Unify Developers Conferences

North American DevCon Announcement
November 12-13, 2008

Mark your calendar for the second annual North American DevCon in Sacramento, Calif. This exciting two-day conference includes corporate and technical presentations, in-depth product demonstrations, and a first-hand look at the latest product releases. This is your opportunity to network with executives and exchange ideas with other customers.

European DevCon Reminder

• Do you want to know more about Team Developer 5.2 and want to be one of the first to see the new releases live?
• Do you want to learn more about SQLBase 11.5 and the brand new Command Center?
• Are you interested in how customers successfully migrated to Team Developer 5.1 and want to hear more about their story?
• Are you interested in our future product plans and want to be part of our product round table discussions?
• Do you need to save costs and improve ROI by maximum re-use of your investment?
• Do you need technical assistance and hands-on exercises to maximize your IT investments?

If you are interested in any one of the above topics then you definitely should not miss one of the upcoming Developer Conferences! Mark your calendar for:

October 24, 2008 Nordic Developers Conference in Stockholm/Sweden

October 27-29, 2008 Central European Developers Conference in Munich/Germany

Contact Ines Piech for more pre-information on all two conferences or stay-tuned – the invitation brochure with all details will be sent to you soon!

In this issue:

• Unify Developers Conferences
• Team Developer 5.2 At a Glance
• SQLBase 11.5 Sneak Preview
• NXJ BPM, the Structured Way to Modern Business Applications
• Use NXJ to Provide SQLBase Data to Mobile Devices
• SQLBase 11.0.2 SP3 Now Available!
• SQLBase Mobile Survey
• JAT Software Secures Sensitive Tax Reporting Data with SQLBase Treasury
• Monthly Webinar Series

Unify Resources

• Team Developer 5.1 Downloads
• Composer for Lotus Notes
• Sabertooth Resources
• Unify News
• Unify Webinars
• Unify Events

NXJ BPM, the Structured Way to Modern Business Applications

Convergence and synthesis often produce something radically new. Years ago, moving pictures and radio converged, and the result: television. Television forever changed the world.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a synthesis of process representation and collaboration technologies that removes obstacles blocking the execution of management intentions. BPM is therefore the convergence of management theory – total quality management, Six Sigma, business engineering and general systems thinking – combined with modern technologies – application development, systems integration, computation, service-oriented architecture, workflow, transaction management, XML and Web Services.

For the first time in business history, this synthesis makes it possible for companies to do what they have wanted to do all along – manage their business processes with great agility. A company lacking vision cannot benefit from BPM, but those who have this vision may now use BPM to execute their strategy with speed and precision. The radical breakthrough lies in using process calculus to define the digital representation of business processes, the basis for new corporate information assets.

NXJ Enterprise has powerful a BPM engine that allows you to graphically design the process flow. Process work units are given roles to assign work units to specific groups in an organization. For example only Sales people can approve incoming orders. All application functionality to support roles is built into NXJ Enterprise and can be used without programming application code. Powerful admin tools let developers and managers view how many active processes there are and what steps these processes are currently at. The admin capabilities help management improve execution of internal processes by finding and removing bottlenecks in the workflow.

Source: Smith and Finger “Business Process Management the Third Wave” Meghan-Kiffer Press 2007

Use NXJ to Provide SQLBase Data to Mobile Devices

NXJ Web Services provide a powerful and easy to use interface for Mobile devices, regardless of their Operating System and system architecture. For instance, Apple’s new iPhone 3G or Windows Mobile computers can easily access NXJ Web Services. For Windows Mobile, the .NET Compact Framework is used to call NXJ Web Services.

For iPhone, Apple xcode development environment is utilized to write iPhone applications that access NXJ Web Services.

NXJ offers powerful Web Services generation wizards. With just a few mouse clicks, the NXJ Web Services wizards can create a powerful data Web Service for SQLBase tables. Just tell the NXJ Web Services wizard what table to use. The wizard then creates Web Services that provides interfaces to all database activities like Update, Insert, Delete and Select for the chosen table and all its dependent tables.

See how easy that is, follow the step by step guide below:

Step 1: Choose the master table for the Web Service

Step 2: Choose columns of master and detail tables

Step 3: NXJ has generated the fully functional Web Service

Step 4: Deploy the Web Service to the NXJ App Server (One mouse click)

Step 5: Use Apple xcode or .NET Compact Framework to create applications that call the NXJ Web Service from iPhone 3G or Windows Mobile computers

Step 6: Deploy your applications to your mobile workforce

SQLBase Treasury Customer Success Profile:
JAT Software Secures Sensitive Tax Reporting Data with SQLBase Treasury

JAT Software specializes in year-end tax form solutions for human resource, payroll, and benefits organizations of large and small companies. They have more than fifteen years of experience delivering payroll support systems, specializing in year-end tax reporting software applications.

PRINTVIEW PLUS was originally built on Unify’s SQLBase database, so when JAT learned of the introduction of a secure, encrypted version, SQLBase Treasury, it was a natural fit. “The rock-solid encryption of SQLBase Treasury is the perfect solution for protecting the sensitive employee data of our customers,” said Craig Garritanto, vice president of Operations, JAT Software.

Read the complete success story.

More about SQLBase Treasury.

Unify Webinars

As part of our commitment to ensure our customers’ success, we are offering complimentary webinars on our products and solutions. Each webinar is given by a senior developer/development manager and last approximately 30 minutes, including a Q&A period. The next webinar series begins in September.

If you have topics you would like to see covered in future webinars, email them to Ge Moua.

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