The conference will be comprised of a shared keynote with SAP TechEd, followed by plenary sessions and technical breakout sessions. Conference activities will take place at the Venetian|Palazzo Congress Center and are subject to change or cancellation.
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TechWave features four conference tracks: Data Management, Application Development Tools, Analytics, and Enterprise Mobility. Products covered include Sybase ASE, Replication Server, SQL Anywhere, Sybase Control Center, Sybase IQ, PowerBuilder, PowerDesigner, Sybase RAP, Sybase ESP, Afaria, and Sybase Unwired Platform. Some products may be represented in multiple tracks.
Each track will open with a Plenary Session on Tuesday morning, immediately following the SAP TechEd General Session. These special sessions provide a high-level overview of the products and topics that will be covered in the breakout sessions.
Breakout sessions will run from Tuesday afternoon through midday Friday. All breakout sessions will be 60 minutes long. There are a few two-part sessions, which will be held back to back in the same room. The Enterprise Mobility track also features some Discussion Sessions, smaller-group roundtable sessions designed to allow you to help drive the direction of the topic and facilitate conversation.
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TechWave 2011 Partial List of Breakout Sessions: Analytics (ANA)
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ANA101 Complete Business Analytics with Sybase IQ and SAP BusinessObjects Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Replication Server, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session will cover the comprehensive, end to end business analytics technology from Sybase and SAP BusinessObjects. It will focus on technical foundations of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, Business Intelligence Platform, and Business Analytics Applications as they relate to Sybase IQ Analytics Server. We will demonstrate how the complete business analytics product set works together today and where we are headed in the future.
ANA102 The PlexQ™ Distributed Query Platform for Massively Parallel Processing Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Sybase IQ 15.3 introduces the PlexQ™ Distributed Query Platform (DQP), a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture that takes an already superfast Sybase IQ platform to a new level in performance. PlexQ DQP dramatically accelerates highly complex queries by distributing work to many computers in a multiplex grid configuration. Learn how the shared-everything approach in PlexQ provides multiple benefits over the typical shared-nothing MPP approach. Other cool application enabling features in Sybase IQ 15.3 will also be covered.
ANA103 Streaming Event Processing for Next Generation Business Intelligence Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Learn how business intelligence is being used by the most advanced businesses to monitor their key performance indicators in real-time simply and effectively - and how some are taking the next step to predictive analytics. Is there an alternative approach for Big Data? This next generation of applying SEP to analytics is the new wave.
ANA104 Sybase Event Streaming Processor Architecture Product Focus: Sybase ESP Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session will present a high level architectural overview of Sybase ESP. In addition to the technical discussion, we will spend some time on how ESP fulfills various business needs. The overall architecture of ESP will be presented, and a detailed description on each component will be reviewed. At the conclusion of this presentation, the audience will have a good understanding of the technical architecture of Sybase ESP as well as a good understanding of where it fits within a business.
ANA201 Controlling Storage Costs with Sybase IQ Information Lifecycle Management Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Big data can mean big headaches and spiraling costs! This session will discuss what information lifecycle management is all about, and how Sybase IQ's ILM features allow you to organize and store your data for improved data administration and storage cost control.
ANA202 Performance Analysis and Tuning of Distributed Query Processing in IQ Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Sybase® IQ 15.3 introduces the PlexQ™ Distributed Query Platform, a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture in order to accelerate highly complex ad-hoc queries by distributing across multiple computing nodes in a Multiplex configuration. The DQP architecture adopted by Sybase IQ® is based on the Shared Disk Cluster paradigm and can help improve performance of an ad-hoc query by breaking it up into smaller fragments and distributing those pieces across multiple Sybase IQ® servers. This session intends to focus on the performance analysis and tuning aspects of Sybase IQ® Cluster configuration. The session intends to highlight the various Server, Database options and SAN recommendations that are useful to tune the parallelism and performance while improving the scalability of a query in a distributed environment. The session will also highlight useful diagnostics like Query Plan, IQ Monitor and System statistics for CPU and Disk and hand-written visualization tools/wrappers to help Data Warehousing Administrators to gain more insight into the DQP execution. The session will finally conclude by presenting a quick demo on performance tuning in action, and some performance results comparing the PlexQ™ DQP solution to MPP shared nothing architectures.
ANA204 Configuring Sybase IQ Advanced Security Options plus Kerberos Authentication Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Advanced
The internet/intranet is an insecure place. Many of the protocols used in the Internet do not provide any security. Tools to "sniff" passwords off of the network are in common use. Applications which send an unencrypted password over the network are extremely vulnerable. Additionally, client/server applications rely on the client program to be "honest" about the identity of the user, or to restrict activities to those which are allowed, with no other enforcement by the server. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol designed to close these security gaps by providing strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. This session will present step-by-step instructions and examples on setting up a Kerberos Environment, and step-by-step instructions on how to configure a Sybase IQ server to use Kerberos Authentication. Information presented is based on actual field implementations of IQ with Kerberos. Examples of Kerberos configuration/setup, server/user principals and Sybase IQ configuration will be given. At the conclusion of this presentation, the audience will have an understanding of the challenges faced with configuring Sybase IQ with Kerberos Authentication. In addition, the audience will have a step-by-step guide and template, with examples, for a realistic Sybase IQ implementation.
ANA205 Better BI Through Modeling Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session explores the impact that quality, integrity, reliability and agility have on improving the overall return on investment in business intelligence and analytics initiatives. Modeling is shown to be a key component in organizing the necessary metadata used to measure and improve data quality and consistency, as well as improve overall integrity of information used throughout the enterprise through establishing easy to implement standards. A well architected environment both minimizes the points of failure while reducing the time to find and fix any issues that occur in run time, while also allowing for easy implementation of new requirements from business or technical changes.
ANA206 Data Warehouse Migration with Sybase PowerDesigner Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Replication Server, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session explores how Sybase PowerDesigner can be used to facilitate the migration of data warehouses to Sybase IQ and SAP HANA from multiple original database stores. This session covers the techniques used to reverse engineer Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Teradata databases, and how to prepare the model for re-targeting to Sybase IQ and SAP HANA. This session covers how PowerDesigner can be configured to take additional parameters into account unique to any individual implementation, and still provide accurate and complete DDL for the new warehouse. Managing change in original and new schemas as testing and rollout lifecycle progresses will also be covered in this session. We will touch on how to use the repository to facilitate version control and team design as part of the overall migration project.
ANA207 Sybase RAP Overview Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All Room: Marco Polo 703
This session will provide an overview of the RAP product, its architecture, key components, analytics, modeling using PowerDesigner and future directions.
ANA208 Overview of Event Stream Processor (ESP) Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Event Stream Processor (ESP) is the next major release of our Aleri Streaming Platform. This session will cover an introduction to CEP, Event Stream Processor architecture, adapters, user defined functions, Studio, language support (CCL, SPLASH), clustering, and future product directions.
ANA208 Overview of Event Stream Processor Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Event Stream Processor (ESP) is the next major release of our Aleri Streaming Platform. This session will cover an introduction to CEP, Event Stream Processor architecture, adapters, user defined functions, Studio, language support (CCL, SPLASH), clustering, and future product directions.
ANA209 Analyzing ASE/Oracle Database Transactions Continuously, in Real-Time Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server, Sybase ESP, Sybase RAP Level of Experience: All
This session will focus on how to capture database transactions as a stream, and push that stream into Aleri for analytics, enabling customers to do continuous analytics of database transactions.
ANA210 Monitoring IQ Performance with Sybase Control Center Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session will present Sybase Control Center - Sybase's web based administration and monitoring facility for Sybase servers. It will discuss the architecture and features of SCC, and offer a real demonstration of its capabilities. SCC is the new frontier for Sybase server management!
ANA211 Adapter Support in Event Stream Processor Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
This session will focus on the standard set of adapters provided with ESP, and how to write custom adapters.
ANA212 Understanding Sybase IQ Query Execution and Query Plans (Part 1 of 2) Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session focuses on Sybase IQ query execution and query plans. You will learn how to obtain and interpret html query plans for Sybase IQ 15.2 and will feature new MPP query processing capabilities in Sybase IQ 15.3 Multiplex environments.
ANA213 Understanding Sybase IQ Query Execution and Query Plans (Part 2 of 2) Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Advanced
This session focuses on Sybase IQ query execution and query plans. You will learn how to obtain and interpret html query plans for Sybase IQ 15.2 and will feature new MPP query processing capabilities in Sybase IQ 15.3 Multiplex environments.
ANA214 Unstructured Data Analytics in Sybase IQ 15.3 Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Leverage unstructured text data alongside regular data to gain significant insights into your business, identify emerging trends, and proactively respond to opportunities or potential risks. Learn how to sort through the noise and gain intelligence from unstructured data. Use IQ's ability to index and search text data using key words, phrases, Boolean and proximity searches and sort results based on relevance. Identify and mine additional contextual information from the text: who, what, when, where and how much. This session will explore: loading unstructured data, text indexing, searching, relevance scoring, mining intelligence from unstructured content, and best practices for managing unstructured data in Sybase IQ.
ANA301 IQ 15 Best Practices for Database Administrators (Part 1 of 2) Product Focus: RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Beginner
This session will focus on the best practices for implementing a Sybase IQ system from a database administrators perspective. Topics covered will include indexes, device and dbspace placement, sizing, file name conventions, and configuration. The content is drawn from over ten years of real world customer implementations. Part two will continue our focus on the best practices for implementing a Sybase IQ system from a database administrators perspective and add some aspects of the Developer considerations.
ANA302 IQ 15 Best Practices for Database Administrators and Developers (Part 2 of 2) Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Beginner
This session will focus on the best practices for implementing a Sybase IQ system from a database administrators perspective. Topics covered will include indexes, device and dbspace placement, sizing, file name conventions, and configuration. The content is drawn from over ten years of real world customer implementations. Part two will continue our focus on the best practices for implementing a Sybase IQ system from a database administrators perspective and add some aspects of the Developer considerations.
ANA303 Real-Time Loading(RTL) to Sybase IQ with Replication Server Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Leveraging best in class database replication technology with Sybase IQ analytics server, Replication Server provides continuous loading of real-time data replication from Sybase or Oracle source databases to Sybase IQ. Performing business intelligence against transactional data as it changes in real-time is becoming critical to providing the best solution with today's data demands. Replication Server provides the ability to move beyond nightly or hourly data warehouse loads to continuous updates through the day to Sybase IQ analytics server. This presentation will describe the requirements and configuration methodology for new Replication Server users as well as extending an existing environment for replication to Sybase IQ from Sybase or Oracle.
ANA304 Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Modeling with Sybase PowerDesigner Product Focus: PowerDesigner Level of Experience: Beginner
Enterprise architects use many different types of models and diagrams in defining and describing the enterprise assets that they manage. This session shows the models and diagrams in Sybase PowerDesigner built to address the enterprise architects needs, and shows how the underlying repository provides unique metadata management capabilities that facilitate impact analysis, gap analysis and design time change management. This session touches on popular frameworks like Zachman and TOGAF and how they are used to help organize and co-ordinate architecture functions and deliverables to manage the complexity of these efforts.
ANA305 Utiliizing PowerDesigner forAnalytics Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Learn how to simplify and improve your IQ deployment within your EIM solution using PowerDesigner. In this session we will cover the IQ Sizing Wizard, the IQ Index Adviser and modeling of your EIM infrastructure. HANA 1.0 ( High Performance Analytics Appliance ) is the SAP solution to offload reporting from the ERP application. It is an in-memory appliance with a column base storage. On the other hand, PowerDesigner is the leading Data Modeling tool on the market with the largest database support. With the support for HANA, PowerDesigner brings another tool to complement the available SAP Studio tooling. This session will describe the new features PowerDesigner brings to the HANA database administrator in terms of physical modeling.
ANA306 It's Not Just a Data Model! Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server, PowerDesigner, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Beginner
This session will review the impacts that a data model can have on driving information architecture up into the enterprise to support the business in decision making. The evolution of popular frameworks such as, DODAF and TOGAF, shows a clear need for the knowledge about information movement within and between systems. By leveraging PowerDesigner to generate common conceptual data models that agree on standard physical implementations is just the beginning of showing the business how to more accurately protect, report and monitor its data during the entire life cycle of its operations. With the enhancements to impact analysis and metadata management in PowerDesigner, an information architect can demonstrate where reporting data originates, how is it protected, or whether it is transformed along the way. This session will review impact analysis, report generation and the data movement model.
ANA307 Impact & Lineage Analysis Streamline Change in Analytics Environments Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Change comes from all directions - and is compounded in analytics environments. Even in well structured data management organizations where each system is on a well controlled schedule, each source system change is a change to the analytics environment impacting data transformation and data structures throughout. This session demonstrates Sybase PowerDesigner's unique link and sync technology facilitating easy impact and lineage analysis critical to fast and accurate change management on the analytics side for each planned or unplanned environment change. Changes come from updating server and infrastructure technology, upgrading a source application to requirements for a new type of report. If you cannot easily trace all dependent parts of the change and the impact to related systems quickly and accurately, you cannot plan and roll out a change with greater speed and confidence.
