New Horizon – Application Development Suite

Rapid Development for Business Applications

Solarsoft’s New Horizon is an agile development suite, optimised for line of business application development. New Horizon is the perfect tool for independent system vendors and value added resellers to develop and support mission critical business systems from customer service through financial control to supply chain logistics.

Rich Framework

New Horizon is not just a set of graphical programming tools, it is a complete framework for building business applications.

Naturally, New Horizon includes all the tools programmers expect in a modern object oriented development suite. From code management and forms design to the compiler-debugger and an optimized runtime environment, New Horizon is a complete platform for delivering robust applications.

What makes New Horizon different is that major functional elements, such as accounting or payments systems interfaces, come ready made. With New Horizon, custom business application can be assembled, tested and deployed in weeks. And because the major components are fully tested in real commercial systems, applications developed using New Horizon perform better and contained fewer errors than systems built from scratch in older languages like VB.

Portable

New Horizon is portable and available across Windows and Unix/Linux operating environments and can support a wide range of database systems including SQL Server, Oracle and mySQL as well as file based systems like ISAM. This makes New Horizon an ideal platform for re-developing legacy software into modern, Windows based applications.

Scalable Architecture

New Horizon follows modern practice in systems design with a 3-tier architecture that makes a clear separation between the user interface, business services and the underlying database. This model gives New Horizon unparalleled flexibility and scalability. Applications can economically support a handful of users on a single processor Windows machine or may be scaled to support 500 or more concurrent users on high-end servers under Enterprise RedHat.

Modern Web Services APIs and XML message sets are fully supported too, making New Horizon the perfect platform for moving your back office applications to a modern Service Oriented Architecture that works across the enterprise and across the Internet.

Secure

New Horizon includes a robust, role-based security model that allows the developer to specify which users have access to an application’s functions and data. User authentication may be handled inside the platform or may be delegated to standard network services like LDAP.

In addition, the New Horizon platform has built-in support for licence management, giving developers the ability to control deployment and protect their investment in intellectual property.

Accounts

The New Horizon Business Accounting (NHBA) option is a fully featured modular accounting system built on the New Horizon platform. Ready to run out of the box, NHBA allows application developers to create industry specific applications very rapidly. NHBA includes components for:

Nominal Ledger (General Ledger)
Sales Ledger (A/C Receivable)
Purchase Ledger (A/C Payable)
Cashbook
Stock Control

In addition, NHBA includes interfaces for BACS payments and EDI message sets.

All accounts are multi-currency with original currency amounts held against all transactions to ensure 100% reconciliation with bank transactions. The system supports an unlimited number of accounts and flexible account numbering options.

Flexible accounting period options are supported with multi-period bookings to allow work to continue while the prior period is reconciled and closed.

Accounting ledgers and rules for VAT and EU regulatory reporting are standard and there is full support for import, export and cross-border treatments.

Sophisticated sales and purchase order processing coupled with flexible price books and discount structures allow a wide range of business practices to be modeled with minimum programming required.

Inventory management and costing is built into NHBA too, with standard, last, average and FIFO costings supporting comprehensive ABC analysis. Stock and non-stock items are handled seamlessly with automatic generation of back to back orders if required.

Reporting

New Horizon includes a powerful graphic reporting engine allowing reports to be developed and customized quickly for all types of printer from multi-part dot matrix types to modern laser, ink-jet and thermal devices.

Investment

With thousands of mission critical applications in production day-in day-out, New Horizon is a proven platform for application delivery. And the product continues to grow, backed by a sustained investment program from Solarsoft.

Recent additions include “Smart Search” which works across application data with the power and simplicity of a web search engine and a new graphic reporting option that makes it simple to add performance charts to any application.

The technology road map, developed in partnership with our resellers, will keep New Horizon on the pace with features to lower the cost of deployment and make it easier to deliver Software as a Service (SaaS).

To find out more about how New Horizon can help accelerate your development practice, complete the enquiry form or call your local Solarsoft office.