Data Based Advisor articles from October 1996

Data Based Advisor archives from October 1996

Databased Advisor enters its 14th year.(Editorial)
October 1, 1996... John revisits the 80s to remember our roots. This issue begins the 14th year of DATABASED ADVISOR. Because so much has changed, I flipped through past issues to review how the database world and this magazine evolved through the 1980s. The...

Hot tool for Java. (Symantec's Cafe visual development tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... With Internet and intranet applications becoming commonplace, Java is beginning to make fast inroads into today's application development projects. Java offers a platform-independent and secure way to deploy applets and applications across a...

Getting help on the Internet. (Blue Sky Software's WinHelp Office '95 HTML Edition help file generator) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... Several months ago, I reviewed a new product called WinHelp Office 95 by Blue Sky Software Corporation (DATABASED ADVISOR, May 1996). This suite of tools for help authors has now been enhanced and released as WinHelp Office '95 HTML Edition....

Coming events. (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Data Warehousing Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 17-19 September-Industry application issues, data warehousing infrastructure, parallelism and large databases, DSS/EIS information delivery, and related business issues. Phoenix Civic Plaza. DCI,...

Image'n that! (Spicer's Imagenation 4.1 and Diamond Head Software's ImageBasic 2.2 imaging software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... Ah, that elusive goal, the paperless office. It's been talked about for as long as I can remember. Although progress has certainly been made, we're not there yet. At the forefront of the search is the intrepid group of developers and products...

tableBASE. (Data Kinetics' mainframe table management system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... 2000 Solutions tableBASE, a mainframe table management system, prepares For the year 2000 by offering date sensitive tables and a table restructuring facility. Users automatically restructure tables to convert date fields. Call for prices....

Cayenne 2000. (Bachman Information Systems' programming utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Cayenne 2000 is a standalone, Windows-based solution designed to analyze, report, and estimate resources to help organizations determine a course of action to deal with the year 2000 problem. It lets users identify all date-related objects,...

D-Day 2000. (Diamond Optimum Systems' programming utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... D-Day 2000 uses the client-server technology and support distributed HP/3000, UNIX, and Microsoft Windows platforms. It identifies all programs, jobs, and scripts that may be affected by year 2000 date change. The produced reports synthesize...

SNIP. (IPT's source code creator)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... SNIP produces C++ source code by applying patterns to the code creation process and capturing entire coding strategies. It automatically eliminates typographical errors, and produces reusable source code. SNIP is available on Windows NT,...

Bridge 2000. (LexiBridge's )(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Bridge 2000 uses a four-step solution of discovery, correction, verification, and deployment to correct date-related field structures, processing logic, and data. It simultaneously provides a full client-server migration of the existing system...

Vivid Resolution. (InTek's DBMS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Vivid Resolution generates functional applications into Microsoft's Visual Basic Enterprise Edition 4.0 and HTML. Users can model the data and processes that make up a client-server application. Additional HTML generator tags model data with...

Distributed solutions. (CenterView's Database Neighborhood, Data Director development environment and Active SQL data access tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... CenterView's new family of products, Database Neighborhood, Data Director, and ActiveSQL deliver distributed enterprise-wide solutions on open standards. Database Neighborhood uses a new Internet protocol, the Data Source Transfer Protocol, to...

Acumate Web and Acumate Workbench. (Kenan Systems' remote database access software and programming utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Acumate Web and Acumate Workbench are additions to the Acumate ES OLAP product family. Acumate Web provides remote access to Acumate's database using the Internet as the wide area network. Acumate Workbench offers a graphical front end and...

Thinking tool. (Lighten's Advance decision support software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Advance 1.0 is a desktop application for building business models and analyzing corporate data. It implements a data structure that lets users focus on business model concepts and not spreadsheet and database programming. U55695. Lighten,...

Forest & Trees 4.0. (PLATINUM technology's )(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Forest & Trees 4.0 offers a visual, easy-to-use interface that provides enhanced application navigation, and lets users drill down for easy data investigation, New features included in Forest &Trees are: point-and-click query construction, a...

Oracle InterOffice. (set of management tools, server applications and network services)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Oracle InterOffice is an integrated set of server applications, network services, and management tools that can be used as an extension of the DDS suite of client-server applications. InterOffice uses one server for simplified administration,...

FOCUS Fusion. (Information Builders' database)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... FOCUS Fusion is a multi-dimensional database for data warehouses and data marts that supports operational business analysis. This database offers the OverLAP technology, which allows data access and eliminates the need to copy massive amounts...

