Guides from 30 years of building business software
Practical, jargon-light guides on the Clarion language and our development services, plus the operational thinking behind ProWat, Toarando and Displomo.
The Clarion language
Plain-English explainers on what Clarion is, how ABC and Legacy differ, and what changes between Clarion versions.
What is the Clarion programming language?
A practical introduction to Clarion: what it is, what it is used for, why business applications built with it are still running after 30 years, and where it fits today.
Read the guide →Clarion ABC vs Legacy: which template chain should you use?
The difference between the ABC and Legacy (Clarion) template chains, what each means for maintenance and third-party add-ons, and how to decide when converting is worth it.
Read the guide →Upgrading Clarion: moving an application from Clarion 6 to Clarion 12
A staged approach to upgrading older Clarion applications — what actually breaks, how to sequence the work, and how to keep shipping while you do it.
Read the guide →Clarion skills & services
How to modernise, extend and support Clarion applications — and how wrapper templates add capability without rewriting.
Modernising a legacy Clarion application without rewriting it
Why rewriting a working Clarion system is usually the wrong first move, and the modernisation steps that deliver value earliest — UI refresh, APIs, cloud accounting and mobile access.
Read the guide →How ActiveX wrapper templates extend a Clarion application
What a wrapper template does, why hand-coding ActiveX integration is expensive, and how to choose between Codejock, Chilkat, DevExtreme, Zoople and the G-Series and Productivity collections.
Read the guide →Application guides
Operational guides behind ProWat, Toarando and Displomo — delivery scheduling, job management and screen scheduling.
Delivery scheduling and route planning for distribution businesses
How dynamic route optimisation, weight and time-window constraints, proof of delivery and recurring order patterns fit together in a working delivery operation.
Read the guide →Job management for wholesale, bulk materials and multi-site distribution
How inventory, order processing, dispatch and accounting connect in a multi-site distribution operation, and where quarry and rail-loading workflows differ from standard wholesale.
Read the guide →Digital signage: scheduling content across many screens
How to plan playlists, dayparting, zones and screen groups across sites — and what to get right about offline playback, monitoring and content governance.
Read the guide →Need advice on your own system?
Whether it is an inherited Clarion application or a distribution operation outgrowing its software, we are happy to talk it through.
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