What if you could join thousands of other Progress Users from the comfort of your own office? Imagine the possibilities of live chat with key developers and technologists who are forging the next generation of the world's best application development platform? Think about how easy it would be to choose from over 36 sessions in three tracks, live or on demand, that deliver the latest OpenEdge developments right to you.

Slide decks for each track are available below. Video is available for viewing for selected sessions in the session pages.

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This track will focus on the best ways to integrate OpenEdge® applications with other applications using a variety of different techniques.

Actional Technical Overview for OpenEdge (101)
Using Actional With OpenEdge: The Zen of Business Transaction  Assurance (116)
Resistance is Futile, Your Application Will be Assimilated  (121)
Sonic 8.0 Preview - Centralized Install and Zero Downtime Upgrade (136)
Sonic Workbench for OpenEdge Architect Users (127)
Integration Success Stories (138)

slide decks: Application Integration Track.zip

Complete with several customer success stories, this track will cover a broad range of topics and provide you with the information you need to ensure you are addressing some of today’s common development and deployment challenges.

DataServer Best Practices - Thinking Like a SQL Engine (107)
In the Event of a Disaster...What's the Plan? (111)
PCI-DSS: Intro and Best Practices (119)
Tuning Your Application (131)
What You Can Learn from Mistakes of Others - The Darwin Awards for Disasters (134)
OpenEdge Auditing (140)

slide decks: Best Practices Track.zip

Sessions in this track will provide insight to make the most effective use of an OpenEdge environment for enhanced performance, scalability, and availability.

Introducing OpenEdge Explorer (112)
Optimizing OpenEdge Performance in VMware ESX (118)
Transparent Data Encryption (130)
Understanding Record and Table Locking in OpenEdge SQL Applications (132)
Watch Your Production Environment (while at Exchange) Using OpenEdge Management (133)
The DBA Checklist (139)

slide decks: Operational Efficiency Track.zip

Complete with customer success stories, this track will keep you up to date with everything going on with Progress language and development tools, to ensure your competitive advantage.

Object-orientation: A Real-world Success Story (115)
Advanced OO Techniques: When and How To Use Interfaces (102)
Be the Most Productive Developer You Can Be! (108)
Distributed Development in the 21st Century (125)
Structured Error Handling in the ABL (128)
The Top OpenEdge Architect FAQ's (129)

slide decks: Productivity Track.zip

Come to the sessions in this track to learn about the benefits of SaaS, the key success factors to get your application ready for SaaS, and hear from a leading Progress Partner about how they have achieved success with the SaaS business model.

Application Modernization: The SaaS Perspective (103)
Building a SaaS Application: One of the 7 Keys to Success: Multi-tenancy (104)
Building a SaaS Application: One of the 7 Keys to Success: Operational Excellence (105)
Cloud Deployment Demystified (106)
Where is the O(penness) in SaaS? (123)
Tales from the Trenches: SaaS in Practice (124)

slide decks: SaaS Track.zip

A usable application  meets the needs of the end-user. OpenEdge provides a wide range of options for building the user interface for business applications. Come to this track to learn about various approaches to building a UI for your OpenEdge application, including detailed coverage of the new OpenEdge GUI for .NET.

Tales From The Trenches: Using the OpenEdge GUI for .NET (109)
Implementing RIA and OpenEdge (137)
Introducing OpenEdge GUI for .NET (113)
RIA in Perspective (122)
Serializing ProDataSets to JSON (126)
Where OO Meets the GUI for .NET (135)

slide decks: UI Flexibility Track.zip