SlipStream

SlipStream enables the delivery of almost code-free applications in weeks instead of months, powered by the exciting Mendix technology. Take a look at our presentation for an introduction to Model-Driven Development

Leveraging the Mendix platform enables Stream Group to:

• Massively reduce time-to-market (sometimes by as much as 80%)
  Developing applications in Mendix means analysing your business requirements and building appropriate visual models.  This may be a familiar process to you, but the difference with Mendix is that the models just are the application, so there’s none of that detailed design or hand-coding to do !

• Increase flexibility and agility
  Using the Mendix modelling environment, you can easily see how an application is structured and how the logic flows from start to end of a business process. This makes it much easier to change (maintain or enhance) the application as you know where to change it and what to change (and typically it's only in one place!).

• Minimise development effort
  Developers are usually still required for integration or niche functionality, but a Mendix-powered application needs very little coding and therefore very little traditional testing activity

• Integrate with the rest of your applications easily
  The Mendix toolset supports open standards for ready integration with your in-house technical infrastructure, whether that be off-the-shelf or bespoke, in-house or distributed through your supply chain

• Provide scalable and robust applications
  The Mendix run-time engine is highly optimised and provides a scalable, clustered, highly-performant environment right out of the box

• Easily support multiple channels and languages
  The Mendix User Interface (UI) Framework supports multiple languages, multiple browsers and a wide variety of mobile channels.  It takes away the complexity, testing requirements and bespoke coding that many development environments require.

Who likes SlipStream ?

Business Sponsors, because they get what they want, with good quality, much more quickly and at a lower cost!

Project Managers, because SlipStream teams are typically small and highly motivated because they can see results in very short timescales.  The SlipStream Method enables them to provide all of the usual controls, management reporting and risk management of a traditional project but with less pain, more rigour and a much higher chance of success.    

Analysts and Designers, because they can see their requirements through to real, live models which actually work, without developers interfering.

Developers, because they can focus on the real technical challenges and not the dull and boring everyday code which Mendix takes care of for them.