The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - June 2005 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table of Contents:
1)
June 28th SUG-TX
Meeting
2)
Next SUG-TX Meeting – July
26th
3)
Sybase
Customers and Partners Recognized at Annual 21st Century
Achievement
Awards
Celebration of IT Innovation
4)
iAnywhere
Announces Support For Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
5)
iAnywhere
Launches Beta Of New AvantGo Travel Service
6)
Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
7)
Sybase Events
8)
Sybase Training Schedule (Jun - Sep)
1) June 28th SUG-TX
Meeting
The
Sybase Users’ Group of Texas (SUG-TX) will hold their next meeting on Tuesday,
June 28th. The presentation topic
will be “Easy XML
Documents with PowerBuilder Document Object Model.” The presentation was first presented as
part of the monthly ISUG Techcast series. Peer-level discussions on how to
apply this and other PB techniques as well
will be held after the presentation.
Agenda:
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Introduction/Welcome
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Easy XML
Documents with PowerBuilder Document Object Model
5:30pm - 6:00pm Discussion and
Q&A
6:00pm – 6:30pm Wrap Up
6:30pm -
Post meeting discussions at Champps
Americana (at
the Uptown location)
The meetings are held at HAL-PC,
2) Next SUG-TX Meeting – July
26th
The
Sybase Users’ Group of Texas (SUG-TX) will hold their next meeting on Tuesday
July 26th. The presentation topic
will be announced soon. The meetings are held at HAL-PC,
3) Sybase
Customers and Partners Recognized at Annual 21st Century
Achievement
Awards Celebration of
IT Innovation
DUBLIN,
Calif. – June 7, 2005 – Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of
enterprise infrastructure and wireless software, today announced that nine of
its technology partners and customers have been named finalists for 2005
Computerworld Honors and three of these organizations have won in the 21st
Century Achievement award. These
customers have been selected as most outstanding by a panel of distinguished
judges and given special recognition at the ceremony in
The
forty-eight finalists, in 10 categories, were selected by judges from the 162
laureates whose case studies became a part of the prestigious Computerworld
Honors Collection in April 2005.
One worldwide finalist from each field was selected for a 21st Century
Achievement Award. Among these
finalists, 10 honorees were announced and the Sybase’s finalists that were
chosen as honorees in their field include:
The
Sybase customers and partners chosen as finalists and winners in their specific
field for their application of cutting-edge technology are:
·
·
European
Southern
·
Habib
Bank AG
·
ISOH
Business Unit (IBU),
·
Maritime
and Port Authority of
·
Neptune
Technology Group Inc.,
·
Ochsner
Clinic Foundation,
·
Rockwool
Polska, Sp.zo.o. (Manufacturing)
·
Sprint,
For
a complete list of all the case studies for 2005, please visit, http://www.cwheroes.org/.
The full story is available at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1035883.
4) iAnywhere
Announces Support For Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
Microsoft
TECHED 2005,
iAnywhere's
Windows Mobile 5.0 support expands its solution availability to a broad set of
mobile devices, which include some of the newest, most powerful PDA's and
smartphones. These devices enable companies to effectively manage and move
critical data and content from the data center out to the front lines of
business and back, regardless of where workers are or how much data they must
access. This provides field workers with access to information whenever and
wherever they need it, creating a truly collaborative work environment for
increased worker productivity and improved customer service. "iAnywhere is
committed to providing solutions that enable users to easily access important
information and data literally from anywhere, at anytime, over any network,"
said Ojas Rege, senior director of Mobile Solutions at iAnywhere. "Microsoft's
new Windows Mobile 5.0 delivers advanced memory management, 3G and Wi-Fi network
support, and rich media support our applications can take advantage of to extend
the enterprise to mobile workers even more powerfully and reliably, with
lighter, faster and easier-to-use devices than ever before. We're excited to
support this advanced mobile environment."
The full story is available at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1035870.
5) iAnywhere
Launches Beta Of New AvantGo Travel Service
"The
new travel features enhance AvantGo's unparalleled personalized user experience
and demonstrate our commitment to provide our millions of users with the content
they want - anytime, anywhere," said Neil Versen, senior director of AvantGo at
iAnywhere. "For frequent travelers, AvantGo's new travel tab aggregates all of
their important information in one place, giving them easy access to airline and
hotel itineraries--a great convenience when they are on the go."
