As Servoy continues to grow, we are glad to announce two new important figures in our company. We are proud to introduce ‘Servoy vet’ Paul Bakker as our new Product Marketing Manager. Paul will be the link between R&D, Consultancy, Documentation, Sales and Marketing.

Servoy also hires Ron van der Burg as Manager Professional Services EMEA. Ron has worked 10 years for the NEM as Corporate IT Manager and recently as CEO of Ambitius (a Servoy consulting firm). We are very proud that Ron is going to work for Servoy. Not only is he a big fan of Servoy, but he also brings critical experience and expertise to the corporate customers of Servoy.

Dear Newsletter/Blog reader,

Time flies, it’s already the third newsletter this year. We had a busy start of the year with the launch of our France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland offices. With offices now in 12 countries, we also get a good overview of what is happening worldwide. We are seeing that the software industry is rapidly starting to grow again. I spotted an article in Saturday’s newspaper that confirms this is not only happening in the software industry. Internationally, trade of goods is also seeing a rise.

Read the full article.

Best Regards,
Jan Aleman

Jan Aleman, CEO, Servoy will be speaking on “Hybrid Cloud - The Green Future” at the Cloud Slam Computing Conference 2010, Thurs., March 25 at 7:15a ET/10:15a PT.

The Cloud Slam Conference is global cloud computing event, covering latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. Conference panels, workshops, and tutorials are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud computing.

To learn more and register for this virtual conference, please click here.

Flow360 is one of a new breed of web-based services and collaboration tools. It is designed to make the process of managing and maintaining buildings, sites and their assets as streamlined and transparent as possible. Offering ease of information exchange between stakeholders within facilities management and asset maintenance partnerships, Flow360 is a cost-effective vehicle for storing, accessing and sharing integrated information to support value-for-money service delivery.

To read the entire success story, please click here.

By now, you have seen demonstrations of many new features in Servoy 5.0. This one-hour webinar, hosted by Paul Bakker, our Product Marketing Manager, will demonstrate in detail how to use some of these Servoy 5.x features when developing a solution.

The Servoy 5.0/5.1 capabilities that will be covered in the webinar include:

• Drag and Drop functionality.
• JSEvent
• MultiSelect
• JSDoc features for your own functions
• Maintenance mode

To register for the Servoy Special Webinar, click here.

Servoy, a leader in hybrid platform development, is teaming with PINS, a leading provider in delivering online business solutions to SMBs, including web hosting, application hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS) to provide a combined Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering.

The PaaS offering is a single stack that covers the full line of technology that any ISV needs to publish products as SaaS. The stack covers everything from development to infrastructure and allows ISVs to greatly reduce complexity of their SaaS environments.

PINS manages the infrastructure part of the offering – the core of this combined cloud computing offering. ISVs can also successfully offer their SaaS applications by using PINS HyperGrid™. PINS HyperGrid™, based on VMware, is a hosting platform in the real meaning of the term ‘on demand’. It meets the highest demands that are made these days with regard to availability, connectivity, security and scalable infrastructure. Customers of PINS are amongst others Alfa Romeo, Coca-Cola, Corus and Fitness First.

To read the full press release, please click here.

We’ve just launched Servoy 5.1. Key highlights:

• • new splitPane component
    • works both in Smart and Web Client
  • Headless client plugin
  • onResize event on forms
  • Mac icon configurable
  • New easy to use format editor in developer

You can find all details here:

http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=13716

If you are interested in following the launch event you can find the recording here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/117582528

Servoy has opened a new office in France, and appointed Fabrice Roger-Dalbert to accommodate and expand Servoy’s presence. Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO: “This move, combined with our recent new DACH office, underscores Servoy’s commitment to provide better sales, support and resources vital to servicing our growing business in Europe.”

Here’s the contact information for the France office:

Servoy France
Contact person: Fabrice Roger-Dalbert
Email: frogerdalbert@servoy.com
Address: 63 Rue Garibaldi
Postal Code, City: 69006 LYON
Country: France
Phone: +33685178901

Batch processors are great for automating repetitive tasks like emailing todo lists, producing periodic reports, invoicing, etc.

With Servoy, batch processors are easy to set up by following these steps:

1. Create a solution with a startup method that creates the timers (cronjobs).
2. Activate the solution on the Servoy server.
3. Sit back and watch your methods being triggered by your timers.

In this one-hour Special Servoy Webinar, hosted by Jason Meunier, Servoy Senior Tech Engineer, you will learn:

• How to run a Servoy batch processor on the Servoy Server.
• How to use the scheduler plugin to create cronjobs.
• How to trigger methods with cronjobs.
• How to build a GUI (graphic user interface) for users to maintain and monitor their cronjobs/methods.

To register for the Servoy Special webinar, click here.

Servoy 5.1 is about to be released. For an overview of the upcoming release, you are invited to join hosts Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, and Paul Bakker, Senior Project Manager, who will demonstrate the key changes in Servoy 5.1 in an hour-packed Launch Event being held on February 9th.

To read more information about the Servoy 5.1 release, click here.

To register for the Servoy 5.1 Launch Event, click here.