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.