Getting Started with Zim

Zim®, ZIM Corporation's foundation product, is based on more than 20 years of experience developing and deploying data solutions to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers. Zim is the most advanced and efficient development tool available on the market today. Whether you want to engineer solutions, merge information, manipulate data, move data or monitor your applications, Zim is the answer.

The criteria for selecting application development software is varied, but Zim’s data manipulation, data connectivity, and high performance relational database enables rapid prototyping of your enterprise solutions. Zim enables you to do what you need to do without barriers or constraints.

With Zim you get...

A Robust Data Manipulation Language

Zim

enables rapid application development and deployment
is highly efficient and provides elegant code generation
has excellent scalability
is a low overhead data retrieval model

Data Connectivity

No matter your data source, you can connect to it with Zim!

Transparent native access to major database servers including Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2.
Simple access to foreign data sources and multiple foreign data sources.
Superior transaction-based data relationships
Easy access to data stores through a high performance industry standard ODBC driver

An Extended Relational Data Model

Define It, Don’t Code It - Explicitly define your data relationships not just your tables.

Develop utilizing an extensive meta-data repository and table driven design
Maintain and modify your relationships easily
All with a low cost of ownership!

With your purchase or upgrade to Zim 8, you have received the Zim Professional Developers Package that includes

Program Utilities: The software includes a group of programs that are executed from within, to perform tasks such as saving and booting entire applications, producing detailed help information concerning error messages produced by the software, or unloading and reloading data from a single object.
Administrative Utilities: The Development System includes a group of administrative utilities to perform such tasks as creating a new application database and maintaining databases.
Example Application: A predefined application that comes complete with the source code for every program. It demonstrates many of the software's features and functions.
Zim Developers Library Online Documentation: This online documentation provides the means to help you answer any questions you have about the structure or parameters of any Zim command or about Zim itself.
Development Center: The Development Center provides an easy-to-use interface to many Zim features. The Development Center provides a painter that enables you to develop screens to suit your own individual applications.