• Speed application development and deployment.
  Iron Speed Designer accelerates application development for any database-driven Web application, saving days or even weeks in development time.
  
  
• Dramatically reduce development costs.
  Creating applications in a fraction of the time means you can develop and deploy applications faster and more efficiently with less cost in human resources.
  
  
• High quality code reduces testing time.
  The high performance .NET code generated by Iron Speed Designer is consistently high quality, greatly reducing the QA burden. The result is fewer bugs and more stable applications.
  
  
• 100% .NET code aids learning.
  Since Iron Speed Designer generates native .NET code, you don't have to learn new programming languages or 4GLs. Reading the generated code is a great way to learn .NET.
  
  
• Focus developers on higher priority tasks.
  Iron Speed Designer eliminates routine infrastructure programming, freeing you to focus on your application's business logic.
  
  
• Keep development ownership in-house.
  Outside professional services are often impractical or overkill for application development. They can be costly both in terms of fees as well as management time and attention.
  

• Impress customers and clients.
  Your clients will be amazed at how quickly you can build proof-of-concept systems, gather feedback, and deploy applications.
  
  
• Optimize IT resources and budget.
  Iron Speed Designer helps executives maximize productivity and minimize costs for application development, allowing higher performance and greater ROI.
  
  
• Accelerate migration to Web-based business processes.
  Migrating applications to the Web is a high priority for most enterprises. Iron Speed Designer allows you to quickly create applications specifically designed and optimized for the Web environment, but still based on your existing database infrastructure.
  
  
• Open new relationships and opportunities.
  Moving business processes to the Web opens new customer, partner, supplier and vendor relationships and opportunities.
  
  

• Maximize your IT department productivity.
  Iron Speed Designer lets your IT department deploy more applications in a fraction of the time using the same staff. Plus, since Iron Speed Designer generates the bulk of the routine code, your team is free to focus on the higher-level development aspects that support your specific business needs.
  
  
• Boost your company ROI.
  Deploying applications faster means they work for your company sooner. Calculate your ROI based on new revenue, improved productivity and streamlined operations.

A: The range of case studies and applications on our website is broad, covering applications from surgery scheduling to e-commerce. While many of our customers build internally facing applications, others build externally facing applications and products. You’ll see several software products listed among our current case studies. Check out our partial customer list and you’ll see corporate IT groups, manufacturers, financial institutions, consultants and product developers. Learn more...

Q: How maintainable is the code generated by Iron Speed Designer? How hard is it to update my applications when you come out with a new release?

A: Most of our customers actively maintain their original applications in the most recent releases of Iron Speed Designer. For the most part, they install the new release, open the existing application in Iron Speed Designer, and let Iron Speed Designer “migrate” it for them. While from time to time there are some aspects of your application that Iron Speed Designer can't migrate, such as code customizations, these changes occur infrequently.

Q: Iron Speed Designer provides C/R/U/D functionality but doesn’t generate the more challenging tasks such as business-layer transactions and workflows. Why should I use Iron Speed Designer?

A: Iron Speed Designer does not generate business-layer code and workflows. However, in our experience, the surrounding create / retrieve / update / delete functionality comprises over 80% of most applications, so Iron Speed Designer provides a significant advantage by eliminating most of this coding. Why hand-code 100% of an application when you can reduce the work to 20% hand-coding?

Moreover, Iron Speed Designer generates a class architecture upon which business logic and workflows can be built, again saving you the time of designing and evolving your own architecture. Learn more...

Q: I’m worried I won’t be able to sufficiently test applications with code I don’t fully understand. How difficult is it to test applications generated by Iron Speed Designer?

A: Testing applications and code generated by Iron Speed Designer is no different than testing your own hand-written custom code. In fact, it is a lot easier.

Code generated by Iron Speed Designer is extremely well tested, simply because is has the benefit of both Iron Speed’s QA process and thousands of other developers who use and test code generated by Iron Speed Designer. Using well-tested generated code reduces the overall testing load, so you can focus on testing the your application's custom code.

Q: Won’t I spend as much time learning Iron Speed Designer as I will save by using it? What’s the learning curve like?

A: Thousands of our customers have had no difficulty learning how to use Iron Speed Designer. There are certainly advanced aspects to the tool that require more learning than the basics, but we don’t hear from many developers who encounter difficulties learning the tool. Even if it takes a week or two to become proficient with Iron Speed Designer, that still is much shorter than the amount of time it would take you to generate the 50% to 90% of the application that Iron Speed Designer can generate.

Q: I use an iterative development process but Iron Speed Designer uses a database-driven process. What if my database schema is evolving? How will Iron Speed Designer work with my development style?

A: The advantage of using a code generation approach is that you can regenerate your application each time the database schema changes. Code generation in general, and Iron Speed Designer in particular, are ideal for developing in environments where end-user requirements shift frequently. Applications can be much more easily regenerated with a code generator than they can be changed manually when end-user requirements change. Iron Speed Designer definitely anticipates database schema changes and includes built-in tools for synchronizing your application with an updated database schema.