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Die mit Cincom Smalltalk entwickelte Lösung erzielt deutlichen Vorsprung vor Lösungen auf Basis von Ruby, Python oder Perl

 

Schwalbach/Ts., 08.02.2008 –  Eine von Thorsten Seitz mit Cincom Smalltalk und Seaside entwickelte Anwendung hat den Dynamic Language Shootout auf der Kongressmesse OOP 2008 in München mit großem Abstand vor Einreichungen in anderen dynamischen Sprachen gewonnen.

 

Der Veranstalter SIGS DATACOM, ein Spezialist für Weiterbildung in der IT, hatte gemeinsam mit der Fachzeitschrift JavaSPEKTRUM Entwickler eingeladen, eine Scrabble™-ähnliche Anwendung in einer dynamischen Sprache eigener Wahl zu schreiben. Unter 20 akzeptierten Einreichungen wählte die Jury einstimmig Thorsten Seitz’ Lösung auf Platz 1, mit klarem Abstand zu den Plätzen 2 (Ruby) und 3 (Lua). Die mit Seaside on Smalltalk geschriebene Anwendung beeindruckte das Expertengremium besonders durch folgende Kriterien:
• Extrem schnell
• Sehr elegant programmiert
• Wenig Code-Zeilen
• Besonders attraktives Web-GUI
• Gut dokumentiert

 

Die von ihm entwickelte Lösung entstand mit Cincom Smalltalk™ VisualWorks® 7.5 und Seaside 2.8. Cincom Smalltalk ist eine objektorientierte Entwicklungsumgebung, mit der leicht portierbare, plattform-übergreifende, geschäftskritische Anwendungen erstellt und gepflegt werden können. Seaside ist eine auf Smalltalk basierende, objekt-orientierte Umgebung zur Erstellung von dynamischen Web-Anwendungen.

 

Verfügbare Materialien:
• Fotos von Thorsten Seitz bei der Preisverleihung während der OOP 2008 in München sowie bei der darauf folgenden Feier am Cincom-Stand der OOP-Ausstellung.
• Die Softwareanwendung von Thorsten Seitz kann auf der Dynamic Language Shootout-Seite heruntergeladen werden.
• Das Video zur Präsentation finden Sie hier. Ein Demo-Video von Thorsten Seitz’ Lösung (in Englisch) steht hier bereit.
• Auf Anfrage schicken wir Ihnen gerne die PowerPoint-Präsentation von Thorsten Seitz, in der er seine Idee zur Lösung vorstellt und erläutert, weshalb er Smalltalk und Seaside verwendet hat.

 

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Dr. Michael Stal, Mitglied der Jury und Chefredakteur JavaSPEKTRUM, kommentierte: "Es hat für mich einen besonderen Reiz, dass Smalltalk vorne ist. Die Senioren zeigen's wieder einmal den Grünschnäbeln."

 

Thorsten Seitz (DB Systel), der die Gewinneranwendung während seiner Freizeit entwickelt hat, erläutert: "Mich faszinieren verschiedene Programmiersprachen, wie Haskell oder Scala. Und ich bin seit langem begeisterter Smalltalker!"

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Über Cincom Smalltalk
Cincom Smalltalk™ ist eine objektorientierte Entwicklungsumgebung, mit der leicht portierbare, plattform-übergreifende, geschäftskritische Anwendungen erstellt und gepflegt werden können. Es besteht aus den beiden Umgebungen VisualWorks® und ObjectStudio®. Cincom Smalltalk VisualWorks ist der direkte Nachfolger der Ur-Version von Smalltalk, das Anfang der 70er- Jahre vom legendären Team um Alan Kay und Adele Goldberg im Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) entwickelt wurde. Weitere Produktinformationen über Cincom Smalltalk unter:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=cstfactsheet. 

 

Über Cincom
Die intuitiven, hochwertigen Lösungen von Cincom vereinfachen Geschäftsprozesse und helfen, operative Hindernisse zu überwinden. Seit 40 Jahren verschaffen sich Tausende von Kunden weltweit Wettbewerbsvorteile durch Cincom-Lösungen, die ihnen bei kontrollierten Kosten und Risiko einen hohen Mehrwert sowie einen schnellen Return on Investment (ROI) bieten. Cincom spezialisiert sich auf die Bereiche, in denen besonders effektiv Prozesse optimiert werden können: Lösungen zur Anwendungsentwicklung, Lösungen für Contact Center sowie Lösungen für Fertigungsunternehmen.

 

Rund um den Globus vertrauen Unternehmen auf Cincom, darunter BMW, Citibank, Boeing, Northwestern Mutual, Federal Express, Ericsson, Penn State University, Messier-Dowty, Siemens, Rockwell Automation und Trane.

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Proves Superior to Ruby, Python, Perl and Other Dynamic Programming Languages

 

Cincinnati, Ohio -- February 5, 2008

 

A software application built on Cincom Smalltalktm won the 2008 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Dynamic Language Shootout competition, held in Munich, Germany. Sigs-Datacom, in conjunction with the German magazine JavaSPEKTRUM, organized the contest for the OOP 2008 conference.

