Application Developers

Who Benefits

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  Business Leaders

  CIOs & IT Leaders

  ISVs & Service Providers

  Sales & Marketing Leaders

  Application Developers

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

What’s the best way to spend your time on your web-based application development projects? Is it to solve core business challenges or add more user interaction, more reporting features, and reinventing other aspects of the software? If you have a long list of development duties, you probably opt for only what’s necessary and leave the small stuff. But that small stuff is going to remain on the requirements list now and after every iteration.

The Business of Software Development

Traditionally, whenever developers were tasked with building a new application from scratch, you would almost always start with a relational database. To move quickly, you might adopt a framework like .NET or J2EE, or rely on a series of code-based initiatives.

Then developers had to design and build forms to populate and view the data, custom create workflow logic for information to make it into the system, or build rule engines to automate basic processes like email notifications and activity assignments. The app likely had to adhere to corporate security, so you would have to code that in as well. When the application needed data from another enterprise system, it was time to write a SOAP interface or some other connector. And if applications don’t include a report or dashboard engine, the onus is on the developer to extract custom reports or on end users to manually export data to a report writer or spreadsheet to make their business decisions.

To get the application online, architects have to create a sustainable multitenant infrastructure, or replicate the application across multiple instances.

In short, traditional development is like turning every application project into a full fledged software product.

And for the next application? Rinse and repeat.

Who wants to spend time on that? As a developer, do you want to spend time innovating to solve real problems, or reinvent the wheel?

The LongJump Business Applications Platform

LongJump’s business-rich application platform provides a complete development, deployment and hosting framework to deliver full-featured SaaS applications. Instead of coding common functionality, you build applications with objects that are infused with the business building blocks that every organization needs in addition to the data itself.

Data in LongJump is all stored in a relational database but incorporates customizable views, reporting, and form controls. These building blocks also include custom processing like data policies, validations, and workflows, as well as all the administrative safeguards larger organizations need. To take these apps to a new level of complexity, LongJump includes a rich set of developer tools for custom Java coding.

LongJump has made creating and hosting these applications for your business as easy as browsing the web. Not only will LongJump reduce your development cycle from months to weeks and enable greater organizational productivity, LongJump is a platform that will improve your organization's custom application strategy and save you money with every new app you build.

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