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Countless hours are invested into development of true rapid application
development (RAD) tool that will allow easy, fast and reliable software
production. Borland's Delphi environment has emerged as first software
development tool that introduced many innovative techniques, such as:
Business Insight: Turn data into actionable information
for better decisions making
Corporations generate a lot of data and most business applications generate
large volumes of transactional data. Consider an order entry system that
records all the information about your customers. But increasingly what is
needed is a way to take the large volumes of data and turn it into useful
information to support better decision-making. Taking advantage of this growing
quantity of data can provide the insight into more cost-efficient business
practices, insight into a competitive advantages or insight into market
opportunities.
Decision Cube - Multi-Dimensional Analysis
Decision Cube is for anyone who wants more sophisticated "live" analysis of
data. It allows for ad hoc data analysis, and yet scales to meet the high-level
information delivery needs of executive users. Decision Cube can be delivered
as a customized application or a web browser so that everyone has access to
information.
Integrated Quick Reports - faster and easier
High-Speed, easy-to-use and powerful reporting are important for effective
communication of data through-out the enterprise. Now, Quick Reports allows
rapid development of complex reports for distribution over the Web or from
within an application to disseminate information more effectively. 
Active Insight - An Enterprise Component Foundry for maximum usability
Delphi 3 is the Enterprise Component Foundry -- the highest-productivity
application environment for creating High-speed industry-standard ActiveX
components and COM objects. Delphi 3 ensures language interoperability with
Delphi, C++, Java, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, IntraBuilder, JavaScript, and
other languages. Delphi uses ActiveX and RPC Server Objects in a multi-tier
environment to provide re-usable and integrated business solutions.
Built-in COM Support
Only Delphi integrates COM seamlessly into a rapid application development
environment so that developers can easily and quickly create business objects,
OLE Automation Servers and ActiveXs. COM is implemented as a native type in
Delphi to maximize language interoperability and enterprise reusability. The
native built in COM support also means full support for Microsoft system
standards, such as ActiveXs, Active Documents, ActiveForms and Active
Containers.
Code Insight: Comprehensive Coding Wizards for Ease of
Use
Code Insight speeds the learning curve Remembering the syntax of a statement;
the methods, properties and events of a component; or the declarations in a
procedure will no longer be a concern for Delphi 3 developers. New Code Insight
provides the simplest mechanism for speeding the development of client/server
applications and reducing the learning curve of Delphi.
Multi - Tier Broker Architecture for scalability
"Multi-tier architectures are characterized by the separation of the user
interface, business logic and data access logic. Many organizations are
implementing multi-tier architectures for enterprise applications to realize
the two key benefits. Multi-tier architecture allows for business rules to be
centrally located on a shared server, providing the potential for reusability.
Secondly, centrally locating business rules makes maintenance much easier and
more cost effective. No longer does software need to be advertised to every
client workstation each time a business rule is changed." Overstreet, Chip,
Delphi Informant, Sept. 1996.
Packages: Leading Edge Compiler Technology
Packages are a unique leading-edge compiler technology that gives developers
the ability to breakdown applications into separate, reusable compiled pieces
without a performance slowdown
Web-Enabled Client/Server Applications
Delphi provides two mechanisms to Web-Enable your client/server applications
while using your existing Delphi skills. WEB Broker for high speed
dissemination of database information over the web. The Web Broker makes it
easy to deliver database information using HTML to any browser on any platform.
ActiveForms & Active Web Deployment for zero-configuration, client/server
applications. ActiveForms and Active Web Deployment use the web infrastructure
to deliver ultra-thin client/server applications.
Comprehensive Client and Server Functionalities
Delphi Client / Server Suite 4 includes an integrated suite of tools for
building high performance Client / Server applications with such extensive
features as:
The Object Repository
Delphi Client / Server Suite 4's Object Repository stores and manages
application objects: Forms, Data Modules, Experts, and DLLs. In its essence, it
centrally locates corporate assets so that they may be leveraged by the team to
eliminate redundant development efforts. As objects proliferate, the repository
increases in importance.
Supports team development practices by referencing objects on a network. It is
customizable so that developers can define their own logical groupings of
objects to facilitate reuse.
Visual Form Inheritance and Form Linking
Developing and using of corporate standard in applications is important, even
it is sometimes difficult to ensure adhering of these standards. Visual Form
Inheritance and Form Linking extends object oriented programming to a visual
paradigm ensuring that corporate and programmatic standards are maintained from
project to project. In conjunction with the Object Repository, these standards
are centrally managed resulting in faster project turn-around time.
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