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BASIS Technology Components

PARTNERSHIP

BASIS Invests in Your Application Development, Part 1

22 Aug 18 – All Extended Edition BASIS licenses on SAM, can immediately leverage the zero deployment capability of the Extended Edition to customize a production-ready digital dashboard to add to your application without having to touch your application or change your code! This Business Intelligence (BI) capability comes at no charge and immediately adds tangible value to both character and graphical applications using PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj.

BASIS Invests in Your Application Development, Part 2

29 Aug 18 – This Java Break reviews the options available to get the digital dashboard downloaded and installed on your development machine. This Business Intelligence (BI) capability comes at no charge and immediately adds tangible value to both character and graphical applications using PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj. Join your peers in reviewing this exceptional opportunity to easily modernize your existing business applications.

BASIS Invests in Your Application Development, Part 3

5 Sep 18 – This session reveals how to customize the production-ready digital dashboard to display YOUR data. BASIS created this Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard to add tangible value to your application without touching your application or changing your code and delivering it to you at no cost!

Customer Success with BBx - Access Your Data from Anywhere EMS and BUI

17 Oct 12 – In this session, we present a large state health agency seeking to give providers a web portal to view patient service statuses remotely from a PRO/5 database.

Customer Success with BBx - ASCI delivers a RADical Facelift

03 Oct 12 – In this session, we present ASCI of Miami and their success in rapidly modernizing and adding new feature and function to their vertical market application.

Customer Success with BBx - Access Your Data from Anywhere EMS and BUI

17 Oct 12 – In this session, we present a large state health agency seeking to give providers a web portal to view patient service statuses remotely from a PRO/5 database.

Customer Success with BBx - On Cue with BUI Apps EMQUE Consultants

7 Nov 12 – This third session in the “Customer Success with BBx” series continues to present case studies of how our partners are using the latest BBx to overcome business challenges. In this session, we present EMQUE Consultants, Inc. and their expanding use of BASIS’ browser-user-interface (BUI) with their Visual PRO/5® apps.

Customer Success with BBx - New java Break Series Sneak Peek

19 Sept 12 – Series kickoff presents case studies of how our partners are using the latest BBx to overcome business challenges.

LANGUAGE / INTERPRETER

Make a BBjHTML View Work For You

The BASIS ecosystem has seamlessly incorporated two of the most popular programming languages in the world; Java for traditional enterprise solutions and now JavaScript, the most popular programming language for mobile, web, and desktop applications…

Mobile Apps Made Easy With BUI

BASIS’ browser user interface (BUI) has opened new doors for efficient web and mobile application development and deployment. In this session, we will explore the commercial case for going mobile and the development choices you have when moving your existing business app to the mobile environment or for creating a new mobile app.

Web App Made Easy With BUI

BASIS Support Group's Roadmap to Success

The move to the BASIS DBMS or multi-tier computing may seem to be a monumental task, but it isn’t. The BASIS Support interfaces with our PRO/5® and Visual PRO/5® development partners needing to add modern feature and function or needing new deployment choices. Often, the answer is “Have you considered the BASIS DBMS and/or thin client computing?”

Getting the Biggest Bang For Your BBx® Buck

Developers and end users alike are interested in maximizing the value of their BBx® investment. Your legacy PRO/5®, Visual PRO/5®, and BBj® applications can receive a new life with modern features and functions such as graphical grid look-ups, archiving, email and more.®

Get Going With The Latest BBx® - Downloading, Installing, Deploying, and Licensing

Introduces new features and functions, and simplified administration and maintenance in multiple environments – Mac, Windows, Linux, or any combination.

Best of BBj® 12 - The Best BBx® Just Got Faster

Highlights the BBj 12 performance gains resulting from refactoring of BBj code and Java 7 JVM; reviews the Dialog Wizard and JavaDoc Utility.

Best of BBj® 12 - Faster, Better, New Building Blocks

Reviews the enhanced development tools in BBj 12 with an emphasis on the Barista Application Framework, the Jasper Report Viewer, and the new Resource Bundle Editor

Best of BBj® 12 - Database and Sys Admin Tools

Presents the new and improved database and system administration features in BBj® 12.

Writing Your Web App in the Latest BBx® - Part 2

Looks into CSS editors and enhancing the look-and-feel of apps; applies new functionality to a BUI app that boosted performance eleven-fold in high latency environments.

Writing Your Web App in the Latest BBx® - Part 1

Presents web app development using only BBx® and abandoning other languages and third-party tools.

Outputting Your BBx® Data- Transforming Your BBx® Data Output in a Jiffy

Instructs how to transform BBx® output – BBj®, PRO/5®, or Visual PRO/5® – into a modern, clean format with little effort and time using the DocOut object.

