Cincom’s application development system, WebVelocity, is achieving great results. Delivering radical innovation in the web deployment of systems, WebVelocity brings the classic power of the Smalltalk development environment to the browser. With WebVelocity, you can design, develop and deploy your application from the browser.

Ernest Micklei, founder of PhilemonWorks and the first European customer for WebVelocity, has worked with Smalltalk for over 12 years and is very pleased with this latest development.

“It is really logical to see that if you have less technology, the development is easy and you can reuse components. You will then have cost savings, revenue enhancement and the productivity improves.” – Ernest Micklei, founder of PhilemonWorks.

After working with Java for a few years and switching to Cincom Smalltalk, Micklei has seen a 60% decrease in development time. This is attributed to the following factors:

• The dynamic Smalltalk language allows you to write less code to implement features.
• The interactive development environment (Smalltalk image) allows you to work in a short code-run-test-debug cycle without long rebuilds.
• Integrated deployment facilities of WebVelocity allow you to deploy faster and therefore more often.

Micklei sees WebVelocity as an integration of several components and products that have been made into a single web development environment. In the past, PhilemonWorks has had different technologies that require different development tools, but now WebVelocity has brought all of these together. Micklei is impressed that WebVelocity allows him to develop all of the applications in one environment.

What used to take PhilemonWorks five days to develop with Java, now takes them two days to develop with Cincom Smalltalk. WebVelocity’s language and frameworks, along with many other factors, attributes to this success.

• Click here to learn more about PhilemonWorks’ interactive 3D visualization.
• Click here for a presentation at the JAOO Conference, Aarhus 2009 – The Sky’s the Limit.
• Click here to learn more about Cincom WebVelocity.