Data Warehouse & Data Mart Access

With dbFront, your users can easily explore and work with your Data Warehouse and Data Mart tables.  No configuration is required beyond the initial security and database connection.

dbFront intelligently takes into account: keys, relationships, field types, indexes, full-text indexes, table security and more, as it generates the form and table layouts.  Administrators can adjust and add complex functionality as required, or simply allow users to manage their own layouts.

If permitted, users have access to reporting, exports, imports, mass-update functionality, and more.

dbFront has deep security functionality, respecting the database security, and integrating with AD and SAML-based SSO.

To see what is possible, please look at our video tutorials or examine the product details.

Adventure Works - Product Table

The following interface was created from the product table in Microsoft's sample database

Expense Reporter - Home

A free and open source dbFront application that allows your employees to submit expense reports which would pass through management and finance for approval and processing. Implements: Workflow, Auditing and a TodoList

Depreciation Calculator - Home

Depreciation Calculator is a simple open source dbFront application that allows you to maintain a simple list of Assets and calculate the yearly depreciation for each item.

Responsive Design

Support for everything from a small smartphone to a 4K monitor and beyond

Simple or Distributed Setup (DMZ)

A simple setup allows for everything to be installed on a single server. The most secure setup is to spread the Database, Application Server and Web Application over three servers. dbFront allows for any combination.

Child Tables (1-M)

Regular (1-M) child tables appear in separate tabs, each with a grid and form

Child Tables (1-1)

A child (1-1) relationship will appear without a grid

Single-Select Foreign Keys (1-M)

Simple Lookup to Store Table

Multi-Select Foreign Key (M-M)

Multiselect Lookup to Credit Card Table (intermediate associate table)

Configure Relationship Details

Arrange, Rename or Hide related tables

Reporting - Quick Reports

Template based reporting allows regular users to simply, quickly and safely create their own reports. Administrators can save these reports to enable single click reports with optional prompts for search fields or output choices.

Reporting - Invoice Template

Invoice Template setup on the Adventure Works Sales Table

Reporting - Sample Item Listing

This is a simple listing of selected records. Users can easily create these listings and either print or export the results.

Reporting - Crystal Reports

dbFront has the ability to directly process and print SAP Crystal Reports. Users can optionally choose to print to a server-attached printer, view it as a PDF or download the output as either CSV, DOC, PDF, RTF, TSV or XLS.

Advanced Search

Below every table is a configurable and collapsible panel with a list of fields that you can search on individually. This allows advanced access to range and other custom searchs.

Row Level Security

Row Level Security is applied using SQL expressions that evaluate to true or false. The expression syntax is similar to a regular where clause. Select, Update, Delete and Insert permissions are supported.

Stored Procedures

Stored Procedures can be triggered by an Action Button and can be used perform any process and then dynamically return results that can be used to drive a report or export. Multiple recordsets are supported.

Table Views

Database views can be added to tables and their fields can be used everywhere that a regular table field can be used. This includes Reports, Exports, Row Security Expressions, Dropdown Columns, everywhere...

Workflow in Database

Workflow is implemented within the Database using a status and workflow table with dbFront providing the UI. A fully functional example is provided in the Expense Reporter Application.

Layered Security for Defence in Depth

Security is a thorny issue when building database-driven web applications. With dbFront, we have and will take this problem seriously which is why we designed dbFront with the view of defence in depth.

Database Compatibility

Oracle 10+, Microsoft SQL Server 2000+ and MySQL 4+

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