Visually integrate data sources. (Oberon Software's Prospero 1.1 visual programming tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... How many times have you had to prepare a report, update a spreadsheet, or create a Notes document, based on some nearly inaccessible database? Or based on another department's database running on NT or OS/27 The specifics, of course, vary...

Dharma/SQL. (Dharma Systems' database access software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Dharma/SQL lets apps written to the Java Database Connectivity API access data stored in proprietary (non-SQL) data sources. Proprietary databases are turned into open databases with Dharma/SQL, and offer these benefits: accessibility to data...

Enterprise info with Web technology. (Simware's Salvo Server Lite, Salvo Server 2.0 and Salvo Server Edition terminal emulation packages)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Salvo software translates datastreams to HTML, and provides the ability to turn 3270 screens into intuitive Web pages. The Salvo line provides enterprise-wide information access across a company's Intranet to the desktop. Salvo Server Lite...

DATAman. (slp InfoWare's DBMS utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... DATAman is designed to manage statistical and decisional data, and provide data services for STATlab, slp InfoWare's drill-down data mining statistical analysis tool, and DATAread, its multibase querying environment. By loading data through a...

The Enterprise Setup Utility. (Macola's application installation utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... The Enterprise Setup Utility is designed to streamline the installation of V7.0 Progression Series Software with Btrieve client-server components. During installation, it creates an Enterprise configuration file, based on the server...

Database performance monitor. (Landmark Systems' PerformanceWorks/SmartAgent database monitoring tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... PerformanceWorks/SmartAgent manages and reports on the performance of Oracle databases. It monitors multiple databases in a network, and when necessary, automatically corrects problems and notifies the administrator if additional actions are...

Windows application development tool. (Data Access' DataFlex 4 application design tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... DataRex 4 is a 32-bit visual application design tool for Windows 95 and Windows NT. It features an advanced application framework, a new obiect-based data dictionary, and DBMS. The DataFlex programming language provides developers with...

Enterprise-wide information publishing. (Concentric Data Systems' ARPEGGIO Viewer DBMS utility and ARPEGGIO for the Desktop and ARPEGGIO for the Developer database access software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Arpeggio lets users access information and publish it in any form required by the end-user: via corporate network, Intranet, the Internet, printer, fax, or e-mail. This is accomplished through ARPEGGIO Viewer, a viewer for end-users; ARPEGGIO...

Alternative menuing system. (DFL Software's Light Lib Magic Menus graphics/imaging utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Delphi developers can now enhance their applications with Light Lib Magic Menus. This product lets developers display an image of a product, service, company logo, or a colorful texture in the background of pull-down menus. US$99. DFL...

Add hot graphics to your apps with InterAct. (ProtoView Development's ProtoView InterAct 1.5 interactive diagramming tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... It's often said that a picture's worth a thousand words. If this is correct, ProtoView InterAct from ProtoView Development Corporation is worth quite a lot in terms of the information it can present within your applications. ProtoView InterAct...

Transferring systems to the Web. (Telegenisys' WEB-Alive terminal emulation software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... WEB-Alive is a toolkit designed to transfer existing applications to the Web, eliminating the need to write a new application, It provides cross-platform access to legacy applications without software support. This product uses an...

Client software suite. (Wall Data's Rumba Office 95/NT 5.0 terminal emulation software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Rumba Office 95/NT Version 5.0 is a universal client software suite that's designed to take advantage of Microsoft's 32-bit desktop platforms and OLE technology. This product is built as a set of Activex controls that integrate with a variety,...

Object-oriented application development. (ONTOS' ONTOS DB/Explorer DBMS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... ONTOS DB/Explorer enables object-oriented application development for a single user as well as small workgroup implementations. Additional capabilities include: tunable performance parameters, storage management, concurrency controls,...

Web editor. (Allen Systems Group's WebGalaxy Web authoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... WebGalaxy is a rapid application builder for World Wide Web applications that lets users create pages with multimedia and interactive options. Users drag and drop blocks of information and WebGalaxy generates the necessary code and screens to...

World Wide Web enhancement. (Equilibrium Technologies' ProScripts graphics-optimizing scripts)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... ProScripts is a set of pre-made scripts for optimizing graphics for the World Wide Web. ProScripts is designed to work with Equilibrium's DeBabelizer Toolbox and deliver graphics in GIF, JPEG, and thumbnail formats. ProScripts can be downloaded...

Automating Windows tasks. (Wilson WindowWare's WinBatch programming utility) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... Wilson WindowWare's WinBatch utility lets developers build sophisticated batch files to automate frequently run tasks or job scheduling operations. WinBatch has functions to manipulate the operating system, the Windows interface, Windows and...

