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Exchange offers over 100 hours of technical sessions that cover the complete portfolio of Progress technologies and offers beginner to advanced-level content. Sessions cover theory, how-to practices, case studies and general information exchanges. Hear from the experts and get the chance to network and collaborate with the best in the business.

Sessions are grouped by tracks. Click the track title below to view the session titles and click a session title to view the abstract. You can also download a pdf of all session abstracts by track.

DEV: Designing and Building the Best Business Applications
OPS: Data, Operations, and Management: Your Key to Success
SOA: Enterprise Infrastructure and Architecture
BOF: Birds of a Feather

DEV: Designing and Building the Best Business Applications

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OpenEdge improves productivity by simplifying many coding tasks and enabling you to create robust business applications. Sessions in this track provide guidance and an in-depth look at OpenEdge features and functions for building business applications. Learn the latest on how to extend and customize your development environment. Discover how your application can take a quantum leap forward in terms of flexibility, performance and integration, by leveraging all the tools and language features that OpenEdge has to offer.

DEV-1	What's New in OpenEdge 10.1C?
DEV-2	Making OpenEdge Architect Work for You
DEV-3	VCD—Transforming Our ERP to OpenEdge 10
DEV-4	Get on Track! The Demo Explained
DEV-5	Application Architecture Made Simple
DEV-6	Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI
DEV-7	Microsoft .NET + XAML + AppServer = OpenEdge Application?
DEV-8	Structured Error Handling in the ABL
DEV-9	Web 2.0 Distributed AJAX Applications—Combining Progress OERA and Open Laszlo
DEV-10	Integrating OpenEdge Architect into Your Development Environment
DEV-11	Architecting Your Application in OpenEdge 10
DEV-12	What's New in the Object-Oriented ABL?
DEV-13	Developer Productivity with the Roundtable Plug-in for OpenEdge Architect
DEV-14	Ready to Translate Your Application?
DEV-15	AppServer Mode Case Studies
DEV-16	Leveraging the Power of Advanced GUI
DEV-17	Getting to SaaS
DEV-18	Estimating Your Transformation—The Reality
DEV-19	Lessons Learned from SaaS Application Development Projects—A Panel
DEV-20	Sex and Sizzle—Developing with .NET and OpenEdge 10
DEV-21	Embracing OpenEdge Architect
DEV-22	Catch Me If You Can—Practical Structured Error Handling
DEV-23	Ajax, Dojo and the OERA—Making Connections
DEV-24	What's New with ProDataSets in 10.1C?
DEV-25	You've Got a Problem, Here's How to Find It
DEV-26	OpenEdge Strategy and Roadmap
DEV-27	Making Business Intelligence Search as Easy as Web Search
DEV-28	Adding Sizzle to Your WebSpeed Applications
DEV-29	A Deep Dive into Developing with the Advanced GUI
DEV-30	Integrating Business Objects and Your OpenEdge Application
DEV-31	Tips and Tricks for Designing Your ABL Application for Performance
DEV-32	Using the Advanced GUI, Structured Error Handling and SonicMQ to build a Semi-Disconnected Point of Sale
DEV-33	Get to Know Your Data—Open Source Data Integration, Business Intelligence and More
DEV-34	Writing Your Own Plug-ins for OpenEdge Architect—A Developer’s Experience
DEV-35	Modeling Existing ABL Systems with UML
DEV-36	Composite MVP—Building Blocks in Presentation Layer
DEV-37	Progress on the Street
DEV-38	OpenEdge ABL Info Exchange
DEV-39	Benefiting from OpenEdge without Disrupting Your Application's Life Cycle
DEV-40	Using SmartDataObjects with the Advanced GUI
DEV-41	The Power of Polymorphism
DEV-42	Achieving Real-Time BAM with OpenEdge, Sonic and Apama
DEV-43	OpenEdge Tools and User Interface Info Exchange

OPS: Data, Operations, and Management—Your Key to Success

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While data is at the heart of every business, managing the environment keeps the business running. OpenEdge data infrastructure capabilities provide data management, application management, replication, integration, business continuity functionality and so much more. Sessions in this track will give you the insight you need to make the most effective use of your environment for enhanced performance, scalability and availability. Discover tools and techniques that can help you, whether you have one database or multiple databases, in one place or multiple locations, all OpenEdge or multi-vendor.

