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Sessions Overview

Business Services and the Enterprise Infrastructure
Information systems use business services to share and integrate discrete business functions. They use enterprise infrastructure products to connect, control, mediate and monitor these services in order to support and execute business processes. Whether it is Web services, XML, JMS messaging, or Enterprise Service Bus, Progress technologies help you build and manage your SOA environment. Sessions in this track will help you learn how business services and enterprise infrastructure products are changing the application landscape and how to use all of these related technologies for a secure, reliable and scalable integration solution.

Application Architecture and Design
OpenEdge Reference Architecture. Services Oriented Architecture. What are they? How do they fit together? Learn more about the importance of a good architecture, how the OpenEdge Reference Architecture and OpenEdge help you to implement the application architecture you need. Leverage reference designs and techniques that will help get you started. Discover how to make the job of updating applications easier through design and innovative technology.

Developing Business Applications
OpenEdge improves productivity by simplifying many coding tasks that are associated with creating robust business applications. Take an in-depth look at OpenEdge tools like the OpenEdge Architect and language features for building business applications. Learn more about extending and customizing your development environment. Discover how your application can take a quantum leap forward in terms of flexibility, performance and integration by leveraging all of the tools and language features that OpenEdge has to offer.

Building the Complete Solution
To make an application meet all of your business needs, add-on solutions may be necessary. Sessions in this track will help you learn more about the wealth of products and technologies available to significantly extend and enhance the value of your application. Get insights on topics ranging from search and information retrieval solutions, business analytics, and application management, to event processing solutions and business activity monitoring - to name just a few. Discover how to leverage more with your application and how to extend it within the enterprise.

It's All about the Data
Data is the heart of every business application. OpenEdge data infrastructure capabilities provide data management, replication, integration, and so much more. Sessions in this track help you make the most of effective use of your OpenEdge RDBMS for enhanced performance, scalability and availability. You'll discover tools and techniques that can help – whether you have one database or multiple databases, one location or multiple locations, only Progress or multiple vendors.

Innovation–What's New... What's Coming?
Do you want to use the latest technologies and tools? What's on the horizon in the industry? Attend sessions in this track and you'll gain insight into what Progress is researching and planning for future versions. See new, innovative Progress products as well as the technologies you need to create the business applications of the future.

Sonic: Enabling Event-Driven SOA
You're using Sonic to link independently developed systems and optimise work across disparate platforms. You're going across organisational boundaries and to remote sites – and you're doing it with low latency, high reliability and continuous availability. Or are you? Move from vision to reality with input from the developers of Sonic and your peers. Learn how to manage deployments, increase messaging performance, gain visibility into application platforms with Web services management and more. You'll also hear from architects who have built and deployed SOA-based integration to support rapid business change.