third-party databases and application severs." says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
/products/firestorm/download/

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 has announced support for the IBM Cloudscape and Apache Derby databases by its award-winning FireStorm/DAO tool that generates the Java persistence code for accessing databases. CodeFutures' code generation approach provides faster and cheaper application development, higher quality applications, and more predictable and consistent results. CodeFutures approach ensures that the focus of software developers is solving business problems.

"We've added support for Cloudscape and Derby due to customer demand. Since IBM contributed the Cloudscape code to the Apache Software Foundation in August 2004, both Cloudscape and Derby have gained a lot of supporters " explains Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

FireStorm/DAO generates Java source code and configuration files that developers would otherwise have to write by hand. FireStorm/DAO imports database schemas (from a SQL script or from a live JDBC connection) and generates a complete persistence tier based using a choice of Java persistence technologies (JDBC, EJB CMP, JDO, Hibernate).

The new release of FireStorm/DAO includes a database Schema Migration feature that makes it easier to migrate database schemas between different databases. Any SQL data types from the old database not supported by the new target database are automatically changed to the appropriate supported data types. This includes the Cloudscape and Derby data types, making it possible to migrate applications to these increasingly-popular databases.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:

/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:

/products/firestorm/download/

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