The greater degree to which responsibilities can be handled by nontechnical staff, the better. Companies can save time and money by enabling marketing or editorial managers to update and maintain Web sites while more highly paid technical personnel focus on challenging development tasks, such as initial deployment, back-end integration, and creation of new services and capabilities, analysts say.
Vendors offer products for both groups.
However, the company also offers HomeSite, a popular HTML editing tool used to design Web pages and write HTML code. ColdFusion Studio also features time-saving tools. Developers can view database contents and table structure within Studio, without launching a separate database application. Allaire recently introduced Spectra and integrated several other acquired technologies into the ColdFusion environment. To bring competing E-business platforms to market quickly, other Web technology vendors also are acquiring complementary companies or entering partnerships, says Daryl Plummer, VP of Internet and applications technologies at Gartner Group.