With a varied range of subjects from Taking PowerBuilder to the Cloud, to Adding Single Sign-On to PowerBuilder Applications, we have been working to keep the community up-to-date on PowerBuilder tips and tools. As our two year anniversary approaches, we’d like to share with you a litt...

As you probably know the Mobile Business Object (MBO) is at the heart of Sybase's UnWired Platform, which is a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform used in turn as part of the SAP Mobility Platform. Once defined the MBO can be used in Native (such as iOS) as well as Hybrid Web Contai...

Sybase, Inc., on Monday announced the availability of Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5, the second .NET release of Sybase's award-winning rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 12.5 empowers developers with the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective solution for creating modern and...

Sybase TechWave is back in Vegas Baby!.. The glowing light in the hot Mojave Desert, Las Vegas, is this week the location for the hottest & brightest technologies in the IT industry… presented by Sybase & SAP. For me I have been involved in the preparation and planning of the Mobility ...

The advent of BYOD (bring your own device) culture to the Enterprise has ushered about the “app culture” faster for IT departments than expected. Analysts agree that key to IT’s future in mobilizing today’s workforce lies with mobile device management and the move toward an Enterprise...

Just over a month ago I spoke to a few colleagues on the subject of Enterprise Mobility and I went into my Evangelistic mode proclaiming that... "Mobility in business is now the norm and that any company that is not looking at mobilizing their workforce and creating Mobile Information...

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., on Monday announced it has been selected by Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), one of Bangladesh’s largest banks, for its mobile banking platform. “Sybase 365’s platform allows us to deliver the best possible mobile banking services to our cus...

We are now at the end of SAP's global SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference, in Orlando (May 15 - 18) and there have been some interesting announcements and information coming out, with regard to Sybase & SAP. So if you have not been able to keep up with the coverage, I have produced...

At the recent Mobile Enterprise Summit on April 26 in San Francisco, there was a Fireside Chat titled “Create Your Apportunity”, with Dr Raj Nathan of Sybase and JP Finnell of GigaOM Pro. I have been in attendance at a few of these 'fireside' chats with Raj, both internal to Sybase and...

I've been on the road in North America a lot lately delivering one day .NET overview and migration seminars in cooperation with ISUG. Last week I had a special treat. I traveled to Tel Aviv Israel to deliver an extended two day version of my seminar. My local sponsor was NessPro, Ne...

In the 7th and penultimate article of my Sybase UnWired Platform Series developing against iOS, we have created the app and now need to iteratively test. Testing the iOS/SUP application uses a combination of Apple's Xcode Environment, the SUP Control Center and the Logs generated by th...

Lately there has been a lot of rumor on the web about the iPhone 5, or whatever it will be called... 4GS? Also today we have the announcement of the iPad 2. One thing that most iSpeculators and Technical iBloggers seem to agree on, with regard to the iPhone 5, along with more internal ...

Filmed by yours truly live at the Connecticut PowerBuilder User Group meeting February 2011. This was a great presentation by the master Jim O'Neil. We were all thoroughly engaged in the content and learned a lot. I'm sure you will too.

We are in the 5th article in my series of 8, covering the creation of an Enterprise iOS application using the Sybase Unwired Platform, with the ability to synchronize data. By now you should know that for the Sybase Unwired Platform, Mobile Business Objects (MBOs) are the encapsulation...

Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-...

A number of verticals, particularly Financial Services, are moving towards a zero latency environment, where the reduction of time between decision and action is critical. For example, high-frequency trading is a computerized transaction that takes advantage of the millisecond gap betw...

The International Sybase User Group in conjunction with eLearnIt Systems is now offering a new one day PowerBuilder 12.NET training course. In this a full day of training where you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you to plan, perform a .NET migration and tips on re-factor...

The financial and economic crisis has just about hit rock bottom, so the time has come to start the climb back up and for early adopters of new technologies, the future is looking brighter than ever before. The leaders of tomorrow's economy are those who have access to up-to-date infor...

I thank my lucky stars every day that I am part of an industry that is able to push the limits and is always evolving. Years ago I started my career with COBOL on MVS370 mainframes, then on to PowerBuilder in the age of Client Server, further into Java with Application Servers and now ...

