Reflex: Software With Good, Clean Sex

There’s only one product I’ve seen in a year that combines sex appeal and truly useful function: Reflex.

Reflex’s visuals are extremely stylish yet understated. For example, the windows accentuate the appearance of the data instead of drawing attention to themselves.

Absolute, canned elegance.

Although I would not give up riding or fishing for Reflex, come to think of it, I would consider giving up Monopoly on rainy days to play with and explore the program’s capabilities further.

To the first-time user... once he’s learned it, he’ll say, ‘Well, isn’t this what software is supposed to do? It makes everything clear.’ Experienced users are more likely to be properly grateful.

Reflex is one of the most powerful database programs on the market; its multiple views, interactive windows and graphics, great report writer, pull-down menus, and cross tabulation make this one of the best programs we have seen in a long time.

Reflex' simplicity of operation and power is simply not available in other programs.

Overall, this is a true state-of-the-art program. I find it hard to come up with any justifiable complaints. It is clear that the creators of Reflex have done an excellent job. It is extremely well designed and thought out. It is not only fun to work with, it’s addicting. Reflex is truly a decision maker’s tool.

Reflex is unlike any other DBMS

Focus on data analysis is the first unique feature of Reflex. The other unique feature, its design, strongly reinforces and complements the first.

Working with Reflex quickly results in an appreciation and respect for the thought which went into its design.

Another notable characteristic of Reflex is its speed.

So what makes Reflex tick? Why is it such a hot product? It has to do with the way Reflex allows you to work with data. You can find out what your data means with Reflex, and you can do it in a way that might take much more work with a spreadsheet or standard database.

Silverado is a BMW with cruise control

Silverado is indeed an impressive product, with remarkable powers for data manipulation and analysis... Database Outlining, a marvelous new approach to on-line analysis, really takes the cake here.

Silverado is one of the rare products that provides substantial power with a reasonable ease of use, but still manages to break some new ground with features that are unique among databases of any kind.

This first rate product from Computer Associates truly turns Lotus 1-2-3 into a full-blown relational database manager... With Silverado you get one of the most powerful and easy to use report generators I've seen.

If you use the database function in Lotus 1-2-3 or use a separate database because of 1-2-3's limits in capacity or reporting capabilities -- you'll love Silverado. This package is easy to learn and use and appears to have great depth. The reporting capabilities are flexible and impressive.

All in all, Silverado is a wonderful database add-in. Its reporting features are quite sophisticated -- worthy of a stand-alone file manager -- and its database outlining feature seems unique and important.

Silverado gives your customers analytic power combined with instant and flexible reporting, plus quick and intuitive access to the database for easy filing and retrieval, flexible and instant reporting and printing, and powerful analysis capabilities.

One of the best new ideas I've seen in a long time.

That's what I really love about The Budget Express -- the ability to see both the big and the little pictures" says Jack McGrath, editor and publisher of @Max, a monthly newsletter for 1-2-3 users. "People who do budgeting just go wild when I show them that.

Budget Express, the newest add-in and one of the best of all time, offers an ingenious solution that uses technology called "outlining"... When I showed Budget Express to financial officers at the National Industry Conference of the AICPA, one of them said that it brought tears to his eyes... Outlining is only one spectacular feature of Budget Express.

I've got a new appreciation for utility programs, thanks to one released last week by Symantec Corp called Budget Express... It's the kind of program that makes you realize that there's more to software than pioneering the next desktop publishing market.

If you're one of the many Lotus 1-2-3 users whose job involves budgeting, you'll find an able assistant in Budget Express, a Release 2 add-in from Symantec Corp. This well-thought-out $149 kit of accessories can make the chores of building and analyzing budgets dramatically easier and quicker than using 1-2-3 alone... The benefits of Budget Express go well beyond mere outlining... Budget Express is a fine program with something to offer anyone who does budgets.

Budget Express proves to be a very powerful add-in that greatly reduces the time it takes to work on a budget. It represents a real bargain for its price.