ANA308 The Power of RAP in Analytics with UDF's and Extensions Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
This session will focus on the integration of advanced techniques for extending the RAP infrastructure. By leveraging UDF and time series methods, analytics systems can implement custom code.
ANA309 Grid Enablement for Complex Computational Tasks Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Grid computing is becoming a part of the enterprise IT infrastructure. But, how can the grid infrastructure be best utilized by the business units with complex computational requirements? Sybase and Platform Computing have been developing configurable analytics solutions that enable firms to meet these challenges. Our offerings are based on best-of-class Platform Symphony grid computing solution, Complex Event Processing, Sybase RAP - The Trading Edition software to maximize utilization of existing computing resources in the datacenter, compress completion times for simulations, and be a cost-effective analytics platform for in-house or private cloud deployment.
ANA311 Customer Experience using Real Time Analytics Product Focus: Sybase ESP, RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
From determining the real experience of a mobile phone user, to analyzing trading algorithms and detecting activity spikes and outages, customer focused monitoring in real-time is becoming essential across diverse businesses. Learn how this can be achieved quickly and effectively with Sybase's real-time analytics technology.
ANA312 The Power of In-database Analytics - from Fuzzy Logix Product Focus: RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
In-database analytics can enable you to apply predictive analytics on huge amount of data, and build sophisticated statistical models on the database - without moving the data. Everything can be done in pure SQL. Join us for interesting demo and use case discussions.
ANA314 EDMT Solution for Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Data in Sybase IQ Product Focus: Sybase ESP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
EDMT® Solution performs fast, real-time ingest of company's Emails, Documents, Multimedia and database Transactions ("EDMT”) in Sybase IQ for archiving, retention and cross-analysis, while reducing storage costs by over 90%. Fast, combined Full-Text-Search and SQL cross-analysis of all data in EDMT® Solution accelerates e-Discovery, Audit, Fraud Detection, CRM, Government Regulatory Compliance and other data-intensive tasks up to 1,000 times. EDMT® Appliance is designed to handle massive data volumes at real-time speed: Massive Data scalability - certified to 1 Petabyte of data: that corresponds to 10 Billion Emails (100 KB each). Emails or 1 trillion SMS or 6 Trillion typical database records or any mix of it. Capturing data at rapid pace and in real time: EDMT Appliance captures and indexes data at over 1 TB per hour (equivalent to 10 Million typical emails or 1 Billion SMS or 10 billion database transaction - per hour). Low data latency: new email or document of transactions will be stored, indexed and ready for analysis in under 3 seconds Fast search and analysis : any pin-point search or cross-search will find results in sub-second response time. This presentation will cover architectural, technical, deployment and maintenance aspects of EDMT Solution.
ANA401 Sybase IQ Future Directions Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
This session will review the major initiatives underway to sustain Sybase IQ's technology leadership in the analytics and enterprise data warehousing market. Attendees will get an early look at key future focus areas with Sybase IQ covering features, use cases, and platform competitiveness.
ANA402 Large Scale Data Feeds with Sybase IQ: How Sybase365 Provides Operator Analytics Product Focus: RAP, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Sybase 365's Person to Person messaging system delivers 1.5+ billion messages per day through 900 mobile operators and is able to provide detailed messaging traffic information to our carrier customers in near real time. The implementation of IQ Multiplex at the heart of the messaging hub resolves the classic paradox of how to handle high speed inbound data requiring complex transactions and the need for real time reporting. Migrating from the previously implemented Oracle RAC provided orders of magnitude performance benefits to existing messaging reports as well as providing the ability to generate reports not possible on Oracle due to performance issues. One new offering possible is "Big Event" analysis; the ability to drill down through the message detail data to see spikes in traffic, in 10-minute intervals, in response to world events. We've been able to search through our 4.2 billion rows of data to look at the traffic trends, with queries averaging 5 to 9 seconds to complete. Join us as we discuss the technical details of our solution as well as the challenges we had to overcome using our own internal innovation as well as the assistance of the Sybase IQ Engineering, Professional Services and CS&S Teams
ANA403 How to Optimize an Analytical Data Model for Sybase IQ Product Focus: ASE, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Advanced
Sybase IQ has a highly advanced query optimizer which provides good out of the box performance with virtually any table design. Find out how to unlock the performance treasures of the IQ Optimizer and how to get the most out of in-memory computing and parallel processing in IQ. This session will explore physical database design patterns that can be used to exploit advanced IQ Optimizations. Learn more about the IQ Optimizer and different design patterns that can be used to maximize query performance and get the most out of an IQ database design.
ANA404 IQ 15 Multiplex Administration using Sybase Control Center Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Sybase IQ 15.3 and Sybase Control Center (SCC) 3.2 are newly released enhancements in 2011. SCC 3.2 has a brand new administration console for IQ, which provides an intuitive and scalable user interface for various IQ multiplex administration tasks, which include creating multiplex, adding nodes, deleting nodes, synchronizing nodes, etc. This session will walk you through the features of multiplex administration in SCC.
ANA405 Analytics Design Patterns for Data Modelers Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Beginner
Designing a database for business analytics is different from designing one for transaction-based applications. Do you design the queries that can be answered based on available data, or design from what queries need to be answered, and see if the data is available for it? There are a few schools of thought on how to develop for analytics that can optimize design for ETL efficiency, or that maximize ad-hoc query performance or minimize disk space. This session takes a look at theories of Ralph Kimball and Bill Inmon together with field experiences to highlight some commonly used patterns in analytics database design. This session touches on how technologies like ETL vs. ELT, in-memory and column based stores impact the design further, and how to take these into account.
ANA408 Sybase PowerDesigner Futures Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Get a peek into the product roadmap for PowerDesigner!
ANA501 Introduction to Sybase IQ Product Focus: Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Beginner
Overview and introduction to Sybase IQ.
ANA502 Managing Sybase IQ Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Replication Server, Sybase IQ
Learn how to manage Sybase IQ.
ANA525 Modeling the Enterprise – A Practical Approach (Part 1) Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Replication Server, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
This session will cover the details of the organizational, behavioral, and structural components needed to convey the value of enterprise level architecture to your organization, while also delivering the promised value through proven practices, frameworks, and methods. Part two will drill down into best practices required to start and implement an architecture initiative. In moving from project-centric management to enterprise-focused architecture management, there will be many new roles and techniques. We will discuss how best practice organizations worldwide have successfully adopted architecture as a unifying discipline to achieve better business intelligence, succeed with merger and acquisition or other integration initiatives, and prepare for business transformation and IT platform shifts to technologies like service architectures and cloud computing. Areas covered will include roles and responsibilities, frameworks (like Zachman, TOGAF and DoDAF), methodology and tools.
ANA526 Modeling The Enterprise – A Practical Approach (Part 2) Product Focus: PowerDesigner Level of Experience: All
This session will cover the details of the organizational, behavioral, and structural components needed to convey the value of enterprise level architecture to your organization, while also delivering the promised value through proven practices, frameworks, and methods. Part two will drill down into best practices required to start and implement an architecture initiative. In moving from project-centric management to enterprise-focused architecture management, there will be many new roles and techniques. We will discuss how best practice organizations worldwide have successfully adopted architecture as a unifying discipline to achieve better business intelligence, succeed with merger and acquisition or other integration initiatives, and prepare for business transformation and IT platform shifts to technologies like service architectures and cloud computing. Areas covered will include roles and responsibilities, frameworks (like Zachman, TOGAF and DoDAF), methodology and tools.
ANACLD Cloud Computing Perspectives for Data Management Product Focus: PowerDesigner Level of Experience: Beginner
This session will cover the use of cloud computing in a data-centric world.
TechWave 2011 Partial List of Breakout Sessions: Application Development Tools (DEV)
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DEV1 Creation and Consumption of Web Services with PowerBuilder Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session will take a look at some of the recent improvements in PowerBuilder for web services creation and consumption, specifically the new WCF client, WCF service type, and REST client in PowerBuilder.NET, as well as using an WCF client in a PowerBuilder.NET assembly to enhance PowerBuilder Classic.
DEV2 Just Dock It! Dockable Windows for PowerBuilder Applications Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Dock'em, tab'em, float'em, pull'em onto multiple monitors! See yet one more way you can benefit from PowerBuilder 12 and WPF. We'll show you how you and your team can take advantage of dockable windows to enhance the UX of your PowerBuilder applications.
DEV3 See the Future Today: The Next Generation of Appeon for PowerBuilder Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
See first-hand how Appeon for PowerBuilder will be evolving in the future: PowerBuilder 12.5 compatibility, cross-browser support, cloud deployment, and mobile devices. All your pressing questions will be answered so you can plan the future evolution of your PowerBuilder applications and developers. We encourage you to share your thoughts at this session about Appeon's product direction and roadmap.
DEV4 Smart AND Pretty: PowerBuilder 12.5 WPF DataWindow Enhancements Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Get an in-depth tour of PowerBuilder 12.5, including exciting new features for WPF! This session will cover: DataWindows in PowerBuilder .NET, AutoWidth Column for grid style, DataWindow Optimized SRD syntax, Tab Order and Enabled support, Child DataWindow control support, Global Functions list, the new Candlestick Graph DataWindow style, and allow you to inspect and view Data Buffers in the .NET Debugger.
DEV5 Custom Visual User Objects (CVUO) Rock C# and VB .NET Solutions Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
With PowerBuilder 12.5, Custom Visual User Objects (CVUOs) can be deployed as WPF User Control libraries. Bring the power of the DataWindow to C# and VB .NET solutions, and become the star of any .NET development team! Classic Rock: New Features for Classic Win32 Apps in PowerBuilder 12.5: PowerBuilder 12.5 brings multiple enhancements to Win32 targets. We'll show you some of the new features in the DataWindow: Tabsequence/Enabled/FocusRectangle for all DataWindow items, manipulation of RichText strings and files in expression functions, Tableblob and AutoSize width, and the new Paint() function – the ultimate open door for custom painting of any shape or text with C++, GDI or WPF. Bring the power of the DataWindow to C# and VB .NET solutions, and become the star of any .NET development team!
DEV6 PowerBuilder 12.5 IDE Enhancements: Tips and Tricks Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
PowerBuilder 12.5 continues to build on the exciting new features introduced in PowerBuilder 12. This session will provide and overview and demonstration of many of the new features found in the PowerBuilder .NET IDE such as the advanced property grid, batch build command option, how PowerBuilder .NET supports multi-threading, debugging enhancements, split assembly deployment and more.
DEV7 Classic Rock: New Features for Classic Win32 Apps in PowerBuilder 12.5 Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
PowerBuilder 12.5 brings multiple enhancements to Win32 targets. We'll show you some of the new features in the DataWindow: Tabsequence/Enabled/FocusRectangle for all DataWindow items, manipulation of RichText strings and files in expression functions, Tableblob and AutoSize width, and the new Paint() function – the ultimate open door for custom painting of any shape or text with C++, GDI or WPF. See how you may selectively implement full Transparency. What's more, share Data Sources with .NET code!
DEV8 Make your Powerbuilder Application go Mobile with PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Does your PowerBuilder application need to reach mobile users? Discover different practical ways to unlock the investment in existing PowerBuilder application code and leverage PowerBuilder development skills to reach users on mobile devices. See the architectural choices and experience a step by step demo of how to take a PowerBuilder application mobile.
DEV9 PowerBuilder and RESTful Data Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
PowerBuilder 12.5 will introduce the ability to invoke REST (Representational State Transfer) -based web services. REST is fast becoming the lingua franca for data exchange across the Web, and in the first part of the session you'll learn why. Beyond just theory, we'll take a look at some nifty examples at how you can use data feeds from the Windows Azure DataMarket along with the PowerBuilder DataWindow you know and love, to build some compelling data-focused mashups.
DEV10 Beyond WPF Painter Drag and Drop: WPF / XAML Foundations Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
You are getting ready to migrate your application to .NET WPF. You have top level Classic GUI design and coding skills, but feel lost when it comes to .NET XAML and WPF. This presentation will provide an overview of core MS XAML elements and their properties including layout managers and controls. It will also introduce you to the WPF data binding and resources including styles and templates. You'll walk away with a foundation that you can build on in your quest for WPF mastery.
DEV11 Visualizing Data - How to Rock Your Charts and Graphs Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
While PowerBuilder has had graphing capabilities for years, in the last few releases a number of new chart and graph styles have been introduced. But how do you make a radar chart, or a bubble graph? How about a candlestick graph? This session will provide a deep dive into the hows and whys of advanced charting and graphing using the DataWindow.
