ProgressNEXT 2018 Speakers

So, you want to build native mobile apps for iOS and Android with JavaScript? You’ve certainly come to the right place. In this talk we’ll cover where we are today with NativeScript, take a brief look at some competing frameworks and show you how to build a simple NativeScript app from scratch. You’ll learn how to use the skills of a web developer (JavaScript, CSS and a tag-based markup language) to create truly native cross-platform apps from one codebase.

In today’s Industrial IoT era, as more assets get connected at breakneck speed, there is an equally mounting pressure to tackle the multi- billion-dollar problem of unplanned equipment downtime. This session will take you through the joint value proposition of DataRPM and Hortonworks as they leverage the ultimate power of data lakes and cognitive technologies to help slash unplanned industrial asset failures. We take a deep dive to understand how an open source platform like Hortonworks can be used to gain data insights in the data center as well as on the public cloud of your choice.In today’s Industrial IoT era, as more assets get connected at breakneck speed, and zettabytes of data are generated by connected sensors, there is an equally mounting pressure to tackle the multi-billion-dollar problem of unplanned equipment downtime and unscheduled maintenance. This session will take you through the joint value proposition of DataRPM, Hortonworks and AWS as they leverage the ultimate power of data lakes, cloud and cognitive technologies to help slash unplanned industrial asset failures. We take a deep dive to understand how an open source platform like Hortonworks can be used to gain predictive data insights in the data center as well as on the leading clouds, like AWS, by utilizing DataRPM to get ahead of unplanned downtime and avoid it altogether.

With just a day of coding, the Sitefinity development team was able to create a chatbot that fills forms. In this session, you’ll see how Sitefinity goes well beyond the power of a solid CMS with the ability to extend its capabilities as you need them.

In this session we will review the typical stages of a web site customer journey, and walk you through a sample implementation of a customer journey using Sitefinity and Digital Experience Cloud features. We will also spend some time discussing how GDPR impacts customer journey management.

Kendo UI is a JavaScript UI component library for building web apps. In this session, we'll discuss the fundamentals, explore the features of some of the most popular/powerful controls, and build some very easy-to-follow examples. There won't be a massive amount of coding and the pace will be comfortable. Best of all, you'll come away from this session knowing Kendo UI well enough so you can start taking advantage of it today.

In this session we’ll cover the latest and greatest in Telerik R2 2018. Come explore new features across the entire Telerik portfolio.

External objects are similar to custom objects, except they map to external databases such as Progress OpenEdge. This is one of the leading integration patterns for virtualizing data from the cloud which has been available to SAP, Oracle, OpenEdge and SQL Server ecosystems. Join us to learn more about making OpenEdge data readily available on demand, without duplication, to Salesforce platform applications via Progress Hybrid Data Pipeline.

We’ve got a lot of plans for OpenEdge, including enhancing your ability to deliver continuous operations, improving the developer experience and delivering a SOA architecture. You don’t want to miss this session where we will detail what is to come in the OpenEdge Roadmap.

Learn how to create a culture of learning in your own organization by taking a scientific approach to innovation and idea validation. In this session we’ll discuss how you can create a technology incubator to help entrepreneurial employees bring their ideas to life – from launching a MVP (minimum valuable product) to achieving product-market fit and measuring success along the way.

Business applications are seeing a deluge of requests from business analysts, data engineers and data scientists to support the exploding advanced analytics market and to deliver ROI from large investments in data analytics. "Open Analytics" is the latest strategy that supplements embedded analytics, to satisfy demand through an open data access layer designed to support analytics across standard interoperable interfaces. We’ll take a look at how data analytics professionals are looking to access data across analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark, and the emerging "bring-your-own-analytics" (BYOA) capability for business applications.

Our next generation app server, Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OpenEdge), is the gateway to application modernization. Built on Apache Tomcat, this highly scalable multi-session architecture provides Web server support for browser-based and mobile applications and production ready, out-of-the-box security. Learn about the business benefits and best practices in implementing PAS for OpenEdge and migration considerations from the classic OpenEdge Appserver.

