Revolution for enterprise SAP-style applications?

[Jim Carwardine]

BusinessVision <http://www.sagebusinessvision.com/> is capable of handling
points 1,2 and 5 off the shelf.  Points 3 & 4 are a dime a dozen or you can
create a custom one in Rev.  As I understand BV, it's database is accessible
for custom reporting as well although they have a fair amount of
customizability built-in.

I know several businesses locally that do and I have researched it for
similar things to you and am just starting to use it... Jim

on 4/3/06 7:18 PM, Russ McBride wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's been a few years since I've used Revolution.
> 
> We've got a messy set of systems here that keep the front end and
> back end of our store running and I'm exploring ideas for
> inexpensively consolidating and streamlining them to reduce
> complexity and redundancy.  One possibility is rebuilding everything
> from the ground up in RR.  I'm not sure that it can do it though.
> Basically, we need to rebuild nothing less than a "junior-SAP"
> system, a set of the following:
> 
> --a point-of-sale system
> --an inventory management system
> --some custom apps that access remote web services
> --a content control system for web site data (simpler than Hemingway,
> e.g.)
> --some custom bookkeeping apps
> 
> The goal would be to reduce our 4 overlapping databases down to one
> so it means that these apps would be heavily database-centric,
> probably built on FrontBase, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.  And I would need
> to easily tie in some Objective-C code and Java code (and ideally
> some Ruby code) when necessary.  The web content system would have to
> feed into some flat files for the WebDNA web app system we're using
> until we get around to rebuilding our WebDNA/WebObjects composite
> system.
> 
> At one point Geoff Canyon made it sound like RealBasic might be
> better for database-intensive applications.
> 
> Unfortunately our environment at the University here requires custom
> applications, but we don't have the $$ for an actual SAP-style
> setup.  Having used RR for some apps quite awhile ago my first
> impression is that it might be perfect, er--the only possible
> candidate--for rapidly building an inexpensive, but comprehensive set
> of apps.  My other choices would be RealBasic (more code, but maybe a
> more desirable language), Cocoa (but this wouldn't be truly rapid--at
> least not for me), Ruby on Rails (but I don't want web interfaces),
> WebObjects (ditto), or Cocoa-Ruby (interesting, but limited to Mac),
> or Ruby + TK (unstable GUI system).
> 
> What do you think?  Any tips, anecdotes, or suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Russ McBride
> Programmer/Analyst, PhD Cadidate
> The Scholar's Workstation
> University of California at Berkeley
> 510-643-6853
> 
> 
> 
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