Apps are developed using Genero Studio’s ‘Business Application Modeller’ – a graphical tool that creates your workflow from which you generate code. Templates are provided with the most commonly used patterns that you customize to fit your needs.

Start development with the Application Diagram. This creates the program flow of the forms and reports. Now import a database schema. Studio’s schema designer will help you create one if need be. Click on ‘Generate’ and very quickly you have your basic application ready-to-run. Refine the look & feel with the forms designer. Add widgets such as radio groups, comboboxes. Add lookups. Add toolbars. Add graphics…

Custom business rules are added with Code Editor and sit within protected ‘code tags’. These tags remain untouched when you eventually regenerate your app.

Apps are never finished. You’ll constantly revisit and refine – to keep pace with the market. What we call the “Continuous Generation Process” – the key to improving your productivity and maintaining your competitive edge.

At the heart of Genero Studio is an abstract grammar we call Business Development Language. As its name suggests, it is purpose-built for business applications. It embeds SQL and high-level verbs that are user-interface, operating system and database agnostic. Wizards hide complexity making the creation of web services possible without knowledge of the underlying protocols. You don’t need to know SOAP. You don’t need to be able to write WSDLs.

In this way, you code more securely and create fewer bugs. When you consider that 50% of bugs find their way into production, you’ll be glad that Studio is helping you make a fifth of the bugs you would otherwise be making with rival frameworks. Developers introduce a fraction of the bugs they would otherwise make with Object Oriented Programming Languages (OOPs).

Develop once and deploy everywhere – without recompiling.

This is made possible with Genero’s unique ‘n’-tier, ‘thin-client’ architecture orchestrated by its virtual machine that executes BDL bytecode and transmits data to and from the edge of the network. This tightly coded virtual machine ensures security and scalability to thousands of concurrent users.

The client layer is populated by the virtual machine via an XML-based tree we call the Abstract User Interface (AUI).  This dual-tree data structure sits client and server-side representing the logical layout of the screen form. Only nodes in the tree that have been updated are exchanged keeping network traffic to its bare minimum. The AUI tree supports MS^® Windows, macOS^®, Linux^®, HTML5^®, iOS^®, Android^® and even dumb terminals so that apps may run across them indifferently and simultaneously. Our virtual machine delivers online and offline apps for mobile devices.

Data layer abstraction is performed through an SQL-based Open Database Interface embedded into the BDL grammar and supporting all leading industry and open source databases such as IBM^® Informix^®, MS SQL-Server^®, Oracle^®, MySQL^® and PostgreSQL^®.

The operating system layer connects the app to the underlying system hardware and runs on MS Windows, macOS, Linux, IBM AIX^®, Oracle Solaris^®, HP^® UX and others. Its interpreted bytecode is compatible between operating systems ensuring apps run everywhere without recompliation.

The network layer is provided by JSON, XML, SOAP based Web Services as well as the Java Native Interface.

Thanks to its n-tier architecture, apps can be distributed across multiple servers behind the firewall. This both improves performance and protects the app from virus intrusion or hackers, since only the data displayed at the client passes through the firewall at any given point in time.

Genero apps are core to its customer’s business. Systems developed with our software drive steel foundries, track millions of global imports and exports, distribute medication and groceries to hundreds of millions of consumers, coordinate global military logistics, run city and state police forces managing dispatch and keeping criminal records, pay fighter pilots and celebrities, organise your child’s education, take care of your money and personal credit, collect your taxes and record your births, deaths and hospital appointments, control wine production and milk deliveries, even manage the production of your smartphone and tablet