Tools

We use the latest and best tools to develop our programs. These are primarily from Borland and include Delphi and C#Builder for the dotnet environment. We specialise in remote database access using three tier models with ASTA, access being via ISDN or ADSL telephone lines.

Unfortunately whilst the grunt has been taken out of programming there is still the need for well thought out logic and user interface design. This is where many a novice comes unstuck.

We at RavenTek started out with DOS Paradox and it's development environment. We then moved on to it's Windows incarnation, had a brief flirtation with Visual Basic then in 1995 Delphi arrived! Delphi (from Borland) is the best RAD tool on the market. Full stop. We do not use anything else. The underlying language is Pascal but with loads of Object-Orientated extensions.

We have been with Delphi since version 1 in 1995 and are currently using Version 5. We use numerous add-ons supplied by third parties including:

Within the business software market it is fair to say there is not very much that cannot be done. (Fancy games are another matter and for other languages).