''...the best RCM software we could find...''

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Many clients wishing to purchase RCM Desktop’ are asked some technical questions by their IT department. This page aims to answer those questions.

The main technical characteristics of the software are:

1. Front-end is a native Windows 32-bit application written in Delphi XE
2. Suitable for any 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows XP, Vista or 7
3. Requires MS MDAC 2.7 or later (usually supplied with Windows)
4. Front-end communicates with back-end database via ODBC
5. Back-end database is Mimer SQL Database Server v9.2
6. In single-user mode, Mimer DB Server runs on same PC as the application
7. In multi-user mode, Mimer DB Server runs on any machine accessible by the application PC over a network on a variety of platforms (including Windows, Apple OS X, Linux, Open VMS and more)
8. Communication between application PC ODBC drivers and Mimer DB Server is via TCP/IP
9. Mimer DB Server requires zero configuration, zero maintenance and zero administration
10. Database backup can be performed using host filing system or the built-in backup utility
11. A full technical description of Mimer is available at http://developer.mimer.com/documentation/pdf_92/MimerSQL92TechDesc.pdf
12. To minimise network traffic and maximise performance, data is only fetched when required and bulk operations (like copying or exporting a whole RCM Analysis) are performed by the Database Server
13. Setting up an ODBC DSN is done automatically during installation.

If you have any technical questions that are not answered above then please fill in the form on our Contact Us page or send an email to info@rcmdesktop.com