 

Cincom Smalltalk is a software programming language that enables developers to build software applications quickly and efficiently. The OOP is one of the most well--established IT conferences in the European software community with a history dating back seventeen years. The conference addresses the whole spectrum of software-development topics including information on the latest trends and applications. 

 

The Shootout Challenge
Participants were challenged to program a Scrabbletm-like game using standard technology of the chosen platform.  Programmers that participated used the dynamic programming languages Ruby, Python, Perl, Groovy, Scheme, Lisp and others. Criteria for the winning software application included accuracy, size, clarity and elegance.

 

The Winner
Thorsten Seitz, the winner, used Cincom Smalltalk VisualWorks 7.5, the Smalltalk toolset for building instantly portable server, web-based and client-server applications; and Seaside 2.8 for his winning application.

 

Selected  for Quality, Speed, Elegance
The winning application was selected for its algorithmic quality, speed, relatively small size and visual elegance of the Seaside-based user-interface. Competition judges shared the opinion that Thorsten’s Smalltalk-based submission won with an impressive distance ahead of second place, a Ruby application. Smalltalk programmers typically solve a given problem faster and write one-half to one-third of the code produced by programmers using other languages.

 

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About Cincom Smalltalk
Cincom Smalltalk is a cross platform development technology that helps developers build applications quickly and efficiently - from highly scalable web applications to classic client/server systems.  Cincom Smalltalk brings better productivity than Java, Ruby, Python, C#, or VisualBasic.  Bring your products to market faster, check out Cincom Smalltalk.

 

About Cincom
Cincom delivers and supports innovative software and services to simplify complex business processes. For nearly 40 years, Cincom has enabled thousands of clients worldwide to increase revenue, control cost, minimize risk, and achieve rapid ROI.

 

Cincom serves clients on six continents including Citibank, Boeing, Ericsson, Penn State University, Milacron, Siemens and Trane. For more information about Cincom's products and services, contact Cincom at 1-800-2CINCOM (USA only), send an e-mail to info@cincom.com, or visit the company's website at www.cincom.com.

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Healthcare Software Application Helps Hospitals Get Registration Right the First Time

 

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- January 16, 2008 - Cincom Systems and Provider Advantage have unveiled their Revenue360™ Insurance Code Solution, a healthcare software application which increases patient registration accuracy and boosts revenue, cash flow and operating margins

 

Registration - point of entry … point of pain

 

One major process that stymies patients and healthcare providers starts at the patient's point of entry - the registration process. Outdated manual processes and inaccurate or flawed data can quickly sour a patient's experience, delay treatment, frustrate staff, and have an adverse effect on hospital revenue. Patient insurance information gathered at the point of registration must be accurate to ensure prompt payment of claims. As the payer market becomes more complex with compliance issues and regulatory/contractual rules, consistent accuracy throughout the registration process becomes more challenging to the registrar.

 

Changing point of pain to point of gain

 

Delayed, denied or unpaid claims cause unnecessary revenue loss. Revenue360 Insurance Code Solution proactively and intelligently guides and prompts registrars to capture and sequence the correct insurance information every time. The Insurance Code Solution also:

 

• Quickly keeps up with frequent healthcare and insurance changes
• Captures and manages patient registration rules to ease registrar responsibilities
• Provides scripts for front-end registration staff to ensure consistency and compliance

 

Insurance Code Solution is a component of Revenue360, which empowers healthcare providers to access and fully integrate information from an array of sources so all revenue cycle related data can be effectively and efficiently used by patient-facing employees. With Revenue360, healthcare providers can integrate all of the until-now disparate revenue-cycle applications, and add intelligence to all related processes. As such, Revenue360 enhances the entire revenue cycle by enabling customized access to complete, accurate and relevant patient information.

 

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"Patient registration accuracy is difficult to maintain as the payer market gets more complex and riddled with compliance and regulatory/contractual rules," said Chris Woodhead, director, Cincom Intelligent Business Applications. "Revenue360 Insurance Code Solution will ensure that the information necessary for valid registrations is accurately entered virtually every time. This will not only impact the bottom line, but will have a major impact on registrar morale and patient satisfaction."

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About Provider Advantage
Since 1991, Provider Advantage NW, Inc. has been providing innovative products and services to access real-time healthcare data. Provider Advantage develops, markets, installs and supports electronic data interchange (EDI) technologies that allow organizations to obtain, utilize and manage insurance data to generate operational efficiencies and improve cash flow.

 

For more information, contact Provider Advantage NW at (800) 203-5465, send an e-mail to info@provider-advantage.com or visit www.provider-advantage.com.

 

About Cincom Systems
Cincom delivers and supports innovative software and services to simplify complex business processes. For nearly 40 years, Cincom has empowered thousands of clients worldwide to transform their businesses and outperform the competition by providing ways to increase revenue, control cost, risk and achieve rapid ROI. Cincom serves thousands of clients on six continents including Aurora Health Care, BJC Healthcare, Children’s Hospital Boston, Duke University Medical Center, Mayo Foundation, MCG Health Systems and more.

 

For more information about Cincom’s products and services, contact Cincom at 1-800-2CINCOM (USA only), send an e-mail to info@cincom.com or visit the company’s website at www.cincom.com

 

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