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Catalyticsoft continues to offer consultancy services as an adjunct to their product offerings and as their product continues to evolve and be enhanced based on learnings from previous engagements - so does the savings for their clients.

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Real World Performance

Since 2003 Catalyticsoft have demonstrated the power of their approach through their consulting practice. This has led to significant savings in timeframes and associated costs for the development of applications for their client. Analysis of work to date indicates an increase in productivity of a factor of 10 through the use of automation when compared to traditional, manual coding techniques across the life cycle of a range of projects.

One metric that can be used to highlight the dramatic differences between traditional development and development using Catalytic Automation Technology (CAT) is to look at the Commented Lines of Code produced per hour across a real world application. It should be highlighted the Commented Lines of Code is not a perfect metric because it does not take into account the utility or complexity of the code or indeed the quality of the code. However, given that these are real world applications that are now in use, or will be shortly in use, the metric is a useful starting point. Because the code created has been pre-tested the use of CAT Accelerator also reduces testing and inspection time for any given application - that is CAT Accelerator leads to higher quality while reducing development times - two metrics which are traditionally in conflict.

Various studies have indicated that average numbers of commented lines of code per hour for development teams range between 10 and 85, depending on the nature of the coding assignment and the language being used. The Personal Software Process Overview, Watts, Humphrey, The Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213).

Here are some comparatives using CAT Accelerator and Catalyticsoft's CAT technologies and methodologies with some of our clients:

www.itrust.com.au - Web 2.0 based directory for finding and reviewing trusted services.

iTrust's founders sought proposals for development of their web portal which was to initially service the Australian market and then be replicated as a global offering. iTrust were faced with spending several hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of development effort if they followed the offered traditional development approaches and had indeed sort quotations from other companies prior to our meeting.

Microsoft introduced iTrust to Catalyticsoft who were able to transform both the costs and timeframes through the use of CAT Accelerator. This significant enterprise level application is showing sub-second response times with millions of records and has been built using .NET 2.0 and leverages Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX. It is now live and has had 7 months of development effort with one developer and one project manager, and has cost the founders a fraction of the price tag that would have been required to develop the application using traditional approaches.

Statistics to date show 819 hours billed which represents an average of 943 Commented Lines Of Code per hour. This was achieved with one developer and one project manager. If manually written assuming the upper range of 80 Lines of Code Per Hour this would have taken 12,033 hours.

www.mainpac.com.au were initially introduced to Catalyticsoft by Microsoft. Catalyticsoft used their automation technology to produce a rapid prototype of some elements of Mainpac's Asset Management system in C# with one days coding effort. Following this Mainpac contracted Catalyticsoft to help them produce their new Enterprise Asset Management System and to develop a new Health Care application.

Mainet - Enterprise Asset Management

Mainpac had an existing team of six Delphi developers working on the new Delphi version of their product, with a Paradox backend, over a 2 year period. Towards the end of this two year period Catalyticsoft were contracted to produce a parallel version in C# using ASP.NET and a new Microsoft SQL Server backend. This product is known as Mainet. With a team of 2 and a 1/2 developers utilizing early versions of CAT they were able to catch up and then exceed the functionality of the Delphi application in six months. Mainet is being distributed across the globe. Later work with Mainpac included the development of some revolutionary approaches to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) which allowed functionality to be turned off or on or routed to an alternative web based provider.

Connect2Care - health care application for hospitals at home.

Mainpac also has connections into the Health Care industry and contracted Catalyticsoft to help them develop their new entry into that market - Connect2Care - an ASP.NET application which focused on helping health care providers provide hospital care in the home. This enterprise level application was created with just under six months development effort. In this case Catalyticsoft were able to leverage an early version of CAT Accelerator to greatly reduce, development timeframes and associated development costs.

920 hours billed

Commented Lines Of Code per hour: 448

Estimate if manually coded at 80 Lines Of Code per hour: 7,614

www.compops.com.au - Catalyticsoft was contracted by Microsoft to provide a jumpstart to assist ComOps in creating a PocketPC version of their internationally recognised Sales Automation Management (SAM) suite of products.

Over a weekend utilizing CAT and working with the internal development team, Catalyticsoft developed a functional prototype that was then demonstrated to a client at 11:00am on the following Monday. We then worked with ComOps to develop version 1.0 of the Pocket SAM product in a two week period. This represented 60 billed hours of work and produced 4,799 Commented Lines Of Code per hour. Estimate if manually coded at 80 Lines of Code per hour: 5,077.