DEV12 PowerBuilder to Deploy Dynamic Visual Content in the Digital Signage World Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Advanced
When you have core competencies with PowerBuilder, the sky's the limit. Join us as we demonstrate how we utilized PowerBuilder 12 to implement a dynamic cloud based digital signage architecture. We developed an administrative studio to manage an entire inventory of kiosks for two large retailers. The kiosks are running an application written in PowerBuilder 12 and is used to display marketing materials through a rich user interface. All of the kiosks track the user experience and leads through the touch screen interface. The management console allows a marketing executive to track real time information on all kiosks, and manage content in real time from a remote web based application. We will show demos of a kiosk and management console as well as providing a visual discussion of our foundation architecture, coding examples, and sample source code. This is a must-see for any PowerBuilder developer. It'll show the beautiful marriage between PowerBuilder, Microsoft Silverlight, and other .NET technologies.
DEV13 Dive into WPF: Binding 3rd Party WPF Controls to DataWindow Columns Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Not only can you now use custom WPF controls in PowerBuilder and DataWindow Objects, you can now also bind them to result sets too! In this session, we'll show various base WPF controls and 3rd party WPF controls being used in DataWindow Objects and how their properties can be mapped to, and manipulate, DataWindow buffer columns.
DEV14 Rock .NET: Inherit from C# classes in a PowerBuilder .NET Application Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Only PowerBuilder .NET allows developers to inherit from both visual and non-visual .NET classes: that's technology so hot that it's patent-pending! Get hands-on experience inheriting and extending .NET classes with Powerscript.
DEV16 PowerBuilder Performing Live in the Cloud Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
Accenture has a commercial software solution originally developed in PowerBuilder, which is used by Fortune 500 companies. This session is a case study of the process Accenture went through to re-platform their commercial PowerBuilder application for the web, with tools sold by Sybase and Microsoft's Azure cloud service. Although the project was successful and completed very rapidly, there were some pitfalls along the way. We will share the ups and downs – and lessons learned – as well as the overall process and tools that enabled Accenture to successfully take their PowerBuilder application to the cloud.
DEV17 The Future of DataWindow On the Web Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
Currently, the web is a huge part of our life. Although PowerBuilder has provided the WebForm solution, it is a little heavy for users who just want to see a report, do some quick query and analysis, edit it, etc. For these users, the DataWindow on Web may be the right solution. With this solution, you can create light web applications using your PowerBuilder skills. This whole new architecture will include a DataWindow server and DataWindow in the browser, which will offer much better performance and adapt to your current B/S smoothly. The tool will also include HTML5 graph control, which has new functionality including animation and annotation.
DEV18 Getting Down with .NET – In-depth Review of .NET Language Enhancements Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
As a .NET language, PowerBuilder 12 supports the Microsoft Common Language Specification (CLS.) We'll review the CLS, learn how to utilize external .NET resources, how to create .NET Consumer Role compatible applications using the PowerBuilder 12 Classic IDE, and how to create .NET compatible extenders using the PowerBuilder .NET IDE.
DEV20 PowerBuilder Enhancement Request Session Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Join the PowerBuilder Product Management and Evangelism team in this open forum session where developers can request and discuss future product enhancements. Don't miss this opportunity to not only have your voice heard, but also learn from other members of the PowerBuilder community.
DEV21 Introduction to PowerBuilder Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Beginner
PowerBuilder is the award-winning development tool that simplifies the building of data driven business applications. PowerBuilder is both revolutionary and proven technology, a dynamic duo that catapults the developer experience out of this world. This session will provide an introduction to, and overview of, the PowerBuilder product line and demonstrates how PowerBuilder can be used by your organization to create Windows and web-based applications using a modern visual 4GL development environment.
DEV22 Integrating Java into the PowerBuilder Foundation Class: Presenting 3TX - the PFC Java Extensions Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
The 3TX initiative has a simple goal - to integrate the PFC with Java JEE servers (such as Weblogic, JBoss, Websphere and Glassfish) using Java components and 3-tier architecture. The PFC is the number one PowerBuilder application programming framework. Java is the world's number one server programming language. And yet, the PFC has NO Java features built in: 3TX has changed all that. With 3TX, a Java server and Java components can be quickly and easily integrated into your PFC application. It's quick, it's simple and it's painless. And it can even be adapted for non PFC applications as well. For anyone who wishes to integrate Java into their PFC application, for anyone who has a Java server to which they would like to connect, indeed, for anyone who is simply curious about Java in PowerBuilder, this presentation is for you.
DEV23 PowerBuilder and the Cloud Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
According to Forrester, the global market for cloud computing will increase six-fold to $240 billion by the end of the decade. In this session, we'll discuss the core components and attributes of a cloud solution - focusing on Microsoft Windows Azure - and investigate the advantages of and opportunities for adapting existing PowerBuilder applications (and building new ones) to work in a cloud environment. We'll specifically take a look at how to host PowerBuilder Web services in the cloud as well as how to leverage cloud services - including SQL Azure - from an application built to run in-house. After a combination of slides, demos, and discussion you'll leave with a better understanding of how you as a PowerBuilder developer and architect can stake your claim in the cloud.
DEV24 Carving Up Classic Client/Server Applications For .NET Deployment Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Advanced
PowerBuilder 12.1 contains a new tool and technology that enables you to overcome deployment issues that might impede .NET migration. You might even be able to organize your code in a way that enables you to restore RAD development to its rightful position in PowerBuilder.NET deployment. Yakov Werde, member of TeamSybase and a PowerBuilder MVP, will walk you through the ins and outs of the new partitioning feature "by-example". He'll demonstrate the proper use of the new tool that allows you to configure your deployment architecture. He'll also show you how to work around issues that might surface during partitioning. He'll explain how to determine inter-assembly dependencies, determine if any circular dependencies exist, reorganize your code object storage scheme to eliminate them, and determine where you will store your global types
DEV25 Building Modern PowerBuilder Applications Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
PowerBuilder 12 remains a potent application development platform that arguably remains the highest-level programming environment for .NET available. But times change: user interfaces are now "User Experiences", and Windows 7 was a UX game changer. The Internet is ubiquitous, and today, application access is taken for granted. Yet users still want applications that are both powerful and pleasant to use, as well as systems that leverage their computing platforms of choice effectively. In this session, a real-world development project to build an entirely modern, Enterprise-class PowerBuilder application from the ground up will be explored. Topics will include the strategic decisions made regarding platforms, architecture, appropriate reuse, and designing a look and feel with an eye towards for the future. So long MDI, hello WPF. In addition to showing this groundbreaking development effort, the speaker will discuss a variety of ways to update older PowerBuilder applications to achieve higher user satisfaction and productivity, and how to leverage the Sybase design and development tools appropriately. A variety of Sybase tools, including PowerDesigner, PowerBuilder 12 Classic and WPF, and Appeon 6.5 will be demonstrated.
DEV26 Tips & Tricks to Modernize Legacy PowerBuilder Applications Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
How do you allow large, old or complex legacy applications to evolve? How can you add new functionalities needed by users or imposed by technological evolution? This session will show you how to: migrate existing applications to the web, conserving an equally rich user interface; integrate PowerBuilder with Active Directory, to allow users to access all applications with their Windows account and to benefit from single sign-on; facilitate the takeover of code by a new team that is unfamiliar with the application and avoid technical problems resulting from the modification of the application; and give a modern look to old applications and propose multiple presentation "styles" to users. Each solution will be illustrated with concrete examples and case studies. We will also include information allowing attendees to calculate the ROI of each solution, including software and material costs and implementation times.
DEV27 How to Open Up New Markets with Your Commercial PowerBuilder Applications Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
This presentation is dedicated to software vendors who are looking to open up new market segments with their PowerBuilder applications. We will show you how to: make a commercial application customizable by clients, without releasing the source code; protect source code against reverse engineering; provide advanced access control features for web and SaaS applications: manage access rights for clients using your application(s); delegate administration rights to the clients themselves; let your clients use their Windows accounts to access your SaaS application; and offer multi-lingual support, so that each user can work in their preferred language. Each solution will be illustrated with concrete examples and case studies. We will also include information allowing attendees to calculate the ROI of each solution: software and material costs, implementation times, etc.
DEV28 Using .NET Assemblies with PowerBuilder Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Advanced Instructor: Bruce Armstrong Date/Time: Wednesday, September 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm Room: Casanova 501
We will demonstrate how to use visual and non-visual assemblies in PowerBuilder (any version) using COM Callable Wrappers (CCWs) and Microsoft's Interop Forms Toolkit, and show how to use non-visual .NET assemblies from PowerBuilder.Net Winform and WebForm targets using conditional code blocks.
DEV29 One Hot .NET Implementation!: The .NET Stock Trader app - in PowerBuilder! Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
This session will provide a high level review of the PowerBuilder 12 .NET implementation of Microsoft's Stock Trader reference application. You'll see key features and gain an understanding of how PowerBuilder is the easiest and most productive way to build WPF applications.
DEV30 InfoMaker 12.5: What's In it for Me? Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
I'm happy with InfoMaker release X. Why should I upgrade to 12.5? In this session we'll take a critical look at some of the new features in both InfoMaker 12.5 Classic and .NET. We'll explore ways of making InfoMaker do things you would not have thought possible, without requiring the help of PowerBuilder. Then we'll also look at how a PowerBuilder developer can create additional functionality for use in InfoMaker.
DEV31 Don't Go Solo: How to Build and Support a Thriving PowerBuilder User Group Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
We all need a little help from our friends sometimes. There's no need to go it alone! With 20 years under its belt now, PowerBuilder has built quite the following of loyal groupies. Learn how PowerBuilder users around the world have built and supported a thriving community through local user groups, social networks, the blogosphere, and other creative forums. We will explore the resources available to either start new or revitalize existing communities, as well as ideas on matching PowerBuilder experts with organizations who need them. And we will open the floor for you to share your ideas on making the PowerBuilder community even stronger.
DEV32 PowerDesigner to Ensure Sarbanes–Oxley Act Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Our developing methodology asks the developer to produce several PowerDesigner artifacts as well as binary files (such as e-mails, authorization forms and excel spreadsheets) which must be stored before software publication. Software configuration managers call PowerDesigner web services to verify whether the documentation is stored or not before publishing software changes. Associating repository information and a user created set of tables and controls, these services are able to control the documentation evolution of ongoing projects indicating their consistency to the methodology and SOX. SCM will only publish code once the documentation is stored at the right place for each project.
DEV33 Dynamic Concepts Used in an Appeon Web-Enabled PowerBuilder Application Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
One of the most challenging aspects of any commercially available application is modifying it to accommodate the specific business rules of each customer. In order to accomplish this 'customization' without actually customizing, we developed a technique that allows us to dynamically specify the stored procedure used by a DataWindow from the front end of the application. This allows each of our customers to have business rules in stored procedures that meet their requirements exactly. Another challenging aspect is the ability to change language on the fly. We have multi-language enabled our PowerBuilder app and made it very simple to change the language a user views the application in with a single click. We can also completely change the menu that a user sees, on the fly. All of these dynamic techniques will be explored in this session, as well as resizing and securing controls from the front end of an Appeon web-enabled PowerBuilder application.
DEV34 Advanced Access Control for PowerBuilder and .NET Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Over the years, applications have evolved to support multiple technologies and complex architectures. Access Control systems must be flexible enough to handle all possible configurations. This session will show you concrete solutions that fulfill these requirements. We will implement the following features: Web SSO, identity federation, mixed mode authentication, centralized view and control of all applications, multi-tenant/SaaS applications, and secure recent technologies. Each solution will be illustrated with concrete examples and case studies. We will also include information allowing attendees to calculate the ROI of each solution, including software and material costs and implementation times.
DEV35 Using Infomaker to Leverage your Data Experts Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: Intermediate
Everyone knows about the DataWindow technology at the heart of PowerBuilder, and most people know about Infomaker using DataWindow technology to produce professional quality reports. But how do you enable and encourage your Infomaker users to enhance your PowerBuilder application? This session will cover enabling a PowerBuilder application to dynamically consume dataobjects created in Infomaker, leveraging the skills and experience of non-programmers to deliver more value to users.
DEV36 Product Overview: Mobile Analytics Kit Product Focus: PowerBuilder, SUP Level of Experience: All
Hand-held devices such as tablets and smartphones are driving the paradigm shift of business intelligence and business analytics to Mobile Analytics (MA). MAKit aims to provide graphical controls with analytics capabilities for mobile devices. MAKit offers trendy and compelling user interfaces for users to easily view enterprise data. It also provides powerful analytics functionality to help users to discover important indicators hidden in the warehouse-scale enterprise database. Moreover, MAKit has an optimized on-device analytics engine, which avoids frequent time-consuming queries to remote servers. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of MAKit's features.
