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Bruce Armstrong blogged about his time in Atlanta for the ISUG-TECH 2014 Conference that covered various SAP products, including PowerBuilder. Apart from the unhealthy eating options, Bruce seemed to enjoy his experience at the conference and looks forward to next year's. Highlights of the conference included:

• The opening Keynote session with a number of Senior SAP VPs discussing their commitment to SAP product evolutions
• The plenary session covering PowerBuilder and hosted by Dave Fish
• PB's Product Manager, Sue Dunnell, hopes to have a number of small per year releases instead of large gaps between major releases?
• Dave hopes to bring back PB Code Jams with upcoming releases
• Dave demoed other SAP products that incorporate PB
• Jeff Gibson covered the new enhancements in PowerBuilder15

Read Bruce's full report on the ISUG-TECH conference

Software Tool & Die Inc (STD) is very pleased to announce that they have just released an updated version of their Integrated Foundation Class library today for PowerBuilder "Classic", Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile!?The latest version contains the following updates and has been tested with Appeon 2013R2 build 0110.00 using the official MR (maintenance ?releases) of PowerBuilder "Classic".?

The FC's are *free* and can be downloaded (along with an updated sample Order Entry application) from the SourceForge website!

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There are a few open seats left for the PowerBuilder 15 Beta Test Initiative in Walldorf!

SAP BIT Partner Beta Test Initiative

PowerBuilder 15 (Walldorf) Scope:

SAP PowerBuilder is the leading 4GL client/server development tool in the market today. The next release introduces several new features including:

Updated support for the .NET Framework v4.5
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Oracle 12
Windows 8
OData Support
Dockable Windows
32 and 64 bit deployment

ISUG-TECH will be holding its annual conference in Atlanta, GA, USA, from April 14-17, 2014.

Top 5 reasons to attend the ISUG-TECH conference:

Thursday, March 13, 2014

5:00 PM CET (Paris) 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles)

Learn how to share the knowledge of your PowerBuilder application among the team and to help maintain it as your team evolves. See how to manage unexpected side effects during modifications to your application.

In this presentation, Christophe Dufourmantelle will demonstrate how Visual Expert lets you:

Explore and understand relationships within complex code

Automate an impact analysis to avoid the side effects of modifications

For those of you already familiar with Visual Expert, tune in to see how Visual Expert 7 improves the sharing experience, manages even larger sets of code and better automates your analyses. See how several developers can now simultaneously use the same VE project and share the results of an impact analyses.

Presenter:?Christophe Dufourmantelle

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