Company Profile
tangible engineering's history...
tangible engineering was using model-driven development for complex database development projects with clients like Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and Bosch. When .NET was made available by Microsoft, the company was looking for a commercial tool which could automate the generation of a Persistent Object Model and implement the lessons learned during previous model-driven projects, especially in regards to team-development requirements. There was no tool available on the market that satisfied all needs. So the company decided to completely rewrite the existing model-driven code generator for the .NET Platform, integrate it tightly with Visual Studio.NET and make it available to the .NET community.

...and future
tangible engineering now has its main focus on the continued development and distribution of tangible architect, but also offers consulting services. By providing pragmatic tools and industry-proven patterns & services to support a team-oriented, model-driven development process, the company enables its clients to gain the full benefits of the model-driven development approach.

tangible's view of model-driven development
tangible engineering expects a model-driven approach and tool to generate a sound, high-quality framework and business objects that can easily be extended and bound to the presentation layer. The company does not work towards an unrealistic 100% application generation. It believes that the real potential lies in integrating humans and generators to work together in an optimal and efficient way.

Microsoft Certified Partner
As a Microsoft Certified Partner, tangible engineering has proven experience, knowledge and commitment with regard to the Microsoft Platform and technologies. In particular the company shares a common vision with Microsoft regarding the implementation of presentation layers through data-binding - as demonstrated in the next major platform release: WinFx and Avalon.