DEV37 Running an Open Source Project with PowerBuilder Product Focus: PowerBuilder Level of Experience: All
Running an open source project is challenging, but when the primary development environment is PowerBuilder there can be extra challenges. Fortunately, there are advantages too. From a surprising amount of overseas talent to the ability of Infomaker to produce interoperable dataobjects, the PowerBuilder environment has a lot to offer open source communities. This session will cover real-world experiences with source control, community management, open source licenses, database management and more.
TechWave 2011 Partial List of Breakout Sessions: Data Management (DAT and DMA)
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DATCLD1 "Fuji" - The Cloud Data Platform Built for Independent Software Vendors Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
Discover Sybase's new cloud data platform, code-named "Fuji", designed specifically for the needs of the ISV market. Many of the recent cloud data platforms have been focused on end-users and providing "infinite" scalability of a single database. "Fuji" is different. "Fuji" is focused on the ISV and providing scalability for the number of databases in the system. Come learn about how "Fuji" will allow a small team to host tens-of-thousands of separate, isolated databases in a secure, flexible, and manageable multi-tenant environment.
DATCLD2 ISV Plans for SaaS: Peer Perspectives Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
Are ISVs planning to move applications between public and private clouds? What factors have affected their data architecture in the cloud? What are their biggest concerns in moving to the cloud? A recent Sybase-sponsored survey examined the plans of over 250 ISVs as they move to SaaS-based application models. This talk will explore the results of the worldwide survey as well as data from numerous interviews with SaaS vendors and industry analysts.
DATCLD3 Cloud and Multi-Tenant Architectures Using SQL Anywhere Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
When moving to the cloud, it is vital that organizations retain the unique aspects of their applications, rather than simply following someone else's architecture. Truly visionary companies are leveraging the cloud, while still maintaining their own competitive differentiators. This talk will detail several key cloud architecture approaches, backed-up with real-world examples of SQL Anywhere OEM partners who are transforming their applications using the cloud, while continuing to deliver real competitive advantage to their customers.
DATCLD4 Sybase: Data in the Cloud Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
Discover Sybase's cloud vision and roadmap for products that manage, analyze and mobilize data in public and private clouds. This talk will examine the key cloud computing trends influencing Sybase's strategy, and explore how Sybase's products and services are aligning to provide solutions.
DATSQL1 SQL Anywhere 12 Data Management New Features Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
This session will dive into the data management enhancements provided in SQL Anywhere Version 12. Through discussion and demos, you will learn about SQL Anywhere 12's new language extensions, performance and scalability enhancements, spatial support, and the new administration and monitoring tool features. You'll also learn some tips and techniques for migrating from previous releases.
DATSQL2 Self-Management and Self-Healing in SQL Anywhere - Part 1 Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Intermediate
This presentation will discuss the self-management and self-healing features of SQL Anywhere which is designed from the ground up for frontline business environments with minimal administration. Topics covered will illustrate how the various self-management features of SQL Anywhere work in concert to provide a robust data management solution in zero-administration environments.
DATSQL3 Self-Management and Self-Healing in SQL Anywhere - Part 2 Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
This presentation will discuss the self-management and self-healing features of SQL Anywhere which is designed from the ground up for frontline business environments with minimal administration. Topics covered will illustrate how the various self-management features of SQL Anywhere work in concert to provide a robust data management solution in zero-administration environments.
DATSQL4 SQL Anywhere Performance Analysis Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session provides an overview of issues to consider when designing a performance evaluation of SQL Anywhere. It outlines an systematic approach to construct a model of performance to determine the relative importance of various performance factors, such as database cache size and the server multiprogramming level. In addition, methods for troubleshooting performance problems in SQL Anywhere will be discussed. We will outline the steps a DBA should take to classify a performance problem, the tools provided in the product to examine the problem, and the analysis that must be done to resolve it.
DATSQL5 Migrating to SQL Anywhere 12 Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
Whether you have an older version of SQL Anywhere or are looking to migrate from another database product, SQL Anywhere 12 presents several new features and improvements that will greatly benefit your applications. In this session, we describe the main reasons for migrating to SQL Anywhere 12, as well as key features to leverage. We will also examine the process of taking an existing non-Sybase database and migrating it to SQL Anywhere by simply using the built-in graphical administration tool.
DATSQL6 Using Spatial Data in SQL Anywhere Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
Did you know spatial data can be stored in a SQL Anywhere 12 database? In addition to storing these points, lines and polygons, the server can query such data extremely fast. SQL Anywhere is the first RDBMS that allows for the development of data driven spatial applications for BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. New special data support capabilities in SQL Anywhere 12 will be previewed throughout this session, including: support for OGC and SQLMM standards for spatial data types and APIs; native import for shape files and built in functions to export to KML, GML and SVG formats; bi-directional synchronization of spatial and standard data between field worker and many popular enterprise systems; and more.
DATSQL7 .NET Development with SQL Anywhere and Visual Studio Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
SQL Anywhere offers strong support for developing client/server, embedded and mobile database applications using the latest version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework. This session outlines and demonstrates all the .NET features included in SQL Anywhere to assist in the implementation of robust .NET applications. The session will focus on the following topics: Visual Studio integration, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, ASP.NET, CLR stored procedures, .NET Compact Framework and .NET data synchronization logic.
DATSQL8 Using the SQL Anywhere Monitor Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
The SQL Anywhere Monitor is a browser-based tool that provides you with information about the health and availability of SQL Anywhere, MobiLink, and Sybase Relay servers. It allows you to store and view months of diagnostic data about your servers, giving you access to historical information when diagnosing problems or determining usage patterns. This talk will explore the features of the new V12 SQL Anywhere Monitor including installation and setup.
DATSQL9 Embedding SQL Anywhere in Commercial Applications Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) often need to embed a database in their commercial applications. Doing so yields many benefits for both the ISV/OEM and their customers, including a reduction in support costs and enhanced application performance. This session describes the different methods of embedding a SQL Anywhere database inside an application. Topics covered include reasons for embedding a database, how to integrate SQL Anywhere with your application, and using tools specifically designed for embedded systems. Software demonstrations will be used to highlight the advantages of embedding SQL Anywhere in commercial solutions.
DATSQL10 SQL Anywhere Tips and Techniques Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
This example-filled session will demonstrate some of the out-of-the-box things you can do with SQL Anywhere's extremely flexible feature set. Access the web by producing and consuming web services, and generating RSS feeds from the database. Take advantage of location and spatial data by creating density maps and generating spatial drawings and overlaying them on graph paper, all generated using SQL. Manage your database, log and backup files as well as external multimedia data from within the server using directory access capabilities. Generate cross-database queries using remote data access. You'll learn all this and more!
DATSQL11 Using Sybase SQL Anywhere with SAP Products Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
Do you know that Sybase SQL Anywhere is commonly used with SAP products such as Crystal Reports and Business Objects as an alternative to administration-intensive databases? Built to provide high performance and autonomous management, SQL Anywhere offers a database system that can quickly and easily be deployed alongside existing SAP infrastructure. This session provides an overview of the major features of SQL Anywhere and covers topics such as enterprise-caliber functionality, out-of-box performance, self-management, embeddability and data synchronization. The session will illustrate these concepts through a demonstration SQL Anywhere's usage with SAP Crystal Reports.
DATSQL12 SQL Anywhere and Odata Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData does this by applying and building upon Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to information from a variety of applications, services, and stores. Learn about OData and how you can access your SQL Anywhere database using an OData interface.
DATSQL13 Successfully Synchronizing Partitioned Data with MobiLink Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session will discuss the lessons learned from using SQL Anywhere and MobiLink as the technical underpinnings for a geographically distributed database with heavily partitioned data spread across a diverse range of networks. We will identify and discuss focal points for ensuring that your MobiLink synchronizations accurately reflect your rules for data integrity and access, averting problems through proper planning and preparation.
DATSQL14 Meeting the Challenges of Satellite, Message-based Replication Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Advanced
SQL Remote replication technology provides the foundation for successful message-based replication, however, remote platforms such as ships at sea, oil drilling platforms or other very remote facilities which rely on more expensive satellite based communications provide special challenges. Meeting the challenges of satellite, message-based replication provides details on the challenges faced over my ten years of experience with the US Military Sealift Command including day-to-day replication, application upgrades requiring database updates via SQL Remote "passthrough" statements, and database version upgrades.
DATSQL15 How a Legacy N-Tier System Became Fault Tolerant with SQL Anywhere High Availability Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Intermediate
High Availability for SQL Anywhere provides a simple and powerful solution to recover from a database server failure, making it ideal for creating fault tolerant client/server applications. But what if the requirement is to provide high availability for an existing multi-tier application, in which the logic tier can also fail? This session will cover how High Availability for SQL Anywhere was combined with custom code to allow a standalone legacy system to work in a primary/backup configuration. High Availability was used to seamlessly mirror the data between the primary and backup servers, and a software agent was developed to monitor the status of the multiple tiers of the system and do an automatic switchover to a backup server if case of failure of any of the components.
DMASE111 Technical Overview of ASE 15.7 and Future Directions Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: All
Curious to know what new innovations ASE's R&D team will bring to you in near future? Come and learn about new capabilities being introduced in ASE 15.7 later this year including exciting features targeting developer productivity, storage & processor efficiency, availability, and security. We will share highlights around key product directions and release roadmaps for ASE for the next 24 months. You will also get a chance to express your larger, more strategic business and technical needs directly to the Sybase team responsible for ASE.
DMASE123 The Impact and Prevention of Data Breaches Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Beginner
Direct and indirect costs of dealing with data breaches are increasing. Is it sufficient to protect the perimeters or employee laptops / mobile devices - the end-points of data access? What level of priority should be given to protecting databases containing large volumes of personal data and corporate intellectual property. A breach in a sensitive database can result in a far bigger loss than a stolen laptop. This presentation will focus on the taxonomy of data breaches and will discuss the role databases and DBAs play in securing the company crown jewels. ASE Security technologies, combined with the right education and security management process, can be an effective prescription for your company's data health. When it comes to data breaches, prevention is certainly better than cure.
DMASE211 Enhancements in Operational Scalability in ASE 15.7 Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
In today's global economy, most systems are experiencing shrinking maintenance windows while some can not tolerate any lack of availability at all. This has put significant pressure on database products to increase their "operational scalability" by minimizing, if not eliminating, planned downtime activities wherever possible. This session will introduce the significant innovations in ASE 15.7 towards this goal. Capabilities to be discussed include online "reorg rebuild", deferred table materialization, fully recoverable DDLs, and changes to "alter table" capabilities that optimize both storage used and time to perform traditionally intensive maintenance activities.
DMASE212 A Practitioner's Guide to Successfully Migrate from Oracle to Sybase ASE (Part 1 of 2) Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
CIOs unanimously agree that reducing infrastructure costs is key to ensuring adequate budget investment to achieve top-line business growth. While there are obviously many approaches to achieving this, one area gaining attention is migrating from the higher cost Oracle database platform to Sybase ASE. Long known as the highly performing and resilient database powering much of Wall Street, its flexibility and low total cost of ownership, both in hardware and administrative costs, are making CIOs take notice. This two-part session will explore this topic from two perspectives. We will first dive into this topic from the perspective of the business "Program Manager" by identifying the major high-level tasks and milestones of a typical project plan as well as quantifying the level of effort and risk for each. We will then explore this from an implementation perspective, looking at some of the most critical and resource-intensive technical aspects of such projects to help minimize effort and risk. If your company is considering options for a competitive, yet cost-effective database infrastructure, this is a session you can't afford to miss.
DMASE221 Introducing ASE 15.7's New Threaded Kernel Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
ASE 15.7 introduces a new thread-based kernel that significantly streamlines I/O handling and improves application partitioning capabilities. In this session David Wein, technical lead for ASE's kernel development team, will cover: an overview of the new kernel architecture with focus on "what's different" vs. the previous model, which workloads will see the biggest improvements, using thread pools for workload partitioning, new tunable parameters, new and modified MDA tables, and changes to sp_sysmon. This session will place a strong emphasis on performance monitoring and tuning.
DMASE222 A Practitioner's Guide to Successfully Migrate from Oracle to Sybase ASE (Part 2 of 2) Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
CIOs unanimously agree that reducing infrastructure costs is key to ensuring adequate budget investment to achieve top-line business growth. While there are obviously many approaches to achieving this, one area gaining attention is migrating from the higher cost Oracle database platform to Sybase ASE. Long known as the highly performing and resilient database powering much of Wall Street, its flexibility and low total cost of ownership, both in hardware and administrative costs, are making CIOs take notice. This two-part session will explore this topic from two perspectives. We will first dive into this topic from the perspective of the business "Program Manager" by identifying the major high-level tasks and milestones of a typical project plan as well as quantifying the level of effort and risk for each. We will then explore this from an implementation perspective, looking at some of the most critical and resource-intensive technical aspects of such projects to help minimize effort and risk. If your company is considering options for a competitive, yet cost-effective database infrastructure, this is a session you can't afford to miss.
