Data Based Advisor articles from August 1996

Data Based Advisor archives from August 1996

32-bit thoughts at 32,000 feet.(Windows 95) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... Which Windows? And, can Windows 95 and IBM Thinkpads get along? I'm at 32,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean, looking out the window. Suddenly, 32-bit Windows 95 is on my mind! Could it be the white cumulus clouds that dot the blue sky? Or is it...

Reports OO style.(Actuate Software's Actuate Developer Workbench 1.0) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 1996... New Product Modern client-server reporting solutions often lack flexibility. The user typically has some combination of an ad hoc query/reporting tool (usually Microsoft Access, Crystal Reports, or Powersoft InfoMaker) and a set of fixed...

Fire up FoxPro reports.(MicroMega Systems Inc's FoxFire! 3.0) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 1996... We're all familiar with it--the old basic information system design: Input, Processing, Output. The input and processing portions have long been the venue of development languages. While many of these languages provide basic output...

Coming events.(events calendar) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
August 1, 1996... Wizard do most of the work for you. It sets up the databases you specify, and lets you create persistent relationships between tables. The wizard walks you through assigning user-recognizable names to your data elements, setting up special...

Get connected--wherever you are.(Symantec's Norton pcAnywhere 32) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 1996... Norton pcAnywhere 32 provides remote control, file transfer, and general communications (figure 1). Its the latest iteration of Norton's remote control communications program, and is designed to work with Windows 95 and Windows NT systems. The...

News.(Security Dynamics Technologies' SoftID security software and POET Software's POET 4.0 ODBMS) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... Conclusion For a lot of us, this is a new product category. If we choose, this product can become an excellent way to increase the scope of our business. This is one the those essential products for those interested in the promises of the PC...

Connect your data to the Web.(Microrim's R:BASE/R:WEB 5.5 for Windows) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 1996... A couple of years ago, made a prediction--one that few of my peers took seriously. In short, I predicted that within five years most database development would be done in conjunction with the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). I saw a trend...

News.(Cayenne Software's ObjectTeam Enterprise object-oriented modeling software, and slp InfoWare's STATlab) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... The second component of the R:BASE/R:WEB package is R:WEB. This tool lets you convert your R:BASE forms to HTML code. R:WEB sits on your web server and acts as an intermediary between users and your database. It intercepts the data that comes...

Use icon-based multimedia to create apps.(Innovus' Multimedia 2.1 authoring tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 1996... When you have information to present, you can rely on multimedia's visual and audio pizzazz to make a compelling point. But to take the information that resides in your organization, whether it's in a database or in existing documents and...

News.(Requisite's Requisite 1.5 project management software and Software Research's Software TestWorks/Web development software) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... In use Innovus has great depth. It comes with a built-in spell checker and thesaurus, a set of screen transitions, and drawing tools to create basic shapes, add shadows, and align objects. A question tool helps create test formats...

Cross platform barriers.(Passport's Passport 8.1 application development software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 1996... If you've ever had a client who needed to deploy a single application on multiple platforms, you probably felt good being on a team that specializes in at least one of the target platforms. But suppose you had the ability to develop the...

News.(Brainstorm Technologies' VB/Link 4.0 application development software and slp InfoWare's DATAboard report generation software) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... VB/Link 4.0 for Lotus Notes is a Lotus Notes Activex control that lets clientserver and Internet developers build compound Notes version 3.x or 4.0 applications. VB/Link 4.0 provides custom client-server and web pages with instant...

Delphi, even more RADical at 32.(Borland's Delphi 2.0 application development software)(includes related article on Delphi's Internet capabilities) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 1996... Release 2.0 causes excitement in the developer community as a RADical visual development tool. Once considered to be the center of the earth by the ancient Greeks, and fought over by their gods, the name Delphi is still causing a ruckus! The...

Creating a database object model. (Technology Tutorial)
August 1, 1996... Here's how to provide an object-oriented solution using the MFC database classes, Data objects, and Meta classes. As an object programmer, there are times when using the MFC database classes directly or deriving classes &om them is handy. The...

Conquering the integration challenge. (Technology Information)
August 1, 1996... STAR: Flashpoint simplifies the creation of a new GUI client-server architecture from Mercedes-Benz's massive data stores. IS professionals at Mercedes-Benz of North America recently completed a massive client-server integration project in...

Building an information empire.(includes related article on Intranets) (Technology Information)
August 1, 1996... With the Web and the Internet quickly becoming the rage in the business world, creating a private internet or intranet is a way to fully unleash the potential of corporate information. The Internet is the popular media's current technology...

Groupware/workflow application options for your intranet.(includes related article on RADnet's WebShare and WebFlow's SamePage intranet solutions) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... Intranet applications change the way your company does business. When it comes to implementing them, you have a lot of options. It was just a matter of time before the Internet explosion started giving birth to a whole new generation of buzz...

How corporations are adapting to intranets. (Technology Information)
August 1, 1996... Officials discuss internal web sites and how they're changing the way corporations share information with employees. It's easy to say that intranets (private Internets) are growing faster than the Internet itself, but perhaps it isn't so easy...

Products for getting to your intranet data.(Buyers Guide)
August 1, 1996... Data mining Intranet tools Process reengineering Perhaps the most complex technological challenge you'll face when developing an intranet is choosing a searching tool. Today's corporations are looking hard at their organizational...

Implement an automation view interface. (Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
August 1, 1996... Use the Object Management Group's standards to merge COM and CORBA object models in the corporate enterprise. The Object Management Group's (OMG) recently approved COM-CORBA Interworking standard paves the way for developers to expose CORBA...

Laying the foundation for OLE and remote automation. (Microsoft's Visual Basic 4.0 Enterprise Edition) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... OLE Automation comes of age with the ability to build remote servers with Visual Basic 4.0. Microsoft introduced Remote Automation with Visual Basic 4, Enterprise Edition in 1995. Remote Automation brought us the beginnings of the...

Microsoft's Windows strategy. (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... Mike takes a look at operating systems--what's here now and what's yet to come. With all the hoopla surrounding Windows 95, you'd think it had won the desktop operating system war. It hasn't. A year after the product's launch, there are...

Success stories: Navigating the move to automated testing.(Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner 2.0 and WinRunner 4.0 testing software) (Product Information)
August 1, 1996... Mercury Interactive's testing technology makes life easier for US West Communications and Norwest Mortgage. Automated software testing is becoming increasingly popular as companies downsize and expect more accomplished in less time. Manual...

Update.(Promark's Rhobot/Win 32-bit testing utility) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 1996... The following company is an additional to the "Software Testing Directory" in the June 1996 issue: Promark One Gatehall Drive Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 800-622-8434, (201) 540-1980 Fax (201) 540-8377 toml@promark.com...

Improve your error handling techniques. (Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
August 1, 1996... In the fast-paced world of RAD and integrated development environments, developers often overlook error handling. Here are some techniques to improve the way your applications respond to errors. One of the most underfocused elements of...

Database confidential. (News Briefs)
August 1, 1996... Tired of getting socks and underwear for your birthday, when all you really want is a quad Pentium Pro, with a 8GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, a 20-platter RAID disc array, and a GENIE-compatible garage door opener? Buzz suggests opening up the...