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rollbase now provides a way to upload microsoft access databases and automatically convert them into functioning rollbase applications. this northwind application demonstrates the results of this process on the standard microsoft “northwind” example database .
about rollbase rollbase is a cloud platform that allows rapid creation of software as a service (saas) business applications using point - and - click, drag - and - drop tools in a standard browser with a minimal amount of code. rollbase delivers on the promise of rapid application development, making app creation much faster than traditional software development methods. as a state of the art platform as a service (paas), rollbase enables businesses to focus on application innovation rather than the software and hardware infrastructure behind it. rollbase is offered as both a hosted service (rollbase hosted cloud) and as a licensed platform (rollbase private cloud). rollbase is designed for enterprises as well as independent software vendors (isvs) with a complete system for tenant and subscriber management, provisioning, application development, publishing and deployment. rollbase provides isvs and resellers with a robust white label program making it easy to deploy applications under any brand or identity. founded in august 2007 rollbase is privately held and profitable .
the rollbase team develops custom applications to cater to specific requirements and needs of clients from various industries .
this is the default application that comes with your account when you first signup for rollbase. here you can manage meetings and to - dos in the standard list view format as well as in the rollbase calendar .
create custom integrations with external services and applications using rollbase web apis. soap, rest and ajax apis available .
more than 5, 000 users are using hundreds of custom rollbase applications every day in nine languages and growing .
build a functioning application in less than two hours using the rollbase quick start tutorial, companion videos and online help .
the process of creating an application is pretty straightforward. rollbase uses a wizard to guide you through the initial process. for testing out rollbase, i decided to use one of my tried and true scenarios: a help desk system .
when you’re done, rollbase congratulates you and provides you with an overview of your application. the next screenshot provides an example. if you need to make any changes using the wizard, rollbase will gladly take you back. if you’re finished with your changes, rollbase will automatically create several default views such as details, creation pages, and editors .
i applaud rollbase for providing so much flexibility, but to a novice user this is a tidal wave of information .
rollbase provides expansive documentation on all its features and even some tutorial videos for some of the more basic use cases .
note: during a followup with progress representatives, i was told that if you purchase an isv license for rollbase, it includes the ability to white - label any of your applications. this removes all branding for rollbase and progress pacific .
you can see across the top that rollbase created a tab for each of the objects that i generated within the creation wizard .
one of the sample applications i installed was a bug tracker development by the rollbase team. it provided a simple interface for managing products and bugs associated with the products. at a minimum, it serves as a great tool for learning what rollbase is capable of .
you can expose rollbase application data through a portal. rather than logging into the application itself, end users interact with the application through this portal. an anonymous portal allows anyone with the portal link to view any data for which a portal guest has been granted permission. this video demonstrates how to create an anonymous portal. as part of the progress pacific platform, rollbase provides web - based rapid application development tools that require little to no programming expertise. you can expose rollbase application data through a web portal in rollbase. a web portal is a web application built using the same components as a standard rollbase application. a visitor without an account for the rollbase environment can access a portal, either as a guest or as a logged - in portal user. this demonstration shows you how to create a simple web portal for finding and viewing records. download audio script: urltoken see more resources to help you get started with rollbase at: urltoken
rollbase stands out by delivering rapid innovation in the platform as a service market, focused on providing a declarative web - based application development environment accessible to business users that minimizes the amount of code necessary to build cloud business applications. in addition to operating rollbase as a pure cloud service (rollbase hosted cloud), rollbase provides an easily installable, brandable, licensed option (rollbase private cloud) that has helped it capture demand from saas vendors, enterprises, governments, and other types of organizations that want to maintain full control over their application software stack, data, and infrastructure whether it resides in - house, in a third party data center, or in a cloud of their choosing such as amazon, rackspace, or microsoft azure .
progress rollbase is the next evolution of rapid application development (rad) by progress software. instead of releasing a traditional client - side package, rollbase provides rad tools in the form of a platform - as - a - service (paas). rollbase provides cloud - based development, deployment and runtime support for both web and mobile applications. applications can be developed and deployed on a public cloud, private cloud (on - premise) or hybrid model. rollbase is free to try for 30 days, with no features disabled. i definitely recommend you give it a try to see if it meets your needs .
