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The standard
coding environment
for programmers developing
Informix-4GL,
SQL-based
products

  FOURTH GENERATION SOFTWARE provides a host of services that will assist your existing IT Department in becoming more productive, or provide you with a fully-staffed IT department. Whether you need us to handle a project from start to finish or provide resources and specific expertise as part of your team, we have certified professionals that can assist you in any way.

FOURTH GENERATION SOFTWARE OFFERS YOUR COMPANY:
• A team approach
• Comprehensive support of all FG and Informix products or a-la-carte as needed
• Strategic force for specific expertise
• Peak load assistance
• On-staff experts in every area
• Worked exclusively with Informix and FG products since 1987.

CONSULTING SERVICES are available from Fourth Generation and can be used for a small part, or all of the tasks required for software development projects. Consulting services can be provided either on-site or remotely, and include the following:
• Needs analysis
• Software design
• Implementation assistance
• Custom programming in 4GL
• Custom programming in Dynamic 4GL
• Application support
• Database support
• Systems support

PROJECT MANAGEMENT resources can be provided to our customers for specific projects to insure projects are completed on time and in budget. A project manager is needed to supervise and manage the many vital tasks of a software development project.

With a Fourth Generation Project Manager your project will be supervised
with the experience of numerous successfully completed projects. When you engage a Fourth Generation professional you engage our entire service team. Your project manager has full access to the entire consulting staff when other team members can provide a faster or better result. From getting a second opinion before proceeding with a plan, to adding additional resources and expertise, this virtual team approach affords you the greatest productivity, flexibility and result. Your project manager can even bring in team members from our product Research & Development departments when necessary.

INSTALLATION OF INFORMIX / FOUR J’S SOFTWARE (ENGINES, TOOLS) can be scheduled and completed by Fourth Generation Service
personnel to reduce down time and increase knowledge transfer. Let our professionals make the transition seemingly effortless.
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION is available either on-site or remotely on a scheduled basis as required by your company.

DATABASE TUNING (ONLINE ENGINES) can be performed either on-site or remotely on a scheduled basis. This service reduces the cost of a full time administrator. DATA MIGRATION (INFORMIX DATABASE TO
INFORMIX DATABASE) SERVICES
can be provided to migrate data from a specific application environment to a different application environment.

DATA CONVERSION (TO INFORMIX) SERVICES are available to port data from a specific non-Informix application environment to an Informix environment. INSTALLATION OF FOURTH GENERATION
SOFTWARE (APPLICATIONS, CASE TOOL)
is available for initial implementations or upgrades of existing Fourth Generation Software. INFORMIX 4GL TO DYNAMIC 4GL CONVERSIONS can be provided either on-site or remotely to shorten the transition, minimize the production impact and reduce conversion costs.

FOURTH GENERATION CASE TOOLS, VDT, BUSINESS 2000 AND INFORMIX PROGRAMMING TRAINING can be provided either on-site or at
the Fourth Generation Training Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Our training classes are comprehensive and cover all vital elements of a particular subject. Additionally, classes targeted to your company’s needs can be custom
designed, and taught at our facility or yours.

ON-SITE SUPPORT AND REMOTE SUPPORT can be provided to augment customer technical resources.

Read The Value of Maintenance to learn how our maintenance and support services help protect and extend your software investment.