We’ll take an in-depth look at the many features coming in our latest Corticon releases and take you through the product roadmap and what’s to come. You’ll learn more about simplifying batch processing, the ability to document rule assets with greater detail, improved developer productivity features and more.

Whether you are a die-hard command-line developer or prefer the ease of point-and-click visual tooling solutions, NativeScript has your back. In this session you’ll learn how to use the most important features of NativeScript Sidekick, your trusted companion in NativeScript development. We will also dive into our tooling offerings and show off how now even Windows developers can develop for iOS, without needing a Mac.

During this session, the Ucommerce team will provide a technical overview of the integration to review the anatomy of an online store using Sitefinity and Ucommerce together. Additionally, the team will provide best practices for extending Ucommerce and the Ucommerce app platform.

Building machine learning models in the industrial IoT era is a mammoth task. As data volumes rise and supervised machine learning takes a back seat, there is a dire need to streamline this modelling process using unsupervised machine learning models. Join us for this technical viewpoint session which shows you how these complexities can be overcome by using a cognitive approach to machine learning which simplifies creating machine learning systems.

In this session we will cover all the latest and greatest that has been included in Kendo UI R2 2018. Come take a lap around the latest release.

In this session, you’ll hear from an early adopter who made the move to Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OE). What went right, what went wrong, and what was the ultimate result?

Choosing the right technology is always tricky. In this lesson we will review why it is better to use Sitefinity MVC instead of WebForms, and all details around the development with it.

What really is the difference between GraphQL and OData in terms of consuming and providing APIs? In this session we'll compare and contrast two leading API specifications that are heavily debated within the industry.
Developed by Facebook, GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a server-side runtime for fulfilling those queries by using a type system you define for your data. OData (Open Data Protocol) is an OASIS standard that defines the best practice for building and consuming RESTful APIs.

Market disruptors from a range of industries and businesses have leveraged Kinvey to get to market quickly and jumpstart their digital business. In this compelling session you’ll get inspired with their stories!

Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge is a tool that can greatly improve developer productivity. Listen in as we cover some of our favorite tips and tricks for getting the most out of this product.

In this workshop we'll take a simple character application that uses the classic OpenEdge AppServer and make it more secure. We'll implement OpenEdge Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to provide a level of data security; enable the Client Principal Object to pass authentication and authorization context from the application through the AppServer layer, then enable the OpenEdge Authentication Gateway to provide further database security. We'll also review common items found at customer sites with respect to OpenEdge vulnerabilities as well as industry best practices from an application development and deployment perspective. This will be a hands-on workshop, and participants should have basic knowledge of Progress OpenEdge.

There’s a lot of new terms floating around out there: microservices, cloud functions, cloud native, serverless microservices—just to name a few. Confused yet? Join us for this session where we’ll clear the air and simplify the jargon.

In this session you’ll see how a NativeChat bot can take the pressure off customer support teams by handling the repetitive and routine, leaving your human agents free for more engaging customer interactions. You’ll hear how Bulgaria’s leading Dr. Shterev Hospital achieved its goal of reducing the workload of contact center staff by nearly 50% by automating repetitive tasks like booking appointments and checking schedules, freeing up operator time for issues that require deeper patient engagement.

Do you ever wake up in a cold sweat, thinking that your mobile apps are both boring and stupid? Even if you've built a performant app with a great UI, you can improve it by leveraging new methods of adding machine learning to create a really useful and enticing mobile app experience. In this talk, you’ll learn some basics of machine learning and how to integrate it into your mobile app, first with some clever APIs, and then with custom trained models using TensorFlow. Come learn how to send your apps back to school and level up their innate ‘intelligence’!

Content is king and needs to be guarded properly. In this session we’ll review how Sitefinity implements the latest security and authentication recommendations.