DMASE231 Maximizing Your Storage Investment with Compression in ASE 15.7 Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
With the need to store data online for longer periods of time, and with the explosion in data volumes generated in every business, storage costs can become a significant portion of your IT investment. To help address this, ASE 15.7 will provide support for compression in data, indexes, and LOB's (i.e., text/image). These enhancements are largely transparent to the application and can be rolled in to your existing installations easily. This session will discuss the technical details behind these compression technologies and include the following topics: use cases and interfaces to deploy compression; strategies to migrate existing data to use compression; and performance characteristics versus the storage space savings of compressed data.
DMASE232 Protecting Data: Advanced Security Techniques with ASE Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
Historically, DBAs have employed several effective techniques to ensure only authorized users see the data they are entitled to see. For years, the combination of logins, permissions, and views were all that were needed. Over the years as systems have become larger and more complex, business and regulatory policies are leading developers and DBAs to use more advanced techniques for controlling user access to data. This session will review "Row Level Access Control" (RLAC) techniques and provide details behind their functional capabilities as well as how developers and DBAs can use these techniques to ensure their (and their customers) data is kept private. We will conclude with a real- life use case showing how a customer limited data retrieval on credit cards in order to be compliant with Visa's CISP policy.
DMASE241 Language and Productivity Improvements for Application Developments in ASE 15.7 Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: All
Sybase ASE 15.7 includes many enhancements targeted at improving the productivity and tools available to developers building applications for ASE. This session will explore these enhancements which range from greatly simplified programmatic interfaces to large objects like text & image data to support for new scripting languages to enhanced SQL for improved execution efficiency and concurrency.
DMASE242 Applying Scrum Techniques to Improve Performance and Stability of Sybase ASE Systems Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
This session will introduce the Agile technique of Scrum used for quickly improving the performance and stability of a Sybase ASE server. The goal is to teach you the basics of Scrum as applied to the most difficult performance problems. This session will break down key tasks into sprints intended to improve the uptime, performance and stability of the system with minimal effort and time. We will look at real world situations and provide tuning configurations that will assist your systems. Topics we will explore using Scrum are: blocking, deadlocking, memory tuning, disk drive tuning, application tuning, and overall server configurations - all of which are important for your system to function at peak performance and availability. When a crisis hits, these techniques will show you how to resolve it more quickly.
DMASE251 Proven Techniques for Performance and Tuning of TempDB in ASE (Part 1 of 2) Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: All
It's not hard to show tempdb is one of the busiest databases in your ASE, yet it is seldom given the same level of attention when it comes to performance & tuning. Almost all regular database tuning measures can be used in tempdb, plus there are some tempdb-specific ones. This session documents them all, and there are sure to be some you haven't heard of before.
DMASE252 A Case Study in Addressing Sustained, High CPU Utilization in ASE Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: Advanced
As data volumes increase and databases are supporting Internet/Intranet facing applications, high CPU utilization has become the bane of both scalability and response time. Simply adding CPUs might not help, and many times makes the situation worse. The reasons for such behavior run the gamut from simple spinlock type situations to complex interactions between the optimizer, load mix and I/O scheduling. This session walks through the techniques, rationale and solutions to successfully address just such a situation at one of the largest banks in the world, within a complex trading application ecosystem. This is a real example, with testimonials from the customer on the business impacts due to improved database performance.
DMASE261 Proven Techniques for Performance and Tuning of TempDB in ASE (Part 2 of 2) Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: All
It's not hard to show tempdb is one of the busiest databases in your ASE, yet it is seldom given the same level of attention when it comes to performance & tuning. Almost all regular database tuning measures can be used in tempdb, plus there are some tempdb-specific ones. This session documents them all, and there are sure to be some you haven't heard of before.
DMASE262 Using ASETune - an MDA-based Open Source Performance Monitor for Sybase ASE Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Advanced
Sybase ASE's MDA monitor tables are great, but there is a fair amount of work necessary to use them, especially without a tool. ASEMon is an open-source performance monitoring tool that makes this valuable data readable quickly and easily. It is currently being used by hundreds of Sybase customers to monitor their production systems, even in performance-sensitive "Wall Street" environments. This session will show you how to use ASEMon to monitor your systems and easily provide information including: what SQL statements are currently being executed in ASE; how much CPU is ASE consuming for the moment; which tables are the most accessed; which tables have locking conflicts; what is a specific "spid" doing for the moment, and what is ASE waiting for.
DMASE271 Automating Rapid Deployment & Configuration of ASE & Replication Server Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: Intermediate
Over the last 5 years there has been a constant push to provide data center automation and configuration management. This is driven by the necessity to more efficiently manage an infrastructure that is ever increasing in size and complexity. Harnessing configuration management tools, it is possible to not only centrally manage Sybase instances but also rapidly deploy infrastructure for niche requirements. This presentation will discuss the market trends in data center automation and also provide real world examples of how configuration management can be used to rapidly deploy and configure Sybase products. We'll show you a demonstration showcasing the power of one such automation tool, Puppet by Puppetlabs. In this example, a fully automated deployment of ASE and Replication Server will be deployed and configured within minutes with the data schema extracted from an Oracle data server, and deployed on ASE, ready to migrate data.
DMASE272 Tips, Tricks & Little-Known Features in ASE 15.0 & 15.5 Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: All
This presentation is Rob Verschoor's traditional roundup of Sybase ASE-related topics that customers should know about, but have received little or no attention anywhere else. DBAs and developers should not miss these topics as they will help you run your ASE systems more efficiently. Some of the topics to be discussed in this session include: understanding and tuning hash operators in ASE 15; how to use Replication Server to replicate to and from ASE in-memory databases; finding out through SQL which table or index is stored on a particular data page; and, various other little-known ASE features.
DMASE311 The Power of Sybase Control Center's Administration and Monitoring Features Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
The new Sybase Control Center management system provides the full range of enterprise-wide administration and monitoring features that today's high-powered DBAs need in order to get the greatest value from their Sybase products. This session will provide a detailed overview and live demonstrations of SCC's features with special emphasis on new administration capabilities and usability improvements. Customers with large or small installations of Adaptive Server, Sybase IQ or Replication Server (or all three) will benefit from the ease of use and power of SCC's enterprise administration and monitoring capabilities.
DMASE312 SQL Methods for Managing Data Across Multiple Time Zones and Daylight Savings Times Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
If you are writing applications which deal with time around the globe, there are very few solutions and very little information about translating data from one time zone to another. Global applications using global data typically handle data originating from many time zones such as UTC -4, +1, +8, and +3 (i.e., New York, London, Hong Kong, Moscow). Additionally, they must also handle the changing rules for Daylight Saving Time adjustments. This session demonstrates a 100% relational database solution which gives applications the ability to translate between UTC time and the moving target exhibited by local time for any of the 393 time zones of the world. This solution handles the translation of local time for both geopolitical boundaries on land and longitudinal boundaries at sea.
DMASE321 Performance and Tuning Sybase ASE 15.x for 24/7 Systems Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
If you have systems that are operational 24/7, how are you going to improve their performance? This session will go into methods and "little tricks" that can be used to find performance issues and improve your systems while minimizing down time. These tricks have been used by some of the biggest systems in the world. There are many different types of performance issues. We will break each one down and identify how to rank, categorize and prioritize the issues. Topics covered are memory analysis, deadlock analysis, cache tuning, UNIX / LINUX tuning, systems tuning, SAN tuning, operational DBA tasks such as rebuilding indexes, how to use devices effectively, replication server, and application tuning. Each topic will show the tradeoffs and how to minimize any performance loss.
DMASE322 Optimizing Performance of ASE 15.7 Running Under VMware ESX 4.1 Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
Running mission-critical databases in production under a virtualized environment remains controversial with both camps claiming the moral highground. However, recent advances in hardware as well as software innovations from Sybase and VMware are making this an option for more and more ASE systems. This session first discusses where and when virtualization makes sense for production database. We will then explore the most important configuration, tuning, and deployment considerations for ASE to ensure you get the most out of your virtualized platforms.
DMASE331 Secrets Of SQL Monitoring with MDA in ASE 15.0.3 and Beyond Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Advanced
Several aspects of the MDA tables for monitoring SQL such as monSysStatement and monProcessSQLText are undocumented. This session will discuss what various SQL, RPCs, stored procedures, and batches look like in the MDA tables and how to calculate their metrics in ASE 15.0.3 and later. The impact from other ASE features, such as statement cache and Cluster Edition, will also be explored. We will summarize MDA data for batches, RPCs, and stored procedures. Related issues about pipe sizing, monitoring performance, and more will be covered.
DMASE332 ASE on Linux: Configuration and Tuning (Part 1 of 2) Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: Advanced
Linux is one of the fastest growing platforms in the data center, and one of the fastest growing platforms for Sybase ASE. Learn how to best tune your Linux servers for incredible ASE performance. This in-depth session will look at ASE from the operating system point of view, so we will cover such topics as filesystem choices, CPUs, networking, and the Linux kernel. Specific features of RHEL 5, RHEL 6, and SLES 11 SP1 that can be used to improve performance TODAY (including tuning and troubleshooting tools) will be covered in-depth.
DMASE341 Optimizing Storage Cost and Performance using EMC FAST with Sybase ASE Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
EMC's FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) automatically places and moves data across storage tiers such as Enterprise Flash and traditional ATA/SATA to achieve both performance service levels and cost targets. This session will discuss how FAST works in standard (thick) and virtually provisioned (thin) environment as well as how defined policies automate the identification of data volumes for the purposes of allocating or re-allocating application data across different performance tiers within a storage array. This session will describe the disk drive technologies involved, the components of FAST, and how the technology would be implemented in real-world Sybase ASE environments. Examples using various FAST policies in different ASE environments will be shown to provide practical and immediately useful information for anyone attending this session!
DMASE342 ASE on Linux: Configuration and Tuning (Part 2 of 2) Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: Advanced
Linux is one of the fastest growing platforms in the data center, and one of the fastest growing platforms for Sybase ASE. Learn how to best tune your Linux servers for incredible ASE performance. This in-depth session will look at ASE from the operating system point of view, so we will cover such topics as filesystem choices, CPUs, networking, and the Linux kernel. Specific features of RHEL 5, RHEL 6, and SLES 11 SP1 that can be used to improve performance TODAY (including tuning and troubleshooting tools) will be covered in-depth.
DMASE351 Application Monitoring & Diagnostics with ASE's MDA Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
This presentation discusses how to set up and use ASE MDA data for monitoring and diagnosing application related performance issues - such as variable workloads, runaway users, etc. Real life examples will be used to illustrate how to detect application workload changes per application, runaway user processes, tempdb utilization (including cache sizing and IMDB tempdb) and other common application performance related symptoms - especially when performing application or database upgrades.
DMASE352 Running ASE and IQ on AIX - Special Considerations and Configuration Options Product Focus: ASE, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Today, the IBM Power System platform and the AIX operating system provide a powerful and flexible platform for running ASE and IQ. This session will explore platform-specific optimizations and tuning of the platform and operating system for both ASE and IQ. Special attention will be paid to alternative choices in file systems, process scheduling, and memory configuration (ccNUMA) of the Power Systems platform and AIX.
DMASE361 Analyzing Indexing, Data Caching and Locking Optimization with ASE's MDA Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
Often indexes are created during schema design and then only new indexes are added to resolve query performance issues. This session takes a look at how to use ASE MDA performance statistics to identify how efficient the indexing strategy is, symptoms of unoptimal indexing, which indexes/tables should have object placement strategy using segments and how to know which objects to bind to named caches.
DMASE362 Running ASE and IQ on HP-UX - Special Considerations and Configuration Options Product Focus: ASE, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Today, the HP Integrity servers and the HP-UX operating system provide a powerful and flexible platform for running ASE and IQ. This session will explore platform-specific optimizations and tuning of the platform and operating system for both ASE and IQ. Special attention will be paid to alternative choices in file systems, process scheduling, and memory configuration (ccNUMA) of the Integrity platform and HP-UX.
DMASE371 Using ASE's QP Metrics to Find Problem SQL the Fast, Easy Way Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
While MDA provides significant depth and breadth of performance monitoring data, using it is complex and requires a significant investment to build out the required infrastructure for storage and analysis. This session presents a quick and easy alternative leveraging the innovative use of QP Metrics to locate problem SQL in ASE. Whether you have operational responsibility production systems or work closely with developers, this session will make it easy for you to spot and tune the queries that will make the biggest difference to improving both system throughput and query response time. This session will show you how to easily find the Top 10: most costly queries by logical I/O, physical I/O, and CPU execution time; most frequently executed queries; most I/O intensive queries on the system (i.e., frequency * I/O); and the number of queries executed per time period (histogram).
DMASE372 Incorporating and Tuning ASE's In-Memory Database in High Value Applications Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: All
Many people hear about In-Memory Databases (IMDB) and immediately think they are only for the ultra low latency applications like trading systems. This session will debunk this myth and explore the common use cases to leverage in-memory databases in many systems looking for a little boost. Time will also be spend exposing the important performance tuning issues for IMDBs that DBAs must often rethink when disk i/o is totally eliminated.
