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TechWave 2010 Wrap-Up

SUG-TX Meeting

August 24, 2010

Don Clayton, President, SUG-TX

Cindy Bean, Secretary, SUG-TX

Jeff Wayt, Vice President, SUG-TX

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TechWave 2010

Recap of TechWave 2010 Activities • Keynotes

• Plenary Sessions

• DBA Highlights

• Developer Highlights

Presentations Archive

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But First of All… The Party!

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TechWave 2010 - Keynotes

Opening General Session: Innovation and the Unwired Enterprise

John Chen, Chairman, CEO, and President, Sybase, Inc.

John sat on stage with Merv Adrian, IT Market Strategy, discussing the acquisition of

Sybase by SAP. They polled the audience on the future of TechWave being separate

of part of SAP Tech ED. Audience was split about 50/50. John said they may keep it

separate for awhile but said he sees them merging at some time.

The Tuesday edition of the daily Newsletter proclaimed:

CEO Promises No Roadmap Changes

No need to worry – the Sybase products you rely on are here to stay in the new SAP era.

―There are no roadmap changes at all, ―Sybase CEO John Chen said during

yesterday’s keynote. This goes for Sybase’s products in every one of its three major

product and services lines: data management, analytics, tools, and mobility. Chen

also said that price hikes are not on the horizon, and that he plans to stay on to lead

Sybase as long as possible.

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TechWave 2010 - Keynotes

Technical Keynote: Distributed Data and the Unwired Enterprise

Dr. Raj Nathan, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Sybase, Inc.

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TechWave 2010 - Innovator Awards

Swiss Medical Group Swiss Medical Group (SMG) is a leading prepaid health care group in Argentina, with over 20,000 professionals and over 3,000 diagnosis and treatment providers. To address the roadblocks resulting from explosive growth of patient information and increases in queries, SMG migrated its databases to Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise 15 Cluster Edition, moved its corporate data center to an external provider and changed the hardware architecture. Consequently, the company has doubled processing capacity and now offers fast delivery of information when it is needed.

Raiffeisen Bank Aval Raiffeisen Bank Aval is a leading and top-rated financial firm in Ukraine. Prior to their use of Sybase IQ analytics server, the bank suffered from sluggish reporting response times due to lack of access to comprehensive historical data and labor-consuming report creation. To address these issues, the bank built a data storage solution based on Sybase IQ, collecting data from various transactional servers. Sybase IQ’s performance allows the bank to aggregate large volumes of data and complete complex reporting at a low maintenance cost.

msc mobile msc mobile is a software company developing and implementing mobile SAP business processes. The company developed MOMENTUM, a mobile field service solution for SAP, utilizing the industry-leading enterprise mobile platform — the Sybase Unwired Platform. This implemention has significantly improved productivity as field technicians can access work orders, document activities at the point of inspection and synchronize with SAP ERP systems. Meanwhile, it has reduced equipment downtime as supervisors can more effectively view and manage ongoing maintenance activities.

Everything Everywhere Limited Everything Everywhere Limited, formed through the merger of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK, is the UK’s biggest communications company, with a combined customer base of over 30 million people and 700 retail stores across the country. The companies evolved the Intelligent Routeback solution which can now be offered by Sybase 365, a solution which leverages Sybase 365’s unrivalled reach to worldwide operators and its reliable throughput. This new messaging platform has enabled the company to increase revenues, reduce operational costs and improve the customer experience. As a result, Everything Everywhere set aggressive revenue forecasts for the year, and currently expects to exceed these targets.

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TechWave 2010 – Plenary Sessions

Plenary Session 1 • Data Management – Shifting Perspectives from Data Centers to

Data-Centric

• Enterprise Mobility – Enabling Enterprise Mobility On Your Own Terms

• Messaging – The Next 4 Billion: Wireless Messaging Evolves to an All IP Ecosystem

Plenary Session 2 • Analytics – Better, Faster, Smarter: Analyze That!

• Application Development Tools – PowerBuilder 12: The Hottest Thing Yet to Rock .NET!

