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PowerBuilder Family of Development Tools
PowerBuilder Product Image PowerBuilder Enterprise 5.0
Fast Applications...Anywhere!

PowerBuilder 5.0 meets the most demanding development requirements. Specifically designed for building complex, high-performance business applications for client/server and the Internet, PowerBuilder provides advanced object-oriented features including OLE 2.0 automation client and server support, integrated OCX capabilities, and a powerful object browser. PowerBuilder 5.0 also gives you compiled code, multitier partitioning, full Windows 95 compliance, and new Rich Text Format (RTF) presentation styles for the ever-popular DataWindow. And PowerBuilder applications can be developed and deployed on Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Sun Solaris platforms.

With PowerBuilder Enterpise 5.0, you can save DataWindows into an HTML file for viewing from any Internet browser. Coming soon, PowerBuilder Enterprise will allow you to embed ActiveX controls, such as Visual Components WebViewer browser, so that your can access the web from your client/server applications.

PowerBuilder Professional 5.0
An Advanced Tool for Team-based Development

PowerBuilder Professional 5.0 is a powerful object-oriented environment for team-based client-server development. PowerBuilder Professional includes full ODBC access to enterprise databases, a central object library for check-in/check-out, a standalone Sybase SQL Anywhere DBMS and the PowerBuilder Foundation Class Library.

PowerBuilder Desktop 5.0
A Powerful Object-Oriented Development Tool

PowerBuilder Desktop 5.0 is a powerful object-oriented environment that lets individual developers create fast applications with ODBC access to popular desktop databases.

PowerBuilder Desktop is a comprehensive single-developer tool for building Windows applications. It combines intuitive graphical painters with an extensible object-oriented programming language. It offers a powerful Sybase SQL Anywhere ANSI-standard relational database in an integrated package that provides all you need to develop and deploy fast applications.

Powersoft Portfolio
The Powerful Suite for Building Workgroup Client/Server Applications

Powersoft Portfolio combines three best-in-class tools in a single, full-featured suite. PowerBuilder Desktop for development; data modeling; and Sybase SQL Anywhere Server (four-user edition). Release 2.0 available Q3 1996.

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The Extensive Reporting and Analysis
Tool for Unlocking Information

InfoMaker 5.0 reaches beyond traditional data access tools to provide comprehensive data access, management, and reporting for developers and end users. Create powerful queries and presentation-quality reports without complex programming. Available for Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Companion Products
Expanding the Client/Server Development Environment

ObjectCycle is Powersofts next-generation, server-based version control product, included in PowerBuilder Enterprise 5.0. ObjectCycle provides rapid naming, storage, and versioning in an application development team setting.

Advanced Developer Toolkit includes tools and utilities for heightened development productivity. Plus, it includes the new Powersoft Foundation Class (PFC) Librarya set of advanced, pre-built objects for custom application frameworks.

PowerBuilder Library for Lotus Notes, a standard feature of PowerBuilder Enterprise, provides seamless connectivity between PowerBuilder and Lotus Notes R4 databases.

Visual Components are pre-built, OLE Custom Controls that add power to your applications with minimal overhead. Ask about our suite of components including a spreadsheet, text editor, spell checker, charting tool, web browser and other OCX components from Powersoft.

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The Designor family of products allows you to create, maintain, reverse engineer, and document databases for over 30 different DBMSs including: Sybase, Oracle, Informix, Ingres, DB/2, Watcom SQL, SQL Server, Paradox, Access, FoxPro, and dBASE. Database generation is accomplished via a DDL script or directly through ODBC. These products also allow you to manage all physical characteristics of the databases such as triggers, stored procedures, views, physical storage properties, and user-defined business rules.

S-Designor 5.0 ProcessAnalyst
ProcessAnalyst models are easy to build and maintain and streamline communication among all participants in the application development cycle. The tool enables users to describe complex process models that match their database models. By expressing the processes that exist in a system and describing the data they exchange, ProcessAnalyst can be used to elaborate data items in a more natural way. These data items may be transferred to and from S-Designor DataArchitect for complete analysis and design.

S-Designor 5.0 DataArchitect
DataArchitect provides traditional data modeling capabilities, including database design, generation, maintenance, reverse-engineering and documentation for database architects. It enables database designers to create flexible, efficient and effective data structures for use by an application's database engine.
DataArchitect offers conceptual data model design, automatic physical data model generation, denormalized physical design, multiple database management system (DBMS) and development tool support, and presentation-quality reporting features. Using its reverse engineering capabilities, a designer can obtain a "blueprint" of a database's structure to document and maintain the database or migrate to a different DBMS. These features ensure an optimal database structure for developing large, complex applications.

