Today software developers, IT managers and CIOs more often opt for the new approaches of building database applications - by-passing programming. This preference is largely dictated by the demands of today’s business environment to find ways of obtaining more while spending minimum resource and time. And application generation tools completely meet these requirements, allowing developers as well as non-developers to generate applications quite successfully. These tools allow for generating database-driven apps, deployable to Microsoft SharePoint, the Cloud or the Web environments. The domains, to which these database applications can be applied, don’t differ from those any typical hand-built apps run in: management and data entry; data reporting, summarizing and tracking; scheduling and workflow for automated step-wise business processes; and automation of business processes through distributing data flow between numerous systems. With the majority of business applications being built on an underlying database, all the creation and customization of data access code and Web pages is implemented through automated or semi-automated solutions. The only thing there is left to be added by hand is that of custom business logic. And this mechanism is true for any individual application no matter how much different and unique it is, for all of them contain integrated application security, reports, data, export and import features and a variety of interactive page types. With a rich variety of professionally-designed page styles, included in the generation tools, there will be no need of a graphic designer to make a Web application attractive. These styles can be customized as well as altogether new ones can be created in order to achieve a specific corporate look and feel. The whole lot of most sophisticated features these tools automatically introduce into your app would have taken weeks to generate by hand. Among such commonly included features are data import and export, reporting and application security. Apart from its time and effort saving aspect automated development offers also a sharp reduction in cost as well, allowing even non-developers to create applications without programming and in as short a period as a few days or even hours.