Sign Up for the Future of PowerBuilder Webcast

If you would like to understand Appeon’s vision and future direction for PowerBuilder you should sign up for a 5-part Appeon Webcast series. There are only limited slots and they are available on a first-come basis. The first Webcast will kick-off on October 29.

For those of you who are not aware what has been transpiring over the past several months, it all kicked off in the middle of May with SAP announcing it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Appeon . After signing the MOU, Appeon went hard to work to understand what customers want out of PowerBuilder and what is technically feasible.

Appeon has put together a vision, technical architecture, and roadmap for PowerBuilder, which was the result of months of hard work. They conducted market surveys to thousands of users. They held conference calls with hundreds of customers. They had extensive discussions with the most active partners and members of the community. They analyzed real-life customer code, some having more than gigabytes of PBLs. And they created numerous proof-of-concepts in Appeon’s labs.

They will be communicating the vision, technology, and roadmap in a 5-part Webcast series. There is just too much content to communicate and digest in just a single Webcast. But more importantly, at the end of each Webcast they want to give customers the opportunity to give them feedback, which they will use to fine-tune the technical architecture and roadmap.

Setting the future of PowerBuilder is a big decision that can affect tens of thousands of companies and specifically your company. This is why they are trying to give as many customers as possible a chance to be heard. It is imperative you participate actively in this Webcast series.
Again, there are only limited slots and they are available on a first-come basis only so register for the Webcasts today!

PowerBuilder Vision and Roadmap Webcast

Appeon is planning to do a series of Webcasts to present the vision and roadmap that are planned for PowerBuilder. The first webcast will be hosted at the end of October. It will focus on explaining to the community their vision for PowerBuilder. The second webcast will be presented several weeks later. It will focus on explaining to the community the high-level roadmap planned for PowerBuilder. Early next year will be a final Webcast. This Webcast will explain to the community a detailed roadmap that is planned for PowerBuilder.

Stays connected with Appeon to get updates to the PowerBuilder roadmap via the Appeon Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

PowerBuilder Worldwide Survey 2015

Novalys and Appeon have partnered on the latest survey.  Provide your input on this years survey and, as always, obtain access to the results from last years.

New version of Definitive DataWindow

An updated version of the Definitive DataWindow is now available on Amazon as a Kindle book.  The updates make it current to PowerBuilder 12.

PowerBuilder TV Webinar: Scorever (formerly YouHoops): Designing and Delivering a Cloud-Based Mobile Scorekeeping Solution with SAP PowerBuilder and Appeon

Date: TBA
Presenter: Ronnie Po

With the arrival of Appeon Mobile, developers can now create native apps for today’s mobile devices while leveraging the unique productivity advantages of PowerBuilder. However, the task of delivering an engaging user experience on a mobile device presents unique challenges compared to the traditional client-server or web-driven desktop environment.  In this session, Ronnie Po will present a case study about the development and implementation of Scorever (formerly YouHoops), a mobile scorekeeping and scoreboard controller application for basketball games, built with PowerBuilder and deployed to the cloud using Appeon Mobile. He will discuss some of the technical challenges encountered and will reveal some tips and tricks employed to address considerations such as:

• creating an app-like user experience
• managing user sessions transparently
• minimizing the distraction of inconsistent server response times

PowerBuilder TV Webinar: Mobile UI/UX with PowerBuilder

09/08/2015 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 18H00 CET ( Paris)
Presenter: Armeen Mazda

This session shares the real-life experience of a US software vendor in their quest to develop attractive and user-friendly mobile apps in PowerBuilder for their 400+ customer sites. This is a technical-focused session that illustrates how you can break the traditional client/server mold and develop apps that your users will love. You will see how to lay out the UI properly, incorporate new gestures, display large amounts of data in limited space, add new mobile-specific controls, integrate maps, make phone calls, and much more.

PowerBuilder TV Webinar: Off the Grid: Migrating Sometimes Connected PowerBuilder Apps with Appeon

7/15/2015 @ 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 18H00 CET ( Paris)
Presenter: Ryan Story

Ryan Story will explore the process of developing, configuring, and deploying a legacy PowerBuilder app with Appeon Mobile that uses Mobilink/Ultralite technology to provide a consistent offline user experience.  In addition, he will discuss other techniques to make applications match current mobile app design practices and provide the user a seamless experience.