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.

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

Ilyse pinged me that she saw and interesting article on a popular .Net newssite with the title above. I’m not very suprised by it, Microsoft has a long history of creating new ways of doing things (think ODBC, OLE-DB, ADO, LINQ, etc, etc) and then dropping them. Bad news is that many developers have to continously rewrite their software to Microsofts ever changing mind. With Servoy you always connect the same way to databases and it’s ready for the future! And we don’t plan to drop Oracle support any time soon!

Read all about it here

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.”

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