Customer Quotes

Ease of Use. Power. Flexibility. Extensibility. Speed. Cost. Support.

We could tell you why Alpha Five Version 8 is dramatically better than any database development tool that we know. But rather than have us tell you, why not look for yourself at how real users had to say when we asked them why they chose Alpha Five.

Ease of Use

"Alpha Five was more flexible & easier to use on the web."

"Alpha Five is much more efficient and easier to customize (than Access and FileMaker)."

"I chose Alpha Five 8 Pro because 1) a tech-minded friend where I worked highly recommended it; 2) reviews speak of how user-friendly it is; 3) it has the capacity to be used as a web application if I later go in that direction for our non-profit community."

"Chose Alpha Five because of ease and power of customization plus impressive RAD for the web."

"Ease of use and Quickbooks connectivity."

"Ease of use, forum support, Xbasic is a lot more powerful than Filemakers Scripting."

"The reasons I chose Alpha was I liked the non programming aspects of it where you could still get excellent functionality without writing code."

"Easier to create working databases in Alpha Five."

"Easy to write Database Applications."

"Ease of use, reviews."

"Easy use and very good price."

"Alpha Five's ease of use and learning time...Alpha Five makes it affordable to create web apps."

"Alpha worked perfect on first try."

"I thought it would be easier to use and offer me more options."

"I was using Access but to me Alpha was much easier to develop and get applications to use sooner."

"Less complex and easier to use compared to MS Access."

"Learned of Alpha Five while self teaching SQL. Ran trial and was impressed. Needed a solution faster than I can learn SQL, ASP, etc."

"Recommended by my friend for ease of use."

"Seemed easier to use."

Power, Flexibility, and Extensibility

"Alpha Five has met both desktop & web needs under one roof. This was something I could not get from Filemaker."

"Alpha Five appeared to be powerful like Clarion - but more modern and offered web support. Filemaker falls short in both areas."

"Upgrading from Filemaker 8. Decided it was time to find a more robust product."

"Access scared me and I was concerned about scalability and running out of power with Filemaker."

"Alpha Five is more powerful."

"Alpha Five continues to be more user friendly and powerful for tailoring custom applications."

"Combination of Alpha Five's power and ease of use."

"Power and flexibility of A5 V8 for both desktop and web solutions."

"The comprehensive Web & Desktop application capability, among other things."

"Alpha Five will let me build both web and desktop apps. Much faster to complete apps in Alpha Five."

"I am an Access developer, but want to start web applications."

Speed

"Reviews and research with customers indicated that Alpha Five would cut development times a lot."

"Alpha Five 8 is in my sense the fastest development tool in connection with databases."

"Alpha Five is a complete Rapid Application Development Software, which speeds up the business software development."

"Alpha is much faster for application development (than MS Access)."

"Chose Alpha Five for the rapid-application-development capabilities."

Cost

"Cost - Filemaker's Runtime is only single user and lacks functionality, Much Cheaper to scale to lots of network users using Alpha Five." 

"Filemaker had limited and expensive run time features." 

"I wanted a data base easy to use which can create applications on my computer and Internet. Finally I wanted a data base which will not ruin my budget. I studied of Alpha Five and it seems to me that this software answers all my requirements."

"Alpha Five V8 chosen due to all round features (Desktop/Web) and cost of deployment." 

Support

"I decided that Alpha five had better customer support and I also liked its report writer."

"I chose Alpha 5 V8 because of it's great features and because of its support available via the message board." 

Other

"I was looking for an integrated database/development environment that would continue to be available, supported and upgraded. I am converting a huge dbase application with hundreds of reports - I wanted an environment with a future."

"Web security and reporting built right into Alpha Five web apps."

"I chose Alpha, because I needed simple reliable, and flexible. MySQL/PHP option is very difficult, to consistently apply from server to server without tweaking and firewall fussing. Plus I needed the features of runtime and desktop options."

"Past experience with Alpha Five and its powerful reporting." 

"Alpha Five met our requirements. A big plus is your documentation especially the examples. Keep THAT up!" 

"I hired a programmer to evaluate Alpha Five, he said it was what I needed and should use." 

"Rejected: MS Access (because of poor screen designer and report writer), Filemaker (not scalable and runs out of steam), Oracle (expensive, big footprint, too much coding), PostgreSQL and MySQL (not enough development tools). Alpha 5 selected on price, features." 

"Recommended by lecturer at a seminar."