Who are Revelation and what is OpenInsight

Since 1982, Revelation Software (Revelation) have specialised in the creation and marketing of database driven business application development products. This extensive portfolio of products includes application development tools, deployment products and companion services that enable software developers to quickly and successfully implement dynamic network and internet based applications.

Initially used to build DOS based software applications, these tools were enhanced during the 1990's to provide developers with the ability to create leading Windows applications and later web based applications, including extending existing desktop application to the web. Throughout this time the company has continually supported the leading PC operating systems for business, including Windows, Novell and Linux. For the web, the company has supported IIS, Apache, Samba and most mobile technologies.

The company's strategy of ensuring the preservation of information systems and investments by its developer and user community has enabled its customers to reuse, extend, enhance and leverage their investments in skills, whilst successfully protecting their investments in business applications.

Revelation applications are characterized by the enduring nature of the solutions implemented using its products. The company continues to invest in technologies that enable systems implemented in its earliest development tools to operate successfully on modern 32-bit client and network operating systems, and to also be extended to the Web. 

"...and their mandate to us is to make sure that we are always scaled for growth, and make sure that it's stable.  And that's the thing about Revelation, it is completely scalable and it's just so stable! "

Rob Hunt, TVSN.

Most systems created in the 1980's using Revelation tools were designed for only a handful of concurrent users. However, through a consistent technology that has evolved over the life of the company, many of these systems have scaled to much larger numbers of concurrent users, some now managing 1000's of users without any measurable degradation in performance. The company also has clients running web based systems with many thousands of users and one such system in Australia processes in excess of 2,000,000 database transactions each and every day.

Revelation operates a policy of continual innovation to provide software developers with new tools that exploit the capabilities of the latest operating systems, network computing platforms, and programming languages and techniques. The combination of this focus, a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation has enabled Revelation to thrive and prosper in the challenging and ever-changing market of application development tools and deployment technologies.

A Developer and End-User Focus

Revelation is a customer-focused, service-oriented company, placing high value on providing customers with a boutique experience - one that is tailored to their individual needs. The company's goals of providing each customer with a Revelation experience that is engaging, unique, responsive, valuable and reliable is delivered by providing customers with consistent, quality communications, innovative new development, and continuous product improvements.

Revelation Software offers a complete portfolio of support and development resources. This includes a virtual developer community on its web site, a series of introductory and advanced training classes, and the Revelation Help Desks. Revelation offers free installation support for 30 days with all new licenses purchased, as well as delivering a high level of personal technical support through dedicated support engineers closely supported by industry leading software developers.

OpenInsight

OpenInsight is a repository-based application development environment that enables individual developers and development teams of any size to work collaboratively on the design, development and deployment of high-performance business solutions.

Today, the company's flagship product, OpenInsight, enables market leading applications to be easily and very quickly created, deployed and maintained, whilst keeping ownership costs to a minimum.

OpenInsight provides developers with a complete toolset that encompasses User Interface design tools (desktop and web) and programming tools for building business logic into the system. Behind the scenes lies a powerful and flexible MultiValue variable length database that enables business processes to be quickly and easily modelled into the solution.

OpenInsight also has the ability to use SQL Server, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Universe/UniData, or any ODBC compliant data back-end. In addition, most traditional MultiValue platforms are supported through Revelation's CTO emulator. Delivered with Data Warehousing capabilities, XML and Web-enabled tools, OpenInsight is a tremendously powerful development tool for Windows and Linux-based applications.

"Developing an application in OpenInsight is relatively simple compared to other database managers.  Yet what we can do with it is incredibly complex.  The key is Revelation's unique combination of MultiValue architecture and the use of variable-length fields.  There is just no other way to create something as versatile as BG-BASE."

Mike O'Neil, BG-BASE.

Revelation Software's Mission Statement

Revelation's mission is to excel and provide leadership in the design, development, delivery, service, and support of component-based application development tools for internet and network computing architectures. The company's goal is to lead the market by enabling professional application developers and development teams to implement and deploy dynamic internet and network-based packaged and custom business applications.

Revelation achieves the goal by providing a superior level of service that delivers an experience that is engaging, unique, responsive, valuable and reliable for each customer.

The history behind Revelation Software and OpenInsight

Revelation Software's history page lists a summary of the numerous developments and releases throughout Revelation's history, showing the continual commitment to innovation and continual development of the companies products and services.

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