Embarcadero® Delphi® XE2, now with FireMonkey™, is the fastest way to deliver ultra-rich and visually stunning native applications for Windows, Mac and iOS – including 64-bit Windows applications. Dramatically reduce coding time and build applications 5x faster. Delphi XE2 provides component-based visual development and a fully visual two-way RAD IDE with high performance access to popular databases.

Delphi XE2 Enterprise

Delphi XE2 Enterprise is designed for developers building rich, data-oriented client/server, cloud, and multi-tier PC, Mac, mobile and Web applications that work seamlessly with a wide variety of database servers and data sources. Delphi Enterprise's high-performance heterogeneous database server support is ideal for multi-vendor database server scenarios, or building turnkey applications that can work with a wide array of database servers.

Delphi Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus the following for building client/server and multi-tier database and Web applications :

  • Database server connectivity to InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere, and ODBC
  • DataSnap multi-tier application development
  • FinalBuilder Embarcadero Edition and command line tools for build automation
  • Full two-way UML modeling capabilities with multiple diagram types, synchronization between code and models, documentation generation, and design patterns

Delphi XE2 Professional

Delphi XE2 Professional is designed for developers building high-performance PC, Mac, GUI, touch-screen/kiosk, and mobile applications with or without embedded and local database persistence. Delphi XE2 Professional's ability to generate fast, native applications with rich user experiences makes it especially well-suited for ISVs who want to build highly-graphical "packaged" applications for Windows and Mac from a single source code base.

Delphi Professional features include :

  • Cross-platform development for Windows, Mac and iOS using the FireMonkey application platform
  • 64-bit development
  • dbExpress local database connectivity to InterBase® and MySQL
  • Expanded coding tools including Code Completion, live code templates, refactoring, command line tools, code formatter, Class Explorer, unit testing, and translation tools
  • Special edition bundled tools including FastReport, Documentation Insight, AQtime Developer, Beyond Compare Differ, Raize CodeSite Express, IP*Works, TeeChart, IntraWeb Personal, Rave Reports, InstallAware, and glyFX graphics library
  • Earlier version licenses and software for Delphi 7, 2007, 2009, 2010 and XE at no extra cost
  • Advanced debugging views and debugging of multi-threaded applications
  • Cloud computing integration with Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure
  • XML, Web Services, and advanced COM/DCOM development
  • Expanded VCL component set and VCL source code
  • UML code visualization, providing a visual representation of source code for easier understanding

Delphi XE2

Delphi XE2 offers exciting new functionality giving you the ability to build highly visual, business applications for Windows, Mac and iOS. New Windows 64-bit support throughout, FireMonkey, new VCL styles, live data bindings, expanded database connectivity, and much more.

Deliver fast, native 32-bit and 64-bit applications
Delphi enables you to write an app once and compile it for Windows and Mac OS X. You can also create iOS mobile application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Your real native applications take advantage of the power and speed of the CPU and GPU. And it's all done with the power and speed of component-based visual development that saves you time while still giving you full access to source code and hardware when you need it.
Deploy to Windows, Mac and iOS
With the included FireMonkey platform, Delphi makes it easy to build your application and compile natively to both Windows and Mac OS X. You can also create stunning iOS mobile apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and distribute on Apple's App Store. Delphi FireMonkey applications take full advantage of the power and speed of your devices CPU and GPU.
Create visually stunning and interactive applications
Quickly build FireMonkey applications that are visually spectacular, highly interactive and data rich for PCs, Macs and mobile devices. Deliver rich business applications that engage your users with an immersive, interesting, and interactive application experience.
Put your data and logic in the cloud
Delphi XE2 includes expanded cloud computing integration with new data and deployment options. The included cloud API supports data storage and access to blobs, message queues and tables on Windows Azure as well as Amazon Simple Queue Services, Simple DB, and Simple Storage Service. Use the new Deployment Manager to deploy your applications to both Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Windows Azure.

DOCUMENTATION

Datasheet (pdf)

 Feature Matrix (pdf)

Comparison of the different Delphi Editions (image)