The Essential: Optimizing your software investment

Many industry sectors are nowadays dependent upon internal or contracted software development activities to deliver their product or service offering on time to the market. When your software deliverables have a direct impact on the overall performance of your company, making the most of your company software assets becomes a top priority.

Many companies however acknowledge the fact that their in-house software development activities are very fragmented and span across diverse geographies and organizations. As a result, project teams are often working in isolation of each other, unaware of potential synergies and relying on specific workgroup tools, methods and infrastructure to perform their job.

With a constant pressure to deliver innovative products at an ever-increasing pace, fixing those long-standing issues becomes critical.

Over the past fifteen years, a number of innovation has helped the software industry to make some signifcant steps towards software reuse: improvements in programming technologies is one and adoption of coherence programs based on external or home-made standards is another.

Building on the great success of the Open Source tools and work methods, CodeX brings the two missing pieces to successful software reuse: a global infrastructure that makes reuse painless and a change in the enterprise values and culture.

CodeX provides a large spectrum of web-based tools and services that will improve your software development productivity and time-to-market by:

• Dramatically increasing the visibility of your software development activities at the enterprise level, therefore avoiding effort duplication and capitalizing on your software investment.


• Removing important hidden costs of maintaining disparate workgroup server infrastructure and tools at many different locations.


• Easing cross-organizational or cross-location team building as well as sub-contracted or offshore development.


• Improving communication and awareness across your software development community.

CodeX: the 2 missing pieces for successful software reuse