ChimneySweep® Professional Edition

ChimneySweep® Professional Edition unleashes the full power of ChimneySweep for the application developer who wishes to customize ChimneySweep and deploy it with their own applications. In addition to all of the features provided by Traditional Edition, this Edition includes the following:

• A VCL component and OCX control, with full annotated Delphi source-code, which allows ChimneySweep to be integrated into applications and controlled programmatically. They use a well-documented API, provided in the form of a 16-bit and 32-bit DLL (no source), to execute ChimneySweep scripts and to exchange information with them.
• Complete source-code to the ChimneySweep system scripts is provided only to Professional Edition users. These key programs control exactly how jobs are built and how they run. With the source-code, you can customize them to cause jobs to be built and run exactly the way you want.
• Script Editor, a tool available only in Professional Edition, allows you to write, edit, and customize all scripts. You can compile them and save them with or without source-code. You can write user-jobs that operate differently from those built by the Job Editor.
• An in-depth technical manual, supplied in PDF (Adobe Acrobat®) format only to Professional Edition users, supplies comprehensive information about the structure, programming features, deployment and internal operation of ChimneySweep. (Over 200 additional pages!)

Jobs prepared by Professional Edition may be executed by any other edition:   Traditional, Professional, or Runtime.

Keeping the money in your pocket!

Many software vendors have testified that the entire profit-margin on the sale of a desktop software product can be wiped out by the first technical-support call. In the case of a database failure, however, your entire reputation is on the line! Doesn't it make sense to supply all your customers with a solution that can both prevent these problems from happening, and swiftly fix them when they occur? ChimneySweep is that solution!

Without ChimneySweep, even the simplest database error is an emergency. Your customer is “dead in the water” and sitting on hold while your Technical Support staff deals with all the other customers who are similarly situated! And the reason why they're sitting on-hold for a long time is that Tech Support must “walk each customer through” the repair process.

ChimneySweep improves that picture in so many ways ...

• Your "first line of defense" is now an automatic process that your Technical Support personnel designed expressly for your application. That process is executed exactly as you specified for it to be. In many cases, that's enough to fix the problem.
• If the problem is more serious, then the detailed job output provides a complete description of what ChimneySweep found, and what it did or didn't do, in exhaustive technical detail. When customers e-mail this report to you (or ChimneySweep e-mails it itself), you know exactly what went wrong. You look pro-active and prepared.
• Preventive-maintenance steps, like regular known-good (on disc) backups, can be performed on a regular schedule.

Imagine, a fully-programmable repair tool

ChimneySweep offers an unprecedented level of flexibility because it is fundamentally programmable and script-driven. All of the product's operations are driven by programs and libraries similar to those of Paradox for Windows' ObjectPAL™. This means that you can customize and adapt the product to meet the needs of your existing applications, and your exact software maintenance strategy, thus greatly reducing the costs of deployment and improving the overall precision with which you can address the needs of your custom application.

ChimneySweep is especially designed to go where your application cannot easily go:   “when a BDE session cannot be started at all,” for example. Because ChimneySweep is driven by a scripted software environment in which you, as a Professional Edition licensee, can easily work, it can accomplish your repair requirements with precision.

You can write or customize your own repair scripts and then launch them within the context of your own application by means of the DLL, Delphi control, or OCX. Then, you deploy the application to your users, providing each one with the required Runtime Edition license. The same procedure can handle not only repair, but other essential chores like verification, index optimization, and backups ... exactly the way you want.

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Professional Edition (permanent license)

Purchase a full license for ChimneySweep Professional Edition, for immediate electronic delivery.

If you are upgrading from a 30-day license purchase, see below, then you will have received a “coupon code” with that purchase which you should enter here (either now, in the “buy it now” space below, or you'll be asked for it later when you “add to cart”).   This will reduce your price by the cost of your original 30-day-license purchase.
(Coupon-codes do expire, to correspond to the 30-day offer period, so if your code is not accepted please contact us.)

$359.95 (USD)