Success Stories

Jobscope Broadens Platform Support with Speedware/4GL

JOBSCOPE®, written in Speedware®, automatically posts detailed information by individual order, which can be monitored at any time during the production process.

Jobscope Corporation of Greenville, South Carolina is a leading manufacturer of software for capital equipment manufacturers, repair and refurbishment facilities and service centers, and other order-driven businesses. Jobscope decided to rewrite their product in a fourth generation language (4GL) to take advantage of cross-platform independence. They chose Speedware Corporation’s development tools because they believed they had the stringent requirements for rapid application development and performance.

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Little Tikes Streamlines Reporting

Little Tikes® is known worldwide for its extremely durable plastic ride-on toys, climbers, playhouses and wading pools, to name just a few.

With six production and shipping plants in North America and additional facilities overseas, toy industry giant Little Tikes of Hudson, Ohio had some urgent reporting problems to solve on the eve of its 25th anniversary. Speedware’s EasyReporter enabled and simplified the tracking of raw materials and supplies. For an operation of their size, faster decisions based on up-to-date information means staying on the leading edge.

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Hawthorne Computer Center, Inc.

Speedware’s powerful 4GL development language chosen to build mission-critical application

Hawthorne Computer Center, Inc. (HCC) started a large programming project for Trident Seafoods Corporation of Seattle, WA. Trident processes fish and seafood for the wholesale market. HCC’s job has been to rewrite and improve this system to run on an HP3000. Trident picked the Speedware 4GL Development System as the language they wanted to use in creating their new system.

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