
Rapid Application Development is critical for enterprises looking to create and maintain applications quickly without spending a lot of resources. EUS Networks adopts RAD projects in order to converge early toward a design acceptable to the customer and that is feasible for the developers. EUS recommends Servoy & Filemaker as RAD platforms of choice.
Servoy has taken the world of Rapid Application Development by storm in the last few years. Servoy is an application development and deployment environment. Servoy consists of an event-driven GUI designer, which is scriptable through JavaScript. Unlike many other RAD database packages like Filemaker or Alpha 5, Servoy stores application data in external SQL tables. This allows application developers to integrate many different SQL engines under one platform making Servoy the ultimate middleware tool. Servoy works with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, MySQL, Firebird, DB2 and many others.
Filemaker is a cross-platform database application from FileMaker Inc known for its power and ease of use. It is also noted for the integration of the database engine with its GUI-based interface, which allows users to modify the database by dragging new elements into the layouts/screens/forms that provide the user interface. This results in a "quasi-object" development environment of a kind that is still largely unique in the "industrial strength" database world. defining characteristic of FileMaker is that the database engine is integrated with the forms (screen, layouts, reports etc) used to access it. Most database systems separate these tasks, concerning themselves primarily with organization and storage of the data.