DMASE373 Migrating to ASE on the HP Integrity Platform running Intel Itanium Processors Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
Hewlett-Packard's Integrity platform uniquely addresses data center complexity by bringing together networks, server, and storage into a manageable, common environment built from a unified and modular blade architecture. This session provides customers with a fast, easy and cost effective solution to migrate from their current database and/or server platforms to the latest HP Integrity system running ASE on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. If you are interested in learning how HP and Sybase have worked closely to enhance the value of data-intensive processing for HP customers running other database software, this is a session not to miss. Topics to be covered in this session include: HP Integrity server overview including sizing comparisons to ensure adequate performance and capacity of the new system; ASE migration overview including tools and techniques to follow to ensure a smooth project; and data migration tools and techniques, including moving data using HP SAN storage between the two systems.
DMASE411 Hardware for Dummies....and DBAs Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: Intermediate
This session will take a look at new hardware choices and considerations for your datacenter, including items such as CPU threading (enabled or not - and relationship to engines), virtualization such as LPARs, OS tuning considerations (IO and network), disk technologies (SSDs) and SAN considerations (such as virtual provisioning w/ flash). The point of the presentation is not to make system administrators out of DBAs - but to give the DBAs the knowledge to know what to ask for and how to configure appropriately when given brand new kit.
DMASE412 Experiences in Getting ASE Cluster Edition into Production Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
ASE Cluster Edition provides significant value to the business by offering both a highly available and elastic set of compute resources for consolidating many applications onto less hardware. While Sybase did some great work to simplify the installation and administration of a shared disk cluster, the reality is these environments give you many options to shoot yourself in the foot. As Sybase worked closely with early production customers, we have compiled a set of best practices which will be shared in this session. If you are thinking of Cluster Edition, this is a session not to miss. Topics will range from SAN and network configuration to application architecture related areas.
DMASE421 Understanding and Troubleshooting Query Plans in ASE 15.x Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
With ASE 15's new optimizer and execution engine came many new capabilities, all with the goal of executing queries faster. At times, this can mean that understanding how to troubleshoot query plans require more thought and information. This session is focused on helping you interpret query plans and understanding how the optimizer came to the conclusions that it did. This session is a must attend for both Development and Operations DBAs who are doing ASE 15.x upgrades.
DMASE422 Application Partitioning Patterns to Scale-out Enterprise Database Systems Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
CIOs today are enamored with the prospect of replacing expensive SMP servers with commodity hardware. Complicating matters, overly aggressive vendors who "sell high" in an organization often trivialize the real challenges architects must confront to move enterprise database applications from the vertically-scalable combination of hardware and software used today to the horizontally-scalable hardware and software of tomorrow. Key to achieving scalability in distributed systems is the concept of partitioning. With the maturity of SAN and clustering technologies, more and more applications are candidates for scale-out using application partitioning techniques. This presentation will provide you with insight into standard design patterns for building and managing highly scalable applications on clusters of commodity hardware that have been proven over the last 15 years in financial services and telecommunications applications.
DMASE423 How Invesco Replaced a Costly 3rd-Party Backup Manager with ASE's Backup Server Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: Intermediate
Is a third party backup tool necessary for an enterprise using Sybase ASE DBMS platform? This session will explore how we replaced BMC's SQL-Backtrack with a generic solution based on ASE's Backup Server and a little "glue". We will cover the benefits of a third party backup tool over our approach; Sybase's generic backup capabilities; Invesco's Backup Reporting Interface to ASE's Backup Server and our backups; as well as the final cost/benefit analysis. If you are tired of paying the high costs for recovery management, this session is for you.
DMASE431 Best Practices in using ASE Partitions to Improve SLAs Product Focus: ASE Level of Experience: All
Partitions can have significant benefits from shortening batch and maintenance windows to improving application performance. While some gains can be seen with minimal effort, substantial gains for the business are possible if DBAs and Developers rethink their storage and access layers. This presentation will show some of the tradeoffs and real-life experiences of using ASE 15 Partitions.
DMASE432 The Changing of the Guard in Storage - Tuning ASE and IQ for Flash and SSD Storage Product Focus: ASE, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Moore's Law has finally come to Storage! While CPU clock speeds and core counts as well as network speeds have significantly increased over the years, mechanical disks lagged behind. Now with the maturation and impending commoditization of Solid State Disks (SSD) and Flash technology, enterprise database customers stand to gain significant performance advantages. This session will explore today's state-of-the-art in storage technology and where it should be considered over conventional disks (a.k.a. "rotating rust"). More importantly, this session will also explore how the substantial reduction in i/o service times and increase in throughput affects conventional wisdom in tuning ASE and IQ.
DMASE433 Securing ASE: Beyond Passwords Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: Intermediate
In most environments, login IDs and password pairs are the only way of granting (and protecting) access to corporate data – arguably a company's most valuable asset. With some high-profile security breaches of late, and new ones appearing every day, is it just a matter of time before your organization is next? In this session, we will examine the different ways to increase your ASE security, and further protect those passwords, including changing configuration options, architectures, and access. We will also discuss auditing, encryption, SSL, and LDAPS / Active Directory.
DMPD223 Data Modeling Tips and Tricks with Sybase PowerDesigner Product Focus: PowerDesigner Level of Experience: Intermediate
Data Modeling is like chess: each piece represents a simple combination of entities and relationships, but combining them together creates a vast complexity. This session explores conceptual, logical and physical modeling tips and tricks to increase mastery of this complex discipline, and adds to it some unique tool features in Sybase PowerDesigner that can make many tasks easier to accomplish. While this session does spend some time showcasing some capabilities of a specific vendor's tool (PowerDesigner) the majority of the focus is really on better ways to model information for increasing quality, integrity, alignment and reuse so users of any modeling tool will benefit.
DMPD233 PowerDesigner for Replication Server Product Focus: PowerDesigner, Replication Server Level of Experience: Intermediate
PowerDesigner provides a model-driven approach to Replication Definitions, improving overall development, maintenance and understanding of simple and complex replication environments. This session explores how PowerDesigner can be used to diagram and generate complex replication environments, lowering the time, effort & cost of development. This session includes demonstrations of techniques such as reverse engineering of an existing replication environment, modeling for reference and documentation purposes, iterative change management and impact analysis. PowerDesigner provides a roadmap and a knowledge base to extend the data architecture to complete understanding of replication as it participates in the overall corporate technology architecture, while streamlining development efforts through tight, complete round-trip engineering of Sybase Replication Server code.
DMPD273 Case Study: Improving Data Consistency and Quality Across Systems using PowerDesigner Product Focus: PowerDesigner Level of Experience: All
Although data modeling work looks quite simple, it's not as easy to integrate and control a large number of models simultaneously. This session will show you how PowerDesigner customization can help make your work life easier and more productive. You can control your terms and the prefix of your attributes, transforming them in abbreviated terms to the physical model. Then, simply validate the information inputted by the developers and create standard names in the physical model to create the databases and your objects to the production environment, accessing applications by web services and/or any instance from any windows application by API.
DMPD363 An Introduction to Metadata Management Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server, PowerDesigner, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Beginner
Metadata means different things to different people. There are many different types and sources of metadata. This session looks at the definitions of and differences between analysis, design, development and run-time metadata, and the primary uses of each. We will explore different metadata management solutions, and how they compete with or complement each other to provide an overall metadata story. The primary focus of the session will be on the types and uses of metadata and how to manage it, but will we also touch on the value and importance of metadata overall.
DMPD413 Data Governance - A Model Approach Product Focus: PowerDesigner Level of Experience: Beginner
You can control your terms and the prefix of your attributes, transforming them in abbreviated terms to the physical model. Validate the information inputted by the developers and create standard names in the physical model to create the databases and your objects to the production environment, accessing application by web service and any instance from any windows application by API.
DMRS113 Disaster Recovery and Global Data Distribution Solutions using Sybase Replication Server Product Focus: Replication Server Level of Experience: All
You will see how powerful PowerDesigner is and how you can improve its functions to be helpful for you.
DMRS121 What's New in Replication Server 15.6 and Future Direction Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: All
Recent Replication Server releases have provided multiple significant performance and functional enhancements. Some of the key RS performance enhancements including High Volume Adaptive Replication (HVAR), Bulk Lib DSI, SQL Replication, optimized DSI, block size flexibility, non-blocking commits and performance analysis interfaces. Replication Server 15.5/15.6 added support Sybase IQ as a target DB in the Real Time Loading (RTL) edition of Replication Server that includes Oracle as source. Additional new functionality currently available will be described including support for ASE In-Memory and Relaxed Durability DBs, 64-bit RS and row count validation. A look forward at upcoming releases and compatibility with ASE releases will be presented.
DMRS213 Understanding Replication Server's Technical Architecture Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
Sybase's Replication Server was co-designed with several Wall Street firms in the early 1990's to be a flexible, asynchronous data movement tool for many different purposes, ranging from Business Continuity (HA/DR) to complex Global Data Distribution, often requiring complex transformations. Over the years, it has grown into a powerful data movement tool supporting all the major database platforms from Sybase, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. This session will provide attendees an architectural perspective on Sybase Replication Server by examining all the components involved in the data's movement as it flows from its source to its target.
DMRS243 How to Set up and Manage Replication Server for Oracle Databases Product Focus: Replication Server Level of Experience: All
In today's business environments, data sharing requirements are top of mind for many CIOs, some because they see this as a means to better decision-making, some because of increasing regulatory pressures. Regardless of the rationale, DBAs are increasingly extending the sophistication of Replication Server to heterogeneous databases in order to move data between operational or analytic environments "controlled" by different DBMS's. This session will provide experienced RepServer Administrators with best practices to set up, configure and optimize both Oracle and Replication Server with special attention paid to "Real-time Loading" (RTL) from Oracle to Sybase IQ, and maximizing DSI efficiency for non-ASE database servers.
DMRS253 Identifying and Fixing Data Discrepencies Between Source and Target Databases with Replication Server's Data Assurance Option Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
Data Assurance 15.6 is a new Sybase data comparison product that allows you to identify and fix data discrepancies between primary and replicate ASE tables. It is designed to replace the existing rs_subcmp utility and is a scalable, high performance, enterprise-level product with a rich feature set. This session will cover architecture and deployment, Data Assurance 15.6 features, comparison options, verification and reconciliation, scalability and performance, and show a demo. By the end of the session, you will have a good overview of the new Data Assurance product and how it can be deployed and put to good use in your replication environment.
DMRS263 Tuning HVAR and other RS ASO options for RS/RTL and RS/EE Product Focus: Replication Server Level of Experience: Advanced
One of the biggest enhancements to reducing RS latency has been the HVAR feature of the RS ASO option and RS RTL Edition. This session takes a look at how the HVAR feature of ASO works at a low level for both ASE and IQ as well as how to tune HVAR along with some of the other ASO features such as dist_direct_cache_read and the NRM thread. Specific recommendations for setup/configuration are also provided.
DMRS313 Troubleshooting Replication Server Environments Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
Replication Server provides an incredibly powerful and flexible infrastructure for transactional data movement. Since Replication Server topologies always involve multiple, distributed components working in concert, troubleshooting problems can be quite daunting at times. This session will explore each component - Rep Agents, REp Servers, and DSI's- to help you understand how to diagnose difficult problems for yourself.
DMRS323 How to Set up and Manage Replication Server for DB2 / UDB Databases Product Focus: Replication Server Level of Experience: All
This session will introduce you to replication of data from DB2 to DB2 on the LAN. You will learn about the architecture of replication server, why using transactional replication is the best alternative in the market, how you can easily perform data transformation, warm standby architectures, and last but not least, how to model and manage your DB2 replication environment.
DMRS333 Replication Server Performance & Tuning using Monitors and Counters Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
Managing Replication Server performance requires the use of various tools, new features and available monitors and counters. Optimal performance, latency, and throughput can be demonstrated by proper use of these multiple diagnostics tools. Replication Server monitors and counters provide detailed insight into the transaction profile and help identify potential tuning options. This session will include instruction on collecting the monitor and counter data and sample analysis of actual data from various test environments. New Replication Server performance features will be introduced that will provide insights into how the new functionality will address specific performance issues related to the collected monitors and counter data. Related ASE and Replication Agent performance impacts will also be presented and associated tuning options reviewed. This session will also include a case study which includes real-world profiling and tuning data.
DMRS343 Replication Server Performance Tuning using Monitors and Counters - Advanced Topics Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server, Sybase IQ Level of Experience: Intermediate
Extending the analysis and case study from standard Replication Server Performance and Tuning TechWave session on this subject will provide deeper insights into optimizing Replication Server for performance. Demonstration of the Replication Server Monitors and Counters data collection and analysis using Excel worksheets to graphically present the RS counter information and pin point the bottlenecks in the data path. Further description of relevant new features will be included as well as best practices for complex environments.
