Axisbase is a
database system that you can use to track whatever kind of information
your business deals with. For example, it could track sales made on a web site,
perform order fulfillment from your office, keep lists of inventory, or any other
structured information.
Axisbase is comparable to other personal/office database tools like Filemaker and Microsoft Access, and it is
also a database
server like MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
Because of that combination, it also accomplishes what you can do with the new breed
of on-line tools like WebOffice (
except
you don't use it through a browser and there is no monthly fee).
The download is free, unlimited and fully featured, so you can install it on every desktop in the organization.
There is
on-line documentation here.
Desktop AND Server!
The
paradigm shift that Axisbase represents is combining the desktop
tool with a server.
Traditionally there are two choices for data
applications: Either you have to use desktop or locally connected applications like
spreadsheets or Microsoft Access,
or you put the data on a database connected
to a web server (such as MySQL or SQL Server) and hand-code a web application for
handling that data. It is common to maintain data in two places because of this
disconnect.
Axisbase allows you to store the data on an internet-visible server AND manipulate
it just like a localy stored data. You can develop a web application that connects
to the same database as well. This gives you
the best of both worlds.
Do more with less.
The
innovative design goals of Axisbase drive down the complexity of developing custom applications.
For administrators:
- Centralized storage and backups eliminate data loss from the desktop.
- If you don't have your own server to host the database, you can use our hosting service (also free).
- No license fees.
For end users:
- Easy and fast installation, and easy to get started.
- Work from home or the office without copying files.
- Simple databases can be set up with no technical expertise.
For programmers:
You won't spend as much time on the traditional complexities of database programming
because Axisbase does a lot of it for you.
- Axisbase is extensible with programming in several ways, so you
can introduce unlimited functionality while also leveraging Axisbase out of the
box. (See the programming model.)
- Axisbase is built on Microsoft .NET, and you extend it using .NET
- ensuring a long product life and the support of the large .NET libraries.
- For an application targetted to
a web site, you can skip the administrative interface, because
that can be done directly in the Axisbase client. For example, for a company
that wants to publish its inventory on-line, they can work with their inventory
in the Axisbase client and the web server can display the latest changes.
- Our hosting service includes some search and
posting scripts that only require embedding some HTML on a web site.
- References (foreign keys) don't require any special treatment. For example if you have a Sale type that references a Customer
type, the customer's name will
show in the sale
record (not the number), and the user will be able to select the
customer by name. (But the storage is correctly denormalized.)
- Indexes are created and destoyed automatically.
- Parameter inputs are handled automatically, so you can provide the end users with
the ability to search by a number of different criteria. You don't have to build
an input screen or program the query.
- See the programming model for more details.
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