BENEFITS
- Smart for Business – You have a lot of PowerBuilder code. Your skill set is honed. Powerfully affect your bottom line by bringing your applications into the future today with PowerBuilder 11.1. Deploy them to .NET out of the box with no new technology learning curve – just PowerBuilder.
- Open and Flexible – PowerBuilder provides open support for your RDBMS of choice as well as for deploying to your platform of choice. You can easily build and deploy client/server, Smart Client or .NET Webform applications. You can even provide solutions for "occasionally connected" Tablet PC applications. One tool does it all, solving your data-driven application development needs on the desktop, Web and in distributed environments.
- Highly Productive – Time is money. Build your applications in just days or weeks, not months or years. Deliver robust business applications quickly and easily, and leverage patented DataWindow technology for nearly code-free data access. New in 11.1 is the ability to develop for .NET with incremental rebuild functionality, so you can more quickly bring your client/server application to .NET.
- Future Proof, Risk Proof – PowerBuilder is a proven, time-tested technology. Minimize your development risk and incorporate new and emerging technologies into your applications. PowerBuilder abstracts complex new technologies and makes them easy to use, so you can easily extend your applications into the future with little risk.
- RAD Development – PowerBuilder’s 4GL IDE is replete with hundreds of built-in functions and properties that reduce the amount of coding required.
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OTHER POWERBUILDER FAMILY PRODUCTS
These technical resources will help you quickly get started with PowerBuilder and get the most out of the product.
PowerBuilder Migration Resources
Extend your PowerBuilder development and go new places! PowerBuilder developers can leverage their existing code to deliver mobile applications, deploy PowerBuilder Non-visual Objects (NVOs) as EJBs in third-party application servers and even bring their skill set into the .NET world using the DataWindow .NET product.
And, of course, there are products built specifically for PowerBuilder by our partners to ease your development efforts.
Mobile Development
PocketBuilder is an award-winning tool based on time-tested PowerBuilder technology. Learn how to build robust, data-driven, occasionally connected mobile applications for your road warriors — in about an hour.
Component Based Development
Client/Server. N-tier. Web. Smart Client: There are many options for PowerBuilder developers. Reuse your NVOs in EAServer and run them as Web Services, or deploy them as EJBs in JBoss, WebLogic or WebSphere with the PowerBuilder Application Server Plug-in.
.NET Development
Built on a rich history of proven technology that holds six patents, DataWindow .NET bolsters your .NET development environment with integrated tools for quickly building enterprise-class, data-driven applications. Unparalleled data access and presentation capabilities — all accessible from a simple point-and-click environment — help you retrieve and modify data in seconds with virtually no coding. DataWindow .NET supports Visual Studio and .NET 2.0, so you can use the latest cutting-edge technology to build eye-popping applications.
Check out DataWindow .NET, a plug-in for the Visual Studio development environment.
Partners Products
Check out a sampling of our partners and companion products built to make your life easier. And, send us an email if you have a suggestion of an exciting partner or product you'd like to see highlighted.
