Synergy/DE Professional Series Development Tools

Synergy/DE Professional Series: Increase developer productivity. Deliver sophisticated applications to the ever-changing marketplace.

Professional Series provides Synergy developers with the ultimate development environment for creating powerful, multi-platform business applications: From an intuitive interface, you can access a comprehensive set of proven tools that support rapid application development. You can then use Connectivity Series and xfSeries products to provide open integration with a variety of industry standard applications, services, and data.

Professional Series Workbench
Workbench is a comprehensive development environment that enables you to create sustainable, platform-independent business applications for deployment into distributed environments including the Internet. By providing intuitive, integrated access to a variety of proven, feature-rich development tools, and by automating routine development tasks, Workbench simplifies development efforts, reducing the time required to get your applications to market or to your users. Professional Series Workbench runs on Windows and supports source files on Windows, Unix, or OpenVMS.
Professional Series Development Environment (PSDE)
If you prefer to develop your applications on Unix or OpenVMS systems, you can use the Professional Series Development Environment (PSDE) instead of Workbench.
Core Development Tools

Synergy Language, a comprehensive, proven language for developing business applications
Synergy DBMS file system for fast, portable, reliable data access
UI Toolkit for creating effective graphical user interfaces for both Windows and non-Windows environments
Repository, the central definition and storage tool for Synergy data and objects
ReportWriter, a tool for retrieving, integrating, and consolidating data into columnar, ad hoc reports
Composer, for drag-and-drop design of user interfaces in a visual development environment