Overview

Now remote and mobile users can use the Internet to interact with their databases -- from anywhere in the world! One client-side driver (no COM) empowers desktop applications with a high-speed, secure, non-persistent Internet connection to a middle tier application data server.

With dbBridge remote workers and mobile users can access and interact with their databases via the Internet from anywhere, anytime.

dbBridge is certified for use with familiar desktop applications including MS Office 2000, MS Office 97, MS Word and MS Excel.

dbBridge also opens a new world of opportunities for developers using Microsoft development tools including Visual Basic and MS Access and others, to design custom applications or revisit existing applications to include instant remote connectivity as a "plug-in".

dbBridge is a single client-side driver similar to other OLEDB/ODBC drivers (no COM) with the addition that it interacts with its database over the Internet through a central application server.

dbBridge empowers desktop applications with a high-speed, zero-maintenance, secure, non-persistent Internet connection to a middle tier application server.

Unleash the remoting power of dbBridge using familiar Microsoft desktop applications and development tools.

How do you benefit using dbBridge?

dbBridge technology benefits everyone by discarding the boundaries imposed by typical application technology that binds the user closely to the data source.

DbBridge enables remote and mobile workers to unplug from the corporate LAN, go remote and via the Internet, access their corporate databases from anywhere, anytime.

Remote users become connected users and connected users can become remote users.

Applications used on-site can be moved offsite. Staff can be located anywhere in the world, yet fully connected at will (and, via the Internet, at very low cost).

Benefits to Business

Productivity and custom applications can easily employ dbBridge.

dbBridge's built-in connectivity to many existing applications makes dbBridge immediately useful in many day-to-day environments.

Because dbBridge is cost-realistic, all businesses can offer complete, familiar, easy-to-use databased applications to any users, anywhere.

In today's high-stakes marketing world, advantages are hard to come by. Smaller and mid-size businesses don't have the technological expertise or funding to establish typical, expensive data gathering and distribution applications, yet their needs are the same as the large corporations: they need to move data -- quickly and inexpensively.

Business alliances are the soup de jour and nothing has the potential to bring alliances together better than applications developed using dbBridge.

Today, businesses ally through relationships to offer advantages previously available only to the large corporations. dbBridge can be an important tool to enhance and secure those alliances.

Applications can be developed for alliance members to provide preferred customer access, allow online supplier communication, establish partner alliance information transmission, and to accommodate many other relationship-enhancing opportunities.

Developing client applications using dbBridge as a backbone is no more difficult than developing for traditional environments. In fact, it may be easier since the developer is not concerned about data delivery and server-side functions.

Therefore, businesses can offer one user interface -- whether the user is a member of local LAN or a sales representative thousands of miles away.

• Access schedules
• Review sales history
• Access product lines
• Pass new leads in and out
• Participate in group action plans
• Update contact information
• Obtain customer information online
• Manage help desks
• Deliver documents
• Access knowledge bases
• Push messages
• Prepare and process orders
• Provide human resource information

Simply put, dbBridge enables solutions never before thought possible or practical.

Benefits to Developers

Just when you thought maybe you'd have to learn Java, DHTML, ASP, ActiveX, XML and all those other technologies just to stay ahead, we come along with dbBridge.

For you as a developer, dbBridge is the simplest possible solution. Typically, any client/server application can become a 3-tier, remote-enabled application, just by changing a single property in the data source control.

dbBridge can be the key to a new market, a new direction for your consulting business, a new source of revenue.

Without any stress, without any serious learning curve, you can be delivering remote solutions within hours of receiving dbBridge. You'll likely find many of your existing applications can be easily modified to use dbBridge's data connectivity method.

Imagine approaching clients and potential clients with this new service. Look at the list of adjacent applications. Think of the possibilities.

Also, as a dbBridge developer, we'll include you in our Consultant Resource Directory. We'll point potential customers to you through that directory.

Flexibility

dbBridge is designed from the ground up to meet the standards of multi-tier theory.

Through dbBridge, you can easily convert 2-tier functionality in a multi-tier environment, and when the rubber hits the road, you'll find dbBridge's superior architecture provides you with a high-speed, reliable universal remote database connectivity solution.

Down that road a few months, we'll be introducing dbBridge Pro, a developer toolkit that further expands dbBridge's functionality, enabling middle tier business rules, client-side methods and extended server-side functionality.

dbBridge will give you complete, unrestricted design capability to meet virtually any need you'll have.

This is a new world with lots of new software opportunities. As you work with multi-tier technology, the ideas will pour out from you and your clients.

With dbBridge, you'll never have to come back to us for solutions. Our current architecture and coming Pro version give you all the flexibility you need.