Decisions, Decisions...

There are many articles and seminars on the evolving theory of building solid client-server architectures. MIS managers and application developers, though, are often left with the overwhelming responsibility of choosing from a myriad of alternatives—planning a client-server application architecture involves many more choices than a traditional mainframe centralized processing environment. These choices need to work together properly, coexist with legacy systems, and provide needed functionality now and in the future.

This session will take a more practical than theoretical approach by demonstrating a complete and robust client-server decision support application architecture that incorporates products like Microsoft® Visual Basic® programming system, Microsoft SQL Server™ client-server database management system, Microsoft Windows NT™ operating system, and Microsoft Office Suite. It will leave the listener with a recommended, proven starting point that can be adapted to other environments.

It will cover business versus presentation logic, data warehousing, security, transaction processing, stored procedures, performance tuning, and database layout. It will provide reusable code and a sample application as well.