S-Designor 5.0 AppModeler
S-Designor AppModeler teams with leading client/server development tools to accelerate development and enhance application quality. By leveraging any database model, AppModeler generates client/server applications based upon a class library. Additionally, AppModeler offers database generation, maintenance, and reporting for more than 30 database management systems (DBMSs). The AppModeler module allows developers to:

Efficiently leverage the database designers' work into development

Interface with development environments through extended attribute definition (edit styles, validation rules and format masks, for example)

Since AppModeler uses the same environment as S-Designor DataArchitect's physical data model, the developer can seamlessly use the database designer's work to leverage design into development. To accelerate development, AppModeler can generate applications for the target environment based upon the physical database model and a class library. AppModeler allows developers to lay a solid foundation for client/server applications and facilitates code re-usability through standardization. AppModeler currently supports application generation for PowerBuilder 4.0 and 5.0 and will soon support generation for other development tools.
To ensure synchronization between design and development, the database structure and extended attribute information defined in AppModeler can be easily transferred to and from the development tool's dictionary.

S-Designor 5.0 MetaWorks
Consistency is the key to successful large-scale client/server projects. To ensure consistency, Powersoft's S-Designor 5.0 MetaWorks complements the other S-Designor modules by providing extended team and dictionary management capabilities.

MetaWorks is designed for each member of the project team: data administrators, database administrators, designers and developers.
The module provides a global and hierarchical view of all modeling objects to ensure consistency and stability throughout the development cycle. MetaWorks provides user profile definition and access rights management including model locking security. The module also includes MetaBrowser, a flexible dictionary browser for viewing all modeling information across projects and Powersoft's ObjectCycle for version control.

Training
New courses available on your desktop!
Computer-Based Training, Multimedia Courses, and Video Workshops.
The next-best-thing to classroom instruction, from Powersoft Professional Services.
Powersoft self-paced training alternatives offer convenient and cost-effective instruction, including interactive computer-based training (CBT) and video workshops. These modular training options provide the answers for today's developers whose pro-jects require immediate PowerBuilder, InfoMaker, or Sybase SQL Anywhere training, or to-the-point review of specific techniques.

Computer-Based Training
The self-paced solution to PowerBuilder training needs that can't wait until tomorrow or next week! Computer-based training, or CBT, is an instructional method that lets you take advantage of your standalone or networked PCs as a powerful training resource. Now you can get the PowerBuilder training you need, right where you work-at your desktop. Powersoft offers computer-based training courses that follow our highly effective classroom curriculum. CBT students learn in an interactive environment that delivers the information they need at the pace they prefer. CBT courses offer a graphical, point-and-click learning environment that prepares you for real-world PowerBuilder development. CBT's interactive course design stimulates participation through innovative text, graphics, questions, and hands-on exercises.

Multimedia Courses
The new PowerBuilder 5.0 QuickStart Multimedia Series combines sight and sound in "video" demos and instruction for a highly effective presentation of the top five PowerBuilder 5.0 features. Each course includes state-of-the-art multimedia technology such as digital video of Powersoft experts, text, graphics, audio, and screen movie demonstrations. All courses provide complete indexing and search capabilities with hyperlinks to learning objects ensuring fast and easy access to critical information. Best of all, you learn at your own pace anytime, anywhere. The series includes five titles:
7 Preparing for Distributed Computing
7 Developing PowerBuilder Applications in Windows 95
7 Extending PowerBuilder: Exploiting OLE and OCX
7 Leveraging PowerBuilder 5.0 Object-Oriented Language Features
7 Accelerating Development Using PowerBuilder Foundation Classes

PowerBuilder CBT Courses
Making the Most of PowerBuilder 5.0
This course helps PowerBuilder 4.0 users transition to the new 5.0 release. Lessons cover the Windows 95 user interface and controls, new DataWindow presentation styles, the enhanced script editor, distributed objects, and tips for creating high-performance PowerBuilder applications.

Introduction to PowerBuilder CBT Series
This series acquaints new PowerBuilder users with the development environment and key features of PowerBuilder 5.0. Courses also explore ways to plan and build applications for maximum performance, flexibility, and ease-of-use. The Introduction to PowerBuilder CBT series includes four courses:
PowerBuilder: The Basics
DataWindow Concepts
Implementing a User Interface
Object-Oriented Essentials in PowerBuilder

Intermediate PowerBuilder CBT Series
For PowerBuilder users who are ready to move beyond the basics, this series provides more in-depth instruction on effective development techniques. Courses teach ways to exploit two major performance features of PowerBuilder its powerful object orientation and unique DataWindow technology. The Intermediate PowerBuilder CBT series includes four courses:
7 Maximizing DataWindow Features
7 DataWindow Construction Techniques
7 Object-Oriented Constructs
7 Object-Oriented Implementation

Video Workshops
Reporting with InfoMaker
Learn how to create professional, presentation-quality reports with InfoMaker, the graphical query and reporting tool. This 45-minute video teaches you how to create sophisticated queries, graphs, and crosstab reports in no time.