OPS-1	DBA 101—How Healthy Is Your Database Today?
OPS-2	OpenEdge Management in the Real World
OPS-3	What's New in OpenEdge 10.1 RDBMS?
OPS-4	The Complete Database Disaster Recovery Plan!
OPS-5	DataServer Best Practices—Revisited and Revised
OPS-6	A Beginner's Guide to OpenEdge SQL via ODBC or JDBC
OPS-7	Migrating Your Distributed Application from V9 to OpenEdge with (Almost) No Downtime
OPS-8	Alerts, Alarms, Pages and Harbingers of Trouble…
OPS-9	Fun with Virtualization
OPS-10	Moving V8/V9 RDBMS to OpenEdge 10
OPS-11	After Imaging—New Features, Greater Flexibility
OPS-12	Caring for an Ailing AppServer
OPS-13	Building and Deploying a Highly Available Application
OPS-14	Effective OpenEdge Database Configuration
OPS-15	What Was Happening with My Database, AppServer, Operating System. . . Yesterday, Last Month, Last Year?
OPS-16	How Do I Kill Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
OPS-17	Utilizing Firewalls—In the Reign of Fire
OPS-18	Data Management and Platforms Roadmap
OPS-19	What Is IPv6 and Why Should I Care?
OPS-20	Data Management and Platforms Info Exchange
OPS-21	Managing Multiple Sites Part-Time—A Replication and OpenEdge Management Case Study
OPS-22	OpenEdge versus the OS Security System
OPS-23	OpenEdge Performance Basics
OPS-24	Success with OpenEdge Replication
OPS-25	Unicode and the DataServer
OPS-26	Hasta la VISTA—Everything You Wanted to Know about Progress Products on Vista, but Were Afraid to Ask
OPS-27	Understanding Record and Table Locking in OpenEdge SQL Application
OPS-28	A New Spin on Some Old Latches

SOA: Enterprise Infrastructure and Architecture

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As the Internet computing model takes over, new technologies are constantly being invented and adopted by modern IT organizations. During this track we'll focus on Progress Software's latest technologies helping you to relate the concepts to the product and best practices. Because your next project may involve messaging, services, events, workflow, Web 2.0 and advanced system or application monitoring, we can help you design, develop, deploy and operate these systems with our best-in-class enterprise infrastructure.

SOA-1	Applied SOA—Building Out Your SOA Environment with OpenEdge
SOA-2	Event-Driven SOA
SOA-3	Bluetooth 101—Are PANS in Your Future?
SOA-4	An Introduction to OpenEdge Integration Technologies
SOA-5	Did You Get the Message?
SOA-6	Our Road to Becoming a Software Service Provider
SOA-7	Introduction to the Progress Sonic ESB Product Family
SOA-8	BPM—What Is It and How Can I Use It with SOA to Maximize IT and Business Success?
SOA-9	Reliable Messaging with OpenEdge
SOA-10	SOA Enable Your Mainframe
SOA-11	Common Applications of Sonic ESB
SOA-12	Ultra-Sonic—Thinking Outside the Box Using SonicMQ
SOA-13	Introduction to DataXtend Semantic Integrator
SOA-14	Continuous Integration in SOA Projects
SOA-15	Using Portal and Sonic ESB to Integrate Information from Public Resources
SOA-16	Computing in the Cloud—Is It In Your Future
SOA-17	Introducing Native Invocation with the OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB
SOA-18	Sonic ESB Application Deployment and SDM
SOA-19	Combining the Power of Progress Sonic, DataXtend Semantic Integrator and Actional for SOA Operations
SOA-20	The Role of Policy Enforcement in SOA Management
SOA-21	Integrating SAP and Other Packaged Applications into Your SOA Infrastructure
SOA-22	Complex Event Processing—Making Sense of Sensor Network Events in Real Time
SOA-23	Enterprise Integration Patterns in Sonic ESB
SOA-24	WS-AlphabetSoup
SOA-25	Data Distribution Solutions Using DataXtend Semantic Integrator for Sonic ESB Users
SOA-26	Extending Your Application with OpenEdge Web Services
SOA-27	Practical Approaches for Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture
SOA-28	Release Management for SOA
SOA-29	Building an SOA Prototype Using Sonic ESB, Actional and Google Earth
SOA-30	Getting the Most Out of Sonic Workbench
SOA-31	EnABLing EDI with DataDirect XMLConverters
SOA-32	Progress SOA Portfolio Roadmap
SOA-33	Transactions in an SOA World—Practical Examples
SOA-34	Progress SOA Portfolio Info Exchange
SOA-35	Producing SonicMQ JMS Messages from SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedures
SOA-36	Tuning and Scalability for Your Enterprise Messaging
SOA-37	SOA Management with Actional for Sonic—Live at Work
SOA-38	OpenEdge Middleware Roadmap and Info Exchange
SOA-39	Securing Your SOA—Mitigating Security Risks of a Decoupled Infrastructure
SOA-40	Getting Rejected on the Bus—How OpenEdge Developers Deal with Failure
SOA-41	Enabling Your OpenEdge Application with Web 2.0

BOF: Birds of a Feather

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Get together with other attendees and Progress experts who share the same interests. You'll get the chance to meet, discuss issues, identify common challenges, exchange ideas and share solutions in an informal atmosphere. Birds of a Feather sessions are audience-led, with no formal agenda or speakers. Moderators help guide the discussion.

BOF-1	Enterprise Customers
BOF-2	OpenEdge Architect
BOF-3	Software as a Service (SaaS)
BOF-4	Off-Shoring Practices
BOF-5	SOA Governance and Security