Servoy is pleased to announced an agreement with ProRM as the exclusive distributor for the Servoy Suite of products; as well as the Servoy ISV Assurance Program — in both Chile and Uruguay.

ProRM, a highly experienced distributor with offices in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, has more than ten years experience in selling and supporting Cobol development and deployment platforms. Juan Manuel Urraburu, ProRM CEO, states: “We are very committed to Cobol and the support to our customers. At the same time, we want to provide existing as well as new customers a smooth path to enter new market segments such as SaaS. Servoy is unique in its kind in what it offers regarding SaaS development and deployment right out of the box”.

In previous years, you came from everywhere to attend ServoyWorld. This year, due to the decreased travel and expense budgets many of you are experiencing, ServoyWorld is coming to you — FREE!

Servoy is pleased to announce a free one-day ServoyWorld event — to be held in cities all over the world. Attendees will get an extensive overview of the upcoming Servoy 5.0 release; as well as an update of what else is happening in the world of Servoy.

Here is the ServoyWorld on Tour 2009 schedule:

• September 29: Sao Paulo, Brazil
• September 30: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• October 1: Montevideo, Uruguay
• October 2: Santiago, Chile
• October 5: New York, USA
• October 9: Los Angeles, USA
• October 13: Yangon, Myanmar
• October 28: Madrid, Spain
• October 29: Barcelona, Spain
• November 12: Den Ham, The Netherlands
  (combined with ServoyCamp)

To register for ServoyWorld on Tour 2009, click here.

Take advantage of the opportunity to get Servoy In-Person Training from the people who do it every day. On Wednesday and Thursday, October 7th and 8th, Servoy USA will be hosting a series of mini-trainings in Thousand Oaks, California — 10 different sessions that you can choose to sign up for. Each Servoy Training class costs $499 USD.

Until August 31, Servoy is offering an Early Bird Special: Sign up to attend any 5 sessions for only $1699 USD (a savings of 796.00!).

To sign-up:

• Choose the classes you wish to attend here.
  Be sure to note that some sessions will be run concurrently.
• Register for the number of classes you will be attending here.
• Send an email to Carla Benassi at cbenassi@servoy.com with a list of your classes.

An early BETA version of Servoy ‘Tano’ (the next release of Servoy) is available to a limited set of Servoy developers willing to spend time testing ‘tano’ on real applications and send us feedback. If you are interested in being a tester for ‘tano’ — meaning that you can free up a few hours per week; and wish to use the latest and greatest of Servoy before anyone else, please send your Servoy Forum user name to servoytano@servoy.com

Why would you move to SaaS-based only? Why not a hybrid model?

Hybrid software development platforms combine the best of two approaches - on-premises and in the cloud - to meet a wide range of customer needs. Combined with mobile enterprise deployment, ISVs can use a hybrid approach to offer customers choices that meet their budgeting, resource, and timing needs and maximize revenue.

Join me for an active discussion on how to grow your profits and subscription, and the key characteristics that your customers are looking for.

Date: Thursday, June 25

Time: 10am PT/1pm ET (additional time zones: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/)

Register today: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/897269784

P.S.: More about our hybdrid offering:  www.servoy.com/SaaS. Also, crunch the numbers yourself with our TCO calculator and see how much money you can save with Servoy: www.servoy.com/tco.

We hope to see you in Thursday’s webinar.

Thousand Oaks, CA (June 15, 2009) - Servoy, an award-winning platform provider for fast, flexible, and sexy SaaS solutions, today announced a new release of its leading SaaS platform — Servoy 4.13. Servoy’s platform allows development of hybrid applications — which can be deployed as SaaS and on-premises through both a browser and a native client — from a single code base.

Unlike other platforms, Servoy applications do not need remote video technology such as Citrix and Microsoft Remote Desktop to run over the web. Servoy applications typically require up to 10x less server resources than applications deployed using Citrix and Remote Desktop.

“This is a major breakthrough,” said Jan Aleman, CEO, Servoy. “Running native applications over the web without the need for third party technology is unique with significant cost savings — not only licensing costs, but also server and management costs.”

Additionally, Servoy addresses some of the problematic issues of Remote Desktop technologies — mainly hardware access. “Printing and file system integration is always cumbersome and often requires additional tools and costs,” Aleman said, “Servoy’s native client technology has built-in capabilities to access any type of connected hardware with direct access to the local file system. Even more, it is possible to enable native integration with applications that are running locally.”

Servoy has also recently released a free calculator to estimate redevelopment cost and total cost of ownership at servoy.com/tco. Using the Servoy TCO Calculator, ISVs now can quickly estimate the potential savings of implementing Servoy.

“IT decision makers face continually escalating development and administrative costs,” said Aleman. “The new Servoy TCO Calculator allows customers to make strategic IT decisions even faster and enables them to visualize the potential benefits of Servoy. Through our ISV Assurance Program, Servoy partners with ISVs in modernizing their applications — on time, on spec and on budget — guaranteed.”

Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, will be a featured keynote speaker at this year’s SaaS (Software as a Service) University in Chicago. If you are an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) utilizing or considering SaaS, this conference focuses on marketing and strategic considerations regarding SaaS — such as licensing models, hosting issues and more.

Check out the complete conference agenda.

Take advantage of these offers:
Servoy is a Silver Sponsor and there are 2 FREE tickets to give away (a $2400 USD value)!
Remember, there are ONLY 2 Complimentary SaaS University Registrations available, so hurry!
Contact Yvo Boom today by email at yboom@servoy.com or via phone: 805-990-1865.

Servoy is giving away 10 free copies of The 2009 Softletter SaaS Report!
The just released report contains 425 pages with the most valuable SaaS information. For more information, click HERE.
To sign-up today for the Servoy Softletter Report Raffle, send an email to Carla Benassi at cbenassi@servoy.com.

Register TODAY for the SaaS University and Save $100!
To save an additional $100, type “SERVOY100″ in the promotional code field when you sign up. The special coupon applies to both the two-day SaaS University sessions and the combined two-day/workshop options available to attendees.
To register for the SaaS University, click HERE.

Imagine elections in Europe powered by Servoy! Last week, that is exactly what happened. Servoy was used both on the back end and front end to administer and publish the results during elections held in Comune di Nuoro, an Italian municipality. An early adopter of Servoy technology, Comune di Nuoro has been using Servoy technology for over five years. During the elections, data in the press room from video feeds, mail and reports were automatically updated to the election website; as well as forwarded to governmental institutions — all powered by Servoy!

Comune di Nuoro also uses Servoy-developed applications for: social services (with very sensitive data); help and care of the elderly; street incidents reporting; forum and web backoffice management; buildings management; and network inventory.

Well, we’ve been a little busy here at Servoy! The “radio silence” on this blog is due to the fact it has been an “all hands on deck” effort to get the latest Servoy release out the door… well - we did it. We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of Servoy 4.1.

So, what’s the big deal - you’re asking? In a word: plenty! Here’s a quick overview:

• SolutionModel - Create objects on-the-fly
• Virtual Data For Forms - You can now create a new dataSource from any data and bind it to a new form
• Up to 50% faster solution loading
• Ability to do a “clean” import from the Server Admin page
• “Create Log Server” option when setting up auto-tracking
• New arguments for logging a user out that includes the ability to open a new solution
• Outline view for forms- shows all the objects (named and un-named)
• Option in Developer that allows you to see all of the objects from modules in context
• Single record saves
• Removing and getting a list of applied table filters
• Adding i18n keys dynamically at runtime
• Getting the SQL statement that generated an error
• DBTreeView bean - allows checkboxes to be non-editable
• Many code-completion enhancements - it will now work for objects referenced by variables
• Control+L works both ways: to show a form in client as well as other way around
• Ability to synchronize a single form - rather than an entire solution
• Added a context menu to show the form you’re editing the script on in the Form Designer
• Font and color choosers now available on the stylesheet editor
• Option to specify the number of rows of sample data to export - rather than max of 10,000
• …. and about 350 other minor enhancements and fixes!

You can get the full listing of all the betas and release candidates on our free, online web forum. In addition, I’ll be hosting a “What’s New in Servoy 4.1″ hour-long webinar TOMORROW - December 3rd at 10:00am PST (1:00pm EST). To register for the webinar CLICK HERE.

In addition to all the great new features in Servoy 4.1 - we’ve also changed our tagline and updated our web site. When you go to the new site - you’ll notice our “Fast. Flexible. Sexy. SaaS.” messaging right away. The old tagline “Smart Technology for Smart Clients” was a little too ambiguious - and we got some great feedback from analysts and press that we needed to be more focused on “what we do.” I think our new tagline sums it all up very nicely.

I also wanted to extend a huge THANKS to all the analysts and press folks that have given us such great feedback and support: Frank Ohlhorst, Amy Wohl, Joel Dreyfuss, Dan Tynan, David Strom, Ray Valdes, Stephen Hendrick, Al Hilwa, Robert Mahowald, Michael Dortch, Mark Driver, Carl Howe, Robert X. Cringely, Vishy Venugopalan, Jodi Mardesich, Jeff Kaplan, Ian Finley, Lana Gates, Tom Murphy, Jim Duggan, Diego Lo Giudice. If I forgot your name - I’m sorry! There have been so many people that have contributed to our success - please email me and I’ll make the correction.

I sincerely hope that Servoy 4.1 stimulates your imagination into creating a kick-ass SaaS or on-premises (or both!) application that will improve the lives of your customers and your own bottom line in 2009 and beyond.

Bob Cusick, President, Servoy USA