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Application development challenges

To better grasp the business value that Application Developer v7.5 provides, it is important to understand the challenges businesses face in application development.
Table | -1 highlights the key application development challenges as well as desired development tooling solutions.
Table 1-1

Challenges Solution tooling
Application development is complex, time consuming, and error prone. Raise productivity by automating time consuming and error prone tasks.
Highly skilled developers are required and in short supply. Assist less knowledgeable developers where possible by providing wizards, on-line context sensitive help, an integrated environment, and visual tooling.
Learning curves are long. Shorten learning curves by providing rapid application development tooling (visual layout and design, re-usable components, code generators) and ensure that development tools have consistent way of working.

Application development challenges

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Challenges	Solution tooling
Application development is complex, time consuming, and error prone.	Raise productivity by automating time consuming and error prone tasks.
Highly skilled developers are required and in short supply.	Assist less knowledgeable developers where possible by providing wizards, on-line context sensitive help, an integrated environment, and visual tooling.
Learning curves are long.	Shorten learning curves by providing rapid application development tooling (visual layout and design, re-usable components, code generators) and ensure that development tools have consistent way of working.