Forms are the most common components seen in web apps today and yet arguably, the hardest to get right. Come to this session and learn how to utilize Forms with Kendo UI in an Angular app.

Join the DataDirect product team as we share our roadmap for data connectivity. Roadmap themes include enterprise security, big data breadth, hybrid connectivity and API standardization. You’ll also see a live demo of Project Sagamore, the latest innovation in data access to standardize access to disparate web APIs. Join us in this interactive session where we welcome your feedback.

With the release of Sitefinity's reinvented backend, users now have an innovative experience to manage content. The Sitefinity team will take you through this new experience and share what's new and how this will improve end-user productivity.

This session will describe the various possible approaches to exposing a REST API to your OpenEdge application. It will explain what REST is, how it applies to business applications and which approach is most appropriate for different REST integration use cases and why. It will touch upon considerations such as API documentation, ease of integration, API management and versioning, and in doing so will reference some complementary solutions including Kendo UI Builder and Kinvey.

An enterprise typically participates in multiple business networks with various partners, such as suppliers. What if you could maintain a single, secure and easily verifiable data record of transactions within the business network? Currently this task seems impossible due to a lack of trust or consensus on processes between organizations, but blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the way companies communicate, comply with regulatory authorities and do business with each other.

Cross-platform mobile development has been democratized for .NET developers – thanks to Xamarin & Microsoft. However, professional Xamarin development isn't a piece of cake. Sure, tooling has come a long way, but successful mobile apps need a lot more.
The whole Xamarin technology stack needs deep understanding. Do you know what platforms you can target & how to maximize code reuse? Let’s do a run-down of the essential tools, frameworks and utilities that should be in every Xamarin developer’s arsenal. The ubiquitous IDEs, necessary plugins, cloud backends, deployment tools, testing solutions, network utilities & DevOps workflows – all ready for your app development pleasure. How about adding some cloud-powered AI or Alexa voice assistance to your app? And most professional Xamarin apps need polished performant UI – Telerik UI for Xamarin is your trusted companion here. What can you do to delight your users, maintain developer sanity and deliver high quality apps? Let’s stop trying to boil the ocean and ship apps faster – the right tools help!

Your customer environments are growing in complexity. Data access is essential for your applications from proof to production by connecting with existing policies, and without introducing security risks. DataDirect R&D explains what it takes to securely access your customers’ data from rapidly evolving enterprise data access layers. Learn about how Progress R&D configures and tests the latest data security mechanisms for authentication and encryption across Knox, Ranger, Sentry, Kerberos (including delegation), OAuth, Oracle Wallet, LDAP, enterprise identity and access management, etc.

This session includes a brief introduction to Progress Corticon and an overview of use cases where a BRMS can help, including managing risk in insurance and financial services. We'll also discuss the role of Corticon in the development of cognitive applications.

In this talk, we’ll look at what NativeScript makes possible from a code sharing perspective. We’ll build a few Angular components and use them both in the browser and on mobile devices. Then we’ll take a step back and look at the same code from a pragmatic, maintenance-oriented perspective. Come by for practical tips and tricks on sharing code across multiple development environments.

There is no doubt React is the hot library right now, even topping JQuery in job listings (which hasn't been done in a decade). React helps you build UIs and using Kendo UI components makes the task faster and easier. In this session we'll build up a robust application in React using Kendo UI's everyday components like dropdowns and calendars, to the more robust grid and visualization components.

In this session we'll introduce you to Telerik Reporting and why you should adopt a reporting solution. We’ll take you for a tour of the report designer, then show how to create your first report, then how to create more complex reports and how to display them. Whether you are new to Reporting, need a refresher, or are just interested in evaluating Telerik’s Reporting solution, you don’t want to miss this session.

Headless CMSs—backend-only content management systems built to act as a content repository—have been talked about a lot, but few organizations have taken advantage of them. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage Sitefinty as a headless CMS from planning to implementation.

