Unify Newsletter May 2008

Message from the CEO

Todd Wille Unify President & CEOFiscal 2008 was a record year for Unify, paving the way for an ever greater Fiscal 2009. We will announce our financial results for the year ended April 30, 2008 on Tuesday, June 24. We have had an incredibly successful year, thanks to you, our loyal customers.

Taking a sneak peek into the new year, we have numerous product releases planned with new features and functionality driven by feedback from you. We are hard at work on the planned releases of Team Developer, SQLBase, NXJ, VISION and DataServer. We will host our annual DevCon events in EMEA, North America and Brazil starting in October. We have numerous customer visits and road shows planned before then. Additionally, we will continue our Webinar series for SQLBase, Team Developer, Composer and NXJ. These continue to be well attended and are based on topics that you tell us you want to hear.

I look forward to reporting our Q4 and year end results in the June newsletter. We want to continue to hear from you. Talk to your sales rep, your support rep, your partner or distributor, post on the Unify.com forums or email us at info@unify.com. Your input is important to us.

Todd Wille
President & CEO

In this issue:

Unify Resources

Leverage Your Existing Investments with a Migration Strategy

Do you need to bring legacy applications to .NET? Yet is the effort and extensive timeline involved with a rewrite overwhelming? Unify solutions migrate existing applications much quicker and at a less cost than an application rewrite.

Unify’s Composer for Lotus Notes and Sabertooth are application migration solutions that deliver results based on your objectives with minimal disruption to your business.

Unify’s Application Migration Solutions:

  • Quickly migrate existing applications to the Microsoft stack without a rewrite effort
    • Enable rapid adoption of the new technology
    • Implement and leverage a SOA architecture
    • Ease mergers and acquisitions integration of IT platforms
  • Deliver a production ready application on the new platform at a much lower cost than an application rewrite
  • Minimize end user disruption by delivering like for like applications
    • No end user training necessary for migrated applications, very fast deployment of the migrated applications

Unify Software Products:

  • Significantly reduced development time
    • Get faster return on investment
    • Be faster than the competition
    • Enable change, implement changes quicker
  • Enable mergers and acquisitions
    • Easier integration of diverse IT systems
  • Low maintenance cost through robust zero administration databases
    • Fast, no-training deployment
    • No maintenance operations, means very low support cost and easy deployment to users without IT knowledge
    • Robust “it just works” operations

Unify’s offerings help you  to leverage what you already have, achieve a return on investment and adopt new platforms while minimizing disruption to the business.   

Unify in the Clouds – with US Airways Magazine

 US Airways magazine journalist C. J. Prince writes about Unify’s CEO Todd Wille and the Company’s turnaround in the magazine’s May 2008 issue.

Read the US Airways magazine article.

Todd Wille Named American Business Awards Finalist

Unify announced that Todd Wille was nominated for the Best Turnaround Executive at the 6th annual Stevie® Awards to be held on June 12 in New York City.

Hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” (New York Post, April 27, 2005), the American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business.

Read the press release.

Unify Webinars

 Unify is hosting monthly webinars for Composer, NXJ, Team Developer and SQLBase. The webinars concentrate on various key features and provide in-depth discussion and demos in some cases.

Register for upcoming webinars.

All past webinars have been recorded and are available for you to view online or download.

Unify Closes Six New Composer Wins in Last Three Months

Composer for Lotus Notes was recently selected by two industry leading companies to migrate a complex Lotus Notes application, bringing the total number of pilot projects closed in the last three months to six. The first project is with a top five oil and gas company and the second is with a leading global insurance brokerage firm. For both projects, Unify will migrate a complex Lotus Notes application to the Microsoft .NET platform, while preserving the business logic and user interface, resulting in a like-for-like migration that minimizes end-user disruption.

Read more.

Composer for Lotus Notes Enables Rapid Adoption of Microsoft Platforms While Minimizing Disruption to End Users. Composer for Lotus Notes is a software + services solution that delivers like-for-like, production-to-production migration of Lotus Notes applications to the Microsoft stack.  To learn more about Composer email Composer@unify.com.

 

DataServer and VISION for Microsoft Windows Vista

In anticipation of the inroads Windows Vista is beginning to make into corporate IT, Unify will provide Windows Vista support for DataServer and VISION with new releases planned for Summer 2008.

European DevCon Announcement

Mark your calendar for the Unify European Developers Conference to be held in Munich, Germany, October 27-29, 2008.

Stay tuned more information coming soon.

 

 

Team Developer Mobile Applications

Team Developer Mobile ApplicationsIt is easy to leverage Team Developer applications on mobile devices to speed up business processes. Many Unify customers use mobile devices to allow warehouse automation, mobile healthcare and other mobile application usage to improve and accelerate customer or internal processes. There are two base technologies that are being used to implement Team Developer mobile solutions.

Solution 1 is totally based on Team Developer technology, where mobile clients use a browser-based Team Developer application that is hosted on a Team Developer Web Application Server. Creating a Team Developer Web application for mobile devices is quick and easy.

Solution 2 leverages Team Developer COM server business logic and uses Windows mobile applications on the mobile Odyssey Softwaredevice. The mobile devices can talk to the Team Developer COM servers through a third party product from Odyssey Software called CeFusion. For example warehouse workers using a mobile scanner device can scan goods and automatically update a central inventory database. Windows Mobile devices can talk to central Team Developer COM servers carrying the business processes.

 

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