Our Advantage
What differentiates us from our own competition? What’s the advantage in using Cincom Smalltalk™? For each type of software development, Smalltalk cuts the complexity that complicates software development while accelerating your potential for profitable growth. This simple development tool helps you create value at the lowest possible risk and assures you of the fastest return on investment.
Producing systems for internal clients can be a challenging task. Built atop decades of applications and a variety of technologies, new systems must bridge practices and data structures from other eras. Plus, they must be accessible on the web. Cincom Smalltalk simplifies development, assuring that new or integrated applications for internal clients deliver the value and return on investment at low cost and low risk to you.
Cincom’s implementation of Smalltalk requires no compromises. You focus not on the code you’re writing but on the business processes you want to automate. Your application reflects your professional expertise, not merely your coding and debugging skills, and you produce a higher quality, higher value application. The total cost of ownership is more than the license charges. When you can create applications with little or no support, when they can be applied straightforwardly across diverse platforms, when you can write them quickly, you save money. Your costs are lower than with other application tools.
If you can save time and money developing applications because the tool is easier to use, your return on investment–the ROI–increases. How much more will your ROI increase if at the same time you can integrate systems and data more quickly?
Writing in Smalltalk means working with a company that provides simplification through innovation to our clients–worldwide. They recognize and appreciate minimum risk, which is why many have been with us for 20, 25 and even 30 years.
Cincom’s Smalltalk has solutions for any category of software development and integration activities, including the following:
- In-house applications serving internal clients
- New technologies for your markets
- Partnerships with other companies
- Contracting with external clients
Productivity
In studies and comparisons, Cincom’s Smalltalk is consistently more productive than any other mainstream language.
Simplicity
The language design is simple, consistent and efficient, allowing you to get more done with less (fewer problems, less maintenance). In addition, it allows you to get your arms around more complex problems.
Pioneering
From Smalltalk’s heritage at the legendary PARC labs, to modern development techniques, our technology has and is setting standards. From the graphical user interface, to XP/Agile development, people using our technology are continually making or influencing software development.
Portability
Minimize risk, protect your development investment and get the platform flexibility you need. Cincom Smalltalk is a leader in platform portability.
Broad Application Flexibility
Are you building Client, Client/Server, Web Browser, Web Server, Distributed applications or all of the above? We have proven successes in all.
Full Source Code
Want to extend the IDE to custom fit your needs? Choose solutions from community libraries or customize yourself since we provide you with the source code to our IDE. You will never be stuck with Cincom Smalltalk.
Enjoyment
Developers using our technology get more done and enjoy doing it. Better morale leads to better employee retention.
Web Applications
Developing new technologies for the market is a high-wire act. The product vision must be fulfilled without compromise of functions, often before the first customer order. Limitations in the development tools can devalue product quality, increase costs, lengthen schedules and cut into profits.
Cincom’s Smalltalk helps you fulfill your market vision by staying out of the way of product development, so that you can cut complexity and steps, preserve the concept and deliver the product.
You produce a higher quality, higher value technology because Cincom’s implementation of Smalltalk requires no compromises. Your product embodies professional expertise, not just programming skills, because the focus is on the business process, not the code.
Licensing cost attaches to the end product, not to the development cycle. Hence your upfront cost is deferred until the product goes to market.
Straightforward performance and clear licensing arrangements mean delivering what you promised, when you promised it, at the cost you promised–for a fast and measurable return on investment.
Thousands of Cincom clients worldwide recognize and appreciate that investing in Cincom technology minimizes their risk, which is why many have been with us for 20, 25 and even 30 years.
Corporate Partnerships
Value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators depend on willing partners to develop and distribute products. Market success varies according to product differentiation, affordability, time-to-market and customer acceptance.
As the VAR or integrator, your profit correlates to parallel measures: value, cost, ROI and risk. Moreover, you have the added complication of repackaging another vendor’s product. The last thing you need is more complexity. With Cincom Smalltalk:
- You embed your own expert knowledge into unique solutions, writing as little as a quarter of the code necessary with other tools. Simpler and smarter process customization means higher value for your customers.
- You reduce expenses on cross-platform solutions, including internet readiness, because products developed on one platform are virtually identical on others. Also, licensing cost attaches to your end product, thus deferring it until the product goes to market.
- Platform portability, scalability and quick-change flexibility in your market combine with deferred licensing payments to keep expenses in check while you reap a rapid return on investment. You create products at the lowest possible cost and value with minimal risk.
External Contracting
Mergers and acquisitions, government regulations and management’s frustration with technological complexity may bring you business, but project contracting also brings special challenges. The task and criteria are rigidly defined by your customer, whose satisfaction determines whether you’ll get repeat business. How do you assure customer satisfaction and make a profit when so few variables are under your control? By choosing the development tool that helps your client simplify the management of complex processes, delivering it on time and according to plan.
With Smalltalk:
- You deliver the value expected by your customer, customizing their processes in ways that simplify their management.
- You help them control the costs of cross-platform solutions and web access with deploy-anywhere solutions that operate on any computer desktop.
- You satisfy customers with platform portability, volume scalability and adaptability to their constantly changing requirements.
- You deliver solutions according to schedule and budget with a proven technology, with minimal risk for you and your customers alike.
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Consider these examples of project contractors who bring results to their customers:
