Building Interactive Web sites with the askSam SDK

by Maarten Klanderman, CTO Qnl BV The Netherlands

Since early 1998 we've been working with the askSam SDK (Software Development Kit). We use the kit to build flexible, interactive Internet applications. We've created a lot of different systems and found askSam to be the database of choice.

Some examples of applications we've built:

Ÿ     Easy-suplus: an advanced online procurement system for the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

      http://www.easy-surplus.aero

Ÿ     CRM-Marketplace: for over 5 years the biggest CRM portal in the Netherlands

      http://www.crm-marketplace.com/

Ÿ     Informanagement: an information service for accountants in the Netherlands

      http://www.informanagement.nl/

Ÿ     Qsite: the easiest content management service around

      http://www.qsite.com

You name it and you can build it with the askSam SDK. We've always used the SDK together with Microsoft Internet Information Server. The SDK has a simple and intuitive API (Application Programming Interface) to call the engine in your active server pages. It's really very easy to interact with the database.

The thing I love most about programming an application in askSam is it's unparalleled flexibility. Since askSam is freeform, it doesn't have any of the structural constraints that most databases have. If you need to change a piece of your database model, you can do that without much effort.

Some other functionality that makes programming with the askSam engine so appealing is:

Ÿ     All the search capability, everything is easily accessable

Ÿ     Very simple to deploy, since you'll only need to copy your files

Ÿ     Small and very powerfull, just a few megabytes

Ÿ     Enhanced security with 128 bit encryption

I can't imagine programming an application in anything else.

Maarten Klanderman

CTO Qnl BV

The Netherlands

maarten@klanderman.nl