SAN FRANCISCO—May 18, 2009—WaveMaker™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, today announced that Pioneer Natural Resources, an $8 billion natural resource exploration and production company, is using WaveMaker to modernize their systems for evaluating exploration opportunities.
"Working together, the WaveMaker professional services team and Pioneer developers implemented a new Pioneer Submittals application using an Agile software development methodology, " said Rene Zhu, Director of Professional Services for WaveMaker Software. "WaveMaker makes it easy to develop projects iteratively, delivering complete chunks of functionality to business users on a regular basis to align project functionality with company requirements."
Additional Benefits to Pioneer
Introduced an open, flexible IT platform: Replaced proprietary servers with WaveMaker's open source solution based on Ajax and Java.
Enabled in-house maintenance: IT will now be able to perform maintenance rather than hiring expensive consultants.
Empowered business managers and process owners: WaveMaker and Agile development greatly increased business involvement in the development process.
Integrated seamlessly with existing infrastructure: WaveMaker works with Pioneer's existing infrastructure, including WebLogic Servers, SPNEGO single sign-on security and SQL Server database.
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WaveMaker Community Edition is available for free under the Apache 2.0 open source license. WaveMaker Enterprise Edition is available under a WaveMaker commercial license. Applications created using WaveMaker deploy as standard Java WAR files to Java servers such as IBM WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss and Tomcat. With no proprietary code or languages involved, WaveMaker applications easily meet CIOs’ architecture, security and data policies.
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About Pioneer Natural Resources
Pioneer Natural Resources is a large independent exploration and production company focused on delivering competitive and sustainable results. Pioneer responsibly produces oil and gas resources to help meet the world's energy demands as it provides opportunities for growth and enrichment to employees, business partners and the communities in which the Company operates. For more information, please visit http://www.pxd.com/.
About WaveMaker Software
WaveMaker Software™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, makes it easy for anyone to build great-looking web applications that can deploy anywhere. WaveMaker is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is funded by Allegis Capital, Sippl Investments, Hummer-Winblad and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information, please visit http://www.wavemaker.com.
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