White Papers

The world of software development thrives on innovative concepts like Object Orientated Programming (OOP), Agile Development, Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Low-Code, Enterprise & Micro Services, UI / UX design, and many more.

There is arguably one key concept behind many of these buzzwords, one that has seen a huge resurgence in recent times. It continues to heavily influence the modern tooling and processes used in software development today, and is now being claimed by a broader set of products covering a host of innovative approaches. That term is Rapid Application Development (RAD).

With big software firms like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Salesforce, to name just a few, all evangelising RAD approaches, this paper will explore how RAD is evolving, and how RAD Studio® today continues to innovate tooling and frameworks and supports the latest development practices and protocols.

The first requirement for any software house is to build the internal capabilities that allow them to rapidly reach the customer with the user experience expected. Once they can target their customers devices, they can then plan and develop the applications and architectures to base their business upon.

To be clear, this paper isn’t here to talk about internal development practices, because regardless of your approach to development, the aim is the same: To ensure your apps compile, are secure, run and look good on your customers systems. Instead, this paper will look at the market trends that are important to maintaining the internal capabilities for delivering software to end users.

This whitepaper evaluates three frameworks for Windows application development - Delphi, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with the .NET Framework, and Electron.

This newly updated 500-page e-book is a complete guide to the current, modern Object Pascal programming language by best-selling Delphi books author and Delphi Senior Product Manager, Marco Cantú.

API services are the foundation of modern distributed applications. Today, microservices are the basis of modern application architectures. Instead of a monolithic and cumbersome software, the entire functionality is distributed among manageable subsystems. The resulting services are then typically provided via the Internet and RESTful APIs.

Read in this technical whitepaper how you can work with RAD Studio and RAD Server from the Client to the backend and reduceg the time-to-market.

Experienced developers know that retaining users can be a challenge, so they continuously invest in making their applications faster, more functional and more user-friendly. This effort isn’t for the user alone - cleaning up unused and inefficient code makes it easier for the developer to maintain apps moving forward.

Read this whitepaper to learn how modern market trends are putting pressure on stable legacy applications, and what you can do to stay relevant and future-proof your applications.

Adopt These Collaborative Methodologies to Streamline Development

Explore the different collaborative methodologies and available tools to improve collaboration between development teams and designers, operations, and QA teams to realize faster release cycles without sacrificing quality.

• Reduce software release cycles
• Improve communications between Design and Development
• Shift-Left and incorporate QA and Operability into product backlog
• Learn what tools can improve inter-team communications to reduce rework

Enter the mobile world with less development work

The use of smartphones and tablets has become more popular over the years. This applies both to the private sector and the corporate environment. The typical target platforms, which differ considerably in technical terms, are iOS and Android. Learn in this whitepaper how the mobile worlds are already growing together in design and development.

Learn why Windows 10, the most significant PC release in many years, is a big opportunity for software developers. Gain an understanding of how RAD Studio developers are ideally placed to take advantage of Windows 10 and why now is the time to prepare for new ways of developing and deploying Windows applications.

The new InterBase® patent pending feature “Change Views” introduces a new approach to tracking data changes (with field level granularity) in server as well as personal computer/tablet/mobile databases. It is designed for today’s mobile centric world. Furthermore, Change Views offer developers a way to break traditional constraints in their thinking about data change tracking and the life span of data in briefcase models. Through its Change Views technology, InterBase provides easy access to a highly scalable change-tracking engine that developers can easily mold to fit their requirements, regardless of whether they need to keep 1 or 100,000 destinations up-to-date.