The document is a whitepaper discussing the advantages of using Uniface for building web applications, emphasizing its productivity, security, scalability, and technology independence. It highlights the importance of total cost of ownership and the benefits of a long-term lifecycle approach to application development. Additionally, it encourages developers to leverage Uniface's tools and community for effective web app development and maintenance.

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Building Web Apps with Uniface
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Introduction
When you’re choosing a development tool for new
applications – and particularly for web apps – an end-to-end
solution brings productivity and reliability, among other
advantages.
From a lifecycle perspective, Uniface has strategic strengths
that mean your application not only gets developed (or
migrated to the web) fast, but will also have a long and
productive life, adapting to whatever business and technology
changes lie ahead.

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Choose your development tool from
an application lifecycle perspective
Total cost of ownership should be a key consideration when
you’re contemplating any development project.
This may be convenient in the short term but can prove
expensive over the lifespan of a project.
When you look at the effectiveness of development tools
across the whole application lifecycle, you will see them in a
different light.

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Uniface improves development
throughout the lifecycle
Uniface has advantages that help you reduce total cost of
ownership and improve the usefulness of your web app
throughout its life – not just in the initial development phases:
Productivity
Web apps are expected to be dynamic from a functionality
perspective – just as content has to change frequently to
remain “sticky”. (Think how
often Facebook changes.)

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Uniface improves development
throughout the lifecycle
Security
Security and productivity go together as the majority of time
spent creating web apps today goes into the creation of a
secure environment on the server, in which to open up
sensitive corporate data in such a
way that it can’t be damaged.
Reliability
Reliability is critical for web apps – they can be your main way
of talking and selling to customers, and therefore mission-
critical.

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Easy to run
User friendly
Attractively designed
Secure

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Uniface improves development
throughout the lifecycle
Enterprise scalability
With a customer-facing web app you typically don’t know how
many end-users there will be. Uniface lets you scale the
application, adding hardware if necessary and often avoiding
hardware upgrades.
Technology independence
Uniface makes it easy to move the app from one environment
to another, for example from an in-house server to a
commercial cloud environment.

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Uniface improves development
throughout the lifecycle
Integration and reuse
Uniface’s versatile integration capabilities mean that users
who have recently switched to Uniface find they can easily get
Uniface applications, web-based or not, talking to their existing
application assets.
Collaboration for results
Uniface users can capitalize on the expertise, best practices,
and methodologies delivered by Uniface Professional Services
- for example, by helping you turn a whole existing application
into a web application.

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Uniface improves development
throughout the lifecycle
Uniface’s Technical Advantages: DSP Example
As we’ve seen, Uniface has a number of strategic advantages
when it comes to developing and maintaining web apps.
Take DSPs. In Uniface there’s a symbiotic relationship
between the client and the server: a given process can be
delegated to either in a secure manner, so you decide what
happens where.

10. Model-driven development has been ignored by
the mainstream for a long time. As we move into
an uncertain future, we only need to look at IT
changes over the last decade to see how this
approach would have had considerable benefits.
While traditional
development methods and architectures
worked well in a single deployment
environment, they quickly break down when an
application needs to be deployed to different or
multiple environments.”
CIC Commentary: Quantifying Uniface developer productivity in
an era of technology change
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Conclusion
Particularly from a whole-lifecycle perspective, Uniface is the
ideal medium for developing web apps, whether you’re new to
Uniface or an established user.
For new customers, it makes sense to build your web
applications with Uniface because all the traditional Uniface
advantages like productivity, security, scalability and
technology independence apply.

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10 Ways Uniface Helps You Succeed
#1 PRODUCTIVITY
#2 RELIABILITY
#3 SECURITY
#4 INTEGRATION & REUSE
#5 SCALABILITY
#6 AGILITY
#7 SUSTAINABILITY
#8 TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENCE
#9 COMMUNITY
#10 PARTNERSUNITED PROGRAM

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