It’s an exciting time of the year, an even more exciting piece of information that I wanted to share with you is that we are planning the release of the uniDap Online Toolset for developing enterprise software systems over the web.

A variety of solutions across different industries have already been built and deployed using the current Desktop-based uniDap Toolset (Premier). Development to provide the web-based version to easily configure uniDap Technology is already underway, with the first stage – uniDap Form Creator due to be launched in February 2009.

The uniDap technology is a unique patented platform that allows rapid development of solutions without the need for coding or database changes. The solutions are configured using the Toolset (UI) and any complex processing that is not already handled by the Toolset can be achieved using scripting.

The development methodology allowed by using uniDap is revolutionary – Once the analysis has been done to determine what the client wants (and don’t worry if you get it wrong – you can simply change it on the fly) the configurer starts configuring the system. The client can review it and make changes as you go. Once complete, a quick round of testing is sufficient, given that you are not testing the stability of the code; you just need to ensure that the system meets the clients needs.

Once in operation, changes can be made real-time without risk to the data integrity. Conventional rapid development toolsets still create a static database and code-base, which means making changes once the system is live, is as difficult and time consuming as ever. With uniDap this is not the case.

There are many other advantages and unique capabilities offered by the uniDap Toolset which I will discuss in the future.

In the mean time, merry x-mass to everyone!