Development Tools

Visual Basic .NET, the next generation of Visual Basic, is designed to be the easiest and most productive tool for creating .NET applications, integrated across the Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services including Windows applications, Web Services, and Web applications.

.NET-connected solutions enable businesses to integrate their systems more rapidly and in a more agile manner and help them realize the promise of information anytime, anywhere, on any device.

See http://www.microsoft.com/net/default.mspx for more information.

Our Custom Solutions Group recognised the need for Uniface skills to be able to offer our clients more support in client/server, cross-platform environments. We are a Systems Integration partner with Compuware, the developer of Uniface. Below are some of the advantages of Uniface.

• Uniface application development environment is at the heart of some of the largest and most complex applications

• Uniface applications are built for performance, quality, robustness and adaptability

• Uniface runs on a large range of databases, operating systems, hardware platforms and network configurations.

See www.compuware.com/products/uniface/ for more information.

Cognos PowerPlay is the world's best-selling OLAP (online analytical processing) software. It enables users to explore large volumes of summarized data with sub-second response times in a Web, Windows, or Excel environment. With Cognos PowerPlay, users at any business or technical skill level in a company can perform their own multidimensional analysis, create reports, and share them for better decision-making.

See www.cognos.com.au for more information.

Mercury pioneered the development of systems in Australia using PowerHouse. We have spent over 15 years developing and maintaining PowerHouse applications on a variety of databases and platforms including:

• Databases: Interbase, Image, RMS and Rdb

• Platforms: Mpe/ix, Unix, VMS

We have developed PowerHouse applications in the following areas:

• retail clothing manufacturing

• records management (for a city council)

• stock control (for a hospital)

• goods in/out tracking (for Joint House Department)

• payroll systems

• student management systems.

See www.cognos.com.au for more information.

Crystal Report Writer is one of the world’s leading report-writing tools. Our staff use Crystal to deliver the standard reporting functionality of applications.

See www.crystaldecisions.net/products/crystalreports/ for more information.