• mCommerce – Customer Engagement, mCommerce + Mobile CRM: The Convenience of Anytime, Anywhere Access

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TechWave 2010 - DBA Highlights

• Technical Sessions

– Data Management Track

• Adaptive Server Enterprise and Replication Server (DATASE)

• Advantage Database Server (DATADS)

• SQL Anywhere (DATSQL)

– Analytics (ANA)

• Sybase IQ

• Sybase ETL

• Sybase RAP

• CEP (Aleri Streaming Platform)

• The ASE/RS Data Management and Analytics tracks each had 2

sessions most of the time

• Mostly Sybase speakers, including engineers, with some customer

representation for case studies

– usually a few slides during a presentation with Sybase speaker

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TechWave 2010 - DBA Highlights

ASE/ASE CE Presentations: • DATASE2: Tips, Tricks and Little-known Features in Recent Adaptive

Server Enterprise (ASE) Versions (Rob Verschoor, Sybase Evangelist)

• DATASE4: Preventing Data Breaches in ASE with Encrypted Columns and Advanced Security Features (Jeff Pryslak, Sr. Manager Engineering Development)

• DATASE7: Understanding and Troubleshooting Query Plans in ASE 15 (Peter Schneider, Technical Director, Engineering)

• DATASE9: Techniques to Identify Poorly Performing SQL in Production (Peter Schneider, Technical Director, Engineering)

• DATASE10: Performance & Tuning of ASE Using Sybase Control Center (Peter Dorfman, Sr. Development Engineer)

• DATASE21/23: Techniques to Identify Poorly Configured and Tuned Production ASE & CE Servers Part 1 and 2 (Jeff Tallman, Sr. Architect Engineer, and Chris Brown, Sr. Architect Engineer)

• DATASE25: Future Directions and Release Roadmaps for ASE (Raj Rathee, Product Manager) Note: Slides not available

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TechWave 2010 - DBA Highlights

Replication Server Presentations: • DATASE29/30: Replication Server Performance Diagnostics Using

Monitors and Counters Part 1 and 2 (Greg Carter, Sr. Software

Engineer)

• DATASE12: Troubleshooting Replication Server Environments

(Annette Kirkpatrick, Sr. Product Support Engineer)

• DATASE16: Performance & Tuning of Replication Server Using

Sybase Control Center (Peter Dorfman, Sr. Development Engineer)

• DATASE27: What’s New in Replication Server 15.5 and Future

Directions (Chris Huston, Engineering Director) Note: Slides not

available

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TechWave 2010 - DBA Highlights

Sybase IQ Presentations: • ANA13: New Capability: Real-time Replication into Sybase IQ (Chris

Huston, Engineering Director)

• ANA11: New Capabilities in Sybase IQ 15.1 and 15.2 (Joydeep Das, Director Product Management and Yiwen Huang, Staff Software Engineer)

• ANA8: Migrating from Sybase IQ 12 to 15 (Joe Shaffner, Regional Area Technical Director)

• ANA6: Sybase IQ Multiplex Deep Dive – How Does Multiplex Multi_Writer Work? (Steve Kirk, Technical Director Engineering)

• ANA3: Performance Tuning and Monitoring: Debugging Performance Issues in Sybase IQ and Operating Systems (Mark Mumy, Principal Systems Consultant)

• ANA12: Sybase IQ Future Directions (Joydeep Das, Director Product Management and Yiwen Huang, Staff Software Engineer) Note: Slides not available

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TechWave 2010 - DBA Highlights

Overall Thoughts • Good technical sessions, sometimes hard to choose

• No call for papers, Sybase controlled all session content but did invite

a few customers/partners to participate in some sessions

• Included employees from their engineering, support, pre-sales, and

professional services groups so speakers had good technical skills

• Better, more content than last year but still not to the level of the

larger TechWave’s in Las Vegas, Orlando, and San Diego

• Have to wait and see what happens to TechWave and SAP Tech-Ed

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Developer Session Descriptions

Session ID Title Description

DEV1 Holy .NET Implementation! Review the NET

Stock Trader application – in PowerBuilder!

This session will provide a high level review of the

PowerBuilder 12 .NET implementation of Microsoft's Stock

Trader reference application. You'll see key features and

gain an understanding of how PowerBuilder is the easiest

and most productive way to build WPF applications.

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DEV2 Dive into WPF: Binding 3rd Party WPF Controls

to DataWindow Columns

Not only can you now use custom WPF controls in

PowerBuilder, not only can you use them in DataWindow

Objects…you can bind them to result sets too! In this

session, we’ll show various base WPF controls and 3rd

party WPF controls being used in DataWindow Objects and

how their properties can be mapped to, and manipulate,

DataWindow buffer columns.

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DEV3 Getting your XAML on! Using PowerBuilder’s

XAML Editor

You can admit it. You export your DataWindow syntax,

tweak it, enhance it, and you like it! Take it to the next

level with XAML, the markup syntax for WPF. Learn how to

use the XAML Editor to tweak, refine, and enhance the

presentation layer of your PowerBuilder WPF applications.

As a PowerBuilder developer, you don't need to know

XAML, but if you do, it's truly the icing on the cake. And,

that's the kind of developer you know you are!

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DEV4 Get your XAML on! Using PowerBuilder and

Expression Blend Together

WPF is all about creating a rich User Experience. Come see

how Expression Blend, Microsoft's WPF design tool, helps

you to build powerful and sophisticated PowerBuilder user

interfaces. Live the dream with PowerBuilder and WPF.

