Industry First

Complete Platform for Model Driven Applications

Brane introduces the first complete platform for model driven applications (MDA) automating the entire application development process.

An industry first, the Brane platform enables the creation of enterprise class applications from advanced models, and requires no end user programming. Brane powered applications are standards-based, scalable and extensible.

Enterprises who leverage the Brane platform will realize significant breakthrough business results from agility, competitive advantage, faster design and deployment of better-fitting enterprise applications, less ongoing maintenance costs and protection from ongoing technology shifts.

Custom Business Applications the Enterprise Reality

Today's leading Fortune 2000 companies depend on custom business applications. Custom applications enable business agility, competitive advantage and fill the gaps left by packaged applications. But the path to custom applications has not been with out challenges and detours. Application development has become a experts only, labor intensive, bug prone and slow moving process. Increasing development costs, uncertain schedules, and ever changing business requirements add to the complexity.

Moreover, custom applications remain perilous because they consist primarily of highly repetitive, technology-dependent programs that have just enough variety that to date no one has found ways to automate them. Technology is a constant-moving target, and that any system that becomes dependent on the technology of the moment are on a fast track to legacy status.

Despite the complexities, costs, and technology challenges, most leading enterprises leveraging custom applications have had little ability to dramatically institutionalize major change to traditional approaches, costs and risks, until now.

Imagine the ability to create rich, open, scalable, extensible Enterprise Applications ins days or weeks instead of quarters or years.

Introducing the Brane Platform

Brane initiates a new era of extensible, technology independent enterprise applications with the first complete platform for model driven applications (MDA) automating the entire application development process requiring no programming.

Created for today's IT environments, Brane powered applications support customized business processes and technology strategies, and are open, secure, flexible, high quality, fast, and scalable. The resulting Brane applications cleanly integrate with others, and readily adapt to business, technology, and architecture changes.

Brane Server complements standard application servers and manages all interactions with databases, files, services, and other applications. It also applies business rules and routes business processes.

Brane UI provides simple, consistent, customizable user interfaces using a standard Web browser or an optimized Windows interface.

Brane Studio complements standard integrated development environments, by unifying and extending OMG UML and Microsoft ORM to define applications.

Brane - a new baseline developers can extend Brane to access new data sources, implement new rule types, and more.

A new era for Custom Enterprise Applications

It has always been widely speculated that MDA has offered the biggest promise and opportunity to transform conventional custom application development. While progress has been made, challenges surfaced mostly due to lack of platform for MDA. Market opportunity and technical advancements have now presented an exciting opportunity for industry transformation. Critical among these are:

• Experience - Brane initiates the 5th wave of attempts to replace coding with models and a new 5GL environment.
• Models instead of programs - Much effort has gone into improving programmer productivity with better programming languages, and other innovations. Brane innovations leverage those improvements, but focus on developing models that are both understandable and rich enough to produce working applications.
• Model-driven Architecture - Defines the boundary between definition and implementation that enables rapid progress on both sides of the line.
• Components - The rapid increase in the number and maturity of available open source and other components dramatically reduces the effort necessary to build Brane.
• Object orientation and patterns - object-oriented software and the increasing use of patterns has resulted in improvements to software quality, reusability and a significant standardization in software development techniques.
• Extensibility - Earlier attempts often took "black box" approaches with the result that applications that fit in the box were easy to build, while others applications were impossible. Brane's built-in extensibility erases that line