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.

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.

The program for OCLC’s first Regional Council Meeting in Europe, Middle East and Africa has been announced.

In the Opening Session entitled “Cloud Computing, what is it and what are its impacts for libraries”, the Keynote will be given by Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy and a distinguished global thought leader on Cloud Computing. As secretary of EuroCloud (www.eurocloud.org), he has been a disruptive technology visionary at the forefront of the cloud revolution in computing. He is also a published author and commentator as well as guest and keynote speaker at many conferences worldwide. The meeting opens on 24 February 2010 in Leiden, Netherlands and takes place over two days.

To read the press release in its entirety, please go to: http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/news/releases/2010/2010.htm

Computerworld features an interview with Jan Aleman, CEO Servoy in today’s online edition on software licensing. A select quote: “One way to avoid the shelfware problem is to opt for software as a service,” says Jan Aleman, CEO of IDE vendor Servoy.

To read more, please click here: http://tinyurl.com/ydsgz24

New Servoy Success Story posted - Digital Strata, Inc.

Founded in 1994, Digital Strata is a software and services company that specializes in developing products that ease the burden and complexity of intricate legal processes. Legal teams, law firms, businesses, and third-party legal service providers use Digital Strata applications to help them manage these processes efficiently and accurately.

“The FileMaker development platform posed high cost of entry issues since the solution needed to be on-site. Using Servoy, we overcame the challenges of difficult web implementation, hard to deploy upgrades and updates, as well as a non standards-based solution platform.”
– Dan Fischler, CEO Digital Strata, Inc.

You can read the entire article here: http://tinyurl.com/yef2cdp

Servoy has become a partner with EuroCloud - Europe’s FIRST EVER SaaS and cloud services community.

EuroCloud serves to:

• Build a pan European network organized in two tiers with a national level (France, Espagna, England, Belgique, etc.)  and a European level. The national level focuses on local topics and the European level on European topics, under the EuroCloud brand (or another if appropriate in a national setting).
• Build relationships with the European authorities (Commission and Parliament) to help recognize the Cloud Computing industry as the future of IT in Europe and to promote a stimulating environment for development and growth of the industry.
• Promote business relationships between members throughout Europe and internationally with counterparts such as SIIA.
• Promote technological relationships between members throughout Europe and internationally.

In addition, several leading analysts have commented on the importance of this initiative:

“Cloud computing is more than just a buzz phrase. It is here to stay and is expected to take an increasing share of total IT spending worldwide. The creation of EuroCloud is a major step for the European development of cloud computing. For example, it will find investment opportunities in start-up companies in Europe that develop solutions for hybrid cloud, which is expected to experience increased demand over the coming years.” - Dan Yachin, research director, IDC EMEA Emerging Technologies.

New Servoy Success Story posted - Kenwood Solutions Group

Kenwood Solutions Group designs, develops, and implements customized software solutions for medium and large enterprises. KSG has proven successful in delivering their solutions from Fortune 1000 corporations to large government contracts — including FOX, BET, Lifetime, PBS, HSN, Amtrak and CalTrans.

“Servoy is simple and brilliant — it didn’t require a PhD in Servoy and their team worked with us to get going. We went from conception to production in less than two months — normally, it would have taken us a year.”
– Xav Dubois, CEO Kenwood Solutions Group

You can read the entire article here - http://tinyurl.com/ykmky22

Software Magazine published a new product announcement on Servoy 5.0. Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Servoy 5.0 from Servoy allows for the development of “SaaS and Back” hybrid applications, all from a single code base. The hybrid applications can be deployed as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-premises through a browser and a native client.”

Software Magazine is the leading IT software journal focused on pointing CIOs, IT managers, IT staff and surrounding professionals to the product and service options available to help them address their business challenges.

To read the article in its entirety, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/yfc6u6u

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.