I was working on a POC app that integrates a .NET assembly with a PowerBuilder 12.1 WPF app when I ran across this issue. Most anyone doing any assembly integration will discover the same thing. In order to save you some time and bother I’m writing my findings and suggesting a couple o...

Join John Strano for a look at the new features and functionality of PowerBuilder 12. Network with y

Dave Fish will be presenting at both of the following user group events: 11/11  Prague, Czech Republ

The state of PowerBuilder developers and application development in Asia Pacific. Whenever traveling to a new venue, I concern myself with learning about the state local PowerBuilder community while promoting PowerBuilder .NET, eLearnIT's free .NET training resources hosted on Sybase....

SAP TechEd is a new environment for Sybase, with the possibility of many or most attendees not having much experience with Sybase products, or perhaps not even having heard of Sybase, beyond the acquisition announcements. It was pleasing to see "Sybase technology" prominently mentioned...

The inaugural meeting of the Philadelphia User Group will be held at the Philadelphia Building on Walnut Street on September 28, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Yakov Werde, President of eLearnIT LLC, will be the featured speaker and will be discussing Migrating from PowerBuilder Classic to Powe...

As you know, if you have read my bio, I am one of the Sybase Technical Evangelists, but what does this role entail? Regularly I addresses technical audiences all over the world, write education classes, whitepapers, demos and articles for various Sybase products and publish regularly i...

The next meeting of the New York City PowerBuilder User Group will be held at the Sybase office in midtown on September 21. Yakov Werde will be the featured speaker and will be discussing Migrating from PowerBuilder Classic to PowerBuilder 12 .NET WPF. In this presentation, Yakov will...

At the upcoming Sybase Northwest User Group Meetings, join John Strano of Sybase as he presents an introduction to and an overview of PowerBuilder 12. "Included in this presentation will be a guided tour of the new PowerBuilder .NET IDE and a primer on Windows Presentation Foundation (...

TechWave 2010 is now in the bag, quite literally as today the attendees register and pick up their TechWave rucksacks. Most of us Sybase Employees, are now camped in Washington DC and everything is ready. If there presenters are not here already they will be soon, as today is the Welco...

We have some outstanding Sponsors, check them out at http://www.sybase.com/techwave?htab=Sponsors TechWave Tip… Make notes, though presentations will be made available, you may get some golden nuggets of information verbally. You may also wish to ask the presenter face to face quest...

The Analytics Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations on IQ, RAP & CEP. Come to the Analytics Technical track to hear about ways to improve your business performance, make faster, more informed decisions, and deliver the results you need with ...

The Application Development Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations covering key features of PowerBuilder as well as a glimpse into the PB crystal ball. My colleges, John Strano and Dave Fish (as well as others), will be at hand to lead you th...

SAP AG has announced the completion of its acquisition of Sybase, a partner and a market leader in managing, analyzing, and mobilizing business information. Through this transaction, SAP intends to accelerate the reach of SAP solutions across mobile platforms and drive forward the real...

The Enterprise Mobility Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations. You have probably already heard of the Sybase Mobility Platform and maybe more specifically the Sybase UnWired Platform, but during day #2 to day #3, you will get to see and unde...

The Data Management Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations. The explosion of data is never ending and Sybase will continue to be there for you, to store and interrogate your information in ASE and IQ, as well as replicating it with Rep Server...

We are now only a week away from Sybase TechWave, which will take place in Washington DC on August 9-11. The presenters are putting the final polish to their presentations and are really looking forward to getting face time with all the attendees. I hope that is going to be you! As a p...

The International Sybase User Group, a trade association representing more than six thousand members in more than sixty countries around the globe, has announced the immediate availability of its latest course offering in conjunction with online training specialist eLearnIT LLC. The n...

Sybase has expanded its support for Apple devices with a full mobile device management and security solution for iOS 4. The release of Sybase Afaria delivers proven, market-leading functionality to empower enterprise IT to effectively manage the proliferation of personally and corporat...

Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile software, on Tuesday announced support for iPad and Android devices with the latest release of Afaria. With strong consumer adoption of highly functional mobile devices, enterprises are now able to embrace this widespread demand by providing ...

Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise and mobile software, on Monday announced advanced spatial data functionality as part of the next release of its SQL Anywhere database and synchronization solution. This release makes Sybase the first vendor to enable development of data-driven sp...