1. Alpha Anywhere for Access Developers
Julian Baker
Alpha Anywhere for Access Developers

2. Agenda
Why
What is it
Key Features
Demo
Good
Bad
Questions

3. Who am I? AlphaAnywhere newbie Microsoft Access & SQL Server
Access since mid 90’s
since 2004
Wide range of clients across many industries

4. Alpha Software Around since 1982
Produced the Alpha Five desktop database
Alpha Anywhere released 2013
Continuous development since
Various mentions for Gartner, Forrester, IDC and others
Dan Bricklin – CTO
Alpha Anywhere & Transform

5. Why Alpha Anywhere Increasing demand for mobile/tablet applications
Hybrid applications
Access not suitable
Wide range of other options available
Wanted something that felt intuitive to an Access user
Rapid development speed i.e. not starting from the bottom
Powerful and flexible and would not restrict
Other tools are available!

6. Key Features No-Code & Low-code mobile/www development
“Coding Optional” – but fully flexible where needed
Integrated back-end & front-end (hosted/cloud)
Data integration (SQL, non-SQL, Rest)
Off-line (with sync, conflict resolution)
Security framework
PhoneGap with auto-update (HTML5) –single code base
Standards based (HTML,CSS, Javascript)

7. Other Features Charting Reporting – PDF generation
Mapping inc Google Maps
Calendar
Video
Graphics/images
PhoneGap integration – use native features of phone
Build in tools to transform SQL data to Json

8. Demo

9. Good Rapid speed of development (generally)
Strong functional foundations + templates
Quick build features/wizards
Very database centric
Fully customiseable (code & components)
Regular addition of new features
Goods docs/videos (if you can find them)
Going enterprise-grade (features but also price)

10. Bad Some things turn out to be much harder than expected
Still a learning curve
Language/code
Mobile paradigm
Has become quite expensive
Not Microsoft
Making it look good is time consuming

11. Free trial from website

12. Questions