DMRS353 Turning Database Transactions into Messaging Events with Replication Server Messaging Edition Product Focus: ASE, Replication Server Level of Experience: All
Event-enabling a database is fast being recognized as an effective and efficient method to disseminate information of interest to applications and other systems. This is simply because as the ecosystem around the database became more complex and composed of a myriad of components, messaging technologies offered a simple, consistent and seamless mechanism for distributed components to communicate. Since without any doubt, the "golden copy" of data is a database, Sybase recognized over 10 years ago that Replication Server could offer simply another "target" that just happens to be a Message Bus. Now, the floodgate of real-time information can be driven throughout an organization irrespective of whether it needs to go to other databases, in-memory technologies like HANA or distributed data caches like Gemstone's Gemfire. In this session you will learn RSME features and will hear a case-study of how one large Wall Street customer uses the product as a foundational technology for trading systems of the 21st century.
TechWave 2011 Partial List of Breakout Sessions: Enterprise Mobility (MOB)
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MOB5 Product Overview: Sybase Unwired Platform 101 Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
The SAP Mobility Platform solution set includes the Sybase Unwired Platform. The Sybase Unwired Platform is a mobile enterprise application platform that extends the value of the enterprise to a true mobility paradigm by connecting business processes to mobile workers on any device, at any time. Attend this session to learn how your enterprise organization can use the Sybase Unwired Platform and its associated software development kit to develop both web-based and native applications for all major mobile device types.
MOB6 Mobile App Development: Connecting Enterprise Data to Mobile Devices Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: Intermediate
Enterprise organizations use the Sybase Unwired Platform to connect enterprise data to their mobile devices. Using the Mobile Business Object (MBO) technology in the Sybase Unwired Platform, developers can define abstractions of enterprise data to make available in a mobile application on all major device types. This model allows developers to write their applications once and deploy to many mobile devices. Attend this session to learn how to develop an MBO and build enterprise class mobile applications.
MOB7 Mobile App Development: Code Free Development with the Hybrid Web Container Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: Beginner
The SAP Mobility Platform solution set includes the Sybase Unwired Platform and its Hybrid Web Container. This technology offers enterprise organizations the best of both application development paradigms: web applications and native applications. Using the hybrid web container, developers can quickly create applications using web application qualities without sacrificing the rich user experience by leveraging native application characteristics. This session will explain how to build a mobile application within minutes without writing one single line of code and the modeling capabilities of the software development kit (SDK).
MOB8 Case Study: Customizing Mobile Applications Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
Enterprise organizations use the Sybase Unwired Platform and the software development kit to create and customize their enterprise mobile applications. Sybase and SAP Partner, msc mobile, will provide a case study review of how they created a Mobile Sales application for an SAP ERP customer. Attend this session to learn how to assemble a project team, select the appropriate technology for mobile implementation, design a user-friendly mobile application for multiple mobile device types, and deploy, administrate and monitor the mobile application.
MOB9 Mobile App Development: Database-Driven Architectures for Mobile Applications Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Intermediate
Anyone building or buying a mobile application needs to decide where to keep the application data: on the device or on a server? The answer depends on your needs for availability, latency, and consistency. This session offers key considerations and the impacts of these decisions for developing database-driven architectures for mobile applications. Attend this session to explore the ways in which SQL Anywhere deals with consistency problems for mobile applications that need to be highly available and responsive.
MOB10 Mobile App Development: Developing Database-Driven Apps for Android Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Intermediate
Android is now the most widely used Smartphone operating system in the world. This session explores database-driven application development for Android, including keeping a responsive user interface, data management, and implementing push. It focuses on developing data-rich applications using SAP.
MOB11 Case Study: Scalable Line-of-Business Mobile Applications with MobiLink Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: All
The SAP Mobility Platform solution set includes powerful MobiLink technology. MobiLink has been used extensively by many enterprises to build some of the largest, most complex, and most successful mobile applications ever created. This session examines a number of successfully deployed enterprise mobile applications and gives insight into the considerations, challenges, and keys to success for each of these projects. It also provides an overview of the architecture and features of MobiLink and discusses how these were leveraged in real-world mobile applications.
MOB12 Case Study: Building Impactful Mobile Applications Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
Enterprise organizations are looking to build impactful mobile applications without having to exhaust their resources. SAP and Sybase customers have used the Sybase Unwired Platform to solve this challenge. This session reviews customer case studies and provides an overview of existing customer discovery and sizing processes, project management best practices, implementation stage critical paths, and security solutions. Attend this session to gain knowledge about existing Sybase Unwired Platform customer applications and learn how the applications built using our mobile enterprise application platform have had bottom-line business impact.
MOB13 Product Overview: Sybase Unwired Platform and HANA Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: Intermediate
Sybase and SAP have combined the power of their industry leading mobile enterprise application platform, Sybase Unwired Platform, and in-memory computing engine, HANA, to better meet our customers' needs. This session will provide an overview of the integration of these products and how enterprise organizations can integrate the Sybase Unwired Platform with HANA to run mobile applications with massive quantities of real-time data in main memory. Attend this session to learn how to mobilize your SAP solutions with speed and power.
MOB14 Product Overview: SAP NetWeaver and Sybase Unwired Platform Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: Intermediate
Sybase and SAP are providing their customers with the ability to migrate SAP NetWeaver Mobile Applications to the Sybase Unwired Platform. This session will offer instructions about how to convert applications and a review of recent customer examples. Attend this session to learn how to save on existing investments, maintain native application developments, convert applications into new development environment, and how to save energy when loading systems.
MOB15 Product Overview: Mobile Plant Maintenance and Customer Service - Write Once, Run Anywhere Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: Intermediate
The mobile world has changed. Three years ago companies chose devices, apps lacked usability, and development circles were long. With SAP's new strategy and portfolio, it is easy to develop applications quickly while fulfilling users expectations and allowing employees to use their own devices.
MOB16 Product Overview: Afaria 101 Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
Afaria is the industry's most powerful, flexible and secure solution to manage mobility across the entire enterprise. Afaria simplifies the complex mobile world by providing an infrastructure that allows enterprises to confidently manage and secure data, devices and applications over any network for any size of deployment. Attend this session to learn how your enterprise organization can use Afaria to secure both personally owned and corporately owned devices and manage applications from a single console.
MOB17 Product Overview: Afaria: What's New Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
Together, Sybase and SAP are continuing to invest in Afaria, the powerful, flexible and secure solution to enable customers to manage mobility across the entire enterprise. This session will provide an overview of the enhancements that have been made to Afaria since version 6.5 and a preview of Afaria 7.0 features including enhancements to iOS and Android device security and application management, expense management, certificate deployments, location based services.
MOB18 Product Overview: Implementing Android with Afaria Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
Android adoption in the enterprise continues to rapidly expand, and with the fragmentation of this platform and the varying capabilities for device security and application management, IT organizations need a strategy and solution to manage these devices. Afaria enforces strong security policies that prevent data security breaches, ensures that IT can extend acceptable use policies to all current and future mobile devices, and provisions enterprise-class applications. Attend this session to learn how to secure and provision Android devices, implement application management and email, and decommission smartphones and tablets.
MOB19 Case Study: Controlling and Securing Mobile Technology with a Self-Service Portal Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: Beginner
Imagine all help desk calls from employees with devices ranging from the newest iPhone to the latest Android tablet. This is why self-service portals are gaining popularity – employees can find help for mobility in a central place without burdening IT. This session will review how to empower end-users with self-service security and management through a central enterprise application storefront. Attend this session to learn how self-service portals build on SAP Mobility Platform Afaria technology are becoming the central hub in the enterprise for servicing mobility.
MOB20 Product Overview: Manage Devices and Applications Using Afaria Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
With so many mobile operating systems and devices choices available, IT organizations need a solution that can manage—and secure—all critical enterprise data, mobile applications and devices. Afaria simplifies the management complexities of an on-the-go workforce by ensuring that all data stored and transmitted by mobile devices is secure. Attend this session to learn best practices when it comes to securing and managing applications for many mobile device types.
MOB21 Product Overview: Performance Monitoring MobiLink Server Farms Product Focus: SQL Anywhere Level of Experience: Beginner
Every well-run system needs to be monitored to determine how it is meeting performance goals, and to identify areas for improvement. In this session, we'll discuss the use of SQL Anywhere Monitor to analyze the performance of MobiLink server farms including setting of alerts and notifications. Learn how MobiLink Monitor, synchronization events, and database tools like the MDA tables are used to identify the root cause of performance problems.
MOB22 Mobile App Development: Developing for the User Experience Product Focus: All Level of Experience: All
Personal and professional use of mobile devices is increasingly becoming blurred and enterprise organizations are challenges with satisfying mobile workers with adequate and appealing enterprise mobile applications. The SAP User Experience group is supporting developers, product owners, and others to make the user experience a top priority when developing enterprise mobile applications. This session will include a review of use cases and requirements, technical frameworks, application wireframes and mockups, compliance to visual design and application testing. Attend this session to learn how to develop applications that will be adopted and demanded for by your internal and external stakeholders.
MOB23 Case Study: Sybase Unwired Platform Mobile Application Performance Tuning Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: Intermediate
Tuning mobile applications for good performance can be challenging, especially when a large database must be synchronized to a mobile device and subsequently be queried efficiently on the device. This case study will discuss performance tuning of the Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM on BlackBerry mobile devices. Areas of focus will include the newly-developed feature of "bulk initial download", identification of query performance bottlenecks, use of "skip and take" in query execution, creation of additional indexes on database tables, and the creation and subsequent maintenance of materialized views over database tables.
MOB24 Product Overview: Implementing iOS with Afaria Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: Intermediate
iPhone and iPad adoption in the enterprise continues to rapidly expand and with the fragmentation of this platform and the varying capabilities for device security and application management IT organizations need a strategy and solution to manage these devices. Afaria enforces strong security policies that prevent data security breaches, ensures that IT can extend acceptable use policies to all current and future mobile devices, and provisions enterprise-class applications. Attend this session to learn how to secure and provision iOS mobile devices, implement application management and email, and decommission smartphones and tablets.
MOB25 Case Study: Afaria Sizing/Performance Tuning Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
This session will present a case study on Afaria sizing & performance tuning.
MOB26 Mobile App Development: Developing Native Mobile Applications with Sybase Unwired Platform Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
This session will show how you can quickly and easily develop and deploy mobile applications with Sybase.
MOB27 Product Overview: Mobile Analytics Kit Product Focus: All Level of Experience: All
Hand-held devices such as tablets and smartphones are driving the paradigm shift of business intelligence and business analytics to Mobile Analytics (MA). MAKit aims to provide graphical controls with analytics capabilities for mobile devices. MAKit offers trendy and compelling user interfaces for users to easily view enterprise data. It also provides powerful analytics functionality to help users to discover important indicators hidden in the warehouse-scale enterprise database. Moreover, MAKit has an optimized on-device analytics engine, which avoids frequent time-consuming queries to remote servers. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of MAKit's features.
MOB28 Mobile App Development: Introduction to JQuery Mobile and Mobile Design Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
The introduction of the SUP 2.0 web container gives developers a new way to create applications for mobile devices. Designing those front ends, however, requires a new skill set in both HTML and an eye for the design requirements for mobile front ends. In this session we will introduce some of the tools and requirements for mobile web front ends. We will cover the basic considerations of design, and review some of the design considerations necessary to produce a web application that works well in a mobile environment. We will also cover JQuery Mobile, which is used by SUP to help design portable front ends for multiple mobile devices.
DISCUSSION SESSIONS
The following sessions are designed in a small-group 'roundtable' style format. Multiple discussion sessions may be held in one room concurrently.
MOBDIS1A Best Practices for Application Management Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All Instructor: Date/Time: Thursday, September 15, 8:00am - 9:00am Room: Casanova 603
Mobility introduces new complexities to managing both in-house and publicly available applications as well as the device lifecycle itself. This session will discuss best practices for managing mobile devices and issues to consider before any mobile deployment.
MOBDIS1B Best Practices for Mobile Security Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices used in the enterprise can be an open door to intruders. Lost or stolen devices that are not password protected, or information in corporate email or business applications transmitted wirelessly can put your corporate information at risk. We'll discuss what you need to do now to fully protect your enterprise mobile devices and keep your corporate email and data secure.
MOBDIS1C iPhone and iPad in the Enterprise: SAP Mobile Solutions Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
The iPhone and iPad have changed the mobile computing landscape and revolutionized the mobile app experience. These devices have taken the enterprise by storm, changing user expectations for mobility. Learn and discuss how SAP mobile technologies for iPhone and iPad can help you embrace both personally and corporate owned devices to maximize business productivity.
