PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder is the award-winning development tool that simplifies the building of data driven, business applications. PowerBuilder is both revolutionary and proven technology, a dynamic duo that catapults the developer experience out of this world.

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Features & Benefits

A developer favorite for nearly two decades, PowerBuilder is the declarative application development environment for building, maintaining and modernizing business-critical Windows applications.

PowerBuilder’s patented, unparalleled DataWindow technology is the key to quickly building data rich applications with minimal coding. Its declarative programming environment and high level of abstraction simplifies the complexities of development, allowing developers to focus on solving business problems instead of trying to keep up with the myriad of new technologies, programming languages, and techniques. With PowerBuilder, all you need is your current skill-set to do a variety of application development

PowerBuilder is simply the easiest way for developers to create the most updated, visually appealing business applications on the latest Windows platforms – on time and under budget.

Speeds development	PowerBuilder’s DataWindow technology abstracts the complexity of data access, data manipulation, sorting, filtering, data presentation, and enables developers to declaratively apply custom business logic with about five lines of script, significantly accelerating development speed.
.NET Common Type System (CTS) language supports complete .NET solution	PowerBuilder is a true .NET language, enabling developers to easily produce and consume Web Services and.NET assemblies that can be shared with partners, customers, and throughout the enterprise.
Multiple deployment options	Create desktop, Web, Rich Internet Applications (RIA) or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications
Open database support	Native drivers specifically built for Sybase, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are included with the product. JDBC, ODBC, and ADO.NET are also supported making it simple and easy to support any data source in your enterprise.

Feature Matrix: Comparing PowerBuilder Version 11.5 and Version 12

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Why is Sybase Better?

The Sybase Advantage

One Flexible Tool	PowerBuilder supports your RDBMS of choice, communicates via Web Services, produces .NET assemblies, and deploys to your platform of choice. One tool does it all, solving your data-driven application development needs for the desktop, Web, mobile and distributed environments.
Unparalleled DataWindow Technology Radically Simplifies Data Access	Industry analysts and developers agree the patented DataWindow is unmatched and makes complex data access, manipulation and presentation an easy, nearly codeless, graphical experience – making PowerBuiler the fastest, easiest, most economical development tool that supports both .Net and JEE platforms.
Award-Winning, Highly Productive IDE	Time is money. With PowerBuilder, you can build your applications in just days or weeks, not months or years. An award-winning, robust IDE with an intuitive user interface, PowerBuilder delivers the power provided by C/C++ or C# without their complexity. Plus, PowerBuilder provides hundreds of built-in functions and properties so you can reduce your coding time, and still have the flexibility to leverage the power of lower level native code, only if you want to.
Risk-Proof, Proven Technology	PowerBuilder is proven technology that minimizes development risk and incorporates new and emerging technologies into your applications. PowerBuilder abstracts complex new technologies and makes them easy to use, so you can easily develop and extend your applications into the future.
Incorporates Relevant Development Paradigms	Sybase continually updates PowerBuilder to be in sync with Microsoft technologies. It integrates development paradigms such as RIA, AJAX and Web Services along with .NET into the most robust, data-driven development tool in the market.
Smart for Business	Organizations can future-proof their applications today with PowerBuilder. You can deploy applications to .NET out of the box, with no new technology and a flat learning curve. Same skills, new applications.