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'''Welcome to the neXtep Softwares Wiki'''

This wiki is meant to provide useful and up to date information on the neXtep Designer product.

== Why neXtep ? ==

We developped neXtep Designer because we needed to tackle the following problematics in our day-to-day work:

• Database version control
• Database delivery automation (see Delivering database updates article)
• Database continuous build
• Cross-database vendor environments using a single tool

And because database developments deserve free and powerful tools.

== Products overview ==

In this section you will find a quick overview of what is neXtep Designer and how it could help you with your database developments:

• NeXtep Designer Overview : a quick overview of the database development IDE and what it can do for developers ** NeXtep Designer features : a complete list of the IDE features

• neXtep installer : an overview of the database installer and what it can do for production teams

• Statement of direction : discover all upcoming features

== Installing neXtep Designer ==

First of all, you may want to install neXtep Designer on your computer to experiment the product and our tutorials. You will find everything you need here :

• Installing neXtep designer
• Installing neXtep installer : information on how to install and configure the neXtep installer on a remote server

== Getting started ==

To get started with neXtep Designer we propose you a series of tutorials which demonstrates some of its features: {| border="0" style="background:transparent;" |-valign="top" | Image:Reverse-demoSnapshot.png ||

• NeXtep Designer tutorials

• NeXtep Designer Demos : See neXtep designer in action through our Flash demos focused on the IDE key concepts and installation |}

== Technical documentation reference ==

This section contains detailed documentation regarding some specific features of neXtep Designer:

• NeXtep designer technical documentation