Reducing Development Time
The Foundation Suite development environment was originally built to enable BrickSimple to compete cost-effectively with offshore labor. The most significant factor in achieving cost-competitiveness using US-based developers is to dramatically decrease development effort. Foundation Suite exceeded our expectations. Not only have we averaged a huge 70% compression in development time for our projects to date, but we deliver the applications with fewer developers. Even if offshore can compete on cost, no organization using any number of frameworks or tools has come close to matching our actual time to delivering production-ready software. Compare a traditional Java development cycle with Foundation Suite.
Compressing development time is attributable to three primary factors:
- XML is leveraged to define screens, workflows, rules and application behaviors. By abstracting development to a single XML layer, application development is simplified and most compiling is eliminated.
- Rich library of widgets, actions and rules, and reusable "bricks", which can be readily accessed from the XML definitions.
- Rapid Prototyping and Frequent Delivery are enabled by Foundation Suite . Customers review working versions of their software within a few weeks of project start, and consistently throughout development, a process we call Frequent Delivery.
By using a combination of innovative development technologis coupled with accellerated development methodologies, BrickSimple consistently delivers web-based software applications in less time, and at less cost, than other outsourced software companies.