Triaton GmbH (formerly
HiServ), an HP company, was
able to significantly reduce development time and costs for a Microsoft SQL
Server based Telephone Administration and Billing System using the Base One
Foundation Component Library (BFC). Gerhard Triebold, a senior development engineer
with Triaton, initially began development of the application in Visual Basic.
Using BFC and the Base One Internet Server, Triaton was able to cut costs and
reduce development time to less than four weeks - producing a system available
to both their main local network and remote users across the Internet. “I can produce absolutely solid client/server solutions in
Visual C++ in a fraction of the time I could using Visual Basic or Visual C++
and the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC),” said Triebold. “I am
convinced, had I continued the project in Visual Basic, it would have taken me a
lot longer and the result would have been of a far inferior quality, than with
BFC.”
Triaton is one of Germany’s largest IT service providers and application
developers. Triaton chose BFC after evaluating different development tools to
improve their programmer productivity. BFC extends MFC to make it easier to
program with standard Visual C++ to build commercial-strength business systems
that support Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, Sybase, SQL Anywhere, IBM
DB2, Pinnacle Graphics, and Crystal Reports. |
Using Base One’s class library and middleware, Triaton quickly created
Internet-enabled ‘Rich Client’ Windows applications. Base One’s database and
administrative tools make it easy to impose a high level of security even across
the Internet. Users can be grouped according to security rights, with certain
functions and reports being off-limits to some users and other reports filtered
automatically so that only the proper subset of data is viewable. Encouraged by their initial success, Triaton went on to
build an automated data acquisition application with Base One’s software and
Triebold reported, “It is now running in 3 production plants around the clock
absolutely error-free.”
"I am putting the finishing touches to my first BFC application in C++, a
Telephone Administration and Billing System with 14 input forms, 2 tab views
and 9 Oracle tables. If I'd done it in Visual Basic, the project would
certainly not have been finished by now. I am convinced that developing in BFC
outperforms and outclasses any Visual Basic development."
Gerhard Triebold, Lead Developer, Triaton GmbH, an HP company
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