Alpha Five makes me a more productive middle school principal by allowing me to easily and quickly design and develop sophisticated, custom applications for many aspects of school management including student records, fund accounting, budget preparation and ordering, staff certification, inventory and maintenance logs. The applications I develop are user friendly, contain a variety of security, validation and scripted routines, and can easily generate a variety of custom reports and form letters. Most importantly, these applications can be made with little or no experience in database application development. I have used Alpha software for database applications for over eight years. I've tried Access, Fox, and Filemaker Pro, but none of these products comes close to richness of features and the ease of use of Alpha Five. The flexibility and power of Alpha Five, along with the many helpful "genies," templates and pre-configured routines enable me to be a "real application developer." Alpha Five is a wonderful and powerful product.