Open Source GTpB

On its fourth anniversary, portalBase has been released under a GPL open source license.

portalBase is a web based industrial strength platform for business application development. It’s used to rapidly prototype and develop data entry and reporting applications that work over the internet or a local network.

Our vision was to create a product that allowed business analysts to create lean, agile, Just-In-Time (JIT) back offices.

New headline features

• iPhone and Google Phone version – Aug 09
• youTube integration – July 09
• automated version histories for uploaded documents attached to records – June 09
• tag cloud generation – Mar 09
• multi-browser compatibility – Mar 09
• grouping views and modules into business sections, e.g. Plan/Do/Check/Act, Marketing/Sales/Finance etc. – Nov 08
• basic API additions including google maps integration and phone number lookups – Aug 08
• automatic join and full view creation – Feb 08
• data security and audit features – Jan 08

Underlying features

• GUI builder
• create tables
• create views
• option to use full SQL snippets for advanced users
• basic form builder
• accessible, advanced filtering
• report summary generation
• import and export
• set roles and privileges
• database refactoring facilities

Technology platform

• PostgreSQL 8.4
• Java 5+
• Hibernate
• Tomcat

Source code is available at http://github.com/okohll/GT-portalBase/

Have a go of a basic demo at www.gtportalbase.com, with the username and password ‘demo’. If you’d like to find out about any functionality in greater depth, email oliver@gtportalbase.com, skype okohll or please pass on these details to your IT department if applicable.