Alpha Five 8

Alpha Five 8 offers an effective tool which includes report writing, intelligent email, web connectivity, backend database access, data browsers and security.

Alpha Five is "beginner friendly." You can define and manage databases — and create complete applications without programming. With Alpha Fives Action Scripting, Genies, and point-and-click interface you focus on building your solution, not on the programming details.

Professional developers benefit from Alpha Fives Xbasic language. You can create user defined functions and integrate external software libraries. Thousands of functions are included.

Templates, samples and tutorials and complete documentation included.

Winner of PC Magazine Editors Choice award and CRNs Database of the Year.

Major Features:

1. Reasons to choose Alpha Five Version 8 as a development environment
   • Award Winning common development system for building secure Web AND Desktop applications quickly and easily
   • Chosen by a broad base of businesses and organizations because its ability to produce results in significantly less time than alternative solutions
   • Example: A secure web applications built in 40 minutes. Video demo – part 1 , Video demo – part 2
   • Example: A desktop applications built in 20 minutes. Video demo
   • All in one solution (contains: relational DBMS or uses SQL databases, web/application server, visual forms, visual browses, visual reports including SQL data reporting, intuitive "action scripting", field rules for fast and accurate data entry, fully integrated inbound and outbound programmable email, powerful Xbasic /Xdialog programming language, flexible querying including SQL queries and extensive genies (wizards))
2. Web or Browser Rapid Application Development
   • Rapid and straight forward Web application development using reusable visual components
   • Components available for creating: dialogs, one-to-many grids with search and drill down, navigation systems, graphing, maintenance operations and reports
   • Server side programming using powerful Xbasic programming language
   • Portable SQL for seamless connection to any SQL Database and transportability across multiple SQL databases such as: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Cache, QuickBooks and Access
   • Comprehensive group security model with extensive login control
   • Fully formatted reports served up within web applications for local and remote SQL data (supporting html, rich text and PDF output)
   • Fully customizable layouts and controls
   • Built-in HTML and CSS editors
   • Easy deployment
3. Windows Desktop Rapid Application Development
   • Rapid Desktop development using visual forms, browses and reports
   • The ability to easily create applications that look like they were designed by a professional graphics designer.
   • The ability to create applications with rich user interfaces that operate swiftly
   • Broad portfolio of data entry tools such as multiple types of lookups, calculations, auto-increment, validations, transformations, posting and events for rapid and error free data entry
   • Extensive genies (wizards) improves development time
   • Action Scripting – a "no programming required" way to add extensive automation and logic to applications (it writes the Xbasic for you)
   • Extensive Xbasic/Xdialog programming language
   • Programmable forms using Xdialog
   • Powerful Reports, Letters and Labels (supporting html, rich text and PDF output)
   • Fully integrated programmable email including the ability to parse inbound email and set up email merge
   • Powerful operations to clean, de-dupe, manipulate and transform data
   • Extensive Querying options for local and remote SQL data
   • Reporting against SQL databases such as Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Cache, QuickBooks and Access

• Faster
• More Web Components
• More Desktop Options
• Microsoft Vista Compatible
  

Requirements:

• Pentimum III 500Mhz (or higher)
• 256MB of RAM

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