GeneXus Review

Adapt To Evolving Technology

GeneXus enables companies and software developers to create great applications, and at the same time, helps them easily adapt to evolving technologies. As an agile development tool, it allows them to modernize their existing business systems by adding new functionalities to them. This way, they can build applications better without the need to worry about the technological aspect of it.

Generate Applications Automatically

With GeneXus, users can build web applications that can be run on any browser. What’s great about this is that the platform streamlines the tasks and processes they need to through as they create such applications. This is because it comes with an automatic app generation capability that permits them to build applications faster. Through such capability, they will be able to automatically write code, connect to servers and databases, move from backend to frontend, and create and manage connections between server-side and client-side services.

Version Management And Knowledge Integration

Aside from its automatic app generation capability, the application development platform accelerates the development process through the aid of its version management and automated knowledge integration capabilities. These capabilities are provided by GeneXus Server, a software product that assists development teams in organizing and managing their development knowledge base (KB), as well as in enhancing their capacity to handle the versions of their applications and collaborate on projects.

So how does GeneXus Server work? GeneXus Server organizes business and development knowledge in one place, this central location is called GeneXus Server Knowledge Base. From this knowledge base, authorized developers will be able to send and receive changes or modifications related to their project without the need of an administrator. Thus, this helps them automatically connect their project and manage the different versions of their applications.

The GeneXus Server Knowledge Base keeps only the development branches and versions that developers need to work on. For instance, developers may be working on polishing the features they already developed and tested for the current release of the application, while other developers are starting to create new features of the application for its next release. In this case, because they need to concentrate first on the current release, the knowledge base can keep only the development branch which contains the features they are refining, freezing the development branch that includes the new features needed for the next release.

In addition, the GeneXus Server gives access to those who are not directly participating in the development activity such as managers and customers. This allows them to easily monitor or supervise the project.

Build Cross-Platform Mobile Solutions

When it comes to mobile application development, GeneXus allows users to efficiently build and deploy native mobile applications for any mobile device platform. All they need to do is to describe the mobile application their clients or employees need, test and improve it, and publish the app with just a single click.

Native Mobile Applications With Stunning Designs

The platform also delivers amazing features that users can take advantage of as they create their mobile applications. One of them is the capability to automatically generate native applications with stunning user experience or user interface designs through the aid of the GeneXus Generator.

Offline Mobility

Another feature is the ability to generate mobile applications which can work online and offline. Because of this, developers will be able to build mobile apps that can handle transactions in such a way that end users are not disrupted by internet connectivity issues. Also, this permits them to automatically synchronize data between the server and the devices, and across devices.

Live Editing And Preview

GeneXus has a live editing feature which enables users to immediately preview what their mobile application will look like and how it will behave or function once published and deployed. As they edit the application, its design and operation are updated accordingly, accelerating the designing and development of prototypes.

Very Powerful Integration

Integration is a very powerful feature included in GeneXus. The platform supports integration with external systems. Users can even extend their current systems, allowing them to create applications that reflect their businesses processes and respond to their business needs. As a result, this protects the investments they previously made for the systems they are currently using. In addition, having the capability to integrate their applications with different systems enables them to reach out to a wider market and community.

Complementary Applications For SAP ERP Systems

Summing it up, GeneXus makes it easy for users to build applications that complement the ERP systems from SAP, a large software corporation that develops and distributes market-leading enterprise resource planning solutions and business applications. Thus, they can connect to the SAP ERP system and explore the  BAPIs.

BAPIs or Business Application Programming Interfaces are object-oriented programming interfaces used by SAP to enable third-party applications to access the business processes, functions, and data in its system. After they explore these BAPIs, they can then start building their application. Once they’re done modeling the application, they can set the application for a test run. This reduces the costs of developing and generating complementary applications for SAP ERP systems. Once their app is up and running, they can aggregate data from SAP ERP systems and non-SAP systems.