User:GraemeBryce/Factonomy

Factonomy Ltd is a Scottish software company that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a number of software products that make extensive use of declarative XML as an agile software development language.

The company was founded in 2003 by Graeme Bryce and colleague Dave Reynolds. Graeme and Dave had previously worked together in an early on-line electronic forms publisher EveryForm since sold to Reed Elsevier.

The primary Factonomy product is a strategic information framework that operates in a Microsoft .NET environment. Developers configure business applications using a declarative XML syntax that describes all of the presentation layer, the business logic and the back end actions and integration. Developers are freed from the need to work with client-side and server-side languages. Database languages such as SQL are abstracted to the same system wide declarative XML and inter-server protocols such as SOAP and REST are easily implemented.

The result is that applications are developed at a lower cost and with a significantly improved consistency, user adoption and future proofing. Organizations adopting the framework can choose to do more or spend less whilst utilizing existing technologies and existing staff.

Strong .NET developers can work in their chosen language to extend a the domain or corporation specific XML schema available to junior developers that work more closely with business managers and business analysts to define the collection of application needed to provide transactional and decision support applications.

In August 2006 Geoff Kell previously a director of mobile software and hardware manufacturer Psion joined the firm as Chief Executive.

In June 2008 the company was funded by venture capital organization Sigma Technology Management with other investors Barwell, Tri Capital and Scottish Enterprise's co investment fund.

Henry S Thompson PH.D. chairs the companies Technical Advisory Committee.