Why Developers Choose Visual DataFlex?

Professional developers worldwide choose Visual DataFlex when they need to rapidly create reliable, high-performance commercial database applications for deployment on Windows and the Web. They choose Visual DataFlex because it gives them everything they need to succeed with their projects and their products... a highly integrated combination of software tools, application framework, deployment components, an embedded, transaction optimized DBMS, client/server database connectivity options and a mature, object-oriented 4GL.

The Visual DataFlex application framework provides developers with a powerful, consistent yet flexible structure in which to maintain and evolve their application investments as user demands and new technologies drive the need for change. The rich object oriented language gives developers the control to implement almost any database application they can conceive.

Visual DataFlex has a multi-tiered application architecture. An application's business logic can be concentrated in Data Dictionaries and Business Process Objects that are independent of the user interface. This carefully crafted architecture provides a common layer of components used to build both Windows and Web application user interfaces.

Developers choose Visual DataFlex because its multi-tiered architecture, application framework, rich language and class library mean writing less code and managing less complexity to build and deploy applications that run on the Windows desktop, in web browsers, on cell phones and handheld PDAs.

Visual DataFlex applications are database independent. Developers can write applications and deploy them on the embedded database or the industry's top database servers without changing code. Database independence means lower cost, faster change processes, more flexibility and more scalability as database capacity, security, performance, platform and cost considerations change.

Finally, the common thread of any poll of developers and their application users is that they use Visual DataFlex "because it works". Visual DataFlex Studio works efficiently for developers as they build, maintain, change and evolve applications. The Visual DataFlex Windows Client Engine works reliably supporting end users' database applications in health care, transportation, manufacturing, financial services, insurance, education, construction, agriculture, food service, wholesale distribution, retailing, technology, and the public sector. Visual DataFlex Web Application Servers work securely delivering information across the internet in a vast assortment of large and small enterprises.

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Visual DataFlex is loaded with the advanced features that developers demand, including an advanced Studio for fast, easy visual development, easy integration of COM Automation and Active-X controls, Data Aware Controls without the need for custom programming, Data Dictionary Objects that encapsulate your business rules and validations for unmatched data integrity, reusable components, automatic multi-user applications, and increased return on investment (ROI) through a proven client/server database application architecture.