Welcome to Synergy 2013

Chip CasanaveData 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…

Wall Street Journal Ad

• 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!