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Companies typically overspend
hundreds of thousands of dollars and more on persisting data in
their enterprise-level applications. In contrast, customers using
CocoBase to persist their data are reporting Return on Investments
(ROI) estimated at 400% to 1,000%.
The key to meeting ROI requirements is using a mature Object to
Relational Mapping tool to create and manage database access, versus,
the time intensive manual hand-coding of JDBC, SQL, Java classes,
JSPs, etc (i.e. no O/R Mapping tool).
Customers are finding the
cost and time savings of using CocoBase makes it possible to meet
the following requirements;
- Reduce man-hours dramatically,
- Shorten development cycle
from months to weeks,
- Meet and exceed increased
project ROI requirements.
COMMON
PROBLEMS OF HAND-CODED PERSISTENCE
The average enterprise component (Java classes, Session Beans, JSP's,
BMP, CMP) takes an estimated TWENTY HOURS to write by hand. To accomplish
this, programmers typically use embedded JDBC and SQL in their objects.
The resulting component is a static representation of the data that
proves difficult to scale and meet performance requirements. Any
changes to the application and/or database requires expensive man-hours
to manually rework the JDBC / SQL contained in the component, debug
the hand-written code, and then to re-compile.
The additional work required to evolve the component can easily
double the time spent from development to completion.
THE
SOLUTION
With CocoBase, the average component takes about THIRTY MINUTES.
This is a reduction of 19.5 hours, a 4000% decrease in man-hours.
The resulting component, which is standards based and editable by
the programmer, meets and exceeds scalability / performance requirements.
Any changes to the component are quickly handled in the CocoBase
GUI, keeping time spent for edits to just minutes.
CocoBase takes the database specific code and prewritten SQL out
of the object and saves this information to the mapping layer (i.e.
map). Thus de-coupling the object from being hard coded to the database.
The database specific code and SQL is dynamically created at runtime.
This allows objects to be easily reused over and over. This dynamic
O/R mapping layer provides a multitude of performance and scaling
optimizations that are easily changed by the programmer to best
fit their specific needs.
THE
MONEY - PROJECT COST OF MANUALLY CODING JDBC AND SQL
Customers report that the average project requires about 100 components
to be written. The initial cost of developing 100 components runs
about $200,000 in labor. This is based on average developer cost
of $100 per man-hour * 100 components * 20 hours / component.
This estimate takes little into account for additional time spent
editing and changing components as the project evolves. This involves,
for example, performance tuning of the SQL, rewriting components
to reflect changes in the database, and structural application changes
to meet evolving business needs. The static nature of these manually
written components become very time intensive to keep tuned to perform
at expected levels through the development cycle.
The project budget can expect that additional programming during
development to typically increase component time by another 10 -
20 hours (50 - 100%). Considering that most organizations will have
to maintain the application as it matures, an additional 10 hours
(50% increase) per component can be expected.
Therefore the total cost of those 100 components, over the life
of the project, can cost a company $400,000. Of course, this estimate
does not take into account unexpected changes during the project.
Time in Detail for Manually Coding:
20 hrs initial development / per component
10 hrs for changes during development
10 hrs for maintaining component
Total Hours = 40.
Total Cost in Detail for Manually Coding:
40 man-hours / component * 100 components * $100 / man-hour = $400,000.
THE
MONEY - PROJECT COST OF USING COCOBASE FOR THE SAME PROJECT
The programmer can use CocoBase to create, compile, deploy and maintain
the same identical components (Java Objects, EJB BMP/CMP Entity
Beans, Session Beans, and JSPs) in about 30 minutes per component.
This means that those 100 components at $100 per hour will run a
company about $5,000 in labor (1/2 hr * $100 / man-hour * 100 components).
The code that is generated will is designed to scale and perform.
The templates that generate the code are battle tested on deployed
customers and are available as source code. Additional savings is
created since these components are reusable for other projects.
Maintenance costs go almost to zero since the CocoBase dynamic mapping
layer can be changed on the fly, without regeneration and recompile
of the application code. If the DBA needs to performance tune the
database and change the underlying structures, it can be done all
through the map minimizing the use of programmers.
PRICING
First of all, Thought Inc. is a product company and not interested
in selling consulting just to make the solution work. CocoBase is
designed to work out of the box. The programmer simply installs
the tool, runs through the tutorials, and nine times out of ten,
is developing with little to no assistance.
For those situations that need assistance, our technical support
and sales engineers are there each step along the way. This means
that we will look at your specific code and help solve any problems.
You would be charged for this custom sales engineering support from
almost every other vendor (i.e. in the form of project consulting).
The price for CocoBase is $6,000 per developer, which includes the
first year's technical support and product upgrades. Since all developers
require a license, we discount those who are indirectly using CocoBase.
This keeps the cost directly related to the use of the tool and
meeting ROI requirements.
It is important to note that there are no additional charges per
CPU, Server, runtime, etc. The pricing structure is specifically
designed to fit into the typical IT Project budget.
Additional savings are available as CocoBase can be used by the
same developer on other projects. This spreads your cost over different
projects thus increasing ROI continually.
THE
FINAL COST COMPARISON
Let's say a company has 5 developers working on a project. They
have 100 components. We have shown that those components written
by hand will cost over the life of the project about $400,000.
With CocoBase, those same components will cost about $5,000 in labor.
Purchasing five licenses for CocoBase will cost an organization
about $36,000 ($6000 per developer * 5 developers). And expect a
short learning curve which will result in about $4,000 of labor.
The total cost for those same components is about $45,000.
This is a cost savings of $355,000. A ROI of 789% ($355,000 saved
divided by $45,000 invested). This ROI does not even include additional
cost savings from reuse of components or using CocoBase for additional
projects.
LITMUS TEST
The question quickly becomes...Can
you afford not to use CocoBase for persisting data in your enterprise
applications?
COMPANY
Thought Inc., in business since 1993, has been shipping the CocoBase
Enterprise O/R product since 1997 and is currently in its' 4th major
release. Thought Inc. invented and patented repository based Dynamic
Object to Relational Mapping tm. CocoBase is the most mature Java
based O/R Mapping tool and leads the industry in technological innovation.
This is why so many of our partners rely on CocoBase.
For example, Sybase and Embarcadero resell CocoBase worldwide, Forte
recommends CocoBase as their chosen persistence tool, etc. For more
information on Thought Inc. please see http://www.thoughtinc.com/who.html
LEGAL
NOTICE
Copyrights
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2002, THOUGHT Inc., 657 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94105 USA.
All rights reserved. Copyright in these (any and all contained herein)
documents is owned by THOUGHT Inc. This material is for personal
use only. Republication and re-dissemination, including posting
to news groups, is expressly prohibited without the prior written
consent of THOUGHT Inc. This publication is provided "as is"
without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including,
but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness
for a particular purpose, or non-infringement, to also include any
and all technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.
Patents
CocoBase
is a patented product under patent #5857197.
Trademarks
CocoBase,
THOUGHT Inc., Dynamic O/R Mapping, Dynamic Transparent Persistence
and others are all trademarks of THOUGHT Inc. All other trademarks
are owned by their respective owners.
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