Customer Reviews for Rational Business Developer

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Rational Business Developer

Simplify modern business application development with EGL
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4 out of 4(100%)reviewers would recommend this product.
Customer reviews for Rational Business Developer
Review 1 for Rational Business Developer
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MBR
Location:Leuven Belgium
Company size:0-50
Role:Business Partner

New development with traditional skills

Date:June 4, 2012
Ease of use of the tool and the language with traditional procedural development skills
Review 2 for Rational Business Developer
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bsigler
Location:Chicago, IL
Company size:0-50
Role:Developer

Mainframe, Web 2.0, Mobile, and SOA with EGL

Date:January 26, 2011
Enterprise Generation Language EGL enables you to develop Mainframe, Web 2.0, and now Mobile applications. It's simplicity enables Mainframe and AS/400 developers to be able to quickly learn to develop Web 2.0 and Mobile applications; and Java developers to develop these same business applications (and Mainframe too) faster. In addition it allows for the SOA enablement of legacy code.
Pros: mainframe, web 2.0, mobile, soa
6 of 8 found this review helpful.
Review 3 for Rational Business Developer
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Anonymous
Company size:0-50
Role:Developer

Great Product

Date:January 24, 2011
RBD is a great all around product. It's versatility is incredible. It can be used to generate batch COBOL for the mainframe, build TUI applications, web JSF projects, and finally Rich Web 2.0 applications. All of this can be done with one IDE, using a single language called EGL (Enterprise Generation Language). With RBD a single developer can do it all. Extensive knowledge into each domain is not necessary. Wizards and simple UI built into the product make it easy for web developers to create COBOL applications or COBOL developers to create rich Web 2.0 applications. Any organization would no doubt benefit from using EGL as their development language of choice.
Pros: Increased productivity
4 of 4 found this review helpful.
Review 4 for Rational Business Developer
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esimone
Location:Austin, TX
Company size:0-50
Role:Other

RBD Excellent

Date:January 12, 2011
RBD is an excellent development platform and EGL is a great language for both legacy and new development. EGL integrates easily with Java & Javascript as well as COBOL, RPG, Assembler and other legacy languages.
Now that EGL is going open source, I'm extremely confident in recommending this tool to all of my customers.
Pros: Increased productivity, application modernization, new development
4 of 5 found this review helpful.