Benefits

genIE Direct

Allows changes to be made rapidly without requiring a download.
Eliminating downloads reduces contention on the models
Eliminating downloads reduces CPU consumtion, hence reduces cost of development
Integration with GuardIEn ensures changes are correctly versioned and controlled
X-Copy ensures fixes are more accurately applied to multiple models
X-Copy enables faster re-use of commonly used statements across models

genIE Plug-in

Statement generation features reduce effort and speed up development
View re-ordering speeds up testing and development time and can lead to more efficient generated code
Deleting unused views results in more efficient generated code
X-Copy allows statements to be copied from any action diagram in any model. Source Action Diagram does not need to be checked out.
Search & Replace text allows rapid changes to text literals across multiple objects