Procession - Declarative Language Orchestrates New Business Model

After ten years Procession plc asserts their allegorical accent has appear of age and that their confusing technology will revolutionise the IT industry’s business model.
•Microsoft afresh appear a project, cipher called ‘D’, to advance agnate capability.
•Procession’s software will acquaint added activity into circuitous business processes and arrange systems application a ‘service aggressive architecture’.

Procession is a UK-based and endemic software abode based in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. For the accomplished ten years they accept been carrying business systems developed application a allegorical accent of their own design. Procession has afresh started to advance this to the IT industry and above corporations as an active software development apparatus able of orchestrating groups of action advanced applications. Benefits include:

•Reduced licence fee overheads: in a contempo exercise Procession could alter amid 50% and 80% of the software assemblage bare to advance and run an action calibration system.
•Reduced manpower: all but abundant and specialist routines such as actuarial calculations can be developed by business analysts and advised and accepted in their built-in architecture by the end users who about specify such systems.
•Reduced aliment burden: as Procession can administer baby modules with abundant ease, the resultant bigger granularity makes it easier to abstract bugs. The GUI development interface allows analysts after any added aerial to acquaint in a anatomy that end users will calmly understand.

According to David Chassels, Procession’s CEO: “we consistently knew we had a abundant system, but we were way advanced of our time if we aboriginal launched in the 1990s. As a baby aggregation we about took the allowances of our technology for granted, but we now realise our time has appear and there is a abundant befalling for others to account from the techniques we accept aesthetic in over ten years of absolute activity use.”

The aboriginal clue of the bazaar alteration was in April 2007 if David Chassels accustomed a tip off that Microsoft had filed apparent applications which congenital some of the amount attributes of Procession’s technology. Microsoft has back accustomed this above-mentioned art and are due to book this with the US Patent Office.

More afresh some ‘Microsoft watchers’ accept amorphous to address on a activity cipher called ‘D’. [Note to editors: this shouldn’t be abashed with the computer accent ‘D’ which is a C++ circuit off.] Further advice was accustomed by Bill Gates at Microsoft's 2008 Office System Developers Conference in San Jose.

Gates commented: “We’re advance actual heavily … it, should crop a tenth as abundant cipher as it takes today… You should be able to do things on a allegorical basis… It's something that will change software development."

Procession is able to action a complete addition today with the aforementioned confusing potential.

“We’ve got a amazing lead,” said Chassels. “During the endure ten years we’ve had time to adamant out all the problems and advance the accoutrement which are bare to abode them. We accept added than the amount technology and it’s all been thoroughly alley activated in absolute activity by absolute users.”

This is assuredly a actual confusing technology - an assessment aswell accurate by Simon Breese of Consilium consulting who has just completed an appointment to abetment Procession with its bulletin which was adjourned for be SEEDA (South East England Development Agency).

He said: “The implications of this access are profound: the staffing pyramid of systems integrators or any accumulated IT administration will change out of all recognition, the amount archetypal will change and this will claiming the position of software vendors who currently accumulation the accepted software stack. I see lots of ‘better mousetraps’ but to mix a metaphor, this one has legs!”

Procession has amorphous discussions with a amount of consultancies, integrators and outsourcers. They accept the acknowledgment on investment adds up to a acute case: afar from the accumulation in licence fees for the software stack, the body user graphical interface is pitched at business level.

“This spans the advice gap amid IT and business,” connected Chassels. “Not alone can business analysts use the able interface to drive development, but the presentation is so bright it can be acclimated banausic in discussions with users.”

Procession claims added bendable allowances aftereffect in agreement of agility, not just acceptance accepted development but for approaching change. This encourages a abundant bigger chat and appropriately assurance amid systems developer and user department.

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Notes for Editors:

Copies of Procession’s White Paper, ‘Simplify IT, More For Less’, are accessible on its web website www.procession.com or from david.chassels@procession.com

Further advice from:
David Chassels, Procession:
Office: +44 (0)1494 781444
Mobile: +44 (0)7774 681773

Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR
Office: +44 (0)1727 860405

Procession
1a Stones Courtyard
High Street,
Chesham
Buckinghamshire
HP5 1DE
England
tel +44 (0)1494 781 444
web www.procession.com

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About Procession
Procession is a UK-based and endemic company. Its amount artefact is its Task Oriented Applicaion (TOA) which is bigger a action absolute ‘generic’ application. At its amount it uses a allegorical address which can arrange applications in a accumulated environment.

This access allows business analysts to administer ample and circuitous systems easily, with abundant bargain IT abutment and a bacteria IT infrastructure. It encourages an able chat amid business users, analysts and technicians allowance restore IT to a position area it is a accurate enabler.

Procession’s architecture aesthetics recognises that humans are the antecedent of all advice and uses just 13 assignment types, animal and system, which are bare to administer any business activity.

The ambiance can aswell arrange systems application architectures such as SOA which are contrarily difficult to manage. While it is acceptable for detached applications, Procession is absolutely scalable to action akin as it food both action and abstracts on an Oracle database.

The arrangement is fronted by annoyance and bead graphical artist interface which sets up the abstracts architecture and configures assignment altar as required. The abutting up of the assignment types is accomplished through assignment links. The appliance again is created absolute from this model.

In the words of bazaar analysts the Butler Group, Procession's unique, convenient technology “removes the abstract amid claim and implementation.” These systems can be added to or adapted easily, giving unrivalled ‘agility’. They can aswell accommodate administration advice in real-time to abutment Performance Management with affirmed compliance.