Catalyticsoft also develop web services to provide integration with the server based SAM product - this was known as Pocket SAM WebSync. This was produced with approximately 20 hours of effort and represented 5,281 Commented Lines Of Code per hour. Estimate if manually coded at 80 Lines of Code per hour : 1,970.

www.informationsafe.com.au - Information Safe contracted Catalyticsoft to develop their online Personal Information Safe - in essence an online safety deposit box for essential information and key documents. This was a substantial new product offering requiring significant levels of security to ensure the safety of their client's information. In this case the application includes challenge response two factor authentication, encryption of stored data and uses https.

The application was developed over an extended period of time however actual effort to complete the application to its initial public release was 454 hours (averaging 1,232 lines of code per hour) - much of this time being spent on integration with the third party challenge response system and integration with the PayPal subscription engine and associated manual payments system.

If manually coded then the application would have required approximately 6,993 hours of effort assuming 80 lines of code per hour.

Here what some of our cusomters are saying:

Definitely "Best of Breed" for .Net Code Generation
Stewart Whiteside

Pros: All I can say about this product is
"What an excellent piece of work"
I have found nothing else like it currently available within the .Net environment.

It will take your normalised database and QUICKLY generate a fully functioning and useful Web Application in just a few keystrokes. And when I say a fully functioning, I am talking about something that you could give to your users.

It is possible to reduce months of work down to days by employing the powerful features that this product gives you.

The Main features that I really like are:

During the Generation Phase you have a lot of control of the final generated result, you have access to many attributes that will dictate how the various GUI controls will work, and you can also exploit a number of the AJAX features that are currently in vouge.

Once the code is generated and running there is:

A menu Structure that is easily managed, i.e. New Items can be added, Menu Items can be rearranged

Built in asp_Membership for assignment of users

Built in Roles Management so that Pages and Menu Items can be locked down to nominated roles

Ability to change Labels, Look and Feel, display formats, columns displayed, etc, etc, etc.

The finished application follows the usual List/View/Edit theme that most users are familiar with so training the user how to use the running application should be an easy task.

I highly recommend this product.

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Excellent tool for generation of ASP.NET applications
Ricardo Vessi

Pros: We are a software development company that uses dotNet technology as the main development platform and we had a project that required the use of a Rapid Development tool. We looked around and found several generic rapid development tools that are able to generate code for different platforms. Unfortunately, those tools were constrained by the common functionality available in the different platform. We wanted a tool that was able to take advantage of the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 and that offered commitment to new functionality to come in future releases of ASP.NET.

We found CAT Accelerator to be the tool that satisfied our requirements. The features that we liked are:

1) It creates code that conforms with Microsoft Best Practices.

2) The code generated is well documented.

3) It uses the latest features of ASP.NET

4) It has several areas called CAT Preservation Regions where we are able to put our own code and it is preserved through the re-generation of the files.

5) It has new controls as pop-ups and trees to populate fields.

6) The security and tayloring of the pages is a very simple and logic process.

7) The final user is able to change some of the conditions without having to re-generate the code.

We do not hesitate on recommending CAT Accelerator for the generation of ASP.NET Applications.

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Amazing productivity for .Net applications using the CAT Accelerator
Dr Tom Earle

Pros: When Catalytic Software asked us to be an early adaptor of the Cat Accelerator we thought we needed to put it through its paces with a real application requirement.

We had a need to build an application for managing SMSFs (Self Managed Super Funds). After conducting the requirements analysis, we developed the data base design and found that it contained 62 tables. This application would be a significant size to build if we hand coded it (3-6+ months of development).

On the first time through, it took us 2 days to generate the application version as we were learning how to use. But in 2 days we had something to show to users to test the validity of requirements.

Having learnt the tool, we overlayed our model based development methodology (GRID) on CAT Accelerator to allow fast cycle iterative development.

Because of some issues with a Vista upgrade we had to completely rebuild our test machine for CAT accelerator. This resulted in scrapping all our previous work including the CAT Accelerator generated code, the SQL Server and the SQL data bases. We needed to reinstalled SQL, and the CAT Accelerator.

In just one day?s effort, using model based development approach, we created a new database, populated it with test data, and used the CAT accelerator to generate a new application and deployed it to the web server. WOW!!!

Having had this experience, we decided to see how far we could go without writing code. Using Cat Accelerator, Reporting Services and SQL Integration Services, we were able to develop a Web application that imported data from external applications and provided the necessary reports without hand crafting writing a single line of C# code. Amazing productivity!

Dr Tom Earle

Managing Partner

e2a Pty Ltd

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