Progress ProVision Plus delivers the most comprehensive 4GL development and deployment toolset in the industry today. Based on the combined technologies of Progress ProVision and Progress WebSpeed® Workshop, it ensures that your development efforts can be reused for maximum efficiency.* Progress ProVision Plus provides common tools for client/server and web-based development, including:

	AppBuilder: a graphical development tool
	Progress 4GL Language: a single language to address all development needs
	Open Client Toolkit: for exposing 4GL-based business logic on an Open AppServer to open clients
	Partitioning Deployment Tool: facilitates distributed application deployment
	Roundtable Lite: a software repository and configuration management system

And a host of other tools to help you create, test, debug, partition and manage your applications.

Creating Universal Applications

Progress ProVision Plus supports the development of centralized business logic, facilitating the creation of universal multi-tier applications that will meet the needs of today's business world - and tomorrow's.

Imagine a client/server manufacturing application that requires three add-on modules to be accessed three different ways. It might look like this:

	Supply chain integration (via an extranet)
	Sales force automation (via an intranet)
	Customer service (via the Internet)

Using Progress ProVision Plus, you could develop the database and common business logic, such as inventory update and supplier account information, and you could develop a variety of user interfaces. You might want a 4GL graphical interface for the internal applications, a Java interface for the extranet and intranet, and an HTML, browser-based interface for the Internet. This flexibility offers some immediate advantages by:

	Supporting centralization of data — enabling code reuse, faster development, and easier maintenance.
	Enabling developers to create application business logic that can be shared by many client applications.
	Providing a way to deliver client application over the web for the ultimate thin client.

Innovative changes in Progress's next-generation Application Development Methodology (ADM) 2.0 provide further support for object orientation componentization.

	AppBuilder — a productivity-enhancing suite of tools for client/server, web, and character development.
	Roundtable Lite — integrated source code management and team collaboration system, delivering version control, secure check-in/out, task management, impact analysis, change auditing, cross referencing, imcremental compiles, and painless deployments.**
	Open Client Toolkit — provides Open Client access to Progress AppServer functionality.
	AppServer Partition Deployment Pro*Tool — Defines the location of your business logic at runtime, facilitating ease of development and deployment of distributed applications.
	Progress ProVision Plus Development Server — Includes a development database, AppServer and WebSpeed Transaction Server for quickly and easily testing distributed applications.
	WebTools — a set of browser-based tools used for building and testing web applications.
	Progress Explorer — Defines and manages the Progress Database, Progress AppServer, and Progress WebSpeed Transaction Server.
	Seamless integration with ActiveX components for greater user interface flexibility and OLE automation for application interoperability.
	Progress Data Dictionary — a central repository that describes the database definitions, application defaults and business rules.
	SmartObject component technology, offering code inheritance, encapsulation and other object-oriented development features — allows creation, customization, and automatic assembly of components.
	Progress 4GL — reduces development complexity by addressing all development needs within a single language.
	Wizards — to speed development through the creation of reusable SmartObjects or Web Objects.
	Integrated reporting tools: Report Builder — a high-productivity graphical report writing tool for business analysts and application developers. Results — an interactive data access and reporting tool that lets non-technical end-users create ad-hoc queries and reports quickly and efficiently and enables application developers to fully customize and integrate Results with their Progress applications.
	Integrated Procedure Editor, Compiler, Debugger, On-line Help, and performance tools.

Progress ProVision Plus - The Most Complete Toolset in the Industry

Progress ProVision Plus incorporates the full range of advanced features from Progress ProVision, WebSpeed Workshop, Roundtable Lite, and Open Client Toolkit - delivering the most complete toolset in the industry for today's open, standards-based, multi-tier, multi-platform development requirements.

	166 MHZ (200 MHZ recommended)
	64 MB RAM (96 MB recommended)
	400MB disk space
	CD-ROM drive
	VGA adapter

AppBuilder requirements:

	Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, Citrix MetaFrame
	Web development: Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x or higher, Netscape Navigator 3.x or higher
	Microsoft SDK for Java if using Open Client Toolkit

Development Server requirements:

	Windows NT®/Intel®, Citrix®, HP-UX®, IBM AIX®, Sun® Solaris™ SPARC, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, SCO UnixWare™
	Web development: ISAPI, NSAPI, or CGI compliant Web server

For further information about which versions of these platforms are currently supported, refer to the Product Platform and Availability Guide.