Case Study: Frontech Solutions achieves rapid, scalable PLM, lower costs and improved collaboration with Adobe ColdFusion

Software developer builds powerful and flexible product lifecycle management (PLM) tools with Adobe ColdFusion

Frontech Solutions, a software developer for the apparel and footwear industries, built the FAN PLM System using Adobe ColdFusion to give distributed stakeholders real‑time, browser-based visibility into product lifecycle workflows. Facing the need to rapidly develop and deploy high‑performance PLM solutions for global, multi‑time‑zone teams and to integrate designer tools like Adobe Illustrator CC, Frontech sought a scalable, secure, and easy‑to‑implement foundation—Adobe ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder—to accelerate delivery and lower operating costs.

Using Adobe ColdFusion, Frontech implemented a web‑based FAN PLM with an Adobe Illustrator plug‑in and a mobile app, enabling tight integration, dynamic reporting, and real‑time collaboration. The Adobe ColdFusion solution cut reporting workloads by 72%, reduced development time by about 20%, delivered typical first‑year ROI of 244% (up to 741% over 10 years), enabled zero‑downtime launches for customers like Quiksilver, and produced faster time‑to‑market and improved cross‑enterprise communication.

Frontech Solutions

Lenny Holden

Principal