Extending Your BBx® App to the Mobile Frontier

Presents the design decisions for running your apps on mobile devices – a mouse-less interface and limited real estate.

Newest BBx® - What's In It For Me?

Looks into CSS editors and enhancing the look-and-feel of apps; applies new functionality to a BUI app that boosted performance eleven-fold in high latency environments.

How Version 11 Improves Your Bottom Line - BUI and CSS

Presents a new deployment choice that does not require Java or App Store fees to run a GUI app in a browser on a desktop, a tablet, or a smartphone.

XCALL In Action

Highlights the XCALL Verb that provides PRO/5® users with access to a third party RDBMS and access to several BBj® utilities – email, fax, Web Services, PDF printing, charting, Google Doc interface, and more.

Browser User Interface in Action

Demonstrates the browser user interface (BUI) in action with examples of BUI in production without requiring an application rewrite.

Benefits of the Better b-commerce

Shows how to write a web app in the language you already know and gives a real-world example of moving a Visual PRO/5 GUI app to BBj.

Integrating PDF Output Into Your Apps

Reviews the ‘triple play’ of portable document file capabilities: SYSPRINT, BBjForm, and BBJasper.

Mix 'n' Match PRO/5 and BBj - Redux

Presents the interoperability of mixing the capabilities of PRO/5 and BBj and Visual PRO/5 and BBj.

Offering PRO/5 and BBj Code as a Web Service

Presents how to easily create and consume Web Services in PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj.

Mix 'n' Match Java and BBj

Showcases blending Java and BBj to deliver modern business solutions.

From CUI to GUI to BUI - BASIS' new Browser User Interface

Presents the BASIS product set and introduces the browser user interface (BUI) and its underlying technologies.

Session-Specifc Classpath (SSCP)

BASIS introduces the concept of session-specific classpaths.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

More Good Reasons to Use the Latest BBx Tools

BASIS continues to add features and value to their toolset and technology that directly results in significant savings in development time and costs regardless of the version of BASIS product you are using.

Good Reasons to Use the Latest BBxTools

BASIS continues to add features and value to their toolset and technology that directly result in significant savings in development time and costs regardless of the version of BASIS product you are using.

BASIS RAD Tools Enhanced

BASIS continues to enhance its rapid application development tools by incorporating the trusted debugging and error trapping features you depend on.

NEW FoxPro Conversion Tool (German with Sub-titles)

Present Your BBx Data in GUI in an Instant - A Case Study

Highlights modernizing GUI and CUI apps into a grid-style allowing a user-driven query system!

Accessing Your BASIS Data and Consuming Third Party Data

Demonstrates accessing BASIS data and consuming third-party data from business applications.

New Barista Enhancements

Introduces query enhancements that benefit PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj developers alike by saving queries and producing forms with drilldowns to fax and/or email.

Plumbing Barista into your Custom App - Building Blocks for Today's Applications

Highlights Barista’s role-based security menu system and adding its navigation, search, and tool buttons into custom forms without re-designing the forms in Barista.

Preserving Mods Through Upgrades

Shows how to avoid rewriting heavy customizations when new technology or legislation forces a change; allows customers to take advantage of new features and upgrades.

Why Browsers Matter with BUI-BASIS' New Browser User Interface

Introduces developers to writing/converting an app into a browser user interface (BUI), enhancing its look-and-feel, and specific browser performance issues.

Bridging CUI to GUI: A Hybrid Solution - Part 2

Continues the case study using the latest BASIS technology to create a single solution.

Bridging CUI to GUI: A Hybrid Solution - Part 1

Presents a real-world case study inside BASIS of bridging a character-based app to a new GUI app.

Barista "Perks" With No Effort

Highlights several no-cost development utilities available in the Barista Application Development Framework.

Reporting Choices in Barista-Building Today's Applications

Explores integrating legacy columnar reports within the Barista DocOut system or using iReports Design utility to create complex/graphical reports; presents BBjFormObject to replace pre-printed invoices, picking lists, etc.

Painless Report Writing - Update

Delivers an overview of report writing components – SPROC, iReport design tool, BBJasper viewing utility, XCALL Verb – for PRO/5 and Visual PRO/5 developers seeking extra reporting power.

Developing RDBMS Applications With BASIS Tools

Examines the SQL engine, DBMS, and the flexibility of how the Barista data dictionary works with your RDBMS of choice and Barista’s out-of-the-box functionality.

Barista Building a CUI to GUI App - Transition Business Applications

Demonstrates converting a CUI app to a modern GUI look with the Barista Application Framework.

