Information for Managers

Would you like to shorten your time to market and increase your product quality? Our customers such as Nokia have done this with MetaEdit+, and you can reap the same benefits for your organization. MetaEdit+ uses the power of Domain-Specific Modeling to automate the software development process. It allows your expert developer(s) to define the mechanism for automated software production:

• A domain-specific modeling language that describes your products: 
  A design language that is based on the concepts and rules of your products has more expressive power than one that is based on generic programming concepts, like for example UML. The increased expressiveness allow your developers to specify an application completely with a much smaller modeling effort. The better fit with your domain makes models easier to understand by all stakeholders, thus improving communication. The domain-specific rules in the modeling language prevent developers from making errors right from the start of the design stage.
• A code generator to turn the models into code: 
  Since the code generator is defined by your expert, it fits perfectly with your domain-specific modeling language and produces the same code he would normally teach developers to write by hand. Now all developers will produce this same, top quality, consistent code, automatically generated from their models. As the models are independent from the details of the code, you can target different languages or platforms simply by building new generators.

The key benefits of this approach are: 

• Productivity increases by a factor of 5-10: Shorter time to market
• Developers can concentrate on features and design instead of writing code manually
• Product quality improves significantly
• Full control over both modeling and code generation

Introducing DSM into your organization

Your expert developer already knows the general mappings from your application domain and requirements into code. He can define the DSM solution and evaluate MetaEdit+. To get his opinion, ask him to visit our Expert Developer page. 

At MetaCase we have extensive experience in automating software development and managing the organizational change involved. We provide experienced consultants who can help your experts implement domain-specific languages in MetaEdit+. After only a few man-weeks of work by your expert, your domain-specific modeling environment will be ready, and you can start reaping the benefits of automated software production. 

What you can do next 

• See our industry references
• Read what analysts say
• See our webcasts
• Download an executive summary [1.6MB PDF]
• Contact us to arrange a web meeting and demonstration for your team