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Cimera is basically a database, in the same way that the Koh-I-Noor diamond is
basically a rock. (See
Is Cimera a database?
)
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It’s a state of the art information database repository – like Microsoft Access
on steroids, with shed-loads of
features
included out the box (but unlike Access, scalable and suitable for large
organisations too)
- It is a relationship management solution, used to record & control all your information relationships
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It’s a simple tool that non-technical people can use to rapidly create their
own, personal, custom-made IT solutions, but complex and flexible enough to
grow with them as their needs change.
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It’s the easiest way to (1) manage information (2) manage relationships between
items of information without needing to do know anything about databases
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It’s the quick and easy way to get rid of all the spreadsheets, ad-hoc
databases, and disparate data silos that are lying around your organisation
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It’s a custom-made IT solution that you can buy off the shelf. It has the
advantages of an IT solution that you have built yourself, with the advantages
of an off-the-shelf package, without the disadvantages of either (see
Build vs. Buy
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It’s a uniquely flexible tool for managing all your information
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For a technical person it’s the perfect foundation to build highly customised
applications on. Complex
features
that would take man years to write from scratch are provided out the box,
and the extensible architecture allow exit routines, triggers & plug-ins to
be written in any .net language.
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For an
IT Consultant
Cimera provides a way to rapidly deliver highly customised IT solutions
in a fraction of the time it would take using tradition methods.
If you ask a Lego salesman what’s he’s selling he may show you
a car, a house, a windmill, a rocket, a boat, or he may just give you some
bricks and say “have a go”. He’s not selling cars, he’s selling the ability to
quickly make whatever you want. Similarly Cimera gives the ability to build
whatever IT solution you want.
Simplistically, Cimera is a sophisticated database, with
pretty screens to configure it and a rich set of features. What it means is
that you can build sophisticated database-type IT solutions, rapidly, without
needing to be technical.
However, if you are able to program in .net, then the program
can be extended by adding menus, buttons, screens, triggers etc to increase the
functionality to do whatever you like.
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