DETROIT, April 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Uniface, the Application Development division of Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), today announced the availability of Uniface 9.4, enabling a very short time to market for rich Internet and mobile applications. Uniface 9.4 is the first step towards application development for and in the Cloud.
To drive revenues, decrease costs and achieve competitive advantage, businesses are increasingly turning to technologies or models like Web 2.0, RIA, Cloud, SaaS and SOA. As a result, IT organizations must increase their productivity when building applications that leverage these new technologies, while protecting the investments they have already made in people and process. The latest Uniface platform solves these problems by allowing existing development teams to build Web 2.0 applications at a higher level of abstraction, while requiring only one-half to one-eighth the lines of code needed by equivalent Java or .NET implementations.
Uniface 9.4 is available immediately and will be launched today at virtual conference www.icu2010.com. Over a 9-hour period, www.icu2010.com will follow the sun, from the Asia Pacific, to EMEA to the Americas, with three dedicated hours in each region with online Uniface 9.4 video presentations; live online chat with Uniface Product Management, IT analysts and key technical experts; and a Virtual Technical Campground.
This latest version of Uniface provides support for multi-channel deployment (including a wide range of mobile devices), as well as support for mash-ups, SOA and business process orchestration. With Uniface 9.4, the Rich Internet Application (RIA) approach is fully integrated using the Dojo toolkit to deliver efficient AJAX out-of-the-box. Although Uniface has always supported the renewal of applications, with Uniface 9.4 there is a new focus on Legacy Modernization, especially around the addition of localization and encryption, where the tool abstracts what is often complex technology from the much simpler business imperatives.
"Uniface has always impressed me as a development tool," said David Norfolk, Practice Leader, Development and Governance at Bloor Research. "And I believe that Uniface 9.4 could begin to revitalize Uniface as the "Rich Internet Application" development tool of choice for organizations that want to get up to speed quickly with efficient web- and cloud-based applications. The sort of productivity gains to be attained from a product such as Uniface, both in initial development and on-going maintenance, are significantly more substantial than those deriving from code-based development environments such as VisualStudio .NET, Eclipse and other IDEs. In addition, by implementing efficient AJAX under the covers, Uniface should help to address some of the efficiency and performance issues with much hand-crafted AJAX."
"A key trend we are currently seeing within the Application Development marketplace can best be summed by the phrase 'Back to the Future with Application Development Productivity,'" said Al Hilwa, Program Director for IDC's Application Development Software research. "Development environments that provide a productive, model-driven paradigm for rapidly constructing applications that maximize the reuse of enterprise business logic while leveraging new capabilities to support Web 2.0 and Cloud computing continue to be in great demand. Uniface appears to be well-positioned to meet this demand."
IQSYS, a Hungarian-based software company, has already deployed the first Uniface 9.4 Web 2.0 application, which is an online bus ticket system facilitating ticket purchasing across Hungary. According to Patricia Pongracz, Senior Software Developer, IQSYS, "Uniface is a super fast development environment and it has enabled us to deliver a Web 2.0 application in a fraction of the time it would take using any other development environment. I'm also really pleased that it saved us the headache of having our developers learn JavaScript. Overall, we love that Uniface allows us to continuously deliver next generation applications while supporting our legacy systems. Compuware Uniface is a great organization to work with because it delivers great technology, is customer-centric and supports us every step of the way."
"The whole Uniface world is very excited about Uniface 9.4," said Aad van Schetsen, Vice President Compuware Uniface. "We've had the most successful beta program in the history of the product, the IT analysts are enthusiastic about this Uniface release and its future direction, and Uniface customers worldwide are already enhancing and delivering business critical Web 2.0 applications with Uniface 9.4."
About Compuware Uniface
Uniface provides a model-driven, component-based, development environment with support for mobile computing, service-oriented and Web 2.0 developments. Uniface is the "Rich Internet Application" development tool of choice for organizations that want to develop at a high level of abstraction and get up to speed quickly with efficient web- and cloud-based applications. It also offers significant capabilities for leveraging legacy resources and bringing these to either Web 1.0 or Web 2.0 environments, as required. Learn more at www.uniface.com.
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