Livebase is a cloud-based database solution designed to address the limitations of using spreadsheets for data management in small and large organizations. It offers a web-based interface for building custom applications with features such as data integrity controls, multi-user capabilities, and robust reporting tools. The platform allows users to easily create, deploy, and manage databases while providing flexible hosting options and complete ownership of the generated applications.

1. Livebase
A database for the cloud

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Platform briefing
Livebase, a database for the cloud
• Many small organizations (mis)use
spreadsheets as databases
The opportunity
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Platform briefing
Livebase, a database for the cloud
• Unfortunately spreadsheets
are not databases
 No role-based access control
 No data quality / integrity control
 Concurrent updates can cause information loss
 Multiple versions spread on multiple servers
 Cannot perform correlations and queries
 No compliancy when regulations apply
The opportunity

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Platform briefing
Livebase, a database for the cloud
• Why do small and large businesses
keep using spreadsheets as databases?
• No cost-effective alternatives!
– DBMSs require application development
(risky and highly expensive)
– Commercial software for SMB is rigid
(don’t handle properly custom data)
– ERPs are overkill
and hard to configure / extend
The opportunity

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Platform briefing
Livebase, a database for the cloud
• Turning conceptual models …
– compact & elegant
– easy to understand and modify
• … into database applications
– virtually bug-free, and secure
– robust and scalable (multi-user)
– instantly available on the web
The concept

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
• Entirely web-based
– Developers just need a java-enabled browser
– Users of generated apps just need the browser
(no plugins, nothing to install).
• Custom applications are
– generated using open-source java technologies
– compiled and deployed on our servers, in seconds
– immediately available to authorized end-users
The Platform

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
Click
– Instantly on-line
– Auditing & backup
– No technical details
The Platform
Step 1: create a virtual server

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The Platform
Step 2: draw your data model

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The Platform
Step 3: start the server, and enjoy

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The platform
Business apps, not toys
• Complex (multi-join) queries
• Data-quality constraints
– Referential integrity, cardinality, uniqueness
– Value range, patterns, formula-based predicates
• Reports
– Tabular
– Cross-tabs,
– Charts (pies, histograms…)
• Business intelligence
– Dynamic, multi-level grouping
– Formula-based filtering

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The Platform
Administration & maintenance tools
• Drag & drop members, engines and
databases across your servers
• Backup, restore and clone an entire
server, with one click
• Download & upload databases in
Access and MySQL formats
• Import and normalize multiple, cross-
related Excel files
• Refine your models at any time:
datababase schemas updated
automatically, data preserved.

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The Platform
Scalable & flexible architecture

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The Platform
Multiple hosting options
• Keep them safe on our servers…
– Access protected using SSL
– Dedicated MySQL databases
(no multi-tenancy)
• … or move them to your ones!
– Generated applications (and their databases) can be optionally
deployed at your premises or anyware in the cloud
(Amazon Web Services, GoGrid, Google App Engine for Business, etc.)
– And you can still manage and maintain all of them,
using all the powerful tools provided by our platform!

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The Platform
It’s your stuff, not ours
• Interface external applications
via a REST programming interface
• Buy your applications at any time,
and install them on any java-enabled server (Linux, Windows, …)
– All applications generated on Livebase
are entirely based on standard, open-source java technology.
– You can buy the binary (a standard WAR file) or even the source code
(with comments and documentation). And it’s yours, forever.

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Livebase, a database for the cloud
The team
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