Uniface (programming language)

Uniface is a low-code development and deployment platform for enterprise applications that can run in a large range of runtime environments, including <a href="/facts/Mobile_device/cNS1Rhvg">mobile</a>, <a href="/facts/Mainframe_computer/nrBR6rWa">mainframe</a>, web, <a href="/facts/Service-oriented_architecture/g8krR0dk">Service-oriented architecture</a> (SOA), <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Windows</a>, <a href="/facts/Java_Platform,_Enterprise_Edition/7AAStd35">Java EE</a>, and <a href="/facts/Microsoft_.NET/Hh5tWDIw">.NET</a>. Uniface is used to create mission-critical applications.
Uniface applications are platform-independent and database-independent. Uniface provides an integration framework that enables Uniface applications to integrate with all major DBMS products such as <a href="/facts/Oracle_Database/FHv5g732">Oracle</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_SQL_Server/eCdt2JBL">Microsoft SQL Server</a>, <a href="/facts/MySQL/QEEDNBDP">MySQL</a> and <a href="/facts/IBM_Db2/2cYITuuY">IBM Db2</a>. In addition, Uniface also supports file systems such as <a href="/facts/Record_Management_Services/a5TTHAcB">RMS</a>, Sequential files, operating-system text files and a wide range of other technologies, such as <a href="/facts/IBM/QszA7nwd">IBM</a> mainframe-based products (<a href="/facts/CICS/BNRGFat7">CICS</a>, <a href="/facts/IBM_Information_Management_System/bW0zbK9N">IMS</a>), <a href="/facts/Web_service/qxrwqB3D">web services</a>, <a href="/facts/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol/TeCRKDpJ">SMTP</a>, <a href="/facts/Post_Office_Protocol/QCp6qJQm">POP</a> email, <a href="/facts/LDAP/KgpfD8nR">LDAP</a> directories, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_.NET/Hh5tWDIw">.NET</a>, <a href="/facts/ActiveX/xJb7t7Eh">ActiveX</a>, <a href="/facts/Component_Object_Model/2DtIAufW">Component Object Model</a> (COM), <a href="/facts/C_(programming_language)/Ky2No763">C(++)</a> programs, and <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a>. Uniface operates under <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a>, various flavors of <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a>, <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a>, <a href="/facts/OpenVMS/rAnHAgpD">OpenVMS</a> and <a href="/facts/IBM_i/lsIRAUvn">IBM i</a>.
Uniface can be used in complex systems that maintain enterprise data supporting business processes such as point-of-sale and web-based online shopping, financial transactions, salary administration, and inventory control. It is used by thousands of companies in more than 30 countries, with an effective installed base of millions of end-users. Uniface applications range from client/server to web, and from data entry to workflow, and portals that are accessed locally, via intranets and the internet.
Originally developed in the Netherlands by Inside Automation, later Uniface B.V., the product and company were acquired by Detroit-based <a href="/facts/Compuware/oalxpk06">Compuware</a> Corp in 1994, and in 2014 was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners and continued as Uniface B.V. global headquartered in <a href="/facts/Amsterdam/Xdd393bz">Amsterdam</a>. In February 2021, Uniface was acquired by <a href="/facts/Rocket_Software/ScXRxM95">Rocket Software</a>, headquartered in <a href="/facts/Waltham,_Massachusetts/8URD13ks">Waltham, Massachusetts</a>, <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">USA</a>.

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