Servoy Newsletter April 2010


In this issue:
- Servoy Early Bird Special: In-Person Training Classes - Thousand Oaks, CA May 19-20-21
- Servoy Special Webinar: Cloud Computing a Hype or Reality? - April 19
- Servoy Special Webinar: Servoy for Delphi ISVs - April 21
- Servoy Special Webinar: Building Sexy User Interfaces in Servoy - April 29
- Servoy to Speak at 13th Annual TMA User Conference - April 13-15
- Servoy Gold Sponsor and Mentor at Birmingham Launch48 Event Held March 26-28
- Servoy 5.1 Featured in eWEEK
- Servoy CEO Jan Aleman on "This Week in Cloud Computing"


Servoy Early Bird Special: In-Person Training Classes - Thousand Oaks, CA May 19-20-21 Take advantage of the opportunity to get Servoy In-Person Training from the people who do it every day. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, May 19-20-21, Servoy USA will be hosting a series of training sessions in Thousand Oaks, California.

Each Servoy Training class costs $499 USD, but we are offering an Early Bird Special of $1,699 USD through April 23 (a savings of $796.00!):
  • If you are a novice to Servoy, you will want to attend Servoy 101 on Wednesday May 19th and Thursday May 20th. If you order the Early Bird Special -- $1,699 before April 23rd -- we'll give you one extra session for free (you can pick either the bonus class on Thursday evening or any class being held on Friday).

  • If you are experienced with Servoy, we have 6 classes and a bonus class to choose from on Thursday, May 20th, and Friday, May 21st. On Friday, there are classes running parallel, so you can only take 2 half-day classes.

To sign-up is easy:

Servoy Special Webinar: Cloud Computing a Hype or Reality? - April 19
Do you have the speed to compete? Your competitors and customers are going into the Cloud - are you? A new report says nearly three quarters of your customers plan on being in the Cloud this year to deliver cost savings and scale infrastructure. Don't be left behind!

In this informative webinar, hosted by Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, you will get an overview of what the Cloud is and isn't; and Servoy's role in Cloud computing. All you need to attend this webinar is a web browser and a telephone or VoIP. Make sure to register as soon as possible if you plan to attend -- space is limited.

Register now for this webinar.


Servoy Special Webinar: Servoy for Delphi ISVs - April 21
This is an informative one-hour webinar that gives Delphi developers an excellent overview of what Servoy is and how they could benefit from using Servoy.

Based on developers that have added Servoy to their tool belt, the following questions will be addressed:

- Why did they consider Servoy?
- Why did they migrate?
- How many resources did it take?
- Was it worth the effort?
- What long-term impact did it have on their top-line and bottom-line?
- What kind of support did they get from their vendor?
- Is there a good time for a rewrite?
- And much more...

To attend this event, all you need is a web browser and a telephone or VoIP. Make sure to register as soon as possible if you plan to attend.

Register now for this webinar.


Building Sexy User Interfaces in Servoy - April 29
For this webinar, Servoy has invited Centigrade to present on the topic of user interface architectures. Centigrade specializes in conceptualizing, designing and developing user interfaces for an optimal user experience. In this webinar, the following items will be covered:

- The impact of a well-designed user interface
- Intuitive, sexy and clean: attributes that make up a great UI
- Good and bad practice regarding screen design and icon design
- Revamping the Look and Feel: a practical approach

Centigrade supports customers with designing user interfaces for several different platforms including Servoy Smart Client and Servoy Web Client.

Don't miss this opportunity. Join us in this informative webinar moderated by Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO.

Register now for this webinar.


Servoy to Speak at 13th Annual TMA User Conference - April 13-15
Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, will be a featured speaker at the 13th annual TMA User Conference.

The TMA 2010 User Conference, being held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, features a broad range of activities designed to sharpen skills and provide the opportunity to work effectively with the TMA and WebTMA products. The Conference offers breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, and roundtable discussions while you network with professional peers in your industry. The conference has proven to be among the best investments for increasing the usability of the TMA applications in your real-life work environment.

Jan will be presenting a session titled "JasperServer and Cloud Computing: What are they and how can they be used?"

This session is technical in nature. The visual report design tool for TMA Version 9 will be iReport, based on the JasperReports engine, and part of the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence product suite. JasperServer is a high-performance report server that can be deployed as either a standalone application or integrated with other applications. Jan will talk about JasperServer and the role it can serve in your IT environment. Jan is also a distinguished global thought leader on Cloud Computing, and will speak on this revolutionary topic coming to the forefront of technology.

Check out the conference agenda and registration.


Servoy Gold Sponsor and Mentor at Birmingham Launch48 Event Held March 26-28
Servoy was a Gold sponsor and Mentor at the Birmingham Launch48 event held from March 26th to the 28th -- alongside Paypal, Dennis Publishing and Entrepreneurs for the Future. The Birmingham Science Park hosted this event and a previous one was held at the Google UK offices in London.

The aim of Launch48 is to bring together participants from different backgrounds and levels of experience in the web industry to think/plan/develop and launch one or multiple web apps in one weekend. That's right, in 48 hours! It's a frantic, energy fueled, entrepreneurial event designed to engage all participants while offering the opportunity to learn and meet new people.

Click here to find out more about the event.


Servoy 5.1 Featured in eWEEK
We are proud to say that eWEEK has posted a Servoy 5.1 new product announcement online.

More from the article:

"Servoy is an award-winning hybrid platform to help build and deploy applications much faster than traditional development environments. As a hybrid platform, applications can be deployed both in the new SaaS model, as well as in the classic on premises model from the same code base."

The announcement will run in an April print edition of the publication, and was one of the first product announcements showcased on its new beta labs site. The site, which Ziff Davis intends as an online community for IT professionals, mixes the product reviews of analysts with reviews from enterprise IT professionals.

Click here to read the full Servoy 5.1 new product announcement on eWEEK.


Servoy CEO Jan Aleman on "This Week in Cloud Computing"
Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, was one of the featured speakers on this past week's episode of "This Week in Cloud Computing", which airs LIVE every Wednesday at 3pm PST/6pm EST with hosts Amanda Coolong and Mark Jeffrey. TWICC is an informative weekly series all about the hot new trend towards abstracting and virtualizing computing resources with a rotating panel of experts.

Click here to watch the recorded show.