the irollbase application is a good starting point for rollbase developers. this application provides an immediate and easy to use solution for some common issues related to information sharing .
imagine you’ve spent a serious amount of time working on an application within rollbase, and you’d like to provide the framework to other users. at any time, you can set your application up as a published app within the rollbase application store. all your personal and corporate information is removed from the application before it’s published to the store .
that is still a work in progress, but in june 2013, the company acquired a key component, in the form of silicon valley - based start - up rollbase .
rollbase' s technology allows isvs to build applications using a browser - based drag - and - drop interface. it can be deployed on private infrastructure or any public cloud .
even though the beginning of this review discussed how to build a web application using rollbase, it is important to note that you can also design mobile web applications as well .
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rollbase is offered as both a licensed product (private cloud) and as a hosted service (hosted cloud). options are available for isvs, resellers, enterprises and small businesses .
every view within rollbase is customizable. in the next screenshot, you will see an example of my “new ticket” screen. this view was generated for me based off the criteria from the application creation wizard. however, it is not ideal for how i’d like to see this view used by my users. rollbase allows me to quickly move areas of the screen around .
rollbase can be granular with the level of permission you can give to a user or user role. the ui will automatically adapt to reflect the effective permissions. there are several different options for authenticating a user. by default, you can use rollbase’s built - in authentication scheme. additionally, you can authenticate via ldap, http post, http get, or using the openedge appserver .
rollbase, inc. , an innovator in platform as a service (paas) technology allowing the rapid design, development and deployment of cloud business applications, today announced it has been named a gartner research
cool vendor in paas
for 2013. in its
cool vendors in paas, 2013
report released on april 15th, the global research firm profiles rollbase along with 3 other vendors .
the knowledge base applications provide a low maintenance knowledge management tool. creating a new knowledge article takes only seconds. users will have the ability to publish articles to an external portal accessible to non rollbase users .
i’m impressed by the sheer amount of customization that rollbase offers. the tools allow you to build forms and views that reflect how you’d like the application experience to act. to a new or novice user, this will feel like a lot of noise to find the options they care about. user management and permission enforcement is a powerful feature. i do wish it were possible to design or deploy the application without the rollbase or progress pacific branding. i sense that if i had multiple users of griff help desk, there would be confusion of what griff help desk was, what rollbase was, and what progress pacific was .
with customers from small to midsized businesses and isvs, local and national government organizations, and some of the largest companies in the asia pacific region, has years of expertise building sophisticated business applications and websites on the rollbase platform .
disclaimer: for this review, i was paid a fee for my time to review progress rollbase. i performed this review using the standard 30 - day trial, which is available to anyone that wishes to take advantage of it .
another significant integration, pead says, is between rollbase and progress' s existing on - premise application development environment, openedge. that gives its installed base of over 1, 000 isvs an opportunity to make the cloud - shift with ease, he claims .
we are honored to be recognized by gartner as a cool vendor in paas ,
said matt robinson, co - founder and ceo of rollbase .
we believe this acknowledgement validates our unique approach to paas and the report highlights a few of rollbase' s key capabilities behind this approach. we continue to invest in making it easy for companies to build and run multitenant business applications on any cloud or in - house infrastructure, and it' s great to have gartner recognize us as an innovator in this area .
gartner named rollbase as one of its cool vendors in the paas space earlier this year, noting that
insightful application paas vendors are targeting their tools to the needs of saas isvs, because saas sells paas, and saas isvs are a critical channel for paas vendors .
progress rollbase provides a stable platform to build your next form - based application on top of. the process of creating a new application is well designed, and provides the user with step - by - step information about how the bits and pieces of the application come together .
in step 3, you are able to add additional fields to your objects for further customization. a hang up i had during this process was that rollbase didn’t make it clear which fields it auto - added based off my choices in step 2. i accidentally created two email address fields .
as it announced the acquisition, progress also unveiled the new brand for its paas play :
progress pacific
. in the next few months, progress will integrate cloud - based versions of its infrastructure tools, such as data integration platform data direct and business rules management system cortico, into rollbase .
the final step in the creation process is to configure the relationships between all of the objects. one ticket has one customer, but one customer can have many tickets. a ticket can be assigned to many technicians. rollbase provides you with a couple simple graphics that explain the various relationship types. the screenshot below shows an example .
in the report, gartner highlights the fact that ,
insightful application paas vendors are targeting their tools to the needs of saas isvs, because saas sells paas, and saas isvs are a critical channel for paas vendors .
rollbase' s focus on saas isvs directly targets this channel opportunity through a combination of high productivity, hybrid portability and solid tenant isolation .
after some discussion with representatives at progress, it was brought to my attention that the mobile designer will automatically generate the backend services for your objects. this leaves you with only needing to design and wire up the views. rollbase takes care of the rest. when you’re done, your application can be ported to android, ios, or a mobile web application .
the signup process is quick and easy. i provided a little bit of personal information, but nothing like credit card information. while i was trying out only rollbase, when you create an account, you are registering for the full progress pacific package. this gives you the opportunity to trial, and later pay for the other tools in the suite: datadirect cloud and easyl .
this is a nitpick and i contribute it to user error, but one of the object types i created was “ticketevents” because i was imagining a collection of events associated with the ticket. rollbase automatically pluralizes the objects that you create, so my collection of ticketevents become “ticketeventss” (note the additional s). the pluralization wasn’t obvious during the creation wizard, and i had to make adjustments manually afterwards .
within 2 - 3 days, i received an email from rollbase, but not for my activation. the email was a reminder that i needed to activate and provided a way to re - send the activation email. same issue as before: no activation emails. eventually, i had to contact someone with progress software to activate my account and they were able to quickly take care of the issue. representatives with progress assure me that this experience was out of the ordinary .
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just over a year ago, application infrastructure vendor progress software announced a drastic plan to turn its ailing fortunes around. it pledged to sell off no fewer than ten of its product lines, and abandoned its strategy of pursuing enterprise - wide contracts .
instead, the company decided to renew its focus on independent software vendors (isvs) who have long been its core customer base. the idea was to reposition its various middleware products as a platform for a new breed of applications, capable of processing and analysing data in real time .
of course, the immediate challenge for most isvs is not how they embed complex event processing (cep _ or business rules management, or any other progress' esoteric middleware products, into their applications, but how they can navigate the shift to the cloud .
“our isv customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud, ” explains ceo philip pead .
so progress also announced that it would be gradually moving its software components into the cloud, to create an all new
platform - as - a - service
offering .
this, says pead, will allow isvs to build sophisticated applications, that can draw data in from a variety and cloud and on - premise sources, through an easy to use interface .
the world is moving too rapidly for you to spend five years building a product .
the paas space is still the smallest segment of the cloud market but there are signs that it may be about to heat up – most notably, the unveiling in april of pivotal one, the paas offering from a spin - off from emc and vmware, which is built on the hadoop big data framework from the ground up .
pead does not see progress pacific and pivotal one as competitive, however. “we have similar elements, but their target market is completely different than ours, ” he says. “they are going after enterprise - wide deployments, whereas we’re focused on isvs. ”
and while data direct does integrate with hadoop, progress pacific is designed primarily for building applications on relational databases .
it has been a year now since progress’s strategic turnaround was announced, but it is still very much a work in progress. in march, the company reported a 3% increase in sales for its latest financial quarter – a marked improvement on the declining sales it has endured in recent years, but not yet proof of a comeback .
