Name: Adobe ColdFusion
Brand: Adobe
Rating: 4.3 (9 reviews)

Tim Herr

Managing Director, Application Services & Digital Technologies at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Feb 26, 2018

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We save enormous amounts of time in development using this tool

Pros and Cons

"The ability to write SQL queries was very helpful as we did not need to bother our DBAs in writing stored procedures for simple tasks."
"This tool was very easy learn, yet powerful enough to manage many sites on a single instance."
"We save enormous amounts of time in development using this tool."

"Installation of the server software was formidable due the number of configurable options."

What is our primary use case?

I use ColdFusion to build internal and external applications for a major oil company. We had several teams totaling about 100 developers using this tool at our client.

How has it helped my organization?

This tool was very easy learn, yet powerful enough to manage many sites on a single instance.

We save enormous amounts of time in development using this tool.

What is most valuable?

The ability to write SQL queries was very helpful as we did not need to bother our DBAs in writing stored procedures for simple tasks.

What needs improvement?

I have since moved into a management role and have not kept abreast of changes with this tool.

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For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

None.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

None.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not use a different solution. We did use .NET for some applications, but I preferred CF.

How was the initial setup?

Installation of the server software was formidable due the number of configurable options.

The client had the software running prod but did not have dev or test servers. I was tasked with setting those up after the fact. It took some time to get the dev/test server to match prod, but that was not an issue with the tool. This was not setting up the environments properly.