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Secant: From Vision Model to Reality

Secant advances the functionality of model-driven development to enable organizations to rapidly build, power, and evolve high-performance applications.

Cleveland-based Secant Technologies provides model-driven application generation and integration software. Secant's products also ensure scalability to exponential levels of complexity and demand.

According to one Secant customer, Mark McCulloch, Dallas-based XTRA On-Line vice president, "[XTRA On-Line] saved six months of development time and $400,000 using Secant's products. We expect this ROI could be as high as 20 person-months during the maintenance and evolution of the PowerTrip system."

Secant provides a model-driven application server platform (Secant Extreme Enterprise Server™) and a model-driven object-to-RDBMS integration technology (Secant Extreme Persistent Object Service™). These products integrate with development tools to support model-driven development, which allows developers to specify enterprise features using industry-standard UML models. Secant's code generator takes these models and automatically creates the glue-code needed to connect the application to the fully integrated, standards-based server.

Secant's time-saving code generation technology combined with support for distributed transactions, high-availability clustering, multilevel in-memory caching, and object-to-relational integration technology provide a unique platform solution. As a result, Secant customers frequently report as much as 80% reduction in development time and an increase of 10 times or more in runtime performance. In addition, because developers don't have to write middleware code, companies can maximize developer involvement in demanding enterprise applications.

Secant provides technical support and a full line of professional services that include a comprehensive product-based educational curriculum, consulting, and mentoring in enterprise system architecture, application design, and systems implementation.

Secant and its products have received prestigious awards, including "Model-Driven Infrastructure for Custom E-Business Applications," Crossroads A-List Award, January 2001; "Best Java Application Server," Network Computing Real-World Labs, June 2000; "Best Database Product," Java Developer's Journal, Dec. 1999.

Large organizations such as Detroit Edison Co., i2 Technologies Inc., Incyte Genomics Inc., Open Telecommunications, and Susquehanna Partners, GP have benefited from Secant's open, standards-based solutions.

For more information, visit www.secant.com.

By Supplement Staff

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