• In 1986 Softa Associates changed their name to FourGen®. It was thought to be more appropriate for a company producing technology that was light-years ahead of   anything else produced by Softa Associates.
• Accounts receivable and order entry modules were developed along with the inventory control and purchasing modules.Filepro products were sold to another company.
• FourGen® products were billed as MBD™(Modifiable by Design™). Customers had the source code and could customize it at will.
• Maintenance and patching system was developed to supply Bug-Fixes and updates to the customer.
• Software was sold in late 80’s and early 90’s mostly through VARs within the north American continent and the international market.
• FourGen® had representation through VARs in UK, Germany, South Africa, Zaire, Zimbabwe, Middle East, Australia, India, Japan, Indonesia and many other countries.
• Software was referenced to as FourGen® Business Accounting, which was developed up to version 3.83 with corresponding CASE Tools Version 4.12.
• Business Accounting Software Modules included GL, AP, AR, FA, Payroll, OE, IC, Replenishment and Purchasing.
• Early 90’s saw FourGen® produce an Enterprise version starting with FourGen® Version 4.0. The target customers were mid-market and large corporations. GL Flexkeys and other new functionality like multicurrency, EDI, etc. was developed for enterprises to deploy the software.
• By 1995 most Business versions customers were converted to Enterprise version of the software.
• FourGen® established a large direct sales force and professional services team to handle the growing customer base.
• FourGen® CASE Tools were bundled with Informix-4GL as FORMS from late 1980’s to 1996. This sale of CASE Tools by Informix created hundreds of new customers in the US as well as internationally.
• By 1994 a Graphical User Interface (GUI) front-end was developed using Microsoft Windows technology.
• Enterprise and CASE Tools Version 5.2 was released in 1996.