RAD Studio is available in three editions: Professional, Enterprise, and the most advanced edition, Architect. What’s in the Architect edition, and what benefits does it offer?
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What do you get with the Architect Edition of RAD Studio that you don’t get with Professional?
Architect is about building enterprise-level multi-platform, multi-device applications that can connect to a multitude of databases, including the embedded version of InterBase, use advanced database design and data visualization, target Linux, build web apps, and deploy REST-based web services on Linux or Windows.
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So what do you get with the Architect Edition of RAD Studio that you don’t get with Professional?
Get an Encrypted Embeddable Database with InterBase IBToGo Edition
InterBase is Embarcadero’s signature high-performance SQL database with enterprise-grade security and award-winning change synchronization.
Professional comes with IBLite, the low-footprint embedded version for free distribution with customer applications. Architect comes with IBToGo, a more versatile edition with encryption support that can also be purchased with an annual subscription license.
Get Superior Multi-Device Database Connectivity For Your Apps With FireDAC
FireDAC consists of a unique set of Universal Data Access Components for developing multi-device database applications for Delphi, and C++Builder.
FireDAC enables client/server and high-speed direct enterprise connectivity to a wide variety of natively supported databases including InterBase, SQLite, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, SQL Anywhere, Advantage DB, Firebird, Access, Informix, and DataSnap.
Learn more about FireDAC here.
Develop for Linux With The RAD Studio Linux Compiler
The RAD Studio Linux Compiler enables the deployment of applications on popular Linux platforms with the Delphi language. Meanwhile, FireMonkey GUI for Linux extends the FireMonkey UI framework to provide full Linux GUI support.
Find out how to use RAD Studio to build Linux apps here.
Deploy REST-Based Web Services With RAD Server Multi-Site Deployment License
The Architect version comes with development tools and a multi-site license for RAD Server, enabling users to build REST-based web services on Linux or Windows.
RAD Server is a turn-key Application Server based on REST architecture that provides a robust back-end platform for Delphi and C++ developers, including multiple pre-built applications services and integration capabilities.
You can publish APIs, manage users and devices that are connected to the RAD Server, capture analytics about the use and users of applications, connect to local and enterprise databases using the FireDAC components and much more. RAD Server also supports user authentication, push notifications, geolocation and data storage.
Design and Manage Databases With Aqua Data Studio
Aqua Data Studio by AquaFold is a universal integrated development environment (IDE) for database development and data visualization that also connects to a broad range of relational, cloud, and NoSQL database platforms.
More than 300,000 data professionals use Aqua Data Studio to:
- Manage many tasks for numerous data sources with a single database tool
- Easily develop, execute, and share SQL statements
- View, filter, and edit query results in Excel-like grid with copy-and-paste
- Create visualizations and dashboards to analyze data with drag-and-drop
- Compare schema, data, query results, files, and folders
- Reverse-engineer databases into entity relationship diagrams
Build Data-Intensive Cross-Platform Apps with Sencha Ext JS Pro
Javascript developers use Sencha Ext JS to build data-intensive cross-platform web apps for desktop, tablets, and smartphones.
Building a single-page enterprise web application involves many interconnected components. Sencha Ext JS comes with over 140 pre-built UI components, and has features to simplify integration with RAD Server.
Why develop with Sencha Ext JS
- Rich set of UI components
- High productivity
- Faster time to market
- Superior performance
- Secure framework
- Platform & browser support
It’s Time to Migrate to New Opportunities With RAD Studio Architect
RAD Studio Architect is about building more advanced enterprise-grade applications that can do more for your customers and take your software business to the next level.
Time to think about what more you can accomplish with RAD Studio Architect! And given Delphi’s legendary backward and forward compatibility, your investment in RAD Studio Architect will pay off many times over.
The best way to start is to make a primary needs assessment with one of our experts.