Information system and management tool integration. (Software Emancipations's Continuus/CM software configuration management tool for Discover Information System)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... DISCOVER Information System users now have access to the Contiuus/CM management tool. This allows a work flow-centered approach to software development because multiple teams can work off the same code base while simultaneously producing...

Interface Builder. (Liant Software's VanGui Interface Builder for Delphi client interface builder)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... VanGui Interface Builder For Delphi, part of the VanGui Product Set, integrates COBOL applications with Windows-based GUI and data access technologies for client-server environments. Developers can use Delphi and Visual Basic to build the...

Application manager. (Tivoli Systems' Tivoli Manager for Applications application development software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Tivoli Manager for Applications lets users configure, install, deploy, and monitor custom-built client-server applications from a new management console that provides an application-specific view of their environment. U554,500. Tivoli...

Error location software. (Pure Software's Purify for Windows NT testing/debugging software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1996... Purify, for Windows NT developers, locates runtime errors and memory leaks throughout C and C++ applications, including Activex controls, OLE components, and third-party DLLs. US$498. Pure Software Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 800-353-7873,...

ActiveX and thin-client computing. (includes related articles on ActiveX adoption, destructive applications and a table of ActiveX controls) (Company Business and Marketing)
October 1, 1996... Imagine, say the publicists, a world where computers are as ubiquitous--and reliable--as any household appliance Where you can expect the same reliability and ease-of-use from your information appliance that you demand from your microwave oven...

Get "InterAct"ive: graphical tool offers better productivity and ease of use. (Antalys choses ProtoView's ProtoView InterAct interactive diagramming tool) (Product Information)
October 1, 1996... Here's how one company enhanced its sales force automation tool using ProtoView InterAct, an Activex control that lets you add interactive diagrams to your applications. When Antalys, Inc. decided to beef up its sales force automation tool...

The missing link. (Bluestone's Sapphire/Web 2.0 for Windows 95/NT Internet/Web server software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... The World Wide Web gave enterprises many new capabilities--and a lot of new problems. Although it presented an open framework and set of tools on which to build an Intranet (an internal version of the Internet, with a common interface for all...

The new life of middleware. (Internet drives popularity of messaging middleware) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
October 1, 1996... Technology often becomes the enabler of an entire cultural revolution. In the mad stampede to the Internet, the redoubtable heroes at our door are middlemen-the software called middleware. The focus of this article is to examine the catalytic...

Getting data to those who need it. (Tufts University Development Division implements data warehouse to track fundraising) (Company Operations)
October 1, 1996... Tufts University invigorated an aging fundraising system using middleware technology and a well-managed warehouse. Colleges and universities depend on gifts from alumni, parents, friends, and organizations to survive, and the success or...

Database reporting: turning your data into meaningful information. (database reporting software) (includes related articles on Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity, and on reporting products and the Internet) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 1, 1996... Whether your company is up-sizing, down-sizing, or right-sizing, you need a reporting tool that gets the job done. Here's a run-down on the latest and greatest products. Database reporting is the single most important element of any information...

COM-CORBA Interworking, part 3. (mapping CORBA enums, object references, arrays and sequences to OLE Automation) (Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
October 1, 1996... Mapping CORBA enums, object references, arrays, and sequences to OLE Automation. There's good news for developers who need to map CORBA systems to OLE Automation: Object Management Group's (OMG) recently approved (March 1996) COM-CORBA...

Automated purchase order system puts Dell on the fast track. (Dell Computer Corp's use of Extended Systems' Advantage Database Server Windows-based client-server DBMS) (Case Study) (Company Operations)
October 1, 1996... Tracking down paperwork is a thing of the past at Dell Computer Corporation, thanks to Extended Systems' Advantage Database Server, a Windows client-server DBMS. When sales representatives at Dell Computer Corporation used to troubleshoot a...

Handle dates easily. (a pseudo-Julian date routine solves the year 2000 problem) (Managing Database Development) (Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
October 1, 1996... The year 2000 problem won't bother your systems if you use this pseudo-Julian date routine. Let's make a date. I mean a C++ date, not a lunch date. Dates are a key part of every commercial database I've seen. Date variables are an integral...

Database Confidential. (News Briefs)(Column)
October 1, 1996... Tired of trying to impress his pals with industry buzzwords, and looking for a new way to utilize his vast knowledge of acronyms, Buzz stumbled across http://www.athenow.com.engine.htm. This innovative web site generates web pages for...