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Skyway Visual Workspace is a Model-driven Development and Deployment Platform for rapidly developing and deploying SOA-enabled J2EE applications.
This next generation development tool generates value by:
- Reducing software delivery cycles by 30% or more
- Using up to 50% less resources
- Developing & deploying applications up to 3 times faster
Skyway Software’s platform is currently saving money & time at successful companies like British American Tobacco, TD Ameritrade and Southern States.
Read on below, to discover how Skyway Software can help you acheive these same results and gain many additional benefits:
- Solving the problems of software delivery
- Tackling the issue of skills & knowledge transfer
- Accelerated implementation of new strategies, technologies & processes
- The flexibility of platform independent execution
- Complementary & seamless integration with existing tools & environment
To learn more about Skyway Visual Workspace, arrange a demonstration or purchase the products, please contact us.
| Solving the Problems of Software Delivery |
Industry analysts have for some time been highlighting the flaws in traditional development tools & processes. As greater demands are placed on IT to deliver 'more for less, and faster', a new approach is needed to enable IT to be more responsive to rapidly changing business requirements.
Skyway Software's unique solution is leading the way as a next generation development tool, providing both model-driven development & deployment. What sets Skyway Visual Workspace apart and excites industry analysts, is you are able to develop entire solutions using modelling, which is not only faster than coding but also standardises code quality.
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The combination of Skyway Software's innovative platform and modern, Agile-style development processes deliver capabilities that produce real results:
- customers are engaged throughout the development process improving the accuracy of solutions
- iterative methods speed up delivery to business users, more rapidly responding to their requirements
- prototypes are not thrown away but taken forward as the basis for development
- functional logic is validated as the model is built, eliminating many of the quality issues that do not surface until testing when using 'hand-cranked' code
- the common language of the model, facilitates collaborative working and improves communication across the delivery team
- the model-based application structure is SOA-centric, delivering flexibility and reuse across solutions
You can realise these savings and benefits from the first project onwards and our experience is that even greater savings can be achieved during software maintenance. |
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| Tackling the Issue of Skills & Knowledge Transfer |
One of the greatest challenges in IT today, is effective resource management. Recruiting and retaining staff with the right skills can be a difficult, and keeping the skillsets current to meet the demands of rapidly changing requirements can be a struggle as well as costly. Enforcing standards and attaining consistent quality is a further challenge.
Often the response to these problems is outsourcing. Cost considerations have also made off-shoring more widely accepted. However, neither of these options is without its own problems; the end result does not always result in cost savings or quality. |
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Skyway Software offers a solution by establishing a common language, standards and methods through the model-driven approach:
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- team members engaged in the development cycle share the common modelling language helping to eliminate misunderstanding, assumptions and misinterpretations that lead to deliverables not meeting business requirements, a problem often exacerbated when outsourcing or off-shoring
- model-based development results in unadulterated 'code' - there are no 'fingerprints' of individual developers or styles and the skill levels and experience of individuals is less of a factor as modelling results in more uniform quality
- the task of familiarising a developer with a software application is significantly quicker and easier as the model contains both the design and the documentation
- re-skilling staff to become productive J2EE developers is limited to learning the modelling techniques, where they can quickly apply their existing design expertise without needing to develop extensive J2EE coding knowledge
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| Accelerated Implementation of New Strategies, Technologies & Processes |
Software development and delivery is being transformed by new strategies, technologies and processes. For many organisations a service oriented strategy will establish a more flexible application architecture that will be more responsive to business change. Web 2.0 offers rich user interfaces for the next generation of software applications.
Implementing any new strategies or technologies always involves planning and some pain, and all too often the benefits are not realised until this process is complete.
Skyway Software can accelerate your journey and help you experience the benefits more quickly:
- software developed using Skyway Visual Workspace is moduler and service-centric, so all new applications can make a contribution to an SOA strategy plus re-use any existing services
- new services created can be published to existing Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or registries
- faster development cycles help to speed up adoption of SOA
- developers can deliver rich user interfaces and Web 2.0 content using the modelling techniques without the need to write any Javascript or XML transformations
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| The Flexibility of Platform Independent Execution |
Skyway seperates the business logic, encapsulated in the models, from the execution architecture, application server and database, which are only selected during the deployment phase of the projec, again using model-based techniques.
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This approach to development and deployment introduces incredible flexibility:
- development can commence even if the application architecture is unknown or yet built
- planning and implementation of the application architecture can run in parallel with development, saving considerable time
- a decision to change application architecture involves a simple re-deployment of the application, but no changes to the code
- existing deployed applications can take advantage of new versions or technologies by re-deploying the application as Skyway supports these new standards
- the model conversion engine, within Skyway Director, produces human-readable code, optimised for scale and performance for the application server & database selected
This flexibility to choose or change application architecture with zero development impact is the 'holy grail' of true platform independence. The platform chosen today may not be suitable in a years time; new technology investments usually involve costly migrations - Skyway delivers real flexibility and eliminates the time and cost required to change application architecture.
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| Complementary & Seamless Intergation with Existing Tools & Environment |
Skyway Visual Workspace provides open integration with your existing tools and IT environment.
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- existing java assets are easily incorporated into applications
- published services are simply integrated into the models
- Skway supports a wide range of J2EE application servers (JBoss, WebLogic, Webspere, SAPWAS)
- applications can be deployed on a wide range of RDMS (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, DB2 AS/400)
- existing data assets can be discovered to leverage existing assets within new logic and services
- applications are WSRP compliant and easily integrated into existing portals
Whilst for some organisations enterprise applications and pre-packaged products are central to their application strategy, Skyway has still proved an invaluable asset in providing composite applications, particularly for those pursuing a SOA strategy.
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Contact us to arrange a demonstration or request further information on Skyway. |
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