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