Unify Newsletter February 2009

Unify Acquires Oracle Application Migration Company CipherSoft

Unify has acquired CipherSoft Inc., a leading Oracle partner for modernization and migration of Oracle Forms applications. The acquisition further expands Unify’s portfolio of application migration solutions to address the large number of enterprises using Oracle Forms applications and complements Unify’s application modernization strategy, which includes its Composer for Lotus Notes and Composer Sabertooth migration solutions.

CipherSoft specializes in providing legacy Oracle application upgrades and conversions. They offer several migration paths, allowing Oracle application users the option to upgrade from legacy versions of Oracle Forms, 3.0, 4.5 , 6/6i, to the latest supported version, Oracle 10g, or allowing customers to migrate from Oracle Forms to Java and Oracle’s Application Development Framework (ADF).

“We are extremely excited to have the CipherSoft team join forces with Unify and expand our application modernization portfolio,” said Todd Wille, CEO of Unify. “Enterprises running older versions of Oracle Forms need a path forward to today’s technology whether its Oracle Forms 10g or ADF or a new standardized business application running on Java. CipherSoft’s Exodus is the leading Oracle Forms migration product on the market and the only one to be validated by Oracle for Forms to Java/J2EE migration.

“CipherSoft is a well run, profitable, company that will benefit from being pushed through our strong channel of over 250 partners and resellers. With the addition of Exodus, our channel partners and direct sales force will now be able to offer modernization solutions for Lotus Notes, Oracle Forms and Team Developer, further expanding our product reach and addressable market,” concluded Wille. CipherSoft will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unify.

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CipherSoft Website

In this issue:

Unify Resources

Mark Your Calendars for the February Webinars:
Team Developer – Web Services - Wednesday, Feb. 18
SQLBase – Command Center – Thursday, Feb. 19
NXJ – NXJ for Team Developer Users – Tuesday, Feb. 24

March 3-8 CeBIT, Hannover Germany:
Visit our stand at CeBIT hall 6, F 34

Latin American DevCons 2009:
Mexico City, Mexico – March 10 – in conjunction with ACSISA

Lima, Peru – March 12 - in conjunction with BSI

Buenos Aires, Argentina – March 17 – in conjunction with SAM Sistemas

Sao Paulo, Brazil - March, 19 – in conjunction with Triad Systems.

 

Team Developer 5.1 SP 5 Now Available!

Service Pack 5 (SP5) for Team Developer 5.1 is now available. SP5 delivers many enhancements for the migration of existing TD applications. Areas of enhancement include the application GUI, MDI Windows and database routers.

Download Team Developer 5.1 Service Pack 5

 

Padersoft Success Story

SE Padersoft is a leading supplier of ERP merchandise and document management systems, headquartered in Paderborn, central Germany, with offices also in Munich. The company is active in the fields of consulting, integration, customizing and support with 20 years' experience in the development and marketing of ERP merchandise management systems. The company excels in designing industry-independent trading solutions suitable for the full range of company sizes from retailers, wholesalers, chain stores to large-scale enterprises.

For over 10 years, SE Paderborn has been using Unify's 4GL development tool, VISION, with much success to compile its ERP solution UniTrade. Unify's VISION is an object-oriented, graphical-based development tool for developing and making highly scalable, function-packed, n-tier business applications. UniTrade itself is a standardized, powerful trading solution that covers the entire range of operational and informational tasks within a trading company. In addition to cash management, incoming and outgoing goods, it also integrates controlling, management of business processes, workflow-controlled data exchange between HQs and branches, and much more.

The screenshot shows a typical application situation from the world of building material suppliers, built on VISION.

Over 10,000 users value the extremely wide range of functions, speed and stability of UniTrade. Execution speed is a crucial factor not only for UniTrade users, but for SE Padersoft as well as the programming speed is a significant competitive advantage. The BTM framework contained in VISION shortens product launch time considerably. Unify's software allows them to concentrate on writing the solution instead of on the underlying technology.

"We decided in favor of the ACCELL integrated development environment from Unify as long ago as 1987. VISION enabled us to migrate the source code to the Windows environment in 1998. These decisions have played crucial roles in the success of our company today."
Arnold Katerle-Böhm
CEO of SE Padersoft GmbH & Co. KG

Read the complete story.

February TD, SQLBase and NXJ Webinars

Team Developer – WIN API - Wednesday, Feb. 18
SQLBase – Command Center – Thursday, Feb. 19
NXJ – NXJ for Team Developer Users – Tuesday, Feb. 24

 

Latin America DevCons Coming 2009

Unify is sponsoring 4 DevCons in Latin America throughout the month of March:

At each event, Unify will showcase the latest releases of Team Developer 5.2, Report Builder 5.2, SQLBase 11.5, NXJ 12 and its newest product Q (formerly Quest). During this day-long event, we will provide technical information and product roadmaps, present live product demos and introduce customers who will present case studies of NXJ, Team Developer and SQLBase. Visit Unify’s website for event details for these 4 cities: 

            
  • Mexico City, Mexico           Tuesday, March 10 – in conjunction with its Mexican Partner, ACSISA
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  • Lima, Peru                         Thursday March 12 - in conjunction with BSI
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  • Buenos Aires, Argentina    Tuesday, March 17 – in conjunction with SAM Sistemas
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  • Sao Paulo, Brazil               Thursday, March 19 – in conjunction with Brazilian Distributor, Triad Systems.
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If you’re interested in attending or would like more information, please email the respective Latin American contacts provided or send a note to us at info@unify.com.

CeBIT 2009

The countdown has begun: 20 days and CeBIT will once again be opening its gates in Hannover, Germany, March 3-8, 2009. Not only “Take your business to the next level” is one of the mottos this year, but also “application modernization” is on the hot topic list. Come and see how Unify’s products and solutions can help you to renew and not rewrite your legacy applications, including:

  • BRAND NEW! CipherSoft Exodus automatically converts Oracle Forms and PL/SQL code to Java. Exodus is the #1 migration product on the market and the only one of its kind to be validated by Oracle for Forms to Java (J2EE) Migration.
  • NXJ Developer 12 - for the development of Web-based business applications with latest Web 2.0 technology such as AJAX and Web services for internet applications
  • NXJ Enterprise 12 - allows project teams to visually design all business processes and offers great tools for the rapid development of RIAs which are closely tied into the design of the business processes
  • NXJ Enterprise 12 - for Business Process Management (BPM)
  • Team Developer 5.2 – fast development of attractive and modern-looking business applications
  • ACCELL/SQL 8.5 - a powerful development suite for UNIX server-based business applications
  • SQLBase 11.5 - more performance through multi-processor support, new administration tool and central maintenance
  • DataServer - high-performance database for Unix and Windows
  • Q – modern data management and easy reporting for end-users
  • Composer - for migrating Lotus Notes applications to .NET and SharePoint

We would be glad to give you more detailed information about this year's topics and products and would like to show you how to take your business to the next level! Visit our stand at CeBIT in hall 6, F 34 and we will show you our solutions. Or stop by our stand and recover with a strong cup of coffee.

We look forward to your visit!

To retain your personal visitor ticket and schedule an appointment, please email: ines.piech@unify.com.

We also would like to invite you to our speaking engagement this year about “Business Process Management as approach for the development of modern web applications” on March 4, 2009, 12:00-13:00 in the CeBIT Convention Center, Room “Hamburg”. Please register with: ines.piech@unify.com

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