Aerospace/Defense
Allied Signal, Engines Division
Reusable objects based on CORBA are used for database integration, saving multiple man-years and hundreds of thousands in new application development costs.
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Contact:
Allied Signal/Engines Division
1944 E. Sky Harbor Circle
Phoenix, AZ 85034
http://www.alliedsignal.com
Tools Used:
CORBAŽ
Description:
Allied Signal's Engine Division spent two years building reusable objects based on CORBA application programming interfaces and set up CORBA to serve as the plumbing that connects components, clients, and servers. The framework is completed, and the first application built on it was completed in 1997.
"We're building the fundamental building blocks that developers will use as they build applications in the future," said Wayne Haughey, information systems group leader at AlliedSignal's Engine's Division. "Every time we pick this up and build a new application, we're avoiding [about] five man-years of work - and that's very conservative."
At Object World West '97 in San Francisco, Haughey said that the five man-years account for a savings of $750,000 per new application. CORBA enables applications, components, and databases to communicate easily with one another across multiple operating systems. "Whenever any big company comes on with CORBA, it's a good sign," said Larry Hagerty, an IS manager at GTE Data Services, Inc. in Tampa, Fla.
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