Prescient Author does a lot for you automatically when you start a new project. It creates a login page to authenticate users for your system. It creates a base module (default) and when you add tables to the base module, Prescient Author automatically creates forms for entering data, reports for viewing data and menus for navigation. It also writes methods to read/write data from the database. That's not all, Prescient Author also creates a Module level and a Project level dashboard for you automatically!!

Prescient Author is a true collaborative development tool. It allows developing your system in various modules and working on these modules simultaneously.

Prescient Author with its Module merging technology allows integration of different modules for final integration. It even allows multiple users working on the same module to further speed up development.

Prescient Author's module based development approach encourages reuse of modules that have been developed previously for different applications (with some modifications as necessary).

Prescient Author allows you to import tables from your existing database, making it easier to start developing your applications in Prescient Author. This feature can help you to quickly migrate your existing applications to ASP.NET.

Prescient Author allows you to design/model your tables through its interactive menus. It helps in capturing the entire design intent (database, master details, forms, reports) etc all in one place and helps you through the entire lifecycle of the project.

Whenever changes are made to tables in database either via Prescient Author interface or by accessing database directly, the "DB Sync" utility clearly shows the differences in these two representations and lets you select the one you wish and synchronizing the two.

Prescient Author supports Smart Delete on data in master tables. It allows you to delete (inactivate) the data and yet retain all the information in the database to be retrieved when needed.

Prescient Author does user authentication but beyond that it is also possible to assign different roles to the users. Based on their roles these users are presented with different menus, forms and reports. (eg, an employee may have just read access but a manager may have read/write access). Different dashboards could also be created for different roles.

Prescient Author allows you to design all your user interfaces forms, reports, dashboards, menus. It automatically creates defaults for all of these which can be customized as and when needed. It allows you to create multiple versions of the same form/report to be used for different roles. (a report/form seen by an employee and a manager could be slightly different)

Prescient Author allows creating the dynamic reference fields on the forms. These fields are used to show the additional information about the record. e.g. On an "Order Entry" form for selecting a customer, an additional region selection combo box can be added to make customer selection easy. Here the region acts as the reference field to select the customer from that region.

Form designing supports useful features like field validation (client side validation), field recompute (eg, when "Country" is selected on the form, the "States" are updated for that country), field visibility (show / hide, editable / read only etc).

Prescient Author supports both top as well as left menus.
Consistent look and feel across the forms is achieved by using pre defined themes and color schemes. Quick access links (like Home, Buy, Checkout etc) could be easily inserted on a series of pages.
You can create your own custom themes and add them to Prescient author

Prescient Author is fully compatible with dot Net three tier architecture. It generates ASPX code for the front end, the logical layer is in C# followed by the database connectivity layer. Prescient Author works with SQL server 2000 and above. It also supports advanced features like flicker free update of forms (Ajax).

Prescient Author supports custom validator and required field validator.

Prescient Author works seamlessly with SQL server 2000+, SQL Express 2005+ and Oracle 10g, Oracle 10g Express databases

Prescient Author allows you to create forms with dot NET grid view control, providing you with option of single record edit and multi record (batch) edit.