GeneXus is a Low Code,

cross-platform In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software r ...

knowledge representation Knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR, KR&R, KR²) is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can use to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medic ...

-based development tool, mainly oriented towards enterprise-class applications for

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, and the

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platform. GeneXus uses mostly

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to generate native code for multiple environments. It includes a

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module, which creates and maintains an optimal database structure based on user views. The languages for which code can be generated include

COBOL COBOL (; an acronym for "common business-oriented language") is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is an imperative, procedural and, since 2002, object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily us ...

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, RPG,

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, and

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. Some of the DBMSs supported are

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Informix IBM Informix is a product family within IBM's Information Management division that is centered on several relational database management system (RDBMS) offerings. The Informix products were originally developed by Informix Corporation, whose I ...

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, and

MySQL MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database o ...

. GeneXus was developed by

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an company

ARTech Consultores SRL GeneXus (formerly ''Artech Consultores SRL'') is a Uruguayan software producer, founded by Breogán Gonda and Nicolás Jodal in 1988. Its most famous product is Genexus GeneXus is a Low Code, cross-platform, knowledge representation-based dev ...

which later renamed to Genexus SA. The latest version is GeneXus 17, which was released on October 20, 2020.

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