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Servoy is both a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool and a deployment platform. Using industry standard components and protocols, Servoy offers a scalable, secure and stable enterprise-level computing platform, while at the same time offering unparalleled developer productivity.

Servoy Design Principles

The Servoy platform is built around the following principles:

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While each client has it's specific pro's and con's,  

Cross device:
Through the different clients that Servoy offers, applications built using the Servoy technology can run on a multitude of devices, including tablets, desktops, laptops and mobile phones.

Database agnostic:
Due to Servoy's incorporated ORM (Object Relational Mapping ) layer that provides an easy to use API for all interaction between the actual implementation of the data-layer (database x, y or z) and the application, any application created with Servoy is out of the box database agnostic, meaning that it can be deployed on any database.

The ORM layer exposes the components of the data-layer of the application as objects with an easy to use API for interaction (standard CRUD operations and more) and allows for easy linking of UI elements like fields and grids to the data-layer, eliminating the need for manually writing SQL statements. 

Deployment model agnostic:
Whether in the Cloud (public or private) or on Premises, whether in Client-Server or stand-alone setup, whether single or multi-tenant (SaaS ), Servoy supports all these deployment models out of the box. The development of applications in Servoy is to a great extend agnostic to the deployment model and where differentiation is needed (for example single vs. multi-tenant) this differentiation can be incorporated within the same code-base. 

Easy deployment

Zero installation: 
Servoy application do not have to be installed on the client machine. In case of the Servoy Smart Client, the application will automatically download and install itself, by accessing just a URL on the Servoy Application Server from the client machine.

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