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October 2010 - OE BPM

BPM & RPM.  Just a couple of new TLA’s (Three Letter Acronyms) or does it really mean something to your OpenEdge application?  Progress has been talking a lot lately about Business Process Modeling and Responsive Process Management and for good reason.  The Progress suite of products in these areas are second to none.  But what does it really mean to OpenEdge?  Listen to Ken Wilner, VP Engineering, as he talks to Marv and Mike about how OpenEdge customers can use this technology now and going forward.

Program: 24 minutes 55 seconds

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August 2010 - Special Guest Dr. Ketabchi

What’s your process?  How does your application get things done?  Software applications are designed to help users accomplish tasks.  But sometimes the process users follow is not easily mimicked with code, unless you have a Business Process Modeling (BPM) tool like Savvion!  

 

Listen this month as Mike and Marv talk to Dr. Mohammad Ketabchi, VP Technology, for Progress Software.  Dr. Ketabchi will take you through the “process” of transforming your application, OpenEdge or not, into a process oriented architecture.

 

Program: 16 minutes 43 seconds

 

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July 2010 – Deep Diving in the Cloud

Hope you brought your machete because this month Marv and Mike are getting into the weeds! They’re taking a technical deep dive into the Cloud with Roy Ellis, Principal QA Engineer at Progress Software.  

Listen this month to learn the techie details concerning the Amazon Cloud and what Progress has done (and will be doing!) to help you deploy your OpenEdge application there.  So sharpen your machete and come along, we’re on a Cloud safari!

Program: 21 minutes 6 sec

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June 2010 - SaaS with Colleen Smith

Bright summer days are here, but techTALK this month is focusing on clouds!  THE Cloud, the one you’ve been reading about and wondering if that should be the new home for your Progress based application.

Listen to Mike and Marv as they talk to Vice-President Colleen Smith (on her birthday!) about cloud computing and Progress technology.  It’s mighty hot out there!  Give your application the break it needs, run it in THE Cloud!

Program: 16 minutes 44 seconds

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April 2010 - Spring Cleaning: Quickly Convert to .NET

Spring is in the air and we could all use a little spring cleaning, including our applications!

If you’ve needed to spruce up the look and feel of your Progress application but were intimidated by the effort, the guys may have the answer for you!  Listen to this techTALK session as Marv and Mike talk to Mike Fechner of Consultingwerk about his process for quickly converting existing OpenEdge GUI, ADM, and Dynamics front ends to .NET.

Ah, Spring really is in the air and techTALK can help you get the fresh start you and your application need!

Program: 19 mins 58 sec

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February 2010 - OpenEdge 102.B

OpenEdge 10.2B is out and you should be feeling really secure!

Security was a key feature in 10.2B, but far from the only goody the developers in Bedford delivered with this release.  Listen to Marv and Mike interview Rob Straight, head of Product Management, as he outlines key features of 10.2B and gives a sneak peak of OpenEdge 11.  With over 70 enhancements, 10.2B is ready for your business!

Program: 16 mins 38 sec

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May 2009 - Apama

Every techTALK session is an event, but this is one is special.

The guys are joined by Gareth Smith, Director of Product Management for Apama.  Apama is a leader in the BEP space, and don’t feel bad if you don’t know what that means.  BEP, or Business Event Processing, allows your application to process and respond to events in a highly scalable way.  Whether your application is monitoring telephone calls, slot machines, or anything in between, Apama allows you to process and react to that information.

Program: 20:28

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April 2009 - Actional

What is going on in my system?  Have you ever asked yourself that question?

Mike is on vacation, but as usual, Marv is hard at work!  Listen as he talks to Julianna Cammarano, Senior Product Marketing Manager about Actional.  Actional allows you to monitor your ENTIRE environment and find out just exactly what’s going on under those covers!

Program: 22:15

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February 2009 - FUSE

Reading a lot about Open Source and wondering what Progress is doing?

Join Marv and Mike as they talk to Jamie Merritt and Debbie Moynihan, Director Field Enablement and FUSE Community, about just that subject. Jamie and Debbie describe the FUSE product line and support offerings available to the entire Progress community.

Program: 23:40

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January 2009 - OpenEdge Data Servers

Got foreign data that you need to get your hands on?  Someone decide, for whatever reason, to not use an OpenEdge database?  No worries!

David Moloney, Data Server Architect, joins Mike and Marv to solve your problem.  Listen as David describes the OpenEdge Data Servers and how they can be used to retrieve data from foreign databases using the powerful and familiar ABL.  You can even run your entire application on another database, as if you would ever want to!

Program: 20:33

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