REST has become the interface of choice for connecting disparate systems. OpenEdge, HDP, Corticon and Kinvey all support RESTful access. In this session, the author covers the fundamental of REST, demonstrates each of these products communicating with REST. Tying them together will be the new DataDirect Generic REST Adapter. The author will also talk about connecting to other existing systems using this adapter.

Got a Progress OpenEdge TTY or GUI application and want to move to Progress Application Server for OpenEdge and an exceptional web application based on Progress Kendo UI? In this session we'll demonstrate real-world proven application modernization techniques that allow harvesting relevant elements of legacy code to allow for reusing them as a foundation of your modern web application. We'll be demoing how even a TTY style UI or Progess Dyamics application can provide valuable bits and pieces for a refactored application.

When the web became all the rage, web development platforms followed closely after, helping companies build a complete set of web offerings. Mobile saw the same progression when companies realized the power of mobile for their customers and employees. But now we're introduced to a new digital channel seemingly every day - chat, voice, PWA, connected home devices, augmented and virtual reality, and more! Digital Experience Development Platforms are the solutions that are just appearing to address this digital portfolio challenge. Join Forrester analyst Michael Facemire as we dive into the emerging trends in this area and how organizations can harness current and emerging technologies to address the new challenges and drive value for their businesses.

As a complete and proven serverless platform, Progress Kinvey provides an open and standards-based architecture that can be run on any cloud. Learn how you can accelerate your OpenEdge application through reusable services and achieve enterprise-level SLAs on a robust, highly-secure cloud-native infrastructure.

In this session, you will learn how to use the new DataSource component to access the OpenEdge backend. Internally, the DataSource uses the Progress JavaScript Data Object (JSDO) so that your mobile apps can use the same Progress Data Service used by Kendo UI Builder. We will use a starter template based on NativeScript with Angular and also show CRUD operations, server-side filtering and sorting with a table on the OpenEdge database.

With the integration of Ucommerce, Sitefinity now has an integration with another top eCommerce solution. This open, extendable platform truly brings content and commerce together. In this session, learn from the Ucommerce team how to launch and optimize your Ucommerce experience and see real world omni-channel examples of content + commerce from the field.

Want to become the Sitefinity dev ninja in your team? Come to this session and learn how we can help boost developer productivity via the suite of Sitefinity developer tools and out-of-the-box features.

Unplanned downtime is the worst nightmare of DBAs and devops engineers. The late-night calls and infrastructure rebuilds are but a mere nuisance compared to transactional data loss and SLA violations. Learn about Progress technologies and services designed to enhance technology resiliency and deliver a true disaster recovery solution. Gain insight through real-world business continuity needs and examples.

This session focuses on a case study presentation of Australia-based Sterland Computing and the decisions, experiences and roadmap to modernize a traditional Progress application to a powerful HTML/JavaScript frontend. The presentation will look at both the business and technical perspectives driving Sterland’s application modernization.

APIs offer a wide range of advantages from increased flexibility in delivering services and information to simplifying development efforts. They are effectively revolutionizing business. Learn why developing an effective API strategy lays a foundation for competitive application delivery.

We are happy to announce a cognitive self-service platform with the cloud provider. The session will focus on how a self-service platform can become a game changer for Industrial IoT and drastically reduce the time lag between lab to production. The speakers will throw light on how such a platform can ensure creation of citizen data scientists by simplifying cognitive technologies for everyone through a self-service interface.

JavaScript is ever-changing and is as popular as ever. In this session, we'll run through where JavaScript is today and where it is headed. We'll discuss the evolution of ECMAScript, delving into what ES2017 gave us and what's being delivered in the ES2018 release. We'll also cover what's going on with Angular, React and Vue. Catch up on one of the most popular languages and have fun doing it!

Learn why the proper methodology is essential to building modern apps. We bring you the good, the great, and the awesome to make sure your mobile offering is a success!

