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Although new software products are rarely built with PowerBuilder, many client-server ERP products and line-of-business applications built in the late 1980s to early 2000s with PowerBuilder still provide core database functions for large enterprises in government,[6][7][8] higher education,[9] manufacturing, insurance, banking,[10] energy, and telecommunications.
As a 4th Generation Language (4GL) Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool, PowerBuilder is used by thousands of customers all around the world in industries as diverse as finance, aerospace, mining, entertainment, and education. Many SAP customers use PowerBuilder to customize their SAP installations. There are even SAP modules written in PowerBuilder. It is also used by government agencies at the local, state, and national level on every continent on earth. If you would like to learn more about PowerBuilder, please visit www.sybase.com/powerbuilder where you can also download an evaluation version of PowerBuilder and try it out for yourself. Come see why PowerBuilder remains one of the most popular application development tools in use today.
Sybase, a subsidiary of SAP, produces a variety of data management products. For their flagship RDBMS, Adaptive Server Enterprise, please use [sap-ase]. For Adaptive Server Anywhere versions 6-9, use [sybase-asa]. For ASA v10 and above, use [sqlanywhere]. For the columnar data warehouse IQ, please use [sap-iq]. For the Advantage Database Server, please use [advantage-database-server].
PowerBuilder is an enterprise development tool that allowsyou to build many types of applications and components. It is oneof a group of Sybase products that together provide the tools todevelop client/server, multitier, and Internet applications.
Sybase, Inc., a leading enterprise infrastructure and integration company, today announced that Sybase PowerBuilder 9.0 is currently scheduled for general availability the week of March 24, 2003. This version of Sybase's industry-leading rapid application development (RAD) tool enables developers to continue building rich-client applications for their mission-critical business requirements, and at the same time propel them further into Web and N-tier development with significant new capabilities. PowerBuilder 9.0 also lays the foundation for "4GLplus", the next RAD environment from Sybase that will bring an even higher level of developer productivity through tight integration of design, modeling, development, deployment, and management.
New capabilities in PowerBuilder 9.0 include:
- RAD JavaServer Page (JSP) Targets: Allows developers to quickly develop and deploy a JSP Web application through wizards and other RAD tools.
- Web Services: Enables developers to build, publish and consume Web services for Microsoft .NET and other frameworks without extensive knowledge of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL).
- XML DataWindow: Imports data directly from an XML document and saves data that was retrieved from any data source as a fully customized XML document, or as a document or string using XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) or PDF.
- PowerBuilder Native Interface: Greatly extends the capabilities of PowerBuilder applications by wrapping a C++ class as a PowerBuilder extension, and then calling its methods in the application. Through JNI, Java applications also can communicate with the PBVM.
- Third-Party Application Servers: In addition to existing support of Sybase EAServer, PowerBuilder now supports BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere and other J2EE Application Servers through wizards that generate proxies for enterprise Java beans (EJBs), and call the EJBs in J2EE servers from PowerBuilder through the proxies.
- The PowerBuilder Document Object Model: The Sybase implementation of DOM, defines how XML documents can be accessed and manipulated. PBDOM is used to read, write, and manipulate standard-format XML from within PowerScript code.
- PDF Report Generation: Provides two ways to save a DataWindow object so that it can directly generate reports in PDF format. The distill method is used by default and can save all types of DataWindow objects.
- Source Control Enhancements: Helps developers manage large PowerBuilder projects more efficiently and achieve tighter integration with Rational ClearCase and Merant PVCS.
- OrcaScript Utility: Invokes Orca application program interface commands with English-like scripting language. New source code control integration allows PowerBuilder targets to be rebuilt directly from source control.
PowerBuilder 9.0 is currently scheduled for general availability the week of March 24, 2003, in enterprise, professional, and desktop editions. The update price for an existing PowerBuilder Enterprise license is $1,495. For more information, or to place an order online, please visit
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PowerBuilder is an object-centric graphical application development environment. Using PowerBuilder, you can easily develop many types of applications and components. PowerBuilder provides all the tools you need to build enterprise systems, such as order entry, accounting, and manufacturing systems.
PowerBuilder is an enterprise development tool that allows you to build many types of applications and components. It is one of a group of Sybase products that together provide the tools to develop client/server, multitier, and Internet applications.
With the latest release of SAP SQL Anywhere, companies can securely capture, access, and feed data, including IoT data, back into the SAP HANA platform from remote workplaces with low bandwidth or intermittent connections, such as retail stores, restaurants, and satellite offices within large enterprises.
Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI). Revolutionary at its inception for creating and popularizing this specific genre of distributed application development, the PowerBuilder 12 development environment today combines functional maturity with aggressive modernizations that keep it a viable and compelling integrated development environment (IDE) application runtime. In particular, the direction that PowerBuilder has taken to become a seamless Windows .NET environment with the Visual Studio shell incorporated into its infrastructure has meant that the product can now be considered equally for evolving existing systems and for developing new ones for traditional Windows 32 environments and for .NET. In particular, Sybase PowerBuilder provides the following benefits:
Sybase's evolution of PowerBuilder will result in customer applications that are aligned with .NET and Microsoft's development strategy yet also leverage the historical value proposition of the PowerBuilder toolset and runtime. Thus, all the needed technologies to build enterprise applications in the most productive manner will be offered "in the box," making minimal demands of custom integration on developers. PowerBuilder will continue to have the easiest approach to putting together database-oriented business applications that deliver high-performance database query and reporting through optimized native database drivers. With the release of PowerBuilder 12, existing applications have begun to be migrated in a controlled fashion to the .NET runtime, whereby developers will have the added freedom of integrating them transparently with other .NET modules written in C# or other .NET languages and leveraging the full .NET framework.
As Sybase marches forward with the evolution of PowerBuilder as part of the larger SAP, it must maintain its aggressive evolution of PowerBuilder. In particular, Sybase must find synergy with its mobility platform, which is well positioned to leverage the forthcoming wave of mobility inside the enterprise that has been the catalyst for the SAP acquisition. Now based on .NET, PowerBuilder can have a future as an application development tool that is useful for generating mobile applications that extend existing custom applications. This strategy remains to be fleshed out, but IDC expects that the SAP acquisition will allow Sybase to invest in such interesting projects in a way that may not have been possible before.
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sybase, Inc., an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced the availability of Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5, the second .NET release of Sybase's award-winning rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 12.5 empowers developers with the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective solution for creating modern and visually appealing business applications on the Microsoft Windows 32 ((Win32)and .NET Frameworks. Today's announcement was made at Sybase TechWave, collocated with SAP TechEd 2011 and being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from September 12-16.
"Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI)," said Al Hilwa, program director for IDC's Application Development Software research. "The direction that PowerBuilder has taken to become a seamless Windows .NET environment with the Visual Studio shell incorporated into its infrastructure has meant that the product can now be considered equally for evolving existing systems and for developing new ones for traditional Windows 32 environments and for .NET."(1)
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