Florida 2018 - 23^rd to 26^th April, 2018

International Spectrum registration. Open during the full conference hours.

Join Nathan Rector, President of International Spectrum, for the conference welcome address. See what the MultiValue market and International Spectrum has been doing this past year and what the plans are for the future.

File design, programming, search techniques, indexing, and multi-threaded processing can dramatically improve processing speed when using your MultiValue database. This session offers proven solutions for optimizing your applications to take full advantage of your computer's resources.

With the changes to Windows 2012 and 2016, and the changes in Windows 10, Microsoft is pushing hard to replace the traditional "command prompt (cmd)" with PowerShell. PowerShell provides Windows Admins more functionality, features, and command complexity than existed before.

This session will provide an Introduction to PowerShell and how to use it. There will also be examples on how to create PowerShell scripts that interact with your MultiValue Databases.

Every year the landscape of IT changes - new products, new platforms and new risks. Governments enact laws and regulations to bring order - new ones arriving somewhere almost daily. Let's review what is going on in the coming year with governance and compliance requirements, the threats that they address and things you can do to stay ahead of the wave.

We have been using the same formulas for over 25 years to forecast and manage our inventory and manufacturing, but these formulas have aged to the point that they may not be accurate anymore. New AI and BI analytics have been developed, but are you using them?

Join us to see the new forecasting and optimization models that you should be using.

Code Review and Coding for Testing are techniques that can offer quality and productivity improvements to any organization; large or small. Both are gaining traction in every industry and development platform, MultiValue need not be an exception.

This session will explore code reviewing - what it is, how it's done and what it can bring and will review ways to develop with function, unit, and white-box testing in mind.

Do you need to connect to a service or business partner, but are not sure how? Are you being told "no, you can't do that."

If you are, then you need to join this session. Kevin will talk about what tools are available to you to make everything connection and integration.

He will also talk about how to use the tools you already have to future proof and plan for the next 10 years of your business application.

How to use Workflow software to perform Business Process Management. A quick look at Wexflow, an open source workflow program and how to interface Wexflow with a multivalue environment. Wexflow is an open source C# program that works with Windows, Linux (using Mono), Mac OS and Android operating systems. It provides for graphical building of a workflow, graphical management of a workflow and an extensible architecture to allow extensions for different BPM needs.

Workflow software Advantages include:

• Automate Repetitive tasks
• Better manage workflow
• Improve BASIC Code portability
• Integrate third party functionality
• Reduce Errors

While much of the computer industry is marred by a bias against older developers, our segment has the inverse problem - a majority of our developers are approaching retirement, and there are too few younger developers learning from them - who will take over the technical leadership roles and day-to-day work our current staff will be gradually leaving? How do we attract, motivate, and retain people in their 20's to 40's so we don't hit a brick wall - or rather a gaping chasm - within the next 3 to 10 years?

The obvious answer might appear to be that we need to move to the "cool" technologies that attract younger developers, but our multi-value database systems have a distinct business proposition we should be loath to abandon - it's wildly efficient to staff them. Switching to more "cool" technologies could easily result in tripling your staffing costs!

What steps do you need to take to continue getting the solid cost / benefit ratio your current multi-value shop provides? Come for a discussion of this important topic.

This session will talk about the MultiValue database and application design — what works, what is optimal, and how it should and shouldn’t be done. Since MultiValue Databases and files allow developers to combine structured and non-structured data, as well as for developers to create their own structures, many developers design their data files differently. Due to this flexible way of storing data, developers do not always design new files and structures optimally. Developers may also have inherited sometimes chaotic designs in an application that has been modified extensively.

Whether you are a new developer or an experienced developer, join us in this session to help understand the why and how. Or just impart your own knowledge and understanding.

There are many different "Frameworks" and "Coding Methodologies," not to mention various "Best Practices." This session is designed to help Developers understand what each one brings to the enterprise, and how it can be used or combined with others.

Find out how MVC relates to MVP and MVVM. Talk about "Best Practices" when it comes to Desktop developer vs. Web development vs Mobile Development. See how they may or may not be related to MultiValue applications.

Rocket UniVerse Replication provides an automatic way to deliver read-only copies of UniVerse data to another Universe database. This allows you to create standby systems easily and keep them up-to-date and accurate, or to create data warehouses for reporting and other processing.

This session will show what UniVerse Replication can do and how to set it up.

Finding Tech Talent that fits your company's culture can seem like a hard task. There are many things managers can look at up front during the interview that can make your job easier.

We all know that there is more work than you can find qualified candidates. This session will help you develop better interview questions and procedures to help weed out the people that look good on paper, but don't really fit your company's needs.

