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In this white paper we discuss the progress of Sybase PowerBuilder and assess the overall strategic options facing many PowerBuilder customer with respect to the evolution of their applications.

"Sybase has done considerable due diligence on the direction it planned to evolve PowerBuilder, canvassing and dialoging intensively with its customers prior to settling on its chosen course of evolution."

PowerBuilder

The award-winning, developer favorite Declarative Programming Environment

In today's economy, we need to work smarter not harder. Time is a commodity that cannot be wasted. Sybase PowerBuilder is a leading choice among developers because it does just this, maximizes your valuable time by being smart, efficient and robust.

PowerBuilder blends new and emerging technologies into the most vigorous data-driven development tool, allowing developers to rapidly create mission-critical client/server, distributed, Web and Smart Clients applications for JEE, Win32, and .NET platforms. An award-winning favorite for nearly two decades, PowerBuilder, continues to empower developers to deliver reliable business applications that offer high-quality and fresh user experiences.

PowerBuilder's core strengths are lauded by analysts and customers. Why? Because it's proven technology that gets the job done and meets your challenges. You can deploy to the Web, Mobile, JEE, and .NET. You can support XP and Vista. You get native RDBMS support. You can develop Rich Internet Applications. And you can do all that with the unmatched productivity PowerBuilder is known for. You don't have to rewrite the wheel. You can modernize your code and applications with PowerBuilder 11.5.

What's new in PowerBuilder 11.5

PowerBuilder is .NET

PowerBuilder gives developers the flexibility and power to bring existing applications into or build entirely new applications for .NET WinForms, WebForms and Smart Clients. Supplanting the need to rewrite for .NET, PowerBuilder 11.5 delivers rich, fresh applications with speed and ease.

DataWindow Innovations

PowerBuilder 11.5 brings more advancements to the patented DataWindow - the fastest data access, manipulation and presentation tool around. With PowerBuilder 11.5, new and enhanced data visualization features provide even richer presentation of business data through a highly graphical and interactive user experience. DataWindow innovations include the ability to render pie, column, bar, line, and area charts all in 3D, special gradient and transparency features, and support for PNG files. Plus, Rich Text Edit style for columns has been added.

Simplifying Security

Additional security tools that enable you to deliver applications that meet today's protection, compliance and integrity needs are built right into PowerBuilder 11.5. PowerBuilder 11.5 now supports the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) regulation required of all federal agencies and contractors. In addition, there is support for CAS (Code Access Security), allowing .NET applications to run in partially trusted zones.

New Native RDBMS Support

Continuing its tradition as an open tool, PowerBuilder 11.5 comes with native drivers for SQL Server 2008 and Oracle 11g for utmost developer efficiency and productivity.

Application Server Plug-in and PocketBuilder — For Free

PowerBuilder 11.5 (Enterprise Edition only) now ships with the Application Server Plug-in, which supports the ability to deploy into third-party application servers, directly from the PowerBuilder IDE. PowerBuilder objects can be deployed to JEE application servers where they will act just like EJBs. And for those of you with mobile development mandates, PowerBuilder 11.5 also comes with PocketBuilder, enabling agile Windows Mobile development.

Explore this site to find out more about how PowerBuilder improves productivity for you and your team. Then we can help you put PowerBuilder to work for you.