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Developer Session Descriptions

Session ID Title Description

DEV5 How I Migrated to PB 12.NET (Customer presentation) This highly interactive session will present one customer's journey

migrating a PowerBuilder 11.5 Win32 application to WPF. This is

your backstage pass for all the tips, tricks, nuances, and how-to's

that will help you take the leap to WPF. Get behind the scenes

information on how to replace MDI with 3rd party WPF Ribbons

and Docking panels, and watch the amazing transformation from

Win32 to WPF that ONLY Sybase PowerBuilder delivers!

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DEV6 Start the party! Third party controls in PowerBuilder

.NET

Third party WPF components make it quick and easy to enhance

the look and feel of your PowerBuilder applications. This session

will show you how to install, configure, and use third party WPF

components with PowerBuilder .NET.

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DEV7 Getting down with .NET – In-depth review of .NET

language enhancements

As a .NET language, PowerBuilder 12 supports the Microsoft

Common Language Specification (CLS.) We'll review the CLS,

learn how to utilize external .NET resources, how to create .NET

Consumer Role compatible applications using the PowerBuilder 12

Classic IDE, and how to create .NET compatible Extenders using

the PowerBuilder .NET IDE.

No presentation

DEV8 PB: The Real World. How I went from win32 to .NET

with PB

Only Sybase takes you all the way from Win32 to WPF! Come with

us on a deep dive exploration of Microsoft's Stock Trader

reference application - built in PowerBuilder!

No presentation

DEV9 REAL Intellisense and Autoscripting in PowerBuilder

.NET

The PowerBuilder .NET IDE provides developers with a number of

productivity enhancements including a more powerful

autoscripting feature called Intellisense. This session will

demonstrate all the ways Intellisense makes the application

development process easier than ever.

No presentation

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Developer Session Descriptions

Session ID Title Description

DEV10 I’m a WPF Developer: taking a Win32 application to

.NET

Calling all WPF developers: Yes, that's you! We are going to roll

up our sleeves and take a Win32 application and migrate it to

WPF using PowerBuilder .NET. Come learn examine the

substantial work that PowerBuilder .NET performs for you in

converting some Win32 features to their WPF equivalents.

DEV11 How to Rock .NET Part 1: Inheriting from C# classes

in a PowerBuilder .NET application.

Only PowerBuilder .NET allows developers to inherit from both

visual and nonvisual .NET classes; that's technology so hot that

it's patent-pending! Get hands on experience inheriting and

extending .NET classes with Powerscript.

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DEV12 How to Rock .NET Part 2: Leveraging PB .NET classes

in VisualStudio

Reuse is the name of the game and this session will show you

how to take your business logic, coded in PowerBuilder NVOs, and

deploy it as .NET assemblies that can be used in a variety of

applications coded in other .NET languages.

DEV13 How to Rock .NET Part 3: Digging into the .NET

Framework to enhance your PowerBuilder WPF

applications

The .NET Framework provides a plethora of features and services

- for developers who know how to use it. This session will show

you what you need to know about the .NET Framework so you

can take your PowerBuilder applications to the next level.

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DEV14 Is there anybody out there? Communication via WCF

and PB

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the standard for

communication in .NET. Gain real world, hands on experience

using the WCF Client Proxy wizard to invoke web services from

your PowerBuilder WPF applications.

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DEV15 Fun with the PB Debugger Debugging can be fun! Check out this tour of what's new in the

PowerBuilder .NET debugger, and also see what's been ported

over from PowerBuilder Classic. We'll show you the cool and

powerful new features that PowerBuilder can now leverage via the

Visual Studio shell.

Download Presentation

DEV16 Enhancement request session Join Product Management and the Evangelist team in this open

forum session where developers can request and discuss future

product enhancements. Don't miss this opportunity to not only

have your voice heard, but also learn from other members of the

PowerBuilder Community.

No presentation

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Proceedings

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TechWave 2010 – Presentations Archive

Sybase Developer Network (SDN) • http://www.sybase.com/techwave/TWpresentationarchive

• Requires MySybase login (free)

• Make sure Developer role is in your profile

• Most presentations are there except sessions on future plans, etc.

• Plenary Sessions not loaded yet (as of 8/24)

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Next Month’s Meeting (September 28th)

Meet Scott Walz, Senior Director of Product

Management at Embarcadero

ERStudio, (with a discussion of how it compares

to PowerDesigner)

DBArtisian, DB Change Manager and DB

Optimizer

Hear a discussion about the SDLC using

Embarcadero tools and technologies,

including their .NET application development

strategy.

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Thank you.

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