Productivity

PRO-IV significantly increases the productivity of the developers and the quality of the applications they produce.

The use of:

a Structured development environment common Centralized Data Dictionary reusable Objects (Look Up windows, Validation Tables etc.)

extensive suite of development utilities multiple Documentation points and the insulation of the developer from the operating environment, enables the rapid development of high quality, highly sophisticated applications.

Maintenance

Maintenance and modification of the application is extremely easy. Changes made to any object, are immediately available anywhere in the application where the object is called. Documentation of files, functions and data definitions are automatically prepared and maintained for every application. PRO-IV automatically captures system changes, thus ensuring that the system documentation is always current. A well documented application is much easier to maintain.

Quality

The key PRO-IV concept is to enable the re-use of pre-written, error free software components. These components are combined to form the business application, thus ensuring a high degree of quality from the start.

Industrial Strength

A key strength of the product is its proven ability to build "Industrial Strength" applications that can be deployed across a multitude of hardware platforms, operating environments and RDBMS/Filing systems.