Quantitative measure of a Model reflecting the complexity and of the functional size of the application it generates. The weight of a Model is calculated as the sum of the elementary weights of its elements.
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Overview
What is Livebase
Livebase is a model-driven development platform allowing professional developers to model, generate and deploy Cloudlets, without coding. A Cloudlet is a backend software component implementing a set of transactional services over a custom relational database, and exposing such services via a GraphQL API. Learn more...
What you can build with Livebase
Depending on the Model, a Cloudlet can be a small microservice or the entire backend of a complex business application. Cloudlets can be deployed (on-premise or anywhere in the cloud) on hosting infrastructures with a standard open-source software stack, ranging in size from a single server to a high-availability cluster. Learn more...
Why you should use Livebase
Livebase improves quality and efficiency of analysis & design, and it drastically simplifies development and maintenance by generating most of the code allowing to plugin additional code if required. The power and flexibility of GraphQL API makes also simple to connect Cloudlets with mobile and desktop clients and with external systems. Learn more...
Who is using Livebase
In the last 10 years single freelance developers and large system integrators have been using Livebase to create and maintain mission-critical applications for organizations of all sizes in a wide range of industries, from public administration to clinical research, from manufacturing to ticketing, flowlessly managing millions of records. Learn more...
How much does it cost
Unlike most low-code platforms, Livebase does not charge for executing the applications you build, no matter how many end-users they have. You only pay a convenient fee for using Livebase modeling and generation tools, as long as you use them and proportionally to the complexity of the applications you build. Learn more...
Livebase is a model-driven development platform allowing professional developers to model, generate and deploy Cloudlets, without coding. A Cloudlet is a backend software component implementing a set of transactional services over a custom relational database, and exposing such services via a GraphQL API. Learn more...
What you can build with Livebase
Depending on the Model, a Cloudlet can be a small microservice or the entire backend of a complex business application. Cloudlets can be deployed (on-premise or anywhere in the cloud) on hosting infrastructures with a standard open-source software stack, ranging in size from a single server to a high-availability cluster. Learn more...
Why you should use Livebase
Livebase improves quality and efficiency of analysis & design, and it drastically simplifies development and maintenance by generating most of the code allowing to plugin additional code if required. The power and flexibility of GraphQL API makes also simple to connect Cloudlets with mobile and desktop clients and with external systems. Learn more...
Who is using Livebase
In the last 10 years single freelance developers and large system integrators have been using Livebase to create and maintain mission-critical applications for organizations of all sizes in a wide range of industries, from public administration to clinical research, from manufacturing to ticketing, flowlessly managing millions of records. Learn more...
How much does it cost
Unlike most low-code platforms, Livebase does not charge for executing the applications you build, no matter how many end-users they have. You only pay a convenient fee for using Livebase modeling and generation tools, as long as you use them and proportionally to the complexity of the applications you build. Learn more...
Improve Analysis & Design
Get accurate requirements, faster
The Livebase Designer neatly guides the analysis process, allowing to efficiently capture requirements as an integrated set of compact, precise and self-consistent diagrams.
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Keep Customers involved and aware
Let Customers watch, while modeling in real-time during the analyis sessions, and keep them involved, attentive, and aware of the sometimes elusive complexity of the application domain.
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Improve accuracy of requirements validation
Reviewing requirement is tedious and error-prone: let Customers validate them interactively by using generated prototypes, and detect wrong/incomplete specs earlier.
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Measure analysis and design activities
Analysis & design are critical activities, but it’s hard to measure their progress. Livebase tracks size and complexity of an application Model through its entire life-cycle.
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Connect analysts with developers
Livebase narrows the gap betweeen analysis and development. It keeps senior analysts and backend developers on the same page (the Model), minimizing frictions and misunderstandings.
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Minimize coding and testing
Backend components generated by Livebase (Cloudlets) can save a lot of the effort and avoid most of the pitfalls of coding and testing the application backend.
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Any Cloudlet generated by Livebase is also a fully-functional basis for hand-coded extensions (if needed), guiding developers into modular development with a neat pluggable architecture.
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Livebase can rebuild and redeploy a Cloudlet in minutes, when its Model is changed, which means regenerating the Cloudlet’s application and adapting its database schema.
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All the functionality of a Cloudlet (excluding plugins, if any) is entirely described by the Model it was generated from: a set of compact and readable diagrams based on the UML standard.
Learn MoreUnleash frontend developers
The GraphQL API exposed by Cloudlets gives frontend developers a lot more flexibility with respect to a traditional REST API.
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Reduce maintenance costs
The source code of any business application inevitably gets cluttered and harder to maintain over time. Livebase models are much easier to keep clean and elegant.
Learn MoreAvoid technological obsolescence
By just rebuilding a Cloudlet, developers get a brand-new backend, leveraging the latest technologies supported by Livebase framework and incorporating its improvements.
Learn MoreShield from hosting upgrades
Livebase can always rebuild your Cloudlets to keep them fully functional after any upgrade of the software stack on the hosting infrastructure.
