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Data Management and CASE The HP 3000 information management strategy offers two of the most powerful database management systems (DBMSs) available in the industry today, HP ALLBASE/SQL and HP TurboIMAGE. ALLBASE/SQL is Hewlett-Packard's relational database management system (RDBMS), and HP TurboIMAGE is the most heavily used network model DBMS on the HP 3000. Software developers can choose from major multivendor computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools and a rich selection of ANSI-standard programming languages for efficient development and maintenance of portable applications. Reporting and query tools provide access to the stored data without programming. The HP 3000 also supports major independent software vendor relational-model databases, which also provide application portability. Interoperability The HP 3000 offers a full complement of distributed and interoperable database products. HP maximizes investments in TurboIMAGE applications with ALLBASE/Turbo CONNECT, which provides SQL read access to TurboIMAGE databases. ALLBASE/NET provides transparent and secure remote database access to ALLBASE/SQL data as though it were stored locally. ALLBASE/DB2 CONNECT provides open interoperability with IBM DB2 databases by tightly integrating the 900 Series and PC end users with DB2. As a founding member of the SQL Access Group, HP is actively promoting the adoption of SQL interoperability and portability specifications. ALLBASE/SQL will be publicly demonstrated as a component in an SQL Access Group network during 1991. CASE tools HP ALLBASE/SQL and HP TurboIMAGE support major multivendor CASE tools such as Cognos' PowerHouse, Gateway Systems' Synergist, Infocentre's Speedware, Information Builders' FOCUS, and Ingres' tools. The HP 3000 also supports the Ingres, Oracle, and Sybase RDBMSs. In addition, the HP 3000 supports major Integrated-CASE (I-CASE) tools such as CGI PACLAN, Softlabs' Maestro II, and Cognos' PowerCASE. PC clients The HP 3000 supports client-server application development systems with full access to HP ALLBASE/SQL databases. Powersoft's PowerBuilder and Gupta's SQLWindows offer powerful point-and-click graphical application development for PC clients connected to the HP 3000. HP NewWave Information Access is a PC information management tool that provides authorized users with secured access to departmental and corporate information residing in ALLBASE/SQL, TurboIMAGE, KSAM, IBM DB2, or Oracle DBMSs. 3GL tools HP also offers a broad range of third-generation languages including, ANSI COBOL, ANSI C, ANSI FORTRAN, ANSI Pascal, BASIC, and RPG, along with other programmer productivity tools such as a symbolic debugger, an editor, and software revision control. HP's Forms Management Facility includes HP VPLUS, HP VPLUS/Windows, and HP FORMSPEC for the creation of forms and workstation I/O portions of applications. HP Business Report Writer (HP BRW/XL) for 900 Series systems is a high-performance report-writing system for data processing professionals. And ALLBASE/QUERY enables database administrators and programmers to perform ALLBASE/SQL and TurboIMAGE database queries, to create or modify SQL tables, and to customize reports.