.NET has been around 17 years now and a lot has changed in the world of application development since then. Modern .NET feels like a breath of fresh air though. Changes in the .NET developer ecosystem usher in a new era and align to modern web/mobile/desktop development. And developers can target just about any platform and any device with .NET. Let’s unpack the magic and talk about: · .NET Evolution - Various .NETs | .NET Core 2.1 | .NET Core 3 | .NET 4.7 · Tooling enhancements - Cross-platform reach | Visual Studio | CLI · ASP.NET updates- ASP.NET Core 2.1 | SignalR | Performance · WebAssembly magic - Mono | Blazor | XAML back in browser · Xamarin updates - New platform support | Updated tooling | CSS styling | Deployment options · Desktop news - Windows compatibility framework | UWP hosting in WinForms/WPF · Code sharing - .NET Standard | XAML Standard | Multi-targeting · What can Telerik UI do for you?
Join in as we explore all that’s new & shiny. This is one of the best times to be a .NET developer – let us show you why!

The Industrial IoT plays a pivotal role in transforming the industrial sector by connecting machines to record their usage patterns and thus deliver tangible benefits. This session will take you through the essence of partnership between DataRPM and OpenEdge which helps companies to harness all their data. It elucidates how Cognitive Predictive Maintenance technologies can help by predicting problems and tapping opportunities before they occur, or even developing entirely new service-based business models.

The cloud offers so much promise, but many cloud offerings can be notoriously difficult to navigate – even for an experienced developer. Kinvey makes the cloud easier. In this session, we’ll take a look at building our first application using Kinvey. We’ll explore features like the cloud datastore, authentication and serverless functions – all from the developer’s perspective (i.e. with code samples).

We’ll take you through how with the Corticon Business Rules Studio you can model, analyze, test and save business rules as executable decision services. You’ll see how when combined with the Corticon Business Rules Server you get a complete solution to create and manage decisions across the enterprise.

Mission-critical applications need to be flexible enough to continuously evolve as the business does. Escaping from the burden of legacy technology, or even just determining when best to pivot, can bring organizations to a standstill causing them to lose their competitive edge. Learn how Progress Services can help you create an application modernization strategy, optimize existing technology and help you develop unique OpenEdge skills and talent for the future. Customer success stories will also be shared.

As many developers know, accessibility needs to be top of mind when building website templates. This includes site navigation, CSS elements, form building and more. Come to this session where Siteimprove will walk you through how to make these components accessible using Kendo UI, ARIA and JavaScript.

The session emphasizes proven methods for scaling Sitefinity solutions by following the best practices for development, hosting and deployment enterprise-grade web applications. These techniques have been successfully applied for scaling Sitefinity-based solutions to meet the needs of both public-sector organizations and large enterprises.

Don't leap without a chute! As you migrate your apps to the latest web technologies, ensure that your app stays healthy with Test Studio. In this session we'll show you how to use Progress Test Studio to create maintainable no-code and low-code tests. With integration into your existing DevOps environment, your team can achieve and sustain an Agile approach.

Progress OpenEdge Pro2 replication provides you with the ability to load changes from your OpenEdge system into MSSQL or Oracle databases for easy BI and Analytics. We'll look at the different technologies in use and talk about the pros and cons of each approach. We’ll use a customer case study as an example of what Pro2 can do to help you unlock the data inside your OpenEdge database. We will also discuss the future direction of Pro2. This includes connecting to more data targets beyond MS SQL and Oracle. We may potentially show some of the UI overhaul happening right now.

Docker strengthens agile software practices for faster and more stable delivery of new features. In this session, you’ll discover how to use Containers with OpenEdge, including customization techniques and Progress' plans for native Docker support.

Hear from Sean Gunderson, co-founder of iTether Advocate, on how his PRO app is transforming the way treatment is delivered to patients struggling with addiction. Found out how his team used Progress Health Cloud to change utilized to utilize patient reported outcomes to manage chronic conditions.

