Step Forward

STEP FORWARD is a tool for developing information management and accounting systems using graphical programming and high-level Abstraction techniques. STEP FORWARD is a bridge Between computer programming and business process engineering, offering the best of both worlds to seasoned programmers and rookies, business managers and accountants, consultants and system integrators. Formal programming skills are not required. STEP FORWARD enables users to produce professional quality applications with a highly interactive and intelligent Graphical User Interface, data integrity controls of any degree of complexity, a custom-designed relational database, automated execution of business processes, generated accounting transactions, and flexible Data Mining facilities. STEP FORWARD applications are assembled from an inventory of prefabricated Building Blocks that cover a wide range of functionality, to build data input forms, executable flowcharts, Drill-down reports, and GAAP controls when applicable. It also allows traditional, language-based, custom-developed code to be incorporated into the applications. Because of its highly graphical and intuitive nature, full-featured STEP FORWARD applications can be built in days and weeks instead of months and years. Routine, but time-consuming and error-prone development steps, such as the construction of GUIs and database SQL queries are automated by STEP FORWARD, while still providing low-level control for expert users, thus eliminating the toughest bottlenecks in the application development process. Graphical flowcharts, encapsulating business logic in the most visual form, are automatically transformed into executable code and can be traced step-by-step, verifying the logic while still under construction - and without writing a single line of code.