UniVerse

UniVerse is an integrated database and application development environment that provides unparalleled open systems performance, flexibility, and portability. More than an ordinary relational database, UniVerse offers a multidimensional postrelational data structure.

As a postrelational solution, UniVerse combines traditional relational database management features with additional storage, manipulation, and data retrieval features. This unique system allows you to support a greater number of users, increase data availability, create databases that shrink and grow as needed, utilize less expensive hardware systems, and much more. All without sacrificing ease of use or high-end performance.

What's more, UniVerse's adherence to industry standards (such as SQL) lets you take advantage of client/server computing, distributed processing, multi-processing hardware, and other leading technologies. And UniVerse offers access to thousands of applications on a variety of hardware platforms. So you can protect existing investments while capitalizing on cost- effective, open database development and information access.

Maximum Business Efficiency, Optimum Price/Performance

When it comes to responsive, versatile business management systems, UniVerse is unmatched. Offering fast access speeds and enhanced flexibility, UniVerse delivers:

• Greater price/performance -- allowing you to support more users than competitive databases, providing higher performance at a lower cost. Additionally, UniVerse runs on less expensive hardware and open systems (like PCs and UNIX), and helps decrease development costs.

• Strong business orientation -- through a postrelational system designed specifically for the real-world needs of today's commercial organizations, with functions that address the demands for increased productivity, more applications, flexible data reporting, decision support capabilities, and much more.

• Multi-dimensional model -- which allows associations of data fields that contain multiple values, increasing data availability and maximizing operational efficiency.

• Efficient data storage and retrieval -- through variable length fields and records that use only the space you require. As a result, the system enables databases to change in size, avoiding the need to rebuild databases just to make changes.

• Increased interoperability -- including operation with other databases, other operating environments, and a range of desk-top systems, including PCs and UNIX-based systems.

• Standards-based operation -- with fully-integrated SQL, enabling you to access data with an industry-standard query language, leveraging its high-quality security, integrity, and transaction management features, and across industry standard networks.

• Ease of use -- with tools that simplify system installation, administration, and operation, plus straightforward data access and manipulation for developers and end-users.

In addition, UniVerse is complemented by a full set of application and development tools for implementing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), client/server computing, database interoperability, PC connectivity, the web, and more.

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