SAN FRANCISCO, CA - March 3, 2008 - WaveMaker™ today announced the results of a survey of Global 2000 companies, conducted by Precision Marketing Group, on the challenges of bringing Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise. The survey polled over 200 organizations and found that over 83 percent of enterprises would like to move their internal applications to the web but currently do not have the resources and in-house expertise to do so. The survey found widespread concern over the complexity of current Web frameworks such as J2EE and ASP.NET, and highlighted the need for easy-to-use, visual tools.
Over 98 percent of the Global 2000 companies surveyed still rely on outdated client/server tools such as Microsoft Access, Lotus Notes and Oracle Forms. These client/server tools are not designed for building web. Furthermore, 83 percent of respondents indicated significant challenges when building internal productivity applications, including 12 percent whose organizations no longer support legacy client/server applications.
The survey also showed that a shortage of skilled Java developers continues to plague businesses, with 12 percent of those Java shops surveyed indicating they do not have sufficient staff to develop or maintain additional Java projects.
The Precision Marketing Group surveyed 212 organizations currently developing and deploying applications on a Java platform. In addition to the findings above, the survey results showed:
- In over 50 percent of the companies, central IT still owns the development of internal productivity applications.
- Approximately 71 percent of the companies are currently supporting or planning to develop internal web applications.
- Among companies currently migrating legacy applications to the web, architectures of choice include portals frameworks (60 percent), Wikis (20 percent) and content management systems (20 percent).
"Businesses face increasing demands to build rich Internet applications, yet the cost of hand-coding these applications is prohibitive," said Chris Keene, CEO of WaveMaker. "Companies need a simple, point-and-click framework that allows mere mortals to build Web 2.0 applications, and this is the market need that WaveMaker fills."
The WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Framework provide developers in Global 2000 companies with the ability to design and deploy web applications that are both Web Fast and CIO Safe™. As open source software built on open standards, WaveMaker is the only Enterprise Web 2.0 solution that complies with the CIO's architecture, security and data policies.
The WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio provides developers with an easy-to-use visual environment to create database-driven Web applications without complex code or portal frameworks. The Visual Ajax Studio enables the drag and drop assembly of Web applications using AJAX widgets, Web services and databases. Web applications built with the WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio can then be deployed with the WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Framework onto industry standard Java applications servers that are already part of the CIO's approved infrastructure, including Apache Tomcat and J2EE servers from IBM, BEA, Sun and Red Hat.
About the Survey
The survey of 276 Global 2000 organizations was conducted in late 2007. If the respondent indicated that they were a Java user, which included 212 respondents, they proceeded with the rest of the survey.
About WaveMaker Software
WaveMaker Software™, Inc. makes Visual Ajax easy. WaveMaker is Web Fast and CIO Safe™, enabling developers to quickly create and deploy Web applications that adhere to the CIO's architecture, security and data policies. WaveMaker Software is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is funded by Allegis Capital, Hummer-Winblad and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information, please visit http://wavemaker.com.
WaveMaker Software, Visual Ajax Studio, Web Fast and CIO Safe are trademarks of WaveMaker Software. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.
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