MILPITAS, Calif., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Focus, a business strategy and software evaluation consulting firm announced today that it has completed a study that compares the developer productivity of building applications with Business Process Management (BPM) software and a traditional Java development environment.

Strategic Focus built a BPM application in each of the two development environments (BPM and Java IDE) following identical specifications then measured the time needed to complete each phase of the software life cycle. "Our key conclusion was that BPM software is a far more productive environment than Java if a company is trying to build a complex decision-intensive business process application," said Mr. Jay Prakash, President and Principal Consultant at Strategic Focus. "We had no set expectations going in; yet we were quite surprised by the significant differences not only in the development time but also in the maintenance time between the two environments."

Strategic Focus used PegaRULES Process Commander, a BPM software product from Pegasystems, Inc. of Cambridge, MA. It took 38% less time to build, deploy and test the application with Process Commander than with Java IDE. Furthermore, it took 58% less time to maintain or change the completed application.

Mr. Prakash noted, "The results of this study are not only beneficial to Pegasystems which sponsored the study but to all of the BPM software vendors."

A free copy of the 17-page white paper can be downloaded from http://www.pega.com/ or http://www.strategicfocus.com/ .

About Strategic Focus

Strategic Focus, founded in 1986, is a business strategy consulting and software evaluation firm based in Milpitas, California.

The company pioneered the concept and methodology of conducting hands-on evaluations of development tools, application servers, and other software products by professional software developers in 1993 with evaluations of CASE and Client/Server development tools -- well before other research firms jumped into the fray. Today, the company conducts evaluations of all the major components of the e-business platform including Portals, Integration Servers and Wireless Solutions. The firm is well known for its unique and in-depth approach to evaluating and benchmarking software products that many well known companies its services for product improvement, product planning, competitive analysis and marketing collateral.

The company's clients include some of the best known names in the computer and software industry in USA, Europe and Japan such as IBM, Oracle, BEA, Siemens, Sybase, Apple, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, NEC, HP, Symantec, Adobe, Cognos, SAP, Microsoft, Progress, Pegasystems, Reasoning, etc. as well as end users of Information Technology.

SOURCE Strategic Focus

/CONTACT: Jay Prakash of Strategic Focus, +1-408-568-3993, or jay@strategicfocus.com/

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