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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

PBTV - May 2013

Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
May, 2013
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
at 8:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) - 17h00 CET (Paris)

Test Automation for PowerBuilder Applications
This presentation will provide details and demonstration of comprehensive test support for the DataWindow and other PB objects. It will also feature the step-based approach to building manual and automated tests to maximize reuse and minimize test maintenance. Automated testing support for PowerBuilder applications has been in demand and Zeenyx Software is happy to announce that support for versions 11.x and 12.x is now available in AscentialTest.
Presenter: Brian Le Suer
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Appeon Mobile
Appeon has announced the GA of Appeon Mobile! We've had a number of Appeon Mobile webinars building up to this announcement, and in case you have missed any of them you can check them out below in our archives:
How to Develop Mobile Apps with Appeon Mobile
Installing Appeon Mobile in less than 3 minutes
Appify Your UI: Designing a Mobile User Experience With PowerBuilder


Check out the archive of past webinars

Regards ... Chris

Friday, May 3, 2013

Appeon 2013 - Product Release


** SUPER Hot News **

Appeon Announces General Availability of Appeon Mobile


Hong Kong - May 3, 2013 – Appeon® Corporation today announced the general availability of Appeon Mobile, the first cross-OS native-technology MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) for SAP developers.  Appeon Mobile works with most SAP technology infrastructure products, including SAP PowerBuilder, NetWeaver, Afaria, SQL Anywhere, Adaptive Server Enterprise, IQ and HANA.  Unlike typical MEAP, Appeon Mobile is powered by native technology that delivers the best performance, memory management, application features, and user interface.  Appeon Mobile is also the first MEAP to deliver new multi-tasking user interface paradigm that empowers users to work with multiple screens of a single application in an intuitive and familiar manner.

“SAP PowerBuilder is the easiest and most productive IDE I have ever laid eyes on,” said Armeen Mazda, CEO, Appeon Corporation.  “We chose to leverage PowerBuilder for the design-time of Appeon Mobile so we could truly make building mobile apps a piece of cake.  This allowed us to focus our engineering efforts on the performance and features.  Our early adopters confirm that Appeon Mobile is superior in performance and features to popular mobile frameworks, such as Titanium, Phone Gap, and Sencha.”  Appeon Mobile enables SAP developers to rapidly build mobile applications with the PowerBuilder IDE.
 Existing programming skills as well as existing code and DataWindows can be leveraged.  Now mobile applications can be built in just weeks instead of months using one development tool for all popular mobile platforms: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.
 

Appeon Mobile Features

From the PowerBuilder IDE, Appeon Mobile generates native mobile applications that deploy universally to all supported mobile platforms. DataWindows, nested reports, and many rich PowerBuilder functionalities previously unimaginable on mobile devices can be at the users’ fingertips. These rich mobile applications are database-driven, powered by either a Java or .NET middleware and is compatible with leading commercial databases, including SAP, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. Server-side integration is also supported with native Java or .NET technology.
  • Powerful Desktop-like Apps – Develop powerful data-driven business apps with virtually the same level of functionality as traditional desktop applications, plus take advantage of mobile functionality, such as GPS, camera, microphone, etc.
  • Codeless UI Resizing – Adapt applications, quickly and easily, to display properly on any mobile device without having to modify any code or perform any calculations.
  • Multitasking User Interface – Take advantage of the highly productive MDI multitasking user interface on mobile devices, which is uniquely offered in a familiar yet touch optimized manner.
  • Cross-OS Native Mobile – Deploy a SINGLE code set as native mobile apps to leading mobile OS (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), even if using the mobile device SDK (camera, GPS, printer, etc.).
  • Always Up-to-Date – Keep apps automatically up-to-date (including on iOS) without any additional client software or user intervention.
  • Cross-platform Server – Deploy to either leading Java or .NET application servers as well as leading public clouds powered by Amazon, Microsoft, VMWare or Rackspace.

 

Availability & Pricing

Appeon Mobile is now available for purchase from Appeon Corporation and authorized Appeon distributors and partners worldwide.  Development licenses are available at a cost of $850us / developer.  Production server licenses depend on the # of users, and can be as low as $20us / user.  The license fees are one-time and an unlimited number of applications can be deployed to the server.

Appeon Corporation is offering a special worldwide promotion for a limited time.  Customers that purchase Appeon Mobile before June 30, 2013 will be entitled to a 30% discount.  OEM partnership is also available for qualified software vendors.  Please check with Appeon Corporation or authorized Appeon partners to receive a price quote.

Additional Resources

Visit the Appeon Mobile Website.
See Appeon Mobile in action.
Read the Appeon Mobile DataSheet.

 

Regards ... Chris

Thursday, May 2, 2013

PB Survey 2013

** Hot News **

PowerBuilder Worldwide Survey 2013


The fusion of Sybase and SAP, and the upcoming release of PB15 are currently raising a number of questions about PowerBuilder.


With this survey you'll learn more about:


The architecture of current & future PB Apps (Client/Server, Web, Mobile...)
The use of PowerBuilder versions: Who’s still using PB9? Who has moved to PB12.5?
The most awaited developments in PB


Have Your Say
Tell us about your PowerBuilder usage and expectations, and help guide the future of PowerBuilder.


Submit your answer and access the previous results!

Thank you for supporting the PB Community!  

Regards ... Chris