FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Catalyst release low cost logic processing tool
87% of defects in software are errors in logic
Yucca Valley, CA, September 2006 - Catalyst Development Corporation,
publisher of SocketWrench and SocketTools, today announced the release
of its first application software, a logic processing software tool.
LogicGem is designed to provide a familiar, easy-to-use way to create,
edit, verify and compile logic for programmers and non-programmers
alike.
LogicGem has a two-fold audience, software developers and business
analysts. The common thread between these two diverse groups is that
they both need to design logically complete business rules.
For the software developer, the business rules are in fact functional
requirements for a software application that are translated into a
programming language that becomes part of the application.
Much of the effort in software development does not involve writing
code, but rather the process of covering every possible combination of
circumstances - user input, database transaction, or any other event
- that the program will encounter. If any combination of inputs or
events is overlooked, the program will do things essentially at random.
Even worse are errors made during program maintenance, usually by
programmers who do not fully understand the interaction between dozens
of different possibilities.
Cary Harwin, President/CEO, describes the need for LogicGem, especially
in large companies, like this, "The complexities of current software
projects coupled with extreme budget constraints on IT departments
makes errors financially and legally costly, potentially dangerous, and
always embarrassing. With LogicGem, team leaders can design the
project, confer with the client, make adjustments, and finalize the
design, all before any code is written."
For the business analyst, the same need exists with the exception of
translating the logic to a programming language. Business analysts need
to develop concise business rules that represent real life or proposed
business processes and these processes need to be every bit as
logically robust as a software implementation.
LogicGem also provides the means to prototype and expand a high-level
procedural concept into a spreadsheet like table, work it through
analysis and design phases, and then generate English, French, German
or Spanish language documentation and/or source code for Basic, C, C++,
Fortran, FoxPro, Java, Pascal, PowerBuilder, SAS, Visual Basic, Visual
Basic.NET, Visual C#.NET, or Xbase.
Other features:
-Build a visual representation of Business Rules
-Automatically find all missing and contradictory rules
-Program very complex logic constructs, without logic errors
-Automatically build all rules for defined conditions
-Validate the completeness of the logic in an Embedded System before it
ships
-Easily create documentation for program logic
-Create a software testing suite knowing it is 100% complete
-Verify, compile and document procedural logic or processes
View Flash Movie Tutorials on using LogicGem on the Catalyst website
at:
http://www.catalyst.com/movies/
A fully functional 30-day evaluation copy is available for free
download from the Catalyst web site - http://www.catalyst.com
Catalyst provides 60 day of free technical support. All Catalyst
products come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. LogicGem is a
Microsoft Windows application. A single developer license for LogicGem
is $295 USD.
About Catalyst Development Corp
Catalyst Development Corporation was founded in 1995 to create and
market components and applications for software developers. Today,
Catalyst Development is a recognized leader in Internet component
software whose award-winning products are used by thousands of
corporate, government and independent developers around the world. With
a talented staff of software developers, support technicians, marketing
and business professionals, Catalyst remains focused on developing
innovative products and is dedicated to meeting the needs of our
clients.
PRESS ONY:
Please contact - Cary Harwin, President/CEO
ca**@catalyst.com