Join us for this hands-on workshop where we will explore the various approaches available for exposing a REST API to your OpenEdge data and business logic. Determine which approach is most appropriate for different application types and use cases, including web and mobile development, B2B integration and BI/analytics. Gain first-hand insight into the design-time steps to implement each style of an OpenEdge REST Service, and touch on topics such as deployment, versioning, security, scalability and testing.

If you're thinking about embarking on an implementation or migration to PAS for OpenEdge, you don’t want to miss this tips and tricks session that provides the basis for a project plan to help avoid implementation pitfalls.

This workshop looks at how to effectively transform your OpenEdge application to deliver elegant web apps with the latest version of Kendo UI Builder.

Developers—take a deep dive into NativeChat technology. Join us to learn more about Cognitive Flow, Natural Language Processing, Conversational UI and all the components an intelligent chatbot requires. In this session you’ll also learn how to use AI to train a bot.

Today, ABL and SQL have disconnected security models with different philosophical approaches. Learn how we're unifying the two security models and what it will mean for your future updates.

With the data we’re generating every day now running into beyond humanly manageable proportions, the time has come for us to scale up. The need of the hour is to shift from a manual and reactive approach to a cognitive one, thus reducing the need for human intervention and facilitating agile decision-making. This session takes you through the journey of building valid Cognitive systems and applications to match up the scale and complexities of Industry 4.0. It also revalidates through industry examples that going the Cognitive route is no longer an option but a dire necessity to walk through the futuristic path of Industry 4.0

In this session we'll discuss why it's important to stay current with the latest version and how to maintain a smooth and streamlined upgrade process for Sitefinity applications. We'll go through the technical and business challenges for a project where New Venture Software upgraded a Sitefinity website from version 3.7 to 9.1, which are eight years apart.

Kendo UI Builder actually functions like a designer, app builder and code generator all in one. In this session, you'll learn all about what Kendo UI Builder is, how it works and what it can do for you to build rich web applications based on Kendo UI.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are key practices in a modern application development environment. Learn how at Progress we transformed our own practices to shorten QA cycles, improve quality and accelerate velocity.

In today’s world of horizontally scaled servers running in the cloud, it is more important to know the health of your application server, with the ability to remove and replace a VM before your users notice. There is no need to try and repair a misbehaving server when you can easily, and automatically replace it at the first sight of trouble. This presentation will detail how we created a health check service running on Tomcat that provides an easy and configurable way for load balancers to determine when a server needs to be taken out of service.

Many organizations struggle to realize the promise of enterprise mobility despite big investments, in large part due to the long release cycle for apps and the difficulty of getting users to update. What if you could deliver a constant stream of incremental updates to your users automatically instead? In this session you’ll learn how microapps, which are single-purpose and cross-platform apps designed to support a single step in a user’s workflow, can ensure employees and business partners have a unified and secure way to access data and complete workflows.

Adaptive applications need to serve users across many device channels, including desktop, web and mobile. Maintaining brand guidelines, sharing content and enforcing artifact consistency is difficult using traditional development processes. Learn how a headless CMS can make this process much easier to manage.

There are many approaches to an effective analytics strategy with OpenEdge. Two new DataDirect technologies, Project Sagamore and Hybrid Data Pipeline, unlock additional benefits—and do so with zero coding. Learn how to support your end-users desire to analyze OpenEdge data using their favorite tool, no matter what it is or where it runs.

This is not a presentation on big fines under the GDPR, the EU definition of personal data, or the importance of having a data protection officer. Instead, we will provide a pragmatic view of the GDPR that can be used to shape a compliance strategy for your website, will provide you with some critical questions to start asking today, and present potential solutions to consider for your compliance efforts after the 25th of May. While this presentation is not legal advice, it can certainly be used to inspire conversations with your own counsel and data protection leaders. 1.The Big Why. We will talk about the fundamentals to establish a pragmatic approach to your GDPR compliance efforts. 2.Are You Sure You Can Do That? We will talk about a very basic question that every business needs to consider and be able to answer because your customers, clients, and prospects will be asking you - and even might be checking your website for the answer. 3.One Web Page to Rule Them All (At Least for Data Privacy Purposes). Your Privacy Policy is the public face of your stance on data protection; we will talk about what should (and should not be there) along with some practical tips that privacy professionals look to when assessing your state of GDPR compliance. 4.In This Movie, the Fellowship of the GDPR Does Not End. Making it to May 26th should not be the end of GDPR compliance efforts for your website and we will discuss some steps and tools that you should consider as you enter the maintenance phase.

