Advantage

Advantages of GoDB vs. Other Development Platform :

Key Advantages of GoDB Over platforms like .Net, Code warrior, Appforge etc.

Portability:
The other platform applications works on specific devices like Wince/PocketPC or Palm or Linux devices. Hence applications are not portable to across platforms.

External Component:
In case of other platform separate licenses needs to be purchased for Embedded databases (SQL CE, Oracle lite). In case of GoDB, the Run time client has the embedded database (ANSI SQL Compatible).

Form Factor:
In other apps, Setting up complicated forms that have master lookups etc are complicated and needs a lot of code. In case of GoDB, as we use browser based Interface creating complicated scrolling forms is easy, in case of large forms the scroll buttons appears automatically. Fields for lookups auto populating transaction fields etc can be inserted into the form without the need for even a single line of code.

Focus Target:
Other platforms are for general-purpose application development. This means that most of the business application components should be coded from scratch. In case of GoDB as the focus in on business application so the UI widgets required for biz apps are already a part of GoDB and GoDB is also optimized for database operations like lookups, filters, reports etc making GoDB apps much faster than other comparable platforms.

Application Size:
Size of application Runtime increases with the additional features. GoDB has most of the features inbuilt.

Code Distribution and Management:
In case of other each time the application is changed, the application has to be installed on each device. How in case of GoDB application deployment happens during the Sync process.

Sync Server:
GoDB middleware comprises of the GoDB Sync server, which interfaces with the ERP and the Devices. It provides a GUI based facility to manager security and implement Server side Sync logic. In case of other platforms it has to be coded from scratch.

Online - Offline:
GoDB applications can transition between online and offline seamlessly and can also operate in hybrid modes where transactions can be online with offline masters. In other the applications have to be designed and coded from scratch to be online offline or a somewhere in between.

Compression:
GoDB comes with in-built compression technology, which compresses data up to 70% there by reducing the sync times between the device and the application.

Database Compatibility:
In case of non-GoDB based application, the Embedded RDBMS Requires the server version of the same RDBMS for eg Oracle lite requires Oracle on the server side. In case of GoDB it is compatible with SQL and Oracle.

Transport Independent Synchronization:
GoDB can sync over any medium from GPRS, WLAN to Dialup using SSL and VPN.

Multi Lingual Support:
GoDB has a Language abstraction layer built in. Due to this GoDB can support multiple languages with one screen. GoDB can also support languages, which are not natively supported by the Hardware.

Power Management:
GoDB has built in support for software power management. This enhances the battery life of the PDA while running the business application.

Security:
GoDB has built in support for security at various level like on Device, data transfer and server side. GoDB by defaults provides support for AES encryption; other third party encryption can also be supported.