Development Tool Speeds Time-to-Market by 10-20% for eBusiness Applications; Princeton Softech Launches Reviewer for Select Enterprise.

Business/Hi-Tech Editors

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 3, 2000

Princeton Softech, a subsidiary of Computer Horizons Corp. (Nasdaq:CHRZ) that delivers enabling technologies for enterprise-scale eBusiness solutions, today announced the availability of Reviewer for Select Enterprise, an automated project management and quality assurance tool that speeds the design, development and deployment of eBusiness applications. Reviewer for Select Enterprise automatically evaluates a software model for integrity in fundamental accuracy, adherence to industry standards and consistency of design style, ensuring problems are identified before they infiltrate the whole development.

"Reviewer offered instant and practical benefits for managing the design and build of a Java project," commented Mark Dickson, project manager, TNT Post Group, a global provider of mail, express and logistics services. "For me as project manager, Reviewer's principal benefit was its functionality as a management and design integrity tool, enabling me to check the status of the model at any point in time and check it for completeness according to the project standards. From an architect's perspective, we could decide what model elements were required at each phase of development and check to ensure that these elements were being modelled."

Reviewer was specifically developed and designed by an independent organisation, Development Process, as an add-on product to work with Princeton Softech's Select Enterprise, an advanced toolset for rapidly developing high-quality eBusiness applications by seamlessly integrating Business Process Modeling, UML and data modelling, and generating application code directly from design models.

"We chose Select Enterprise as the target for the first release of Reviewer because Select Enterprise is the best software development tool for large enterprises focusing on eBusiness applications. Leading blue-chip companies have been using it for many years and it is already proven to deliver results quickly and reliably. The compressed timeframes and increased pressure for high performing eBusiness applications mean that the hours and days that Reviewer can save provide a vital competitive edge in meeting time-to-market and quality assurance goals," commented Adam Partridge, Development Process.

"Reviewer will become an indispensable add-on for Select Enterprise, which already delivers a high level of productivity for eBusiness application development, because it removes much of the time-consuming, but essential task of quality monitoring. It also ensures a more thorough examination of the model, as no individual can perform all the necessary checks all the time," stated Hedley Apperly, senior product marketing manager, Princeton Softech. "Reviewer typically reduces the effort and time involved in design by between 10 and 20 percent."

Reviewer is configurable to accommodate the specific requirements and practices of individual organisations. Project managers can clearly see the quality and completeness of an application, while designers can continually verify the integrity of the design as they contribute to the repository model.

Reviewer performs over 65 different reviews in componentisation; correctness; completeness; standards; style and reporting, encompassing such checks as code naming standards; forbidden attribute access specifiers; unused interfaces; un-named associations; and multiple inheritance. It explains the nature of deficiencies found; provides strategies that can be used to resolve them; provides reports and produces documentation. It also provides additional reports to check for good componentisation, performance, testability and robustness. Reviewer has a simple browser-based user interface and it runs against the Select Enterprise repository to produce HTML design reviews.

Free evaluation copies of Princeton Softech's Reviewer for Select Enterprise are available from the Princeton Softech web site: www.princetonsoftech.com/reviewer.

About Development Process

Development Process specialises in producing software solutions that helps companies overcome the considerable challenges inherent in developing tomorrow's applications. Development Process products are designed to seamlessly mesh in to company's existing software lifecycles to provide instant, measurable benefits.

About Princeton Softech

Princeton Softech (www.princetonsoftech.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Computer Horizons Corp., is a software products and services company that delivers leveraging technologies for enterprise-scale eBusiness solutions. Princeton Softech's component-based development tools enable customers to synchronise IT and business objectives while moving at eSpeed through the application lifecycle. The company's eData distribution and management technologies allow organisations to optimise data availability and deploy application data to the point of best business leverage. Over 2,000 of the world's largest companies in more than 30 countries use Princeton Softech's products and services.

About CHC 

CHC (NASDAQ:CHRZ) is a strategic e-Business solutions and professional services company that is powering a new breed of rapid growth Internet developers. For more than thirty years, CHC has been a global leader in systems integration, migration and innovation, enabling companies to stay ahead of the technological curve. By leveraging its core business in IT services, CHC is powering its new breed of Internet companies, including eB Solutions, CHIMES and Princeton Softech, to enable its Global 1000 customer base to compete in this new digital business environment. For more information on Computer Horizons, please visit our Web site at www.computerhorizons.com.