Sesame Database Manager

By Lantica Software Free to try Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Feb 9, 2010

Database management applications have come a long way since Symantec introduced Q&A. Lantica's Sesame Database Manager is perhaps the best-known Q&A follow-on, and latest versions still provide an exclusive Q&A translator. Sesame is a cross-platform-capable, client-server database application development and management suite with built-in word processing and publishing capabilities that businesses, organizations, and even individuals can use to manage large amounts of data and create useful applications. These applications include invoices and receipts, reports, e-commerce, inventories, and virtually any kind of form or record.

Sesame's latest versions boast an upgraded form-based interface that builds on the software's well-established functionality and ease of use. A new feature, customizable Menu Button Navigation, gives you quick access to your programs and data. A left-hand tree view makes it easy to access each database and create custom applications from it. Sesame saves developers a lot of time because they can use programming code instead of recording macros or using other out-of-date methods. Version 2 upgraded so many of Sesame's features and added so many new ones that it's not possible to adequately summarize them, but there's an excellent Help file and online assistance, including documentation, and even printed material with the retail box version.

Sesame Database Manager is free to try for 30 days and costs $79. It works in most versions of Windows, from 95 to Vista, as well as in Linux. It installs desktop icons without asking and has a rather elaborate uninstall process. It's the best at what it does, and it does a lot.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 2.5.2

Includes significant improvements to application and client/server performance. The Symantec Q&A Translator is now enabled in the free Trial version. Ability to use with the new Sesame API.

General

Date Added July 21, 2010
Version 2.5.2

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Additional Requirements None

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Developer's Description

Sesame Database Manager gives you the tools you need to easily create database applications and organize and present the information in them. Features such as centralized application design facilities, a consistent form-based interface, intuitive query-by-example searching, and HTML reports will have you creating attractive and smoothly functioning applications. If you are new to databases, Sesame Database Manager makes getting started with simple applications easy, fast, and fun. For those with more experience, Sesame Database Manager provides a variety of options within easy reach for customizing and programming your applications. Sesame Database Manager also provides Symantec Q&A users with an exclusive translator for Q&A databases. Sesame Database Manager is available in single or multi-user versions.

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