), and they cover different areas such as electronic commerce, finance, accounting, customs administration, Web sites contents management, hotel booking, human resources management, e-learning, etc. The reason why it has been possible to have all these applications available in such a short time is that GeneXus allows a very high productivity and, as it works at knowledge level, it eases the conversion of already existing applications to the new technologies. To make this possible, ARTech is permanently investing in research and development regarding its technology. "Microsoft is pleased to work with ARTech to provide its customers a complete business solution", said Alain Gentilhomme, Manager of .NET Framework and Visual Studio. "The combination of GeneXus and the .NET platform provides a new and exiting solution which hides the complicated details of database design from the business users so as to maximize the productivity of our common customers", he stated.
The relationship with Microsoft Corp. is very important in ARTech's strategy, since it allows a timely update on the new technologies and the new products to be released by Microsoft which, in turn, will make it possible an earlier presence in the market with solutions making use of these new technologies and products.
GeneXus solutions for the .NET platform
Some new applications have been now added to GX Vision.NET, the application for cable TV operators and telephony which has been internationally introduced in the middle of June, when the GeneXus version was launched for .NET. These new applications are BtBroker; Carrito; GIA Web; STARTWeb; VirtualTraining; Métricas; Petroglifo; BaseOnWeb; Montevideo COMM; Office.NET; ZEN Sueldos, e req and host pro, GI-EDU.NET, GI-Portal, BoletosGX , and the ADM Investors' site.
BtBroker is a new application for investment titles, which has been developed by De Larrobla&Asociados.
El Carrito, introduced by Enter Computación, is a tool for developing your own sales site or products catalogue in the Internet.
Consultoría de Sistemas introduced e-commerXe, a tool to build a personalized Web site with online search and products query, where registered customers can purchase in only three steps.
GIA Web, developed by Concepto, is a customs system used in Uruguay and abroad. Concepto also introduced Métrica, for projects and resources management at software companies, and Petroglifo, the internal news service of the company, which is also operating in C# language.
BCN launched a system for hotel reservations through the Internet, and a service request management software called e-reg, for Internet or Intranet, which can operate independently or linked to Quipus (customer service) and/or G-Mant (maintenance software). Together, they make up a CRM for Field Service.
Besides, the MontevideoComm (www.montevideo.com.uy) horizontal portal, migrated the new C# language. And Zen Sistemas developed Z Sueldos, a human resources and payroll management system with an important feature accepting input parameters.
StarWeb is a tool to maintain a site contents easily, introduced by Rumble. And BaseOnWeb is an Internet site belonging to the ASP business unit of Mirol, an Argentinean company.
GeneXus Soluciones (Spain) introduced GI-EDU.NET and GI-PORTAL. The first one is an e-learning system for the .NET platform and GI-Portal is a technological platform allowing for the implementation of a business portal.
Virtual-Training is a distant education site developed by Howarth Soluciones Tecnológicas, an Argentinean company.
Besides, the site of ADM Investor Services, a North American company which provides services to more than 50 thousand customers worldwide, migrated to C# with GeneXus. And to finish with this long list of new applications, BoletosGX has been also introduced. It is a bus tickets sale system with sales points in the main cities of Mexico, which has been developed by Marketing Advanced Computer SA.