Barista App in BUI on a Droid

Bridging CUI to GUI - A Case Study

Reviews how a company converted their apps from CUI to GUI and integrated them into a single app using Barista.

Node Navigation

SVN Integration

Barista Application Framework with MySQL

iReport Tutorial for BBj and Visual PRO/5

Build a Barista Application in 5 minutes

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Disaster Recovery and Ransomware

You may have business crisis planning in place for fire or natural disasters – however, a business needs a data disaster recovery plan as well. What would such a disaster cost your business – in employee downtime, lost data, degraded customer service, and in management time? BASIS’s built-in data replication feature is the first step toward building a near-real-time, instantly verifiable disaster recovery plan and securing your business against a ransomware attack. And best of all, the core functionality to such a plan – data replication – is available at no additional cost with your support and maintenance (SAM) coverage.

Automatic Change Auditing and Replication for Your BBx Apps

We’ve made implementing BASIS’ change auditing and database replication faster and easier to set up and manage through a new wizard in the BASIS Enterprise Manager.

Enabling Data Replication and Auditing for PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj

Recaps database and data file replication and introduces data auditing and then explaining the configuration requirements for enabling these features in PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, and BBj.

How Version 11 Improves Your Bottom Line- Database and File Replication

Explores Database and File Replication for all of the PRO/5 Family and BBj application data.

Triggers Facilitate Easy Upgrades

Shows how to put triggers to work in BASIS apps to manage easy upgrades.

On-the-fly Backup and Copy - BASIS' Online Copy Job Feature

Reveals how to make live on-the-fly copies of a database, without downtime, even while users are making active changes

Enterprise Manager SPROC CALL

Harvesting a JDBC Connection String

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

The End of Free Oracle Java! What to do?

The last free critical security patch release of Java 8 is now available. The next release, scheduled for April 2019, will require a support plan with Oracle. This Java Break highlights what this means to your BBj installations, the Oracle timelines, and your choices as a provider or user of BASIS-based technology. BBj system administrators will need to take action by April 2019 to ensure that their applications include the latest Java security updates.

Backing Up Your BBx Data to the Cloud in a Heartbeat

This session is an overview of a step-by-step “how to” on replicating your data to the cloud. This session is for you if you’ve been curious about the benefits and costs of cloud replication for backup and data warehouse purposes.

Transform Your BBx Cloud Deployments

In this session, we introduce the new BASIS pre-configured Transformer Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that will greatly simplify your deployments

Moving to the Cloud 2013

Divulges BASIS’ experiences moving to the cloud and clears up common uncertainties – where to start, benefits to you and your customers, etc.

What Does IPv6 Mean to You?

Demystifies IPv6 and its effect on developers and their customers.

System Administration Simplified, Working Smarter Rather Than Harder

Presents features of the BASIS Enterprise Manager including database tools, Admin API, user authentication; and the built-in Web Server with ‘zero deployment.’

Moving to the Cloud

Divulges BASIS’ experiences moving to the cloud and clears up common uncertainties – where to start, benefits to you and your customers, etc.

A Fresh Look at Licensing

Uncovers the licensing process for BASIS products, how to license virtual machines for cloud computing, and additional licensing benefits.

APPLICATION BUILDING BLOCKS

The New Widget Wizard - Dashboards and Widgets Without Any Code!

We have created a Widget Wizard — a point-and-click tool that generates program code — to create a dashboard, a set of widgets, or an individual widget.

Embedding Widgets in Your BBx® App

Add graphical widgets to your current PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj business app with little development effort. Graphical widgets deliver huge value to business owners and executives by assisting them with data-based decision-making.

Adding BASIS' New Digital Dashboard to Your App

BASIS’ new digital dashboard utility delivers huge value to any business and best of all, delivering it requires little development effort on your part.

Customer Success with BBx - Caffeinate Your CUI/GUI BBx App with GUI Sprinkles

With less than 10 lines of pre-baked code and a few minutes to setup your custom query, you can caffeinate your character or GUI app with graphical sprinkles. This session presents a step-by-step approach to bringing modern graphical queries and reporting to your legacy character or graphical applications.

Outputting Your BBx Data-Transforming Your BBx Data Output in a Jiffy

Instructs how to transform BBx output – BBj, PRO/5, or Visual PRO/5 – into a modern, clean format with little effort and time using the DocOut object.

Using BASIS Building Blocks to Create a Webstore

Tells what you need to know to present your PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, or BBj database of inventory items for sale on the Web with integration into a back-end ERP solution.

A Walk Through 'AddonSoftware by Barista'

Steps through new AddonSoftware ERP solution features including role-based security and audit logging, and presents a unique ‘commercial open source’ partner program for your consideration.