TIDBITs Electronic Publishing has the distinction of been the very first on-line publication in the entire world, publishing their first issue via e-mail in 1990. They've been covering the Macintosh world ever since and after reviewing Panorama found that they liked is so much that they have been using it to help manage some aspects of the publication.
"When You Need a Panoramic View" (by Adam Engst, TidBITs)
"An Unusual Use for Panorama" (by Adam Engst, TidBITs)
"Seeing the Light with Panorama" (by Matt Neuberg, TidBITs)
"Panorama V for Victory" (by Matt Neuberg, TidBITs)
The "Mac Panther Bible" says that Panorama V "is an excellent program and a good choice for business users." You'll find the complete story on page 491 (2004 edition).
Panorama V has a five star rating on both VersionTracker and MacUpdate.
Panorama User Testimonials
For over 25 years ProVUE Development has had the most loyal users on the planet, as you can see from the letters below. Thank you, and we'll continue to work every day to earn that loyalty in the decades to come.
Danny Grizzle, Media Mogul Productions, TX
Danny Grizzle Media Mogul Productions, TX
Christina Benfell, University of Otago School of Medicine (click each bar to expand)
“We have tried other software in the past
but always come back to Panorama for our large
databases as nothing else will do the
job.”
Christina Benfell Hugh Adam Cancer Epidemiology Unit Preventive and Social Medicine University of Otago School of Medicine
Tom Freyer, AZ
“I truly believe that buying a Mac
without Panorama is like buying a car
without
wheels!”
Tom Freyer, AZ
Brooks Leffler, CA
“Nothing I know of beats it for data
entry -- shortcuts galore, and lookups, and....so
on. I've used it for simple needs and complex,
graphic and plain vanilla, since its first
iteration as OverVUE in
1985.”
Brooks Leffler, CA
John Kerian, Kerian Machines, ND
“As a former nuclear research engineer
(now with my own small business) I spent many hours
on IBM and CDC mainframe programming. I was
overjoyed by the simplicity of using the Mac and
have never doubted that Overvue and then Panorama
were a perfect fit for the Mac. Just as the Mac
SHOULD BE the standard for personal computers,
Panorama should be unassailable in the database
market. You have done a great service to myself and
many small business owners by providing this
database program.”
John Kerian Kerian Machines, ND
Jeff Kozuch, Acacia Systems, CA
“Once again ProVUE has taken the fastest,
most full featured database available and made it
even more powerful. Panorama 4 has more features,
more wizards, more training, more tools; ProVUE
never stops. Everyday I discover something new and
enabling. I have yet to find a programming
challenge that can't be acomplished using
Panorama.”
Jeff Kozuch Acacia Systems, CA
Glenn Kowalski, Studio 405, MD
“Panorama is an absolute pleasure to work
with and has spoiled me immensely. On occasion I
have to work with the competition's software and
each time, I come away frustrated. Panorama so
simply and elegantly does what others cannot.
Panorama is blindingly fast and the Pantalk
language has become so rich over the many years of
development that I can't think of a database
solution that can't be handled by this
powerhouse.”
Glenn Kowalski Studio 405, MD
James Cook, Hindsight Ltd, CO
“Panorama has made our ability to build
cross-platform databases an absolute breeze. With
four keystrokes,".pan", everything we build on
Macintosh is instantly ready for use on
Windows.
Panorama's
speed is a significant advantage over any other
database we ever considered. Show me another
database that can import a 42 MB text file of
200,000 records and 50 fields in less than 30
seconds, then require only another 20 seconds to
convert the city names from ALL CAPS to upper case
followed by lower case (using a 400mhz G3
Macintosh). And to top it off, the resulting
database was only a few hundred K larger than the
text file. It always amazes me. I'll be sitting at
the keyboard of a computer loaded with software
trying to decide how to accomplish the task at
hand. More than any other program, I turn to
Panorama. It's now handling all of our contacts
information, word processing, scheduling and
accounting. I wish all of our software was as good
an investment.”
James Cook Hindsight Ltd, CO
Eric Bolden, University of Wisconsin (Madison), WI
“I have once again realized what a joy it
is to work with Panorama. This past week has been
spent updating old projects from about 8-10 years
ago. One a Filemaker project, the other a Panorama
project.I really appreciate the ease with which I
can examine fieldnames, variables and procedure
code. It was easy to see what needed to be worked
on. I could easily add code from more recent
projects to my Panorama project. Documenting field
names and variables was also a breeze. I have all
but finished my Panorama project. The Filemaker
project is still in document and explain phase. I
haven't dared to start coding
ye!”
Eric Bolden University of Wisconsin (Madison), WI
Ollie Holm, Lund University, Sweden
“We are basing our Estonian diabetes
study very much on the use of Panorama (and we very
much dislike Filemaker Pro). I would say that
through the years Panorama and Photoshop have been
our crucial
programs.”
Ollie Holm Lund University, Sweden
Gary Chapman, University of Texas, TX
“Panorama is far and away my favorite
database on the Mac. It has a built-in programming
language called PanTalk which blows away FM Pro
Scriptmaker, and Panorama databases are
lightning-fast. One of the great things about
Panorama is that you can totally control the user
interface, far more than FM
Pro.”
Gary Chapman University of Texas, TX
Robert Morrish, Adobe Systems, Inc., CA
“I've used Panorama for a variety of
things for years. Currently, I maintain contact
lists for contractors, contract agencies,
localization agencies, etc. I also import
tab-delimited info from Adobe's bug database to
track summary info on doc bugs in a quick fashion.
And keep a variety of personal stuff in Panorama
databases as well. Needless to say, glad to see
you're still actively developing
Panorama!”
Robert Morrish Adobe Systems, Inc., CA