Sterling Software Applications Development Division celebrates eleven years of model-based development with its flagship product COOL:Gen. In 1987, COOL:Gen, then IEF, became the first model-based application development tool to support 100% code generation. The product has grown from the early days of block-mode, mainframe application support, to n-tier client-server, and today supports both leading-edge component-based development and Web-based applications. COOL:Gen continues to be acknowledged as the industry`s leading enterprise-scale application development environment. Sterling Software proudly congratulates its customers on over a decade of successfully building and deploying business critical systems. As Sterling Software moves into the next era of enterprise application development, the company offers an entire portfolio of integrated products that are model-based, including business modeling, data modeling, object-oriented analysis and design and component interface modeling tools. With the proven successes of both Sterling Software`s customers and the COOL products, the company plans to extend its model-based, code generation paradigm into the world of Java early next year. "Over the last eleven years, our customers have had the foresight to see the value of a model-based approach to application development," said Mark Theel, President of Sterling Software`s Applications Development Division. "Last week, at our annual customer conference, we were very excited to hear customers talk about their success with COOL:Gen. They are building and assembling components, developing distributed applications, re-deploying to new platforms at the click of a button, delivering business applications to the Web, and using patterns to speed up the whole development process. This has all been made possible through leading-edge technology and the fundamental premise of working from models." "Missouri State Highway Patrol relies heavily on model-based development. We use COOL:Gen for our enterprise-wide development, and from the day we implemented the technology, we have not kept a single line of source code. This shows how confident we are in COOL:Gen`s ability to deliver 100%, error-free code from the models we develop," said Gerry Wethington, Director of Information Systems Division, Missouri State Highway Patrol. "Over the last six years, we have proudly participated in the evolution of COOL:Gen and look forward to utilizing the whole set of COOL products from Sterling Software." "We believe in the model-based approach to application development", said Patty McErlane, Director, MAXIMIS, Unisys Corporation. "For the last seven years, we have used COOL:Gen`s model-based development environment to successfully generate 100% of the online code for both the MVS/DB2 and UNIX/Oracle versions of our commercial investment management system product." "Huntington National Bank was one of the first users of this technology," said John Voss, Chief Technology Officer. "We built COOL:Gen applications ten years ago that ran in a mainframe environment and, from the original business specifications, we`ve re-deployed, first to client-server and now to the Web, without having to re-write any code - this was all made possible by COOL:Gen`s model-based approach." "Bank Urquijo has been using COOL:Gen for six years and have developed many corporate applications with it. The model-based development and the 100% code generation have allowed Bank Urquijo to reduce the resources dedicated to development and maintenance of these applications," said Julian Ariza, Information Systems Vice President, Bank Urquijo, Spain. "Emery Worldwide, who has used COOL:Gen for three years depends on the capabilities of this model-based development tool to deploy applications in a technologically advanced and diverse environment while hiding this complexity from the development teams," said Cindy Stoddard, Vice President, Information Systems. "To be competitive, Emery must be able to take advantage of emerging technologies and to adapt quickly to changing business needs. COOL:Gen allows us to deploy and integrate software in our n-tier environment accessing data stores in DB2 and Oracle on MVS, SUN/Solaris and Windows NT platforms. Robust COOL:Gen business servers integrate easily with thin client front ends using ActiveX COM Proxies generated by the tool. The future direction of the COOL:Gen product lines ensures that we will keep ahead of the technology trends." "MTW is proud to have played a role for seven of the last ten years in support of Sterling Software`s COOL:Gen customers around the world in the development of mission critical information systems, and we are even more excited about the next ten," said Ed Ossie, President, MTW Corporation." "Castek has grown 80% compounded annually over the last eight years by delivering applications and component based solutions using a model-based, 100% code generation approach from Sterling Software," said Dragan Kopunovic, Chairman of the Board, Castek Software Factory. "The SABRE Group has been utilizing COOL:Gen`s model-based, 100% code generation for several years in the development of applications in the areas of finance, human resources and marketing," said Mark Zahorik, Vice President, Applications Development at The SABRE Group. "In 1992, Chevron selected COOL:Gen, nee IEF, for use by application groups wishing to do code generation based on model driven development. It`s ability to generate 100% of an application based on models was a key factor in its selection," said Bryan McElderry, Staff Technical Analyst, Chevron Information Technology Company. "Since then, model driven COOL:Gen development has proved successful with code generation for applications running on a variety of platforms using several different IT architectures." "EDS has endorsed a model-based approach to application development for many years," said Tim Brunker, Implementation Manager for EDS` Meta Vance Payer Portfolio. "For the last six years we have used COOL:Gen`s model-based development environment, which successfully generates 100%, error-free code to multiple platforms and have been very pleased with the results achieved." "Arizona Public Service has been using COOL:Gen (and its predecessors) for more than five years. We have had great success doing model-based applications development. We are generating 100%, error-free code and our developers truly enjoy working with the COOL:Gen tool. Our COOL:Gen application is executing over 40,000 transactions daily and we have been very pleased with the results," said Wendy Greess, IT Manager for Arizona Public Service. "The consultants at CASE Masters have been working with model-based development tools such as COOL:Gen since 1987. Our experiences at both customer sites and within our own development labs demonstrate that the COOL:Gen product, especially from a server/component perspective, is a powerful solution," said Jeff Spector, Principle Partner, CASE Masters. "We are very pleased to work have worked with so many important Japanese companies over the years and to see their successes with COOL:Gen," said Yoshimi Ogawa, Country Manager of Sterling Software, Japan. "We are proud to say that companies such as Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Motor Corporation, Nippon Steel Corporation, The Japan Atomic Power Company and Takasago Therma Engineering Co., Ltd. have been using the model-based, 100% code generation capabilities of COOL:Gen for between two to seven years." The COOL Product Portfolio COOL:Gen (formerly Composer and IEF) is the proven, long-time industry-leading application development environment for the Enterprise and is part of the COOL product family. Developers can go from business understanding, captured in COOL:Biz, to application development using COOL:Gen or COOL:Jex. When taking a component-based approach developers can specify components in COOL:Spex and use COOL:Gen for implementation and assembly.
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