Benelux Symposium 2008

June 10-11 Ter Elst Conference Centre / Kontich.

Come and celebrate with us our 30 years of technological innovation.

June 11, 2008: EDUCATIONAL & TECHNICAL SESSIONS
09.15	*Registration*
10.00	What's new and what's next with InterSystems Products By Olivier Caudron, Senior Sales Engineer InterSystems Benelux.
10.45	InterSystems Zen: Enhanced AJAX for creating Rich Web Interfaces By Bill Mc Cormick, Product Manager Zen at InterSystems Inc. InterSystems Zen™ is an implementation and enhancement of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology. As an object-based framework for rapidly developing Rich Internet Applications, InterSystems Zen will allow you to create interfaces for connectable and/or standalone applications that have all the richness and responsiveness of desktop solutions, but can run within any browser.
11.30	*Coffee Break*
12.00	Caché Performance Measurement and Tuning By Neil Alton, Product Support at InterSystems Inc. What performance metrics are provided by Caché? Which are most relevant for your application? How can you identify performance bottlenecks in your application, and how can you eliminate them? Attend this session to learn tricks and tips for making your Caché applications fly.
12.45	*Lunch Break*
14.15	Code Generation with Caché Object Script By Alain Houf, Senior Sales Engineer InterSystems Benelux. Code generators are an extremely productive tool for development and can create applications that run very efficiently, especially when they use direct access to Caché’s multidimensional data structures. This session discusses how to build wizards and other utilities that automatically generate high-performance Caché ObjectScript code.
15.00	*Coffee Break*
15.30	Improving existing applications with Connectivity and Business Intelligence By Joe Gallant, Product Manager at InterSystems Inc. Many of our customers use Caché for business intelligence solