Success Story of Discus Dental
Appeon Enables Discus Dental Software to Leapfrog to Web and J2EE
CULVER CITY , Calif. , August 11, 2004——Discus Dental Software
today announced that they have successfully completed the first phase
of migrating DentalVision dental practice management solution, built with
Sybase PowerBuilder, to the Web and J2EE, with the revolutionary Appeon
for PowerBuilder product. This project comes in response both to Discus
Dental Software's unwavering commitment to the group practice/enterprise
market and to market-driven demand for its DentalVision Enterprise product.
"Appeon is the silver-bullet for migrating PowerBuilder client/server
applications onto the Web and J2EE," said Bruce Lieberthal, DDS,
General Manager and lead architect of Discus Dental Software, "We
are excited about being able to deliver a product to market 80% sooner
and at a fraction of the cost we would incur to develop it internally."
The project is being executed under a set of extremely stringent condition.
First, there will be minimal User Interface (UI) changes, as it would
be very expensive to retrain dental office staff to learn a new UI or
find another way of staffing it. Additionally, the resulting Web application
needs to meet high performance and scalability standards. While these
requirements had ruled out any .NET or J2EE rewrite solutions, they strongly
support Appeon for PowerBuilder as the ideal solution."
Discus Dental is among many leading corporations in the world who are
benefiting from Appeon for PowerBuilder, a product built with 350 engineering-years
of investments," said Raj Nathan, Executive Vice President of Sybase
Inc. "Together with Appeon Corporation, we have over 200 product
engineers and consultants fully committed to helping Discus Dental Software
to become the first vendor in the world to offer a Web-based dental practice
management solution with powerful client/server user interface and productivity."
Based on the revolutionary J2EE-based Web development and deployment
platform, Appeon for PowerBuilder, in the first phase of the project,
Appeon consultants converted nearly 30% of the application in just 4 weeks.
The resulting Appeon Web application precisely replicated the rich application
UI and functionalities in an n-tier Web application that was deployed
to the Sybase EAServer J2EE application server.
Appeon consultants are now working closely with Discus Dental Software
architects and system analysts to complete the migration project. Discus
Dental and Appeon anticipate the DentalVision practice management software
for the Web will be released in early 2005, following its rigorous beta
tests in Appeon R&D facilities and selected dental offices around
the country.
About Discus Dental Software:
Discus Dental Software develops, sells and supports a family of high
performance practice management software solutions for the dental profession,
including specialists, general dentists and large dental groups. Founded
as Direct Vision in 1984 by Bruce Lieberthal, DDS, the company merged
with Discus Dental, Inc., a leader in aesthetic and clinical dental products,
in 1999. Discus Dental and Discus Dental Software have headquarters in
Culver City, California and Boston, Massachusetts. To learn more, please
visit Discus Dental Software's website at www.discusdentalsoftware.com.
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