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Sustainability

Sustainability comes from models and the related sustainable architecture, especially KerBlue which allows components substitution according KSRs are respected.

Sustainability can be achieved through:

• Agility
• Quality 

Agility

It is the ability of a system to migrate from one technology to another (or from one version to another of the same technology).

SIDE/Alfresco makes migration easy. Like final configuration is get from models thanks to generation process, by only changing the generator, because you migrate from Alfresco 2 to Alfresco 3 for example, you can easily regenerate all your application to this final target. No need to rewrite anything, generators make it for you.

It is one of the main advantages of Model Driven Architecture which is a very decoupled architecture.

Quality

Because of generation, which is an automatic and predictible process, models based projects are of higher quality than manually programmed projects. In case of errors, it is easy to fix them and regenerate the applications. 

Moreover, models are easier to understand and to update than code. Even if models may be complex, they still are understandable by a domain specialist. Errors and new features are easier to fix and to add because finally it is only a matter of updating a... picture!

Reduced Time To Market

This benefit is achieved thanks to the great productivity increase you get in Model's world and Model Driven Architecture (MDA). SIDE/Alfresco increases productivity in a very important way like the following figures prove it. Differences become very important as soon as projects become more complex than the usual 'Hello World' and need more development  and lines of code or configuration:

Competitiveness Increase