PowerHouse® 4GL

High-productivity application development solutions.

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PowerHouse, a pioneer in Low-Code technology, equips your organization with high productivity development environments for creating your data-driven business solutions faster - whether for Web-based, client/server, or traditional terminal-based access.

With PowerHouse, your developers can conquer both quality and time-to-deployment challenges through simplified programming requirements and open access to multiple databases and file systems. Flexible PowerHouse design tools enable business solutions to be built quickly and modified easily, often delivering time and cost savings of up to 90% when compared with programming languages such as COBOL, BASIC, C, C++, or Java. This enables your developers to focus on what the applications need to do—not how they will do it.

At the heart of the entire PowerHouse solution - which includes PowerHouse 4GL Server, PowerHouse® Web, and Axiant® 4GL - is the PowerHouse application server engine. Refined and performance-tuned over many years of ongoing research and development, this engine contains sophisticated processing models that encapsulate our extensive knowledge of data-driven business applications.

Features

PowerHouse 4GL provides traditional terminal and terminal emulator based syntax development.

Portability across platforms

Designed to run on a wide variety of application servers, protecting investment of your existing platform.

Specification-based development

Quickly create programs to control how default PowerHouse business processing models are applied to your data.

Simple or sophisticated

Override the default application with the robust procedure language, tailoring to your precise business requirements.

Access to corporate data resources

Through a powerful data dictionary that corporate applications will read or write.

PowerHouse® Web

Intuitive Web interface allows deployment of advanced data-driven solutions to the Internet or intranets quickly and easily.

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No time for 3GL-based tools

Develop applications and generate an HTML interface with PowerHouse 4GL or Axiant 4GL, then deploy to the Internet or intranet with PowerHouse Web.

Increased reliability and scalability

Scalable, distributed architecture allows you to locate your Web, application and data servers anywhere in a heterogeneous network.

Axiant® 4GL

Axiant 4GL provides a robust visual IDE for PowerHouse solutions.

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Build once, deploy many times

Create solutions in a Windows based environment and deploy according to application need and available infrastructure.

Object-based development

Sophisticated object-based visual development environment enabling developers to create applications quickly and pinpoint errors easily.

Offline development

Multi-user object repository allowing easier management of team development projects and continued productivity when working remotely.

Reuse rather than replace

Automate the migration of your server-based Powerhouse applications to new client/server or relational database environments.
System requirements

PowerHouse 4GL and Web are currently supported on the following platforms:  
Windows x86-x64 Desktop and Servers (Axiant is supported on Windows only)
Linux x86-x64  Tested with several popular distributions, requires 32bit libraries 
OpenVMS_Alpha HP versions 8.2+ or VSI versions 8.4+
OpenVMS Integrity (IA64) HP versions 8.2+ or VSI versions 8.4+
OpenVMS x86 VSI version 9.2-2+ support is currently in research and development, watch this page for updates.
HP-UX  Integrity (IA64)
HP-UX PA-RISC
AIX PowerPC
Solaris SPARC  

Supported database clients:
Database clients must be 32-bit versions to work with PowerHouse 4GL.  

Oracle 10.2+
Oracle RDB (OpenVMS)
MS SQL Server (ODBC) 2005+
IBM DB2
Eloquence Image Database
Sybase
Generic ODBC (Many other database systems maybe supported thru an ODBC driver provided by the database vendor)  

Vintage platform support, no new releases, updates or fixes. Only product questions are supported.
IBM i (AS/400)
MPE/iX (HP3000)

Additional requirements or restrictions will be updated on an ongoing basis. For any specific questions about PowerHouse-supported environments, please contact us at: powerhouse.support@unicomsi.com.