Servoy Newsletter November 2009




In this issue:
- Servoy Announces 5.0
- ServoyWorld on Tour 2009 AND Servoy Camp 2009: The Netherlands, Nov. 12-14
- Special Servoy Webinar: Update on Servoy Jasper Reports Plugin - Nov. 12
- Special Servoy Webinar: What's new in Servoy 5.0? - Nov. 19
- Special Servoy Webinar: Servoy 5.0 and Clustering - Nov. 24
- Servoy Success Story: Kenwood Solutions Group, LLC
- Servoy Wiki is Now Public
- Servoy Partners with EuroCloud
- Software Magazine - "Servoy Adds Improvements for Developing 'SaaS and Back' Hybrid Apps"
- Servoy Winner of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for Second Consecutive Year

Servoy Announces 5.0
Servoy announced the fifth generation of its award-winning hybrid SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, Servoy 5.0 -- the platform that simplifies SaaS. Servoy 5.0 further extends the functionality of Servoy's development and deployment platform, allowing "SaaS and Back" hybrid applications -- which can be deployed as SaaS and On-premises through both a browser and a native client -- all from a single code base.

"The main problem with other platforms is they make products that compete with ISVs," said Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy. "Unlike Microsoft and Salesforce.com, we don't build end-user software. Instead, we focus on building an award-winning platform that gives our ISVs a competitive advantage in the market. And because our platform is hybrid, customers have the flexibility to run it hosted online -- either on dedicated servers, virtual servers or any form of cloud computing -- and on-premises."

Servoy 5.0 has over 200 improvements, including:
  • Real time Clustering
  • Drag and Drop Support
  • Runtime Form Editor

To read the full Servoy 5.0 Press Release, click here.

To read an overview of key features and functionality in Servoy 5.0, click here.

ServoyWorld on Tour 2009 AND Servoy Camp 2009: The Netherlands, Nov 12-14
In previous years, you came from everywhere to attend ServoyWorld. This year, due to the decreased travel and expense budgets many of you have been experiencing, ServoyWorld on Tour has come to a city near you -- FREE!

Servoy is pleased to announce a free one-day ServoyWorld event -- being held in cities all over the world. Attendees will get an extensive overview of the upcoming Servoy 5.0 release; as well as an update of what else is happening in the world of Servoy. ServoyWorld on Tour 2009 hosted its first event on September 29th in Sao Paolo, Brazil. To date, ServoyWorld on Tour has presented events in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montivideo, Uruguay; Santiago, Chile; New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Yangon, Burma; Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. ServoyWorld on Tour 2009 is scheduled to conclude at the November 12 meeting.

To register for ServoyWorld on Tour 2009 today, click here.

If you would like to join other enthusiastic Servoy developers and users for networking; learning how-to's and Servoy development techniques; sharing the latest, greatest tips and tricks; as well as having fun, plan on attending Servoy Camp 2009. This year's Servoy Camp Conference will be held on November 12-14 at Harwig in Den Ham -- a cozy Dutch town with lots of fun activities you can do -- in The Netherlands.

To find out more details and to register for Servoy Camp 2009, click here.

NOTE: If you have already registered for Servoy Camp, you don't need to sign-up again, for ServoyWorld.

Special Servoy Webinar: Update on Servoy Jasper Reports Plugin - Nov. 12
There have been many exciting changes to the Servoy Jasper Reports Plugin in recent months. Did you know you can:
  • Create a report without writing SQL queries.
  • Create a report with data from multiple databases (even if they are on different platforms).
  • Easily use data found in your Servoy application to create a report.

If you would like to attend, make sure to sign-up as soon as possible -- as space is limited.

To register for the Special Servoy Webinar, click here.

NOTE: Because the date of Servoy Camp 2009 conflicts with the date of the Special Servoy Webinar, the "Update on Servoy Jasper Reports Plugin" Servoy Webinar will be recorded. For a link to the recorded session of the Special Servoy Webinar, please email Carla Benassi, Servoy USA Marketing Coordinator at cbenassi@servoy.com.

Special Servoy Webinar: What's new in Servoy 5.0? - Nov. 19
Award-winning Servoy is launching the new Servoy 5.0 for fast, flexible, sexy, SaaS applications. Join Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, for this one hour webinar on what's new in Servoy 5.0 -- you'll be sitting at the edge of your seat the whole time! Servoy 5.0 enables the development of "SaaS and Back" hybrid applications -- all from a single code base. The Servoy hybrid applications can be deployed as Software as a Service (SaaS) or On-premises through a browser and a native client.