Learn MoreBuilt with Livebase
Birra del Borgo (an important Italian brewery) has created autonomously and is organically extendeding its own vertical ERP with Livebase.
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INVITALIA (the National Agency for Economic Development) monitors with Livebase the environmental requalification of industrial areas.
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The Ministry of Cultural Heritage manages with Livebase the provision of EU funds to administrations of UNESCO sites across Italy
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The Italian Basketball Federation is migrating to a distributed backend architecture using GraphQL services built with Livebase.
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Bus Center has developed with Livebase the backend of its vertical ERP for fleet management, service planning and operation, ticketing and accounting.
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CODEX Italia gathers and monitors with Livebase calibration data from sample analysis instruments in over 140 laboratories
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Alifax has built with Livebase the database and the administrative backend of a cloud platform to track smart medical devices monitoring the transport of biological samples.
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The ICONA Foundation manages with Livebase one of the largest Scientific Databases in Europe on HIV
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The Institute of Clinical Infectious Diseases of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome has used Livebase to create its own custom e-CRF for a three-years clinical trial.
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STI has developed with Livebase a a vertical ERP for metrology supporting calibration and certification of industrial equipment.
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Whiteall REPLY has developed and still maintains with Livebase the backend and the backoffice frontend of a custom ERP for a major Italian Interprofessional fund.
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Livebase has been used to design and populate the database of a large software system managing the international activities of the Tuscany Region.
Read MorePlatform architecture
The platform core services (models management, Cloudlet generation and administration) are served by a reliable cloud infrastructure located in the EU. In order use such services, developers must install locally (on their PC) a Livebase Dashboard, and they must configure the Hosting Infrastructures that will host the Cloudlets.
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The Dashboard is the a light-weight control panel allowing the developer to manage their backend development projects on the Livebase platform across their entire lifecycle, from analysis and modeling to validation and production. The Dashboard features an integrated suite of tools introduced in the "Development tools" section.
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A Hosting Infrastructure is where a generated backend is actually deployed and executed. It is provided and managed by the developer (or by the final user) and it can be as simple as a single server or sophisticated as required by availability and scalability requirements (e.g. a cluster of servers for the business logic and another cluster of servers for the DBMS).
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Hosting Agents are light-weight agents that must be installed on a Hosting Infrastructure in order to let Cloudlets deploy there the backend they generate, and to update the backend when required. A secure VPN must be setup between the Livebase platform and the Hosting Infrastructure, to allow communication between Cloudlets and the local Agent.
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The Livebase Dashboard integrates a suite of tools for modeling requirements and manage models, turning models into fully-functional backends deployed on a hosting infrastructure, administer and extend the generated backends.
The Designer helps you since the beginnning of the project in capturing and formalizing requirements into a compact, intuitive and maintainable Model. The Designer proactively ensures correctness and consisteny of each Model while it's edited, so that it can always generate a fully functional (although incomplete) backend.
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A Livebase Model is an integrated and self-consistent set of UML-derived diagrams on different layers: from the overall conceptual data model to applicative views, business rules, user profiles and permissions. Models can be drawn interactively with the Designer and they contain all the information required to generate a complete, fully-functional backend.
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The Library tracks the evolution of each Model and measures the complexity of each version using a specific LCP (lLivebase Complexity Point) metric. Major and minor indexes of each version increase automatically based on the changes over the previous version. The Library also features tools model search & merge tools effectively supporting Models reuse.
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Cloudlets are, from a conceptual perspective, execution environments for Models. You can setup multiple Cloudlets to test different versions of your Models. Each Cloudlet is configured on creation with a Hosting Infrastructure, so that when you drop a Model into a Cloudlet the generated backend is deployed and executed on that infrastructure.
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To generate a backend, just drag a Model into a Cloudlet (e.g. from the Library) and start the Cloudlet: the backend derived from the Model will be generated and deployed in minutes on the hosting infrastructure the Cloudlet is bound to. Having multiple Cloudlets for each backend project (e.g. Development, Validation and Production) allows you to generate and test in parallel different versions of your backend, and move versions and databases across Cloudlets by just dragging them. Backends can be easily updated and extended at any time (even once they are in production) by just editing the Model they where generated from and by regenerating such Model and automatically morphing the database schema as required, unless a potential data loss is detected.
Read MoreTo generate a backend, just drag a Model into a Cloudlet (e.g. from the Library) and start the Cloudlet: the backend derived from the Model will be generated and deployed in minutes on the hosting infrastructure the Cloudlet is bound to.
Read MoreHaving multiple Cloudlets for each backend project (e.g. Development, Validation and Production) allows you to generate and test in parallel different versions of your backend, and move versions and databases across Cloudlets by just dragging them.
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Livebase pricing is driven by the weight of the Models you generate
Sum of the weights of the elements added to a given version of a Model with respect to a previous one (that is, included in the given version but not included in the previous one).
Read MoreWeight of the heaviest version of the Model that was generated during that month. If the Model was not generated then its record weight in that month is zero.
Read MoreSum of the increases of each version of a given Model generated in the month compared to the previously generated version. If the Model was not generated then its cumulated increase in that month is zero.
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