Welcome to Synergy 2013Chip Casanave

Data Access Worldwide

Welcome!

• State of the company• Our priorities• Information = the new currency• Directions & investments• The DataFlex Web Framework • Synergy goals

State of the Company

• We are solid!• Strong team, working together globally• Exciting, new products coming in 2013

• Contributing to our clients’ success with innovative, high quality business software tools, support and services.• Honesty & integrity in all things• Respect – treat people fairly and well

Our Priorities

Our Priorities

• Regular, clear, communication• Simplicity, openness • Driving positive change• Building a strong community• Building a strong company

The new currency…

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• Recognition that better information means better business• The ever increasing demand for more

responsiveness and speed in business depends on people, processes and information

The currency of information

• Integrate business applications & processes– Intra-company and inter-company– Desktop, mobile, machine-to-machine

• Deliver timely, actionable information– Anywhere, any time, any device

• Empower people to…– Process and access information easily– Make good, fast, information-based decisions

Today… the future…

Directions and investments…

• Evolve our core technology– Expand the capabilities of our tools and your

applications– Support new platforms as they become important

• Provide continuity– Protect & leverage the value of customers’

investments

Directions & investments

Directions & investments• Facilitate information use

Enable applications that deliver information any time, anywhere to increase the speed of business and the productivity of people

• Create, manage and deliver…. The new currency - information

• Innovate new ways to develop web business applications– Start with the desktop browser– Over time, accommodate a variety of web devices– Capitalize on the value of customers’ existing application

assets for new web solutions– Adopt to changing market and technology opportunities

Directions & investments

• Realization: The DataFlex Web Framework

DataFlex Web FrameworkChanging the game…

DataFlex Web Framework

• Innovate… change the game Take a fresh, different approach to

building business apps for the web. • Simpler to learn; less to learn• Build and deploy quality web apps faster• Less maintenance over application life-cycles

DataFlex Web Framework

• Focus… Design a high quality tool for building

excellent business applications for the web• Do a well defined thing very well• Leave it to others to do other things

DataFlex Web Framework

• Continuity… Enable developers to move to the web

with minimum overhead and maximum utilization of existing software assets

Familiar, fast up-time

Complete solutions are critical

Dynamic AI

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r• Delivering the new currency involves… Database applications Reporting Interactive query, analysis,

dashboards & “intelligence”• In a cohesive, seamless,

integrated solution

Visual Report Writer• Robust, capable, operational reporting tool• Many new and significant features

Evolving rapidly with more to come…• Unprecedented ease of integration…

With Visual DataFlex Windows applications With DataFlex Web Framework applications

Dynamic AI• Completes the product “suite” to deliver

integrated, “new currency” solutions Dynamic AI is a great platform for…• Integration of “intelligence” in applications• Developing new areas of business• Differentiating applications among competitors• Creating new value from corporate data assets

Synergy goals• Launch the DataFlex Web Framework• Empower you to deliver competitive web

business app and the new currency• Drive business success - yours & ours• Develop new ideas and relationships• Have a boot-stomping good time!