News Archive

Our consulting group has used Sanscript to build solutions that help DiscoverWhy.com deliver their patented market research solution!

We have completed a Planogram application for National Manufacturing. 

January 2000. National Hardware now has a powerful new selling tool.  More...

Sanscript is on the cover of the August 1999 issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal!  Our thanks to Dave Lafever for an excellent article.

Northwoods annouces availability of the Java version of GO++, a class library for 2D graphics and diagrams

March 8, 1999.  Modeled after the design of our successful MFC GO++, Northwoods is now offering a Java version of the popular graphics library. Learn more here.

Informix Acquires Red Brick Systems

MENLO PARK, CA.—January 4, 1999—Informix Corporation (NASDAQ: IFMX), the technology leader in enterprise database-powered solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition with Red Brick® Systems.

Northwoods Software's Sanscript Technology Incorporated Into Compaq Batch Scheduler

NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwoods Software announced today that Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) has licensed Northwoods' Sanscript(TM) visual scripting technology as part of its recently announcedCompaq Batch Scheduler V2.0 for Windows NT.

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Firm's Software is picture of success

Nashua, NH, November 11, 1998  -- The four founders of Northwoods Software Corp. want nothing less than to change how the world programs computers.  By Eileen Kennedy.

We are the featured High-Tech company in today's Nashua Telegraph.  

Red Brick Unveils Red Brick Formation^(TM)    (May 19)

Red Brick Systems, Inc., The Data Warehouse Company(R), today announced Red Brick Formation(TM).  Northwoods licensed the Sanscript visual programming technology to Red Brick, and worked with them to deliver Formation.

"Red Brick Formation's graphical development environment is the gold standard I use when judging other extraction and transformation tools,'' said Robert Craig, vice president, Application Architectures at Hurwitz Group, Inc. "I believe users will benefit from the ease-of-use and integration with Red Brick products in developing their DSS applications.''

PC Week Labs reviews DIGITAL Visual Batch

The April 22nd issue of PC Week reviews DVB.  It states "...the Script editor and the Coordinator ... is where Visual Batch really shines".   Wow!  Thanks!

The Script component of DVB is a version of Sanscript, and the Coordinator was a custom GO++ application built by Northwoods for inclusion in DVB.  Read the full review here.

Northwoods at Visual C++ Developers Conference (April 16)

A milestone for Northwoods:  our first booth at a major conference.  We displayed both GO++ and Sanscript, with an enthusiastic response for both. 

Acta annouces ActaLink for SAP^{TM TM (March, 1998)}

^{Northwoods proudly annouces yet another product using GO++ graphics.  See our GO++ Real World Gallery for a screenshot.}

^{DIGITALTM Visual Batch for Windows NT & Windows 95 ships! (February, 1998)}

^{Digital announced DIGITAL Visual Batch, the premier batch processing system for the Windows NT environment. Northwoods contributed two significant applications to this enterprise batch job scheduler. A version of Sanscript, our fully visual scripting language, is included as the "Visual Batch Script" component for writing batch programs.  In addition, Northwoods supplied the "Coordinator" application.   Coordinator allows users to quickly design a multi-step batch job using fully visual techniques. Coordinator uses GO++, Northwoods' MFC extension for interactive node arc diagrams.}

^{Northwoods ships V1 of SalesWin Add-ons for Symantec ACT! (Jan 21, 1998)}

^{See our new pages for details on these exciting new products for ACT! users.}

^{Red Brick Systems acquires Engage.Fusion(tm) from Engage Technologies}

^{Red Brick Systems announced it has signed an agreement with Engage Technologies, a subsidiary of CMG Information Services (CMGI), to acquire Engage.Fusion(tm), Engage.Discover(tm) and their shared object-oriented metadata facility. Northwoods visual language technology is a component of the Fusion product.}

Northwoods announces initial availability of GO++, an MFC class library for 2D graphics (April 8, 1997)

A component of the Fully Visual Programming technology, Northwoods is now selling the MFC graphics library. Learn more here.

Northwoods Inks agreement for Fully Visual Programming Technology

Engage Technology has licensed Full Visual Programming technology components for incorporation into their web database product line.