Alpha Five

Whether you're a power-hungry, expert database programmer, or a complete novice who wants to build a simple database fast and easy, we've got the right software for you. With Alpha Five, you can quickly and affordably build fully functional desktop and web database applications.

Complete novices can quickly and easily define and manage multiple databases and create practical and powerful applications without the need for programming. Expert developers will love Alpha Five's ease of use and speed of development, but will also appreciate the extensibility. There are literally thousands of functions included that provide building blocks to create sophisticated applications.

Start building secure database applications with full reporting capabilities rapidly and easily!

Development Environment

• Award Winning common development system for building secure Web AND Desktop applications quickly and easily
• Chosen by a broad base of businesses and organizations because its ability to produce results in significantly less time than alternative solutions
• All in one solution

Web or Browser Rapid Application Development

• Rapid and straight forward Web application development using reusable visual components
• Components available for creating: dialogs, one-to-many grids with search and drill down, navigation systems, graphing, maintenance operations and reports
• Server side programming using powerful Xbasic programming language
• Portable SQL for seamless connection to any SQL Database and transportability across multiple SQL databases such as: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Cache, QuickBooks and Access
• Comprehensive group security model with extensive login control
• Fully formatted reports served up within web applications for local and remote SQL data (supporting html, rich text and PDF output)
• Fully customizable layouts and controls
• Built-in HTML and CSS editors
• Easy deployment

Windows Desktop Rapid Application Development

• Rapid Desktop development using visual forms, browses and reports
• The ability to easily create applications that look like they were designed by a professional graphics designer.
• The ability to create applications with rich user interfaces that operate swiftly
• Broad portfolio of data entry tools such as multiple types of lookups, calculations, auto-increment, validations, transformations, posting and events for rapid and error free data entry
• Extensive genies (wizards) improves development time
• Programmable forms using Xdialog
• Powerful Reports, Letters and Labels (supporting html, rich text and PDF output)
• Fully integrated programmable email including the ability to parse inbound email and set up email merge
• Powerful operations to clean, de-dupe, manipulate and transform data
• Extensive Querying options for local and remote SQL data
• Reporting against SQL databases such as Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Cache, QuickBooks and Access

• Connectivity. Access and work with your data no matter where it resides. All you need is an Internet Web Browser.
• Usability. Alpha Five is renowned for its ease of use. Beginners can build applications without programming knowledge.
• Power. Solve complex data design challenges with total confidence. You have access to sophisticated tools that satisfy even the most demanding programmer.
• Web or Browser Rapid Application Development. Rapid and straight forward Web application development using reusable visual components.
• Windows Desktop Rapid Application Development. Create applications with rich user interfaces that operate swiftly.

• Windows® 2000 or above (including Windows Vista)
• 256MB RAM
• Pentium® III 500MHz or higher

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