One-Page Summary
The Case for Model-driven Development
In today's highly competitive software markets, construction costs and time-to-market are critical success factors. One of the most promising approaches to reach these goals is generating high quality code from models.

How tangible architect works
With tangible architect, the software developer defines business objects using an UML Model, Class Wizards or C# Interface Code. tangible architect then generates the business objects including data access code from within Visual Studio.NET. Thereafter, the user can extend the business objects and bind them to the presentation layer. In doing so, hand-crafted code size is reduced by up to 70% - reducing effort as well as the number of coding errors.

The benefits
Implementation and testing efforts can be reduced by as much as 50%. In addition, due to an improved overall code quality of the application, error rates and maintainability are significantly enhanced.

Product highlights
tangible architect seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio.NET and offers an impressive set of features. With the 2.0 version, released in June 2005, tangible architect offers UML support, Business Object Generation, Database Schema Generation, Data Binding and an included Object Oriented Database Browser. The product is available in three different editions, with prices starting from US$ 250. A free, fully functional 30-Days Evaluation Version is available at www.tangible.de.

About tangible engineering GmbH
Headquartered near Stuttgart, Germany, tangible engineering GmbH is a pioneer in model-driven development. Working with industry clients such as DaimlerChrysler or Bosch and research institutions like Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, tangible engineering employees have over 10 years of experience in the most innovative software projects. tangible engineering is privately funded and is led by founder and CEO Tim F. Fischer.