Learn how to ease the arduous task of batch processing vast amounts of data for regular reconciliation, analysis and auditing of rules. With Progress Corticon’s Advanced Data Connector (ADC), you are better equipped to manage queries and manipulate large data set results. We will provide an overview of batch use cases and options to address with Corticon.

With the recent introductions of ARKit on iOS and ARCore on Android, developers are using augmented reality to create a new wave of innovative applications—as well as a lot of really stupid stuff. We’ll demo some of those apps, and once that’s done we’ll talk about how the ARKit and ARCore APIs work and how you can use NativeScript to build some awesome augmented reality apps.

The latest version of Sitefinity has seen significant performance improvements for both our customers and partners to deploy and scale their Sitefinity based website. During this session, you’ll hear from our engineering team who constantly conduct performance tests. They will show you how to gain valuable performance improvements using Sitefinity and best practices in website setup and deployment.

Learn how Progress OpenEdge PdM Integrator Kit helps to combine the power of Progress DataRPM with the flexibility of Progress OpenEdge. Customers and partners will be able to detect equipment and machine anomalies that may lead to failure or operational issues, prioritize and predict which anomalies are important, and automate the response with OpenEdge. The result is an ideal proactive maintenance strategy that drives significant cost-savings, better business results and new revenue for you.

On May 25, 2018, non-compliance to GDPR could lead to large fines. Many companies will be seeking solutions that help them address the requirements of GDPR when renewing or procuring IT products and services. In this session, although we cannot assure your overall GDPR-compliance, as your technology partner we wish to provide you information and points of consideration as it relates to your OpenEdge applications to help you as you continue your GDPR journey.

Event-driven systems provide a real-time, scalable backbone for integration. See how Change Data Capture, introduced in OpenEdge 11.7, in conjunction with Apache Kafka and Hadoop, can deliver a forward-looking Lamba Architecture.

Orchestrating process flows, especially the integration of human tasks such as approval workflows, is common in many applications. Learn how to leverage OpenEdge Business Process Management to accelerate their development, and how to drive insight to improve business processes.

You need to target multiple mobile platforms and have deadlines to ship apps. You need to maximize code re-use across platforms with Xamarin technology stack. Stop re-inventing the UI wheel – Telerik UI for Xamarin is here to help.
Take a deep dive into building modern cross-platform Xamarin apps with Telerik UI for Xamarin. We’ll take an engineering perspective on what Telerik UI can do for you and how best to use our Xamarin UI controls. You’ll take away performance tuning tips, design suggestions and an inside look at product roadmaps. This will be an open conversation to help you be a more successful Xamarin developer.

In this session we'll present ways to integrate Test Studio into your DevOps environment, as well as your company culture. Also, we discuss how to leverage the Test Studio Runtime license to build out your test lab.

In this session, we’ll present a step-by-step guide to tracking a customer journey in DEC. We’ll explore topics like enabling the connector, adding form data, configuring contact properties, adding customer tracking such as button/link clicks, conversion actions, excluding external traffic, tracking multiple sites, and more.

Organizations are increasingly adopting REST APIs for mobile data access and to limit risk from data privacy laws such as GDPR by limiting duplication of sensitive customer data. Many enterprise systems do not publish mobile-friendly APIs. This session will contrast different options from Progress to provision REST APIs. Get an overview of options across native database REST services; standard OData services and RESTful services specifically designed for mobile apps.