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.
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