MOBDIS2 Android in the Enterprise: SAP Mobile Solutions Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience:All Instructor: Date/Time: Thursday, September 15, 9:00am - 10:00am Room: Casanova 603
Android adoption in the consumer market has been significant and continues to expand rapidly in the enterprise. Employees are now demanding IT departments provide secure access to enterprise resources like email, CRM and other mission-critical corporate data. But is Android really ready for prime time? Join us for this session to learn and discuss how SAP mobile technologies for Android can help you embrace this emerging platform.
MOBDIS4 Getting Started with SAP Mobile Applications Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
Taking the first step can be the hardest part of any project. During this session we'll discuss how to get started with SAP's mobile enterprise applications. Whether you are looking for advice on where to begin or you already have an attack plan, attend this session to learn about SAP's mobility solutions and how they can benefit your employee productivity and your bottom line.
MOBDIS5A Best Practices for a 'Bring Your Own Device' Model Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
It is increasingly common for employees to bring their own devices to the office - and expect IT to make them work with back-end systems. IT needs to stop resisting this movement and instead embrace it. The productivity enhancements and cost savings of a 'Bring Your Own Device' model are undeniable. In this session, we'll discuss how to separate personal and corporate data on mobile devices to enable your employees to work anywhere from the device of their choice.
MOBDIS5B Considering Mobility Governance Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
Every user shouldn't automatically get access to everything on the network – not by a long shot. Have you surveyed your departments and employees to determine what they hope to gain from mobility? Do your users simply need access to enterprise email and intranet sites, or do they want to access specific applications? Attend this session for a discussion on setting clear governance policies around mobility.
MOBDIS6 BlackBerry in the Enterprise: SAP Mobile Solutions Product Focus: Afaria Level of Experience: All
BlackBerry has strong roots in the enterprise mobility space, and continues to innovate and evolve with enhanced smartphone technology and new tablets. Join the discussion and out how SAP is enabling business to access their SAP investments via BlackBerry devices.
MOBDIS7A Impact of HTML5 on Mobile Enterprise Applications Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
HTML5 is being hyped for its ability to handle multimedia and graphical content as well as its markup and APIs to enable complex web applications. Explore and discuss how new technologies from SAP allow you to easily extend SAP systems to mobile devices by relying on HTML5. Get ready to ramp up your mobility plans by leveraging your developer talents to create robust mobile applications quickly.
MOBDIS7B Make the Right Choice: Deciding What Type of Application to Write Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
Making the right choice when it comes to what type of application to develop and for what mobile environments can be intimidating. This discussion session offers an overview of mobile applications including web and native and how to develop an application development strategy for your organization that will allow your developers to write once and deploy to many with confidence.
MOBDIS7C What's the Point? Discussion of Point Solutions and Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms Product Focus: SUP Level of Experience: All
When it comes to mobilizing business processes and applications, enterprise organizations are challenged with making a strategic plan and decision. Join us for this informal session for a discussion and comparison of point solutions and mobile enterprise application platforms to help your enterprise make the right strategic decisions.
TechWave 2011 Pre-Conference Courses
These two-day in-depth training courses are available for an additional fee of $1095 through August 17 and $1295 after.
All pre-conference courses run for the full day on both Sunday, September 11 and Monday, September 12. Attendees are asked to bring their own laptop; computers will not be provided.
PRE001: Introduction to Sybase Unwired Platform and Building Complex Workflow Apps In this class, you will be introduced to Sybase Unwired Platform; then you will use use the new Web Container to build Complex Workflow Applications in Sybase Unwired Platform 2.0.
PRE204: What's new in ASE This session focuses on the latest changes, from the in-memory database to the transfer table features made to the ASE product since ASE 15.0.3 ESD #1.
PRE205: ASE System Administration This session will give emphasis on resource management (memory, disk, and tempdb space) with a goal of creating a reliable Adaptive Server environment. Learn how to examine fundamental monitoring and troubleshooting methods, backup and recovery strategies, job scheduling and user access issues.
PRE206: Sybase IQ Administration for High Performance Achievers This session covers must-know administration, system management, monitoring and troubleshooting methods. For the ambitious Sybase IQ administrator, you will be exposed to quite a lot of technical information to help you increase the efficiency of the Sybase IQ. You will also learn how to design and implement a multiplex configuration of Sybase IQ to support large query loads, creating numerous tables and extracting and loading gigabits of data.
PRE207: Sybase IQ Bootcamp for DBAs and Developers This session focuses on the installation, setting up, loading and maintaining of a Sybase IQ database. Learn monitoring and troubleshooting methods, and how to improve the performance of Sybase IQ. Explore the multiplex configuration of Sybase IQ to support large query loads. This session will also teach you how to build effective query plans, and apply the appropriate use of joins and group-by clauses to help you optimize your Sybase IQ environment.
PRE208: Optimization Techniques Every ASE Developer Should Know In this session, you will learn to measure and optimize your T-SQL queries. Focus is on the "must-know-how-to-use" monitoring and evaluation tools of Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.x to proficiently interpret ASE diagnoses into specific plans of action. Emphasis will also be on evaluating the behavior of the optimizer to implement the most efficient data-change and data-retrieval T-SQL code for your queries and stored procedures. Lastly, you will maximize the use of various Sybase utilities to identify causes of slow queries.
PRE209: PowerBuilder .NET 12.5 Boot Camp Learn to use .NET classes and their methods (found in the .NET Framework itself or created by .NET developers in C#. VB .NET, etc.) inside the PowerBuilder IDE. PowerBuilder consumes .NET objects, now without the conditional code blocks that were required in the 11.X versions. You will learn how to inherit from .NET classes while in PowerBuilder, giving you the chance to override methods in .NET classes. .NET types may also be used in PowerBuilder functions (returns or arguments).
TechWave 2011 Plenary
Sessions
The TechWave track plenary sessions are designed to cover
topics of interest to the majority of attendees, and include a
high-level overview of the materials that will be covered in the
breakout sessions all week. The plenaries for the Enterprise Mobility
track are two back-to-back sessions included in the SAP TechEd
conference program, that TechWave mobility attendees have been given
special permission to attend.
10:15am – 11:30am Analytics:
Sybase Analytics Solutions: Enabling Intelligence for Everyone Application Development
Tools: The Road Ahead: What’s Up Next for PowerBuilder Data Management:
Sybase Steps Further into the Cloud — Scaling Data Management in SaaS
Applications Enterprise Mobility:
Unwiring Your Enterprise with an SAP Mobile Platform
11:30am – 12:30pm Enterprise Mobility:
Mobility in Action
1:00pm – 3:00pm Analytics:
Achieving Real-Time Analytics Data Management:
Innovating the Future with Sybase Data Management
Plenary
Session Descriptions
Sybase Analytics
Solutions: Enabling Intelligence for Everyone
In order to be remarkable, you need to have clarity and wisdom in your
organization. Market leaders understand that this depends on gaining
insights across the organization by analyzing volumes of available
data. This evolution to business analytics is creating multiple
challenges for IT departments that need an infrastructure to support
big data, diverse data types, complex questions, decision velocity, and
an infrastructure that scales beyond the power users to dependably
support all communities. Better approaches to data governance
and new information architecture are required. New releases of Sybase
IQ and Sybase PowerDesigner revolutionize the way IT manages data,
enabling intelligence for everyone with business analytics. Come
discover why Sybase is a proven solution for successful business
analytics.
Achieving
Real-Time Analytics
Today’s challenges of big data, diverse data types, complex questions,
and decision velocity place high demands on business analytics systems.
Sybase has become a recognized leader in the data warehousing and
analytics market through many fast paced innovations. Sybase IQ now
offers a “shared everything” MPP architecture, in-database analytics,
and text analytics. The Sybase Risk Analytics Platform (RAP) empowers
financial capital markets with its ability to capture and analyze
streams of market data in real-time. The new Event Stream Processor by
Sybase enables tractable, real-time analytics in trading,
telecommunications, and web analytics environments. To enhance these
solutions, Sybase Replication Server offers real-time loading of Sybase
IQ and feeding streaming systems. PowerDesigner collects and analyzes
the metadata for the real-time systems through its Data Movement Model.
All of these technologies create a solution set that is unmatched in
the market today for meeting the high demands of real-time analytics.
Sybase will outline its view of the real-time analytics market, its
execution plan, and efforts to continue introducing state of the art
technologies that will transform the way analytics are developed,
deployed and consumed.
The Road Ahead:
What’s Up Next for PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder celebrates its 20th birthday this year and has come a long
way since its Windows 3.1 roots. But the best is yet to come! In this
session you will get a sneak preview of features being planned for the
next release of PowerBuilder, as well as a look at some new
technologies from our research and development labs. See how the
DataWindow® looks on an iPad or a Smartphone! See what new user
interface features are planned for PowerBuilder Classic, and more!
Sybase Steps
Further into the Cloud — Scaling Data Management in SaaS Applications
The adoption of cloud computing is demonstrating it has a highly
disruptive and positive impact for many companies and is expected to
greatly affect application delivery architectures over the next decade.
To realize the benefits of the cloud, application developers and IT
departments need to rethink how information is accessed, deployed and
managed. Sybase is taking critical steps to enable application
providers to manage information in the cloud. Learn about trends among
Sybase customers and ISVs, key Sybase cloud initiatives across the
database portfolio, and the unveiling of Sybase’s newest offering. Code
named ‘Fuji’, this new cloud data platform addresses the challenge of
giving SaaS providers a scalable and manageable solution that also
meets data governance demands of their business customers.
Innovating the
Future with Sybase Data Management
At last year’s TechWave, SAP had just completed the acquisition of
Sybase. At the time, customers were cautiously optimistic, but had
questions about Sybase’s future. Join Sybase’s product and technology
leaders a year later as we report on what has turned out to be one of
the most innovative and productive years EVER in Sybase’s 25-year
history! In this plenary, we highlight our innovations designed to
invest in the future of your company and your career, including the
introduction of the newest release of our flagship RDBMS, ASE 15.7,
which features capabilities that will benefit developers and DBAs
alike. This ASE release is also the first to be certified to run SAP’s
Business Suite applications — an event that is renewing an eco-system
on which many of you depend. Discover the latest innovations in data
movement technologies with Replication Server as well as the latest
advancements of SQL Anywhere 12, our leading Mobile and Embedded RDBMS.
Finally, we will introduce Sybase’s newest offering, a cloud data
platform code named “Fuji”, addresses the challenge of giving SaaS
providers a scalable and manageable solution that also meets data
governance demands of their business customers. Come, celebrate with
us, and see first-hand why engineers who have been with Sybase since
the early days are so energized about our future.
Unwiring Your
Enterprise with an SAP Mobile Platform (SAP TechEd MOB100)
This overview session covers all topics relating to what SAP mobile
means. The attendees leaving this session should have a good
understanding of which other mobile-related sessions are relevant to
them and what they can learn in these mobile sessions.
Mobility in
Action (SAP TechEd MOB101)
In this session, we will hear success stories from SAP partners and
customers who have built mobile applications
on the SAP NetWeaver mobile platform.
Registration
The cost to attend Sybase TechWave 2011 is $1395. This includes access to the shared SAP TechEd / Sybase TechWave keynote presentation, special event, exhibit hall, Demo Jam, and all TechWave breakout sessions and networking activities. View the Conference Agenda for details.
You can register directly through the TechWave registration system by clicking the "Register Now" button below, or opt to purchase conference and/or pre-conference course enrollment via the Sybase eShop.
Hotel
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Save the Date
For 2012, our traditional TechWave content will be incorporated into the SAP TechEd conference, taking place October 15-19 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. We will continue to deliver targeted training on Sybase products as you would expect, plus offer attendees access to SAP TechEd keynote sessions, exhibits, special event and other networking functions.
It is an exciting time for Sybase customers – You are now part of a much larger community – and a much larger conference with SAP TechEd! Learn more by visiting http://www.sapteched.com/usa. Receive $100 off registration by signing up for SAP TechEd registration alerts and event updates.
SAP TechEd 2012 Las Vegas will include the performance and tuning tips and techniques, and best practices training on Sybase products that you have come to expect – plus, we’re combining forces with SAP to provide expanded content and networking opportunities this year.
For Application Development Tools customers we are planning a separate event taking place this year, focused on tools specifically. Stay tuned for more information — to ensure you are informed of updates specific for the Application Development Tools event, please give us your information at http://response.sybase.com/forms/2012TechEdAppDevToolsEvent.
Tell us which Sybase product you are most interested in learning more about and be entered to win a FREE registration to attend the conference (valued at over $2500)! http://response.sybase.com/forms/2012TechEdSaveTheDate
We hope you will be able to join us!
Sincerely,
The Sybase Events Team
TechWave 2011 Presentation Archive
Final slides from TechWave 2011 technical sessions (in pdf format) are available in the TechWave Presentation Archive. This content contains materials submitted by the speakers both prior to and after the event.
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