Success Story
Delphi
“Delphi helps Euclid technology be first to market
with Enterprise Solution on Windows Vista.”
OrganizatiOn
– Charles Vinal, President and CEO, Euclid technology
Euclid Technology
intrODuCtiOn such as cross tabs and charting. ClearVantage
uses the SQL Server 2005 database, and also
ClearVantage from Euclid Technology is
runs on SQL Server 2000 and Embarcadero’s
an integrated CRM (customer relationship
InterBase®.
management), ERP (enterprise resource
planning), eCommerce and Web Content Euclid has ported the ClearVantage enterprise
Management solution built with Delphi. application (more than 480,000 lines of code,
aPPliCatiOn ClearVantage is designed for use by trade plus multiple 3rd party components) from Delphi
• ClearVantage from Euclid associations and non-profits, and is currently 5 to Delphi 2007. The SOA and web architecture
Technology – Integrated used by over 100 organizations ranging in size were ported from Delphi 7 as well, requiring no
from 15 to 1000 employees. more than a recompile. The application now runs
CRM, ERP, eCommerce and
on Vista, has all of the glass features and dialogs,
Web Content Management
What EuCliD Built With DElPhi an optional Office 2007 ribbon interface and also
runs as it always has on XP.
iDE Of ChOiCE Features of the ClearVantage solution are
• Delphi used by everyone in the organization – from Web Services are primarily wrapped in ISAPI
the receptionist to membership management DLLs for ease of integration with other web
ChallEngES to the executive director. What’s more, the development applications. The ISAPI DLLs
association or non-profit’s constituents use the connect to the program’s web services to get
• Windows Vista enabling of websites that are powered by ClearVantage to data, and then return the data in the selected
existing product purchase products, track orders, pay bills and format to the calling application – such as a
• Competing against interact with organization. Member Connect, formatted web page or raw XML data. Clients
companies with much larger the ecommerce and web content management access ClearVantage “web objects” (which are
development teams functionality, powers approximately 75 websites the ISAPI DLLs) from just about every platform
which collectively are accessed by over a million – including ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP and
• Providing reliable access people each week. Perl. Although ClearVantage offers direct access
using SOA architecture to our SOA/web services through SOAP and
a lOOk unDEr thE hOOD XML, most developers accesses the functionality
rESultS using URL name/value pairs passed to the web
ClearVantage encapsulates its extensive business objects.
• First in industry to run on
logic into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Vista and XP ClearVantage Mobile is accessed through any
that can be accessed using both proprietary
• Compete successfully with and standards-based interfaces (e.g., SOAP smart phone or PDA that has an integrated web
companies with 10x larger and XML). Functionality is provided to users browser. In addition, the desktop application
development teams through four user interface options: a smart, – ClearVantage.sc (smart client) – integrates
thin and powerful client for employees directly with Outlook, allowing PDAs to
• Support for SOA, web synchronize the user’s Outlook data without an
(ClearVantage.sc), an html client for internal
services, web and client/ internet connection. However, with the advent
and remote use (ClearVantage Web), a mobile
server web client for smart phone users (ClearVantage of CV Mobile, which can work over any cell
Mobile), and a web development platform connection, the Outlook synchronization model
(ClearVantage MemberConnect) for building may be a less desirable approach than having
and managing highly functional customized web your data available anywhere, anyhow, anytime.
sites. ClearVantage also has integrated query,
communication and business intelligence tools

A Delphi Success Story
DElPhi WaS thE ClEar ChOiCE
Ten years ago Euclid looked at all available
products to build ClearVantage – Visual
“thanks to Delphi, we are the first in our
Basic, PowerBuilder, C++, and Delphi. industry to release a Vista compliant
According to Euclid Technology CEO,
Charlie Vinal, “We decided that Delphi was application – which helps solidify our
”
the best tool available because of its robust
environment and true object-oriented tools. position as a technical leader.
Over time Delphi has consistently risen to
meet our needs. From its origins in client- – Charles Vinal, President and CEO, Euclid technology
server development to it’s current support
for developing extensive Web based
services, Delphi has allowed us to leverage
everything new and good about the Internet, “Now we’ve stayed with Delphi as we’ve BEing firSt tO ViSta
without abandoning our extensive and moved from an object-oriented architecture iS a MarkEting Win
proven code base.” to a service architecture. Our code is
Making ClearVantage compliant with
extremely optimized and wrapped in Web
Windows Vista was important to Euclid’s
DElPhi MakES Our DEVElOPMEnt services that can be accessed by any of our
customers, many of whom have standardized
tEaM MOrE PrODuCtiVE own or third party applications. So we’ve
on the Microsoft platform and are planning
been able to provide better, more reliable
“Using Delphi allows us to compete against to move to Vista over the next year.
software to our customers because they have
development teams that are ten times as According to Vinal, “our customers wanted,
access through our SOA architecture.
large, because we’re more productive,” or would soon want, the ability to use the
says Vinal. “We were able to build a great Where Delphi excels is that it provides a Aero interface, the new dialogs and other
foundation, and because core functionality complete solution to get everything you features of Vista. They want to know that
is encapsulated in our object-oriented need to get done…done – Web, Client Euclid is a technology leader – not just
architecture, we are able to pull out old Server and Web Services are well supported; compliant, but ahead.”
plumbing and put in the new in a fraction apps get written in their native code and
Vinal sometimes is asked why he’s using
of the time. Euclid has 25 employees run super fast; you can build an ecommerce,
CodeGear tools to develop for the Microsoft
and a development team of 5 engineers. content management solution fast. Many
operating system. His reply is to the point,
We compete against companies with of our customers manage very complex
“we’re the first in our industry on Vista
development teams of 50 to 100, and our processes that don’t lend themselves to
and still run great on XP. The success of
software is consistently evaluated as better. simple interfaces. Delphi gives them super
our products and our company is reason
We have a 90% win rate with prospective rich, easy to deploy interfaces. One tool
enough. CodeGear keeps us ahead.”
customers when our software is evaluated.” lets us be very productive across multiple
delivery mechanisms.”
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