To register for the Special Servoy Webinar, click here.

Special Servoy Webinar: Servoy 5.0 and Clustering - Nov. 24
Please join us for this information-packed webinar and unleash your application's potential! Servoy Clustering is one of the most anticipated features of the Servoy 5.0 product release. And with it, your applications can be made enterprise-ready. Simply, clustering combines Servoy's renowned ease-of-deployment with ultimate scalability.

Here is a list of the key benefits of Servoy Clustering:
  • Scaling up and down as needed -- from one to many servers.
  • Resilient applications -- load balancing, clustering and fail-over
  • Geographic balancing and fail-over
  • Real time scaling -- no need to restart
  • Support for Public and Private Clouds
  • Mixing On-Premises with Cloud Computing

To register for the Special Servoy Webinar, click here.

Servoy Success Story: Kenwood Solutions Group, LLC
This month's newsletter features another Servoy Success Story: Kenwood Solutions Group, LLC -- Kenwood Solutions Group designs, develops, and implements customized software solutions for medium and large enterprises. KSG has proven successful in delivering their solutions from Fortune 1000 corporations to large government contracts -- including FOX, BET, Lifetime, PBS, HSN, Amtrak and CalTrans.

To read the full Kenwood Solutions Group, LLC Servoy Success Story, click here.

Servoy Wiki is Now Public
Servoy is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Servoy Wiki at wiki.servoy.com.

This new source of information on Servoy currently contains the updated Servoy Development Reference Guide for the first Release Candidate of Servoy 5.0. Over the course of the coming weeks and months, we will be completing the Servoy Development Reference Guide and adding the other Servoy documentation guides to the Servoy Wiki.

Software Magazine - "Servoy Adds Improvements for Developing 'SaaS and Back' Hybrid Apps"
Software Magazine published a new product announcement on Servoy 5.0.

Here is an excerpt from the article: "Servoy 5.0 from Servoy allows for the development of 'SaaS and Back' hybrid applications, all from a single code base. The hybrid applications can be deployed as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-premises through a browser and a native client."

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

To read the article in its entirety, please click here.

Servoy Partners with EuroCloud
Servoy has become a partner with EuroCloud - Europe's FIRST SaaS and Cloud services community.

EuroCloud serves to:
  • Build a pan European network organized in two tiers with a national level (France, Spain, England, Belgium, etc.) and a European level. The national level focuses on local topics and the European level on European topics, under the EuroCloud brand (or another if appropriate in a national setting).

  • Build relationships with the European authorities (Commission and Parliament) to help recognize the Cloud Computing industry as the future of IT in Europe to promote a stimulating environment for development and growth of the industry.

  • Promote business relationships between members throughout Europe and internationally with counterparts such as SIIA.

  • Promote technological relationships between members throughout Europe and internationally.

Several leading analysts have commented on the importance of this initiative:

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

"The adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets. Tighter capital budgets in the current economic environment have demanded leaner alternatives, and cost-effective options, so interest in platforms as a service and cloud computing continue to grow. As evidence, adoption of the on-demand deployment model has grown for nearly a decade, but its popularity has increased significantly within the last five years. Initial concerns about security response time and service availability have diminished for many organisations. As SaaS business and computing models have matured, adoption has become more widespread." - Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner.

To learn more information, please click here.

Servoy Winner of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for Second Consecutive Year
Servoy, a leader in hybrid platform development, has been declared a winner of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award for the second consecutive year on this annual list of the fifty fastest growing technology companies. The announcement was made during an awards ceremony that took place at The Talent Factory in Den Bosch, Thursday, October. 29, 2009.

The Fast 50 is an annual election of the 50 fastest growing technology companies. The selection is based on the percentage revenue growth over the past five years (2004 to 2008). Participants may come from the public and private sector technology and include all segments including software, Internet, biotech/life sciences, computers/peripherals, semiconductors, communications/networking and media/entertainment.

"Being among the fastest growing companies is a unique achievement, but extending this to a second year is truly significant," said Jan Aleman, CEO, Servoy. "It is further recognition of our sustained growth in recent years, and is further confirmation of our strategy and strong market position."

Read the full article here.