Iron Speed Designer

Iron Speed, Inc. publishes a database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

rapid application development

Rapid application development

Rapid application development is a software development methodology that uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. The "planning" of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself...

product called Iron Speed Designer. This product builds database and reporting applications

Application software

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

for the Cloud

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

, Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

and Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...

environments. The Web 2.0

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...

applications built with Iron Speed Designer can be customized and deployed without programming.

The company was founded in 1999 as a solution to a problem the Co-Founders encountered at their previous company, Onsale. They developed their new product to automate application development in order to reduce both development time and cost.

This software product runs on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

and builds .NET

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

web applications for Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

, Oracle

Oracle Database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

, Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of...

, and MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

databases. The applications created are 'database-driven' and run in the Cloud, Web or SharePoint environments.

Some notable features of the product include an application wizard, workflow alerts, Active Directory

Active Directory

Active Directory is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems. Server computers on which Active Directory is running are called domain controllers....

role-based security, data import and export, and master-detail pages.

Version 8.0

On March 3, 2011, Iron Speed released the newest version of their software, version 8.0. This release added functionality including charts

Charting application

A charting application is a computer program that is used to graphically create a graphical representation based on some non-graphical data that is entered by a user, most often through a spreadsheet application, but also through a dedicated specific scientific application , or...

to visualize application data, dashboards

Dashboard (business)

Dashboard provides at-a-glance views of key performance indicators relevant to a particular objective or business process...

to view performance indicators and the use of formulas in the "data access layer

Data access layer

A data access layer is a layer of a computer program which provides simplified access to data stored in persistent storage of some kind, such as an entity-relational database....

MVP Consulting Organisations

Iron Speed MVP Consulting Organisations have multiple experienced and certified

Certification

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MVP developers, each with licensed copies of Iron Speed Designer, who actively develop

Software development

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and maintain Iron Speed Designer applications and are available for client support

Technical support

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. As of January 2011, there are two Consulting Organisations:

Dot Net Architect - Essex, UK
Essex
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Light Speed Solutions - New York, NY

MVP Consultants

Iron Speed MVP Consultants are experienced developers, with licensed copies of Iron Speed Designer, who actively develop and maintain Iron Speed Designer applications and are available for client support. As of January 2011, there are nine MVP Consultants:

Jim Murphy
Paul Modiano
Miles Gibson
James Whistler
Herman Chan
Bryan Patrick
Jay Patel
Michael Weiss
George Elder

MVP Developers

Iron Speed MVP Developers actively develop and maintain Iron Speed Designer applications, but are not available for client support. As of January 2011, there are five MVP Developers:

Jaime Jegonia
Jing Ding
Jeremy Scrime
Wayne Hussey
William Goodwin