Johannesburg, 19 Jul 2012
Building on customer and market demand for closer collaboration in the development process between business and IT users, Microgen (LSE: MCGN), on 26 June, launched Version 4 (V4) of Microgen Aptitude, the firm's flagship enterprise application platform, with a new 3D Navigator module and Business User Diagrams.
Microgen Aptitude V4 enables business and IT teams to quickly and collaboratively design, develop and deploy business-critical applications on an in-memory, high-volume, transaction-processing platform.
The Microgen Aptitude platform provides an intuitive, graphical approach to development and the (full suite of) technology components required for application development. On a single platform, users can define business processes and rules, build application logic, integrate data, define database procedures and implement Web applications.
All of this can be done without the in-depth technical knowledge typical of other development approaches. These often require the use of multiple hieroglyphic coding languages or syntax-heavy software packages along with teams of IT specialists to develop and combine disparate technologies.
Implementing a new enterprise application, for example, typically requires many discrete development efforts: (1) Web development; (2) defining business rules; (3) database coding; (4) developing interfaces and APIs; and (5) integration of the four technologies used to perform the preceding tasks. IT development teams exert considerable effort just to co-ordinate this complex set of activities, adding cost and complexity to the development of enterprise applications.
By contrast, Microgen Aptitude V4 provides a route for enterprises to quickly exploit new opportunities or changes in market conditions, by enabling both business and IT users to work together to rapidly deliver new services and automate complex business processes.
3D visualisation redefines enterprise application development
The Microgen Aptitude 3D Navigator module allows business and IT teams - for the first time - to visually 'see' how all the processes and elements in an application fit together. Teams can dynamically interact with applications in real-time and easily understand dependencies and relationships between project elements.
In addition to supporting rapid application development, the Microgen Aptitude 3D Navigator reduces the time and cost to enhance or change existing applications.
Business User Diagrams (BUDs) - The smart way to create business-centric applications
Microgen Aptitude Business User Diagrams (BUDs) are used by business and IT teams to capture project requirements and form a link between project documents, processes and application logic.
BUDs emulate the typical 'white boarding' design process, fully integrating it into the application development environment. This further helps to bridge the business and IT gap and reduces inefficiencies caused by miscommunication between business and IT stakeholders.
Big data
Microgen Aptitude V4 also empowers enterprises to more rapidly process big data volumes, enabling the processing of hundreds of millions of transactions per hour [1]. Teams can easily integrate data from across the enterprise and leverage both in-memory and in-database processing to achieve processing performance without the usual lengthy optimisation cycles. By consequence, enterprises can increase the pace at which new applications are implemented and therefore the speed at which systems are able to deliver business results.
David Sherriff, CEO of Microgen, said: "Both the pace of change facing enterprises and the complexity of some technologies have increased magnificently in recent years. In that sense, Microgen Aptitude V4 is a game-changer for businesses looking at quick and accurate application development within the enterprise to support growth and change. It removes the need to be reliant on the dated approaches provided by other software packages, ERP systems and traditional coding environments."
Sherriff added: "Microgen Aptitude V4 is the fruit of close collaboration with our customers across all major business sectors - to deliver a platform that will help them achieve their key business priorities through simple, efficient and truly collaborative application development."
Gartner Magic Quadrant 2:
Microgen has been positioned by Gartner in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA Application Projects, published 20 June 2012.
A video animation explaining the Microgen Aptitude 3D Navigator can be found here.
1. Microgen demonstrates aptitude to deliver massive transaction processing speeds
In May 2012, Microgen Aptitude achieved the result of processing seven billion transactions per hour performing in-memory processing on IBM System x. Further tests involving Oracle database-to-database processing running across a combination of IBM System x and IBM Power Systems resulted in Microgen Aptitude processing over 800 million transactions per hour.
2. Gartner Research Document
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA Application Projects, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess Thompson, Daniel Sholler, Ross Altman, Kimihiko Iijima, 20 June 2012.
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Microgen Aptitude
The Microgen Aptitude platform was designed and built from the ground up as a single product to enable CIOs, enterprise architects and business heads to efficiently create new products and services (or to automate critical business processes) while reducing the cost and complexity of software development and maintenance.
Microgen Aptitude addresses the typical inefficiencies associated with software development processes, providing an intuitive method to graphically define and control a complete software application. With this approach, business and IT teams can build applications quickly and collaboratively and can easily change business logic as new requirements surface.
Microgen Aptitude is a rapid application development approach that also enables business applications to process, in-memory and in-database, big data volumes. This gives enterprise teams a new option for mission-critical or transaction-intense applications such as in digital media, telecoms, utilities or the financial services industries.
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