The full story is available at http://www.ianywhere.com/press_releases/avantgo_travel_service.html.
6) Houston User Group for Sun
(HUGS) Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
7) Sybase
Events
a)
Webcast - Managing Data Explosion,
Competitive
Edge or Colossal Migraine?
During
this one-hour Web Seminar you will…
·
Learn
about the business and regulatory drivers that are fueling data explosion and
the different characteristics, requirements and applications of various
information users.
·
Understand
how multiple business owners can profit from data collection, access, analysis
and reporting across a range of real-time and historical
data.
· Find
out how to leverage your existing IT assets while creating an architectural
roadmap that meets evolving information management challenges.
·
Learn
how enterprises are leveraging master data management solutions to provide a
single view of products, customers, partners and suppliers.
Date: Tuesday, June 14,
2005
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/forms/ManagDataExplos05MAY?mc=WEB.
b) Webcast – Getting Started with Pylon Anywhere Webcast
Join
Sybase for a one-hour Webcast that will answer the most common questions of
first time Pylon Anywhere users. We
will give you a guided tour of the technology, tools, and resources that make
Pylon Anywhere so popular among mobile workers. The Webcast will conclude with a
question and answer session, and technical staff will be on hand to answer
online chat questions throughout the presentation
Date: Thursday, June 16,
2005
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
CDT
Register at http://crm.sybase.com/sybase/www/iAS/getting_started_pylon_anywhere.jsp?tpl=syb.
c)
Webcast – Ensuring
Data Privacy: Encrypted Columns in Sybase ASE
During
this one-hour session, Rajnish Chitkara, Development Manager of the Dataserver
Technology Security Team, Sybase, Inc., will describe Sybase Adaptive Server
Enterprise’s (ASE) new patent-pending encryption technology. This new technology
protects data natively without application modification and features full,
built-in management capabilities. Now you can keep data protected at all times –
online, offline, in transit, and at rest; minimize system performance
degradation when accessing encrypted data; and, ensure privacy without the
expense and effort of changing existing applications.
Date: Tuesday, June
28th and Thursday, June 30, 2005
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/forms/ASE_Encryption_Webcast_05MAY?mc=WEB.
d)
Conference – TechWave 2005
Sybase
TechWave 2005, Sybase's largest annual technical training event is a convenient,
cost-effective solution that helps you fit important, high-quality technical
training into your busy schedule, and saves you thousands of dollars on your
annual training budget. In the most intense and valuable four days of the year,
Sybase TechWave 2005 delivers a comprehensive technical learning
experience.
Registration
is now open. Go to the TechWave web
site to register and get the best conference price
Date: Sunday, August 21, 2005 –
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Location: Caesar’s Palace,
For
more information, visit http://www.sybase.com/techwave.
8) Sybase
Training Schedule (Jun - Sep)
20 Jun 2005 5 days System and Database Administration:
ASE
05 Jul 2005 4 days Mastering Transact-SQL
Programming
11 Jul 2005 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
18 Jul 2005 5 days System and Database Administration:
ASE
25 Jul 2005 5 days Fast Track to PowerBuilder
10
25 Jul 2005 3 days Reporting with InfoMaker
9.0
28 Jul 2005 2 days Moving to PowerBuilder
10
01 Aug 2005 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring
ASE
08 Aug 2005 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
15 Aug 2005 5 days System and Database Administration:
ASE
29 Aug 2005 5 days PowerBuilder Masters Boot
Camp
29 Aug 2005 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE Query
Optimizer
06 Sep 2005 4 days Advanced Administration and
Troubleshooting for ASE
12 Sep 2005 3 days Data Modeling and PowerDesigner
11
Please verify class availability
with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
Hilton Computer
Strategies
6001 Savoy, Suite
207
Contact: 713-782-6665
Register: www.hiltoncomputer.com
Pre-register
5
days PB101: Basic Programming Using
PowerBuilder
Pre-register 5 days PB301: Advanced Programming Using
PowerBuilder
22 Aug 2005 5 days 2732: Planning, Deploying, & Managing an
Project Management Solution
12 Sep 2005 2 days PMPII: Project Management Professional
Preparation I
15 Sep 2005 2 days PMPII: Project Management Professional Preparation II
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