Microsoft .NET is now a great runtime machine for MultiValue. Custom applications or applications such as Avanté, Prelude, or MasterPack can run in .NET. This opens up a world of interconnectivity. SB+ specifications move into the MVON# Netbuilder tool so that everything runs in .NET. When teamed with SQL Server as the DBMS, your entire application platform switches to Microsoft. Whether you use SB+ today or not, this approach is well worth seeing. Wow!

Automated Testing and Unit Testing are all solutions used in many development environments, but due to the integrated UI that MultiValue applications sometime include, it can be hard to find good testing tools.

Brian will review the various tools he's used with clients, and how well they worked in different testing situations. If you are looking to move beyond the "make change and push to live" to find bugs, then join Brian to see what you can do and how to implement testing solutions and plans in your enterprise.

If you you are new to working with MultiValue databases and need to access, extract, or share data with the MultiValue platforms in your enterprise, then this session is a must. This session will help developers who are more familiar with other development environments understand the MultiValue database and data structures. If you are a .NET, PHP, or Python developer and you are trying to explain your data requirements and needs to your MultiValue developers and administrators, then join us to learn the common terms and design practices used in the MultiValue applications.

Experienced MultiValue developers will learn how best to describe their MultiValue systems and applications to new developers in order to help them come up to speed with less effort on both you.

We all have our own ideas on what makes good code. If you are the one setting the rules, this is your workshop. We will go over the concepts and then select audience members to help with specific cases.

How to build and maintain your standards. How to make compliance easier for staff and contractors.

How do you update your classic MultiValue (legacy) application with a modern UI without rewriting your whole system? How can you integrate your legacy application with modern services and tools? This session will help you understand ways to approach modernizing your existing MultiValue application with modern technologies and tools without having to replace your application. It will also give you information on how you can work with your management to understand that your existing MultiValue application is an asset to the company.

Creating visually appealing reports, charts, maps, and graphics from MultiValue data used to be a long, drawn-out process. With the ability to use Microsoft's PowerBI, your MultiValue data suddenly has the power of modern visualizations and business intelligence.

This session will provide you the means to export and manipulate your MultiValue data using PowerBI.

Rocket employs over 120 people, primarily software engineers, devoted to MultiValue. And, we’ve been busy! Regardless of the Rocket MultiValue platform in your environment - D3, UniData, UniVerse or mvBase – this is a “don’t miss” session where we’ll cover the new features and benefits of our latest product versions (think security, compliance, high availability, and modern languages making it easier to hire and retain young development talent). Then, we’ll give you a sneak peek at what we’re working on now including performance improvements. We’d also love to hear from you! Please join us.

MultiValue BASIC isn’t just useful for creating your Business logic. You can use it to produce the code needed for your PHP, Python, HTML, and JavaScript projects. If you are having a hard time maintaining MultiValue and Non-MultiValue hybrid projects due to the constant and rapid change of your core business software, join Charles Barouch to see how to use your MultiValue BASIC skills to keep Non-MultiValue applications up-to-date with skeleton generators. Using this option, you will create a smoother project development and maintenance across your MultiValue application and your Non-MultiValue project.

Do you feel like your skills are outdated? Do you feel “stuck” with aging expertise? Does your management talk about needing to bring in developers with more modern skill sets? Have you ever wondered how you can leverage your existing talents and use modern technologies to make your skills more relevant? Come to this session for a discussion of how to make the jump into modern technologies. Learn what it means to be a full stack developer or how you can work with your existing MultiValue application so that it can interface with modern front-ends thus making you a back-end developer.

Join Zumasys Technical Evangelist Patrick Payne for this interactive discussion on how modern Web frameworks can integrate with your Pick MultiValue system. See a live demonstration using tools such as Visual Studio Code and Zumasys’ RESTful services (MV Connect) which allow you to map Pick records directly into objects. Among other things, these can be accessed by visualization solutions such as Microsoft’s popular Power BI. Walk away with a good understanding of the incremental steps to reuse the same RESTful services to build Web applications that leverage your existing MultiValue code.

Understanding the new IT terms, buzz words, and acronyms can be a full time job sometimes, not to mention translating them into something that you can explain to management.

Terms seem to come and go every 6 months or so. Some are new technologies, but other are just rename existing technologies to make them seem fresh.

Join Nathan to review the current Alphabet Soup and participate in this open discussion on how these terms affect you and how to explain them.

A Tradition at International Spectrum - An Informal welcome reception right on the exhibition floor - minutes after the exhibitors have completed setup - to welcome everyone to the show and give a sneak preview of what's to come in the next few days. A greate way for you to informally make the connections with the people you'll want to see later.