Customer Quotes
Dave Fidal — English Welsh and
Scottish Railway
Peter Dickinson
— Greentree International
Stephen Sims
— Greentree International
Allan Baird
— Abel Software Limited
David Slack
— Skipton Building Society
Debbie Richardson
— Homeloan Management Limited
Ron Jack —
SCL Electronic Services Ltd
Dr John Vargo — University of Canterbury
"As well as our JADE applications, we run
a number of other core systems on different database and technology
platforms. JADE has proven itself to be the most reliable and robust
by far and we are increasing our use of it for mission-critical
24x7 applications.
However, unlike some other technologies, JADE requires very little
system administration. Although we have two people who are skilled
in this aspect of JADE, they typically spend less than 5% of their
time doing such work, enabling them to concentrate instead on more
productive work that is of real business benefit to EWS."
"Within the UK Rail Industry, any system in the Train Planning
or Operations area must interface with many other systems, some
of which are owned by other rail companies.
To manage this complexity, EWS is committed to a 'best-of-breed'
approach, where the resulting system interfaces are aligned with
process boundaries and are implemented using an open architecture.
EWS has been delighted to be an early adopter of JADE's Web Services
and using this has enabled EWS to realise this vision in a straightforward
and reliable manner."
Dave Fidal
Operations Systems Portfolio Manager
English Welsh
and Scottish Railway
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"Our Greentree business management
suite is used by over 700 customers around the world and sales are
better than ever. With JADE, we have tailored Greentree for SMEs
from the ground up. Greentree software is both smart and flexible,
and easy to configure and maintain. Our customer feedback tells
us the full integration with other desktop tools is a real advantage.
Thanks to JADE we are able to seamlessly deliver continuous increments
of new functionality for customers, thereby adding value to their
business. We achieve this without doing the typical vendor things
like putting up maintenance rates.
Our developers are incredibly productive and enjoy the innovative
opportunities that Jade provides. Crucially, JADE is developer-friendly
for collaborative ventures, making it ideal for customer-oriented
teams. With JADE we see no boundaries."
Peter Dickinson
Executive Director
Greentree International
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"JADE enables the entire
server-side of Greentree to be encapsulated in a single installation
directory. This greatly simplifies system administration and makes
Greentree reliable, robust, and extremely cost effective from an
IT perspective. We can easily run multiple independent, isolated
installations on the same machine without them affecting each other,
which is great for development and testing."
Stephen Sims
Director R&D
Greentree International
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"JADE 6.1 delivers even more support
for Linux. In addition to the database server and application servers,
with the ability in JADE 6.1 to run a Smart Thin Client on Linux,
we can now offer a complete Linux solution to our customers. One
major US-based customer is extremely interested in Linux, so JADE
6.1 is fantastic for us.
We have designed our system from the ground up with portability
in mind and JADE makes it easy for us to do that. As a proof-of-concept,
we migrated our system from JADE on Windows to JADE 6.1 running
end-to-end on Linux. It took less than a day and it just came up
and ran. The Smart Thin Client under Linux is great!"
"JADE is great for small, agile, collaborative development
teams like ourselves. Teams of customer-oriented, solution-focused
developers who get a kick out of getting on and delivering stuff.
JADE enables us to achieve a high degree of code reuse and with
its seamless database integration we have less code to worry about
reusing.
Since 1996, JADE has given us a real solid platform that
we can rely on. A single platform on which we can build large commercial
systems that can scale from small, inexpensive hardware to high-end
servers. It has never let us or our customers down."
Allan Baird
Abel Software
Limited
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"In addition to our own core JADE systems,
Skipton Building Society manages a number of large, critical, online
JADE systems for other organizations. Several of these systems must
feed data into a large SQL Server data warehouse that is used to
provide BI information to customers.
RPS will make it easy for us to automatically replicate data from
the online JADE systems to SQL Server, in near real-time. With the
high performance of RPS we are expecting significant reductions
in CPU utilisation and batch processing time."
David Slack
Technical Project Manager
Skipton Building
Society
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"We have used SQL Server and Microsoft's
Business Intelligence tools for our data warehousing needs for more
than four years. The ETL process is an important element of any
data warehouse to ensure that data is loaded quickly and accurately.
RPS in JADE 6.1 delivers an automated and seamless mechanism to
transfer data from our core online JADE systems to SQL Server. This
will provide us with a cost-effective approach to significantly
improve the availability, performance, scalability and security
of the first stage of our ETL process."
Debbie Richardson
IT Director
Homeloan Management
Limited
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"Port
Otago Ltd uses JADE for the Container Management System that
drives their business. We have been providing IT services to Port
Otago since 1998 to administer their JADE system and have been delivering
services for other technologies and databases since 1989.
Compared to similar database platforms in use at the Port, JADE
is by far the easiest platform to look after and requires minimal
effort to manage and maintain. This is a critical business application
and its stability, up-time and low maintenance is impressive.
Compared to database platforms we maintain in other businesses,
JADE stands out as the platform that requires the least amount of
support."
Ron Jack
Managing Director
SCL Electronic
Services Ltd
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"We have selected our JADE Student Management System (JSMS) to perform all of our enrolment and administration activities for over 15,000 students each year.
As part of our commitment to the needs of students, our own IT staff have integrated our .NET web site with JSMS to make online services and real-time information available to students. This enables us to have flexible control of our web site and take advantage of all of the processes, business rules and data provided by JSMS to deliver new services to students.
XML and Web Services have been essential to making this work and JADE's support for these standards has been integral in this successful integration."
Dr John Vargo
Project Director
University of Canterbury
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