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

Evoke from BlueFinity is a Mobile App Development Platform that provides for the fast development and deployment of mobile, desktop and web apps that operate across, and fully integrate with, all types of SQL and MultiValue databases.

Evoke allows for the creation of new business apps and extends enterprise applications in a fraction of the time of other methods. Based on a single design and code base Evoke supports the deployment of Apps across multiple platforms and devices including the iPad, iPhone, watches, Android and Windows phone plus Windows, Linux and Apple desktop as web, hybrid or native Apps.

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.

Find out about the newest enhancements in AccuTerm 7.2, which is available now as a free download for all AccuTerm 7 users. Plus, get ready to eliminate hung ports with AccuTerm 8 and preview AccuTerm Web, the browser-based version of AccuTerm coming out later this year.

AccuTerm 8 includes ReZume which will reduce your IT support headaches (and keep your users happy) when those dreaded network hiccups occur. AccuTerm ReZume will provide session persistence and auto-reconnect to eliminate lost sessions and hung ports. Be sure to attend this popular session for some exciting announcements that will energize your MultiValue experience!

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.

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.

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.

Augmented Reality Business applications are not far away. While this technology is still evolving, it is not likely to go away anytime soon.

In this session, we will cover how Augmented Reality (AR) is being used beyond apps like Pokeimon-Go and Google Translate. We will show you a proof-of-concept application using the Microsoft HoloLens connecting to a MultiValue Database.

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.

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.

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.

Start your morning off right, and join us for breakfast with our Sponsors. Find out what our conference sponsors and experts are up to, and review your plans for the day.

Looking for Adhoc reporting from your legacy Application?

Do you have a feature rich legacy application that has all your customized data, yet you are struggling to provide a cost effective solution to generate GUI Reports? Would you like to empower your users to create their own custom reports, without having to memorize file names and bizarre dictionary IDs? PHI Reporting combines the richness of Accuterm GUI as a user interface, and the power of MSExcel as a reporting repository. The result is a simple to use, dictionary driven, powerful reporting tool.

Our Reporting tool empowers your users to create adhoc reports and save templates for later use. You can print, save (as .PDF), or email. Your users will utilize “user friendly” Gui Screens, and to create reports in familiar .xlsx format, complete with Images, formulas, and headings.

See how you can create custom reports in minutes... you will NOT be disappointed !!

Unwind after a busy week of informative sessions with our Closing Party.

The Closing Conference party is a tradition at International Spectrum. It gives attendees a last chance to talk with each other and with vendors, before heading back to work to apply the information gain at the week of sessions.

Enjoy the food and drinks, and party the night away.

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.

PDFs have become an preferred document exchange method for emails and archival storage. This session will show you different ways to create PDF documents and how to merge your MultiValue data into existing PDF documents.

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.

We have been exporting our data into Excel for years. CSV and Tab Delimited files are the normal, but as Excel advances and implements more security, we are getting requires to generate native Excel files. This session will take you through different ways to create and enhance your exports to be more friendly to Excel.

This session, broadly applicable to QM, UniVerse and Unidata looks at the power of I-type dictionary items. Starting with simple expressions and working through to examples of using the multi-valued functions, we will see how I-types can provide elegant solutions to some apparently complex problems.

Join Rocket Software to view their latest tools and products, and learn how they can increase your company's productivity.

Learn about the extensibility of Rocket® D3, UniData and UniVerse to powerful Rocket solutions that:

• Provide multiple options for modernizing your MultiValue application without changing your MV code and while your organization runs at full capacity
• Solve application lifecycle management challenges in hybrid and/or complex development environments that include D3, UniData, or UniVerse – so you can automatically deploy across your development environment at once and with confidence
• Help you easily mine and visualize your MultiValue and non-MultiValue data for analysis

If you use MultiValue Retrieval in any aspect of your job (end-user or developer) you need to understand what is happening in your file dictionaries. During this session you will learn how to read and write dictionaries, understand the various dictionary structures and how they process. We will cover what each line of the dictionary does, how to convert data and create calculated dictionaries.

The PICK A and S type dictionaries will be covered in this session, as well as the corresponding INFORMATION I-Type dictionary items.

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.

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.

Let’s face it, many of our MultiValue IT departments are going to be looking at personnel turnover in the next 5-10 year. Succession Planning is business/corporate term for planning ahead.

Succession Planning is similar to a Disaster Recovery Plan, in that, it is an exercise to takes you through how the transaction of personnel affects the business and how to make it as smooth as possible.

Encryption in your data isn’t just an option any more. There are many Regulation and Compliance issues that affect business applications these days. This session will cover not just the "how to" setup and implement database encryption, but best practices for implementing encryption, PCI Compliance, and Health compliance.

It is easy to add an index to a UniVerse file to increase performance, but are you aware of the system performance issues of doing this? This session will talk about the pros and cons of adding indexes to UniVerse files, and different ways to address them.

It is easy to add an index to a UniVerse file to increase performance, but are you aware of the system performance issues of doing this? Don’t want to wait for a select to run during month-end processing? Create a trigger. Want instantaneous retrieval of sales history based on region, date, dollar amount and phase of the moon? Create a trigger.

