Database Connectivity / Development Tools & Software Utilities (Dev Tools & IT Utilities)

Accelerate your .NET application development. The DevForce Classic Framework from IdeaBlade is a mature and extensible .NET development platform. Using DevForce Classic, your team can slice development cycles for n-tier .NET applications by up to 70%, enabling you to speed your time to market while you ensure delivery of feature-rich, compelling applications for your end-users. Fully integrated with Visual Studio, DevForce provides enterprise-class persistence, advanced UI databinding, n-tier deployment, and support and integration with the latest Microsoft technologies such as WCF and WPF. DevForce provides the technology infrastructure layer, so you can focus on writing business logic and building your application. The result is shorter cycles spent on higher value code; in short, better applications faster.

Build Silverlight Business Applications Today. DevForce Silverlight enables you to build data-intensive rich internet applications quickly. Writing a whole service infrastructure and exposing multiple methods for each data type can be hard and time consuming. With DevForce, you write your Silverlight application on top of a rich business object model that executes on both the client as well as the server. Having a full client-side domain model improves responsiveness and scalability while enabling offline operation. DevForce Silverlight integrates with the new Silverlight 3 features such as the DataForm, DataGrid, and Validation while seamlessly extending Silverlight 3 Validation with IdeaBlade's popular Verification Engine. All of these features enable you to build applications in a fraction of the time and reduce code and maintenance costs.

Provides all the data services needed to build WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight applications. DevForce Universal is a combination of the value and features found within DevForce WinClient and DevForce Silverlight products. DevForce WinClient enables developers to build applications in a fraction of the time and reduces code and maintenance costs, it enables the Entity Framework to operate n-tier and move business objects to the client, dramatically improving application responsiveness and scalability, while allowing offline operation. DevForce Silverlight enables you to build data-intensive rich internet applications quickly. With DevForce Silverlight, you write your Silverlight application on top of a rich business object model that executes on both the client as well as the server.

Build Enterprise applications quickly and easily. DevForce WinClient saves months of effort by providing the data infrastructure you need for building an enterprise application. It fills the gap between the low-level services provided by .NET and the higher-level functions needed by application developers. This enables developers to build applications in a fraction of the time and reduces code and maintenance costs. DevForce enables the Entity Framework to operate n-tier and move business objects to the client, dramatically improving application responsiveness and scalability, while allowing offline operation. It carries forward most of the features and all of IdeaBlade's experience from DevForce Classic dating back to 2001.

Connect to Office 365, SharePoint 2010 and Azure. Cloud Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 takes your local data and distributes it to cloud-based or hosted SharePoint systems. Content stored on almost any corporate data source (databases, files, ERP / CRM / ECMS) and in applications (Dynamics, SharePoint, Active Directory, SAP) is replicated to cloud based native SharePoint lists via secure Web services. Cloud-to-cloud connections e.g. to Azure, Twitter, Facebook, Google etc. are also supported.

Multi-tier database development for Apple Macintosh and iPhone platforms. Data Abstract is a framework for building database-driven applications using the multi-tier data access model. Use Data Abstract for Xcode to build 100% native Objective-C database client applications for Mac or iPhone and iPad, using Data Abstract's time proven multi-tier architecture. Fitting in with general Cocoa development paradigms, Data Abstract for Xcode is designed for asynchronous (and optionally synchronous) data access, making it easy to write applications that keep a responsive user interface while data access and communication with the middle-tier server is under way. It is ready for and takes advantage of Snow Leopard and iOS4 technologies such as Grand Central Dispatch, Blocks and Backgrounding.

Advanced LINQ to SQL tool for databases. LinqConnect is a fast and easy-to-use ORM solution that supports SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. It provides a powerful model designer tool with complete integration to Visual Studio - Entity Developer. LinqConnect provides wide support for LINQ queries. It provides advanced eager loading support, enhanced native SQL query handling, and generates better provider-specific SQL code.

Connect a SharePoint list with external data. SharePoint Business Data List Connector (BDLC) connects any type of  SharePoint 2007 / 2010 list (no Web Part) with external business data using list settings, e.g. for contacts, tasks or events. The data can be presented without any restrictions, with the full read-only and optionally write-back (Create, Update, Delete: CRUD) functionality of common SharePoint lists. Views, sorting and grouping, filters and calculated fields can all be created. BDLC can be used to connect real SharePoint lists to databases, such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, Sybase Advantage Database Server, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Informix, Postgres SQL, IBM UniData, IBM UniVerse, AS/400 (IMB iSeries), Progress, Microsoft Office data files or other SharePoint lists.

Integrate your mySAP or SAP BW system with SQL server integration services. Xtract IS component suite offers nine components to provide all kinds of SAP interface technologies. Implement your data flows in a secure and type-safe way with a graphical editor. Xtract IS allows you to extract mass data with high performance and stability. Xtract IS component suite includes Xtract IS Table to Extract table data, Xtract IS BAPI that calls RFC-enabled function modules and can act as source, destination or transformation, Xtract IS Query, Xtract IS BW Cube to Extract BW queries and cubes, Xtract IS OHS, Xtract IS Hierarchy to Extracts BW / BI hierarchies and more.

SAP and PowerPivot seamless integration. Xtract PPV allows you to connect all kinds of SAP Business data in Microsoft PowerPivot. Xtract for PowerPivot gives you access to SAP tables, Queries, BAPIs and RFC as well as BW Cubes and ABAP Reports. Xtract PPV is a middleware component to extract data from SAP systems and load it into PowerPivot. Xtract PPV has two components: Xtract Server and Xtract Designer. Xtract PowerPivot is a set of eight extraction types which make it possible to cover the entire range of demands placed on SAP data extraction.