Shandon Business Solutions is the sole distributor of the sembleware tool, Visual Welder, in Sub Saharan Africa. Because of this sembleware framework and our streamlined methodology, we have taken a "modular" approach to the construction of mission critical client server applications and web solutions. This tool has enabled Shandon to deliver systems in a marked reduced time frame.
Shandon assembles, applications by re-using these prefabricated, modularised components, resulting in rapid delivery of highly maintainable, extensible and scalable systems with sustainable functionality thereby cutting costs and speeds up delivery.
Visual Welder is an add-in for Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net, said Anthony King, sembleWare's chief executive officer. King said the product is essentially a construction and assembly tool that replaces the typical software development paradigm with an assembly one.
"We should be building software like you build a car, with an assembly paradigm rather than a development paradigm," King said. "We need to reduce software to parts and then we would have the ability to snap these things together," he added.
King said Visual Welder implements its design pattern in a three-dimensional environment via a feature called its Spatial Editor, where developers can assemble applications out of parts, view entities and relationships, and preview screens.
The component assembly process saves time and money, King said. Yet, he said sembleWare's approach differs from the typical reuse of components such as those sold by Atlanta-based ComponentSource Inc. Instead, unlike traditional components, the "parts" King refers to include business software and core functionality, such as an invoice, a billing system or contact management system.
"We said let's take the paradigm of components and crank it up a notch," King said. "A 'part' is actually something like portions of a screen, or a database or business logic. So when you put together the parts you get a fully designed system."
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