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the screenshot below is a preview of the easy - to - use registration page .
the first major hiccup i had during with review process was during registration. after filling in all my information, i was told i needed to check my email and click an activation link. this is not out of the ordinary, so i waited by my email intently waiting. no email showed up. during this time, you are not able to use the application .
the first step in the application creation process is to name your application and give it a description. be sure to make it good! one option you have later is to list your application in a public marketplace and the data from step 1 is used to feed that listing .
steps 2 and 3 allow you to define high - level objects within your application. for my help desk app, i wanted to create customers, technicians, tickets, and other supporting objects. the screenshot below shows the object creation .
whatever type of object you’re creating, you can set several pre - defined attributes. for example, in customers, i gave it the attributes for a “contact”. this added first name, last name, email address, etc .
once you’re ready to finally jump into your new application, you’re sent to your new application dashboard. the next screenshot shows an example of what the “griff help desk” application looks .
a view is defined by sections, and section can have up to three columns. by simply clicking and dragging, a view can transform into what you need it to be. each field on the view can also have several options set on it. does the “date created” need to be a required field? select the “required field” option from within the field properties .
i spent a little bit of time with this feature. ideally, you’re not going to build an application that only you are going use. within my organization, i can create multiple users. for each of these users, i was able to give them certain application rights. in one application they might be an administrator, but in another they are a read - only user .
the store is also a great place to look for an application that is already designed to meet your needs. at the time of this review, the store had less than 20 applications in it. i’m sure as the platform matures, this number will grow significantly .
wow! the mobile design experience far exceeds that of the web application designer. the entire interface is drag and drop, and the canvas is designed to reflect the mobile environment you’re targeting. you have a choice between phone and tablet, and the built - in preview mode (example below) shows you want an application looks like .
i didn’t feel though that the mobile application development experience made the object creation and relationship management aspects of the platform as easy. in fact, i wasn’t able to figure out how to port griff help desk to a mobile environment (even though there is an option to create the mobile app based off an existing application) .
there is a huge divide in the user experience between creating the application to fine tuning the application. as i described above, the process of creating an application is executed very well. the user is guided step by step through the process. you don’t feel lost in the wizard .
however, after the application is generated, you’re provided with the ability to change pretty much whatever you want. i felt these options weren’t presented as elegantly as the wizard was .
as the next screenshot demonstrates, the view for editing an object type (in this case, the ticket object) is a dump of every option possible to configure. the screenshot is only able to show you 1 / 5th of my screen, as the options continue much further down .
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pros: extremely easy to use, this software is a major part of my day. not many issues and if there is one customer support is very quick
cons: once in a while data doesn' t save. but it happens very rarely. aside from that i cant say a negative thing about this software
pros: the thing i like most is the drag and drop feature when scheduling and cloning jobs makes it easier for a repeat customers .
cons: this software does not enough space for the structural location. also, sometimes it doesn' t give you enough time to save changes .
comments: great product to use. we have great adoption usiung this product at one of our customers. the data direct connections is good
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rollbase is a platform as a service ( paas ) software solution . it was founded by the eponymous software vendor based in saratoga , california acquired by progress software ( nasdaq : prgs ) in june 2013 , a global cloud computing company headquartered in bedford , massachusetts . founded in 2007 , the rollbase platform allows users to create software as a service ( saas ) business applications using point and click , drag and drop tools in a standard web browser with minimal programming . in april 2013 rollbase was recognized by gartner as a " 2013 cool vendor in paas " . 
rollbase is a platform as a service (paas) software solution. it was founded by the eponymous software vendor based in saratoga, california acquired by progress software (nasdaq: prgs) in june 2013, a global cloud computing company headquartered in bedford, massachusetts. founded in 2007, the rollbase platform allows users to create software as a service (saas) business applications using point and click, drag and drop tools in a standard web browser with minimal programming. in april 2013 rollbase was recognized by gartner as a " 2013 cool vendor in paas ".
rollbase is a platform as a service (paas) software solution. it was founded by the eponymous software vendor based in saratoga, california acquired by progress software (nasdaq: prgs) in june 2013, a global cloud computing company headquartered in bedford, massachusetts. founded in 2007, the rollbase platform allows users to create software as a service (saas) business applications using point and click, drag and drop tools in a standard web browser with minimal programming. in april 2013 rollbase was recognized by gartner as a " 2013 cool vendor in paas ".