Released on: June 3, 2008, 6:39 am

Press Release Author: Artinsoft

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Today Artinsoft Corp. announced the release of the second
public beta of Aggiorno (www.aggiorno.com ), an extension to both Microsoft Visual
Studio 2005 and 2008, through the Visual Studio Integration Program (VSIP), that
brings expert knowledge and productivity to web developers. With Aggiorno, web
developers easily make their ASP.NET or HTML sites compliant with the latest web
standards using the latest technology trends suggested by industry experts and
immediately incorporating business value.

Press Release Body: Today Artinsoft Corp. announced the release of the second public
beta of Aggiorno (www.aggiorno.com ), an extension to both Microsoft Visual Studio
2005 and 2008, through the Visual Studio Integration Program (VSIP), that brings
expert knowledge and productivity to web developers. With Aggiorno, web developers
easily make their ASP.NET or HTML sites compliant with the latest web standards
using the latest technology trends suggested by industry experts and immediately
incorporating business value.
\"Aggiorno, which means to update in Italian, is a completely new concept in software
development in general, and web development in particular. Most productivity tools
available today focus solely on the generation of code, but we have raised the bar,
emphasizing the activity in which most software teams spend their time: existing
code maintenance to gain business value,\" said Federico Zoufaly, Product Manager of
Aggiorno. \"Aggiorno understands even the most complex web sites, and can transform
them almost automatically, so that they comply with today\'s best practices. By
making source code easier to deal with and change, Aggiorno can save days\' worth of
hard work with just a few clicks\".
Aggiorno, in its first release, offers a set of key automated improvements for web
pages:
- Search engine indexing optimization
- User accessibility
- Error free, web standards compliance
- Cascading Style Sheet standard styling
- Site content and design separation
Aggiorno\'s unique value proposition is the encapsulation of source code
improvements, utterly focused on web developer productivity in order to quickly and
easily extend business reach. \"Other code manipulating applications, such as
refactoring browsers, simply move elements from one place to the other, but their
value highly depends on how and where these transformations take place. Aggiorno\'s
transformations, called Aggiornings, always carry along an intrinsic business value;
developers can rest assured that, if they apply an Aggiorning over their code, they
are making their code base a better one,\" said Federico Zoufaly.
Aggiorno\'s chief goal is to help diffuse experts\' knowledge to the wider public
All the Aggiornings shipped in the current version have been developed using
Aggiorno\'s own Software Development Kit (SDK), which is based on a very
sophisticated code understanding and transformation engine. With this SDK, the
company is pushing hard towards creating a strong bond with industry experts, so
that new Aggiornings promoting the latest available best practices can be
continuously released.
\"We want to be in close communication with web development experts, analyzing the
knowledge that they consider will increase developers\' productivity. We will work
together with them in order to encapsulate all that knowledge into Aggiornings,
which could be plugged into an already installed Aggiorno product. This way,
developers know that by purchasing Aggiorno they are buying an open ticket to best
practices and more knowledge\", explained Carlos Araya, CEO of ArtinSoft Research
Corp.
"Microsoft has been working with ArtinSoft over the last 10 years in bringing
sophisticated code transformation tools to the hands of developers. Aggiorno is the
latest incarnation of ArtinSoft's core technology, this time aimed at web developers
and their need to show business results in a consistent way," said Brian Goldfarb,
Group Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation.
Aggiorno 1.0 is scheduled to be released in Summer 2008. For more information about
Aggiorno and to register for a Beta download please visit http://www.aggiorno.com.



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