This session will talk about the pros and cons of adding indexes to UniVerse files, and different ways to address them.

Come on a journey with EXEControl Global Solutions learning how EXEControl Global Solutions was able to integrate the Bluestone VoIP phone system to their ERP application. EXEControl Global Solutions will share steps used to complete the various tasks, discuss the challenges faced, look at code integration, and discuss application benefits of an integrated phone to ERP solution.

Are you new to MultiValue? This session is for people that need to understand how to administrate MultiValue databases and frameworks.

• Connecting and Logging In
• Common Programs and Commands
• File Types and Storage
• Introduction to the Query Language
• Creating New Programs

So you want to virtualize some computers in your enterprise. You don’t know where to start? Join Kevin King in this session to discuss and see what it takes to setup a VMWare and VirtualBox Hypervisor, and how to administrate them.

Hackers & Spammers & Zombies -Oh MY!

Choosing your battles and mounting your defense against the latest cyber-threats. A critical session for any IT department, Susan provides an understanding of the new Security threats and solutions.

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.

For your business to stay competitive, modernization must be a continuous process. With the latest version of Entrinsik Informer you can aggregate disparate data using a single platform to create a cohesive, curated, governed data hub for self-service data analysis and collaboration across your organization. With an end user intuitive interface, business users, data analysts and IT staff can generate reports and dashboards that consolidate real-time data to track and analyze key performance metrics.

Informer 5 comes out of the box with a variety of common database connectors including UniData and UniVerse. And with Informer’s pluggable architecture, custom drivers can easily be created or connected with mappings and links automatically imported at the click of a button. With Informer’s powerful new streaming and indexing functionality, millions of rows of data can be extracted within a matter of seconds and transformed for analysis. You can even import multiple spreadsheets to create individual Workspaces, totally custom ad-hoc data sources that can then be blended with data from other sources to uncover information and insights otherwise not easily accessible.

Entrinsik has been a leader in delivering solutions to the MultiValue market. Let us show you how Informer 5 can quickly modernize your BI & data analysis capabilities to take your business to the next level.

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.

I'm going for it and taking a shot at a TED-like talk on MultiValue. Past, present, and future glimpses of data models and languages put a new perspective on where MultiValue applications are heading. MultiValue is part of the landscape bringing in the Multi-model database. SQL Server is now an impressive DBMS for MultiValue applications. MongoDB and Azure Cosmos DB are new options too. Data models and languages inter-operate: MV BASIC, SQL, JSON, Python, C#, SQL, Typescript. At a high level, what is the future of data models and where do our MV applications fit moving forward?

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.

Benchmarking has been a topic that’s been floated around for several years, but nothing really has been provided to the MultiValue Community to use. This session will talk the advantages and pit-falls of benchmarketing, and provide an example of running a TPC-C benchmark against a MultiValue database.

This session will focus on different aspects of modernizing an existing application. Modernization isn’t just one thing, but a lot of little things. Every application and company needs different modernization features.

This session will look these features:

• Mixing Green Screen and GUI
• Outlook and Excel Integration
• CRM presentation of Customer Information and Communications
• Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) -Who is on the phone and what their information is?
• Dashboards and Reporting
• Document Management
• BlockChain Smart-Contract Example
• Augmented Reality Example
• And much More

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.

From problem reporting and project management through change control and deployment with rollback, PRC can increase productivity while meeting your compliance requirements. PRC works within the MultiValue environment to automate change control and deployment while enforcing security and protecting the integrity of software and data. With PRC in place a company can move ahead with in-house development without restricting their ability to take vendor upgrades.

Never lose work, step on each others' work, or make a mess that you have to fix in live under the gun again. Whether a company wants to provide tracking and robust tools for programmer convenience or must take it all the way through to compliance, PRC meets the needs of the developers (even specifically the “Pickie” type of developer who is used to moving quickly and freely) and of management (even the accounting/auditor type of management who recoils at fast and free development) easily and conveniently from within the familiar environment.

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.

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.

PROC is dead, Long Live PROC! This session will cover PROC; how it is used, and how it is structured.

Get an Introduction to Python programming. This session will cover syntax and structures and how they relate to languages you already know.

OpenQM supports the generic query processor features found in all multivalue database products but also extends the query language to add many useful features. This session will look at the structure of a query command and then explore the extensions available to each clause including requirements such as CSV format output or colour highlighting of reports directed to the user's screen.

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.

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!

Attend this hands on demonstration of implementing Universe RESTful Services. Discussions on best practice for communication to the web service, step by step creation of a web service, and real live examples will be provided.

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.

If you use Outlook, then you should have a task window that displays each email’s customer information without the user having to look it up in your MultiValue Application. Lean how to create and use addins to extend outlook to be more useful to your business.

Bootstrap can help you build a responsive website and speed your web development. This session will help you understand how to leverage this framework to build mobile-first projects and show integration with your MultiValue data driving changes to the look of the website.

All the current databases have an option to access your MultiValue data using ODBC, but each one does it different. Learn how each database handles ODBC mapping to MultiValue data and see live examples and applications that use ODBC to access your MultiValue data. Don't limit yourself, or your users, by not understanding the one of the common tools that comes with your existing system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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