• Application Deployment,
• Client/Server Configurations,
• Investment Protection.

Application Deployment

Business applications written in PRO-IV are portable across a wide variety of hardware platforms, databases and operating environments. Their proven scalability ensures extremely high transaction rates while supporting large numbers of users.

For a list of platforms, see PRO-IV Supported Platforms section below.

Client/Server Configurations

PRO-IV supports a variety of Client/Server configurations depending on what hardware platforms, operating environments and databases are selected.

These include:

1. Remote Presentation (Thin Client/Server)
2. Remote Database (Fat Client/Server)
3. Application Partitioning (Combination of Thin and Fat Client/Server)
4. Distributed Database

Investment Protection

Applications written in PRO-IV are operating environment independent. As the requirements of the enterprise change (Operating Systems, hardware platforms, databases), the application itself can remain the same. This protects the initial investment made in the development of the application. With PRO-IV, the application developer's skills are also portable. The same PRO-IV development environment is available on all platforms, therefore the developer working on a PC application is also capable of working on a mainframe application.