There are a number of benefits in choosing STYLEman that are only apparent on technical inspection. These benefits are manifest in the underlying design, development standards and toolsets used. The key highlights are:

  • Hardware Independence
  • User Interface Independence
  • Database Independence
  • CASE modelled database design
  • Developed to rigorous programming standards
  • Database and source code audits welcomed

STYLEman has been designed to separate the user interface, business logic and database access components, allowing great flexibility in the choice of user interface and database, whilst retaining common business logic, as shown in the diagram below. It also means that STYLEman may be deployed in a variety of configurations, so that it can scale to hundreds and thousands of users by adding more resources to the network. STYLEman has been developed using the Progress 4GL and is therefore hardware independent, running on most Unix, Windows and AS/400 platforms and database independent, running over most common database management systems.

The database is designed and maintained using ERwin, a data-modelling tool that not only enforces consistency of design, but also generates sophisticated database documentation.The resulting database schema may be deployed as a Progress database, or over any other Progress-supported database shown below.
 
     
   
 
 
 
 
     
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"In searching for a company to provide us with software to control our complex international operation more effectively and accurately, our priority was to find a company that would be more akin to a partner than a supplier."
 
  Johnny Choda
Operations Director
Sherman Cooper Limited
 
     
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