Servoy, Inc., a leader in SaaS/PaaS development, has introduced Servoy 4.0 that enables one code base for both desktop and Web applications.
Servoy 4.0--now an Eclipse plug-in--is a major upgrade from all previous versions of Servoy, enabling Servoy developers to produce even better, more powerful enterprise-level applications using a standards-based IDE (integrated development environment). Eclipse is the industry standard IDE for building and testing software applications.
"Servoy 4.0 is all about productivity and connectivity," said Bob Cusick, managing director of Servoy USA. "Servoy's professional development and deployment environment enables ISVs and companies to build rich SaaS business applications that can be deployed to the desktop, browser, and over the internet--with a single code base."
Servoy is a cross-platform application development and deployment environment used to create and deploy applications. Servoy consists of a powerful GUI designer, is fully event-driven, and scriptable through JavaScript to help build and deploy applications much faster than traditional development environments.
According to Ray Valdes, research director, Gartner in Management
Update: Rich Internet Applications Are the Next Evolution of the Web: "Modern business-to-business and business-to-consumer IT demands dictate the need for immediate access to real-time information and processes in a manner that has truly revolutionized business models across numerous markets. The traditional Web model has extraordinary reach but lacks the rich user experience needed in many application categories, ranging from business intelligence to customer relationship management, to e-retail, and more. A solution is required that benefits from the best of both of these worlds."
Today, over 100,000 companies, and more than 20,000 developers, are working with the Servoy product suite. Companies like Symantec, Stanford University, Wells Fargo, Verizon and UCLA Hospital rely on Servoy for managing data and presenting it to their customers and employees through rich applications over the LAN, WAN, and Internet connections. They have successfully used Servoy to transition their products to SaaS-on time and on budget.
Recently, in an eWEEK review http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Reviews/Servoy-Blurs-the-Line-Between-Web-Apps-and-Desktop-Apps/ (July 1, 2008), Servoy 4.0 received high marks: "For those tired of maintaining separate code bases for Web and desktop applications, Servoy offers a way to consolidate those code bases and cut development time in half," and "...most anything can be accomplished with Servoy." The reviewer concluded, "Developers will find that Servoy does live up to its promises of code free application generation that can be deployed in a number of ways and will find the product a powerful ally for creating custom applications for both internal and external use."
New Features
Servoy 4.0 has many new and greatly enhanced features and functionality, including:
Eclipse plug-in: Servoy 4.0 is now an Eclipse plug-in. Eclipse--an open source, free, extensible development framework--is the most widely used industry standard IDE (integrated development environment) for building Java applications, Web applications and more.
Form inheritance: In Servoy 4.0, a Servoy form can be inherited from another parent form within a solution--eliminating the need to duplicate forms with similar functionality.
Form variables: Servoy 4.0 form variables enable developers to define a variable in the context of a form, rather than having to define multiple application-wide "global variables"--resulting in even more efficient/less coding in Servoy methods, streamlining Servoy developments.
Live client debugging: Servoy 4.0--as an Eclipse plug-in--means that developers can have very powerful LIVE debugging in both Servoy Smart Client (client/server) and Servoy Web Client (via a Web browser).
Enhanced scripting environment: Servoy 4.0 within the Eclipse framework enables developers to set custom preferences when creating/editing Servoy methods, such as: auto-commenting; auto-indenting of code; automatically adding a semi-colon at the end of each line of code; developer-defined code coloring; enhanced auto-completion of code; conditional/persistent breakpoints in debugging; and much more.
Menubar plugin: In Servoy 4.0, the new built-in Menubar plugin enables developers to control all Servoy menus; all window menus; and even create custom toolbars in a Servoy solution.
Design broadcasting: With Servoy 4.0, when developers change the design of any form in the Servoy 4.0 Form Designer, they can instantly view that change without having to exit and relaunch Servoy Smart Client or refresh Servoy Client.
Edit multiple objects: Servoy 4.0 enables developers to easily and quickly edit multiple objects at a time including, Servoy forms, Servoy methods, value lists, table definitions, etc.
Team synchronization: Servoy 4.0 offers full support for CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and SVN (Subversion), the more flexible revision control system and successor to CVS--enabling multiple Servoy developers in any location to check in/out objects, create multiple versions, and view the differences between solution versions.
Servoy has also recently received mention from several leading analysts within the PaaS/SaaS space, including the Yankee Group and Aberdeen.
According to the Yankee Group: "If a business application is for a specific type of user using only one type of device in areas where networks aren't available, it isn't an "anywhere" Web application-and therefore it should be a native mobile implementation. Even in this case, some businesses may have their cake and eat it too. Servoy's 4GL application development environment can support both Web-based and native mobile clients from a single code base." (Source: Yankee Group Research, Inc., "Building the Anywhere Web," May 2008)
According to the Aberdeen Group: "A recent Aberdeen Group study of 100 companies shows legacy application migration costs are at a median of $250,000. For smaller companies with tight budgets, large enterprises with many applications, and ISVs with limited R&D budgets, the key to economic efficiency is migration technology efficiency. Servoy's program can help ISVs get and stay on today's technology curve without spending a fortune," and "Servoy has a better software development mousetrap for quickly building applications while still relying on industry standard JAVA, SQL, XML. Where programmers productivity is an issue, Servoy shines."
User Success
adBlocks (http://www.adblocks.com/) is the premier developer of workflow automation solutions for the advertising sales industry. Founded in 1994, its Sales Force Automation (SFA) solution, adSails, maximizes efficiencies and drives incremental revenues for the ad sales operations of some of the largest media companies in the world, including TimeWarner Cable, Comcast Spotlight, and Charter Media. adSails has become a solution for over 60 percent of the cable industry and is now used to sell outdoor, internet, magazine, and digital media advertising. Using Servoy, a team of five adBlocks developers reengineered in less than nine months much of what had been done over a decade of continuous programming. "There is simply no way we could have done this without Servoy," according to adBlocks' president, Michael Phelps. "In fact, Servoy turned out to be a more rapid and powerful development platform than I had imagined." Added COO Jon Safford, "We were really struggling to deliver the larger deployments that our marketplace increasingly demands. Now, we have a truly scalable solution."
Community Edition
With the release of 4.0, Servoy now offers a free Community Edition. A free developer's license and five concurrent user licenses make it easy for developers to try the product in a fully unlocked manner. "The spirit behind our community edition is to allow developers to create demos, proof-of-concepts and show the power of Servoy," said Brenda Duncan, marketing director. "It's also meant to allow non-profit agencies, education and government the means to write applications that will be used by less than five people-- without having to pay the $2,600+ that the community edition would cost full retail."
About Servoy
Servoy BV http://www.servoy.com/ is an international firm that creates a powerful hybrid (SaaS and on premises) development and deployment platform used by ISVs, businesses and consultants in over 50 countries. Features of Servoy include Eclipse, AJAX, HTTP tunneling and secure-by-default security features. With one-code base, ISVs can deploy to the Web or on premises, Smart Client and/or browser on any platform that supports Java--as well as to any SQL database. It is the logical choice for all ISVs. For more information visit: http://www.servoy.com/ or http://www.servoy.com/servoyworld/main.jsp for ServoyWorld 2008, Servoy's fourth annual, international conference for developers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Sept. 2-5, 2008, in Las Vegas.
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