UK Innovation Tour 20th March 2019
Thank you for joining us on Wednesday March 20th at Cloth Hall in Leeds. We hope you enjoyed spending the day immersed in the technologies and trends that will ensure your place as a digital leader.
About the Tour
Spend a day exploring the latest from Progress' OpenEdge and Cognitive technologies which enable application development and deployment to become your competitive advantage now and in the future. Take the opportunity to collaborate with Progress colleagues, enjoy networking with peers, and learn how application evolution can positively affect revenues, market share and process efficiency within your organisation.
Agenda
08.30 – 9.30
Registration
9.30 – 09.45
Welcome and Introduction
09.45 – 10.30
Importance of Application Evolution
Learn the importance of evolving your OpenEdge application to continuously provide value to the business, leverage your investment in the core logic, and pave the way for future innovation.
10.30 – 11.15
Evolving Your OpenEdge Architecture
The steady adoption of micro services and use of API’s has accelerated due to heightened needs for systems to interoperate. Organisations are being pushed to keep up or risk competitive disruption. According to Forrester, “2019 will herald the first comprehensive industry cloud ecosystems, with extensible SaaS apps at their core.1” Learn how Progress Application Server for OpenEdge can help you get to the cloud and extend the capabilities of the application through APIs or RESTful services to improve extensibility, scalability and collaboration.
11.15 – 11.30
Break
11.30 – 12.15
Evolving for Seamless Data Integration
Accessing and sharing data across organisational boundaries without affecting performance or security of the application is not easy. Learn how new technologies in the Progress portfolio such as Hybrid Data Pipeline (HDP) and the Autonomous REST Connector can be leveraged to create frictionless cloud2ground integration between disparate applications, data sources and business intelligence platforms to enable organisational efficiencies, data-driven decision-making and improved business visibility.
12.15 – 12.45
Customer Speaker – James Drury, Technical Consultant, Capita
12.45 – 13.45
Lunch
13.45 – 14.30
The Progress Application Evolution Approach
With Progress as your partner, there is no need to delay the Application Evolution process any longer. You are in an ideal position to seize the new opportunities that will present themselves with a move to a lighter and more fluid cloud architecture. We now offer a prescriptive Application Evolution process, designed to initially focus on one area of the application. This process enables you to continually improve your application as business requirements shift. The result is an application that is always producing value, enabling the organisation to evolve, thrive and compete.
14.30 – 15.15
Transform Your Digital Experience with Progress
15.15 – 15.30
Break
15.30 – 16.15
An Insight into Best Practice OpenEdge Database Management
16.15 – 17.00
All You Need to Know About OpenEdge 12
17.00 – 19.00
Drinks and Networking
Location
Cloth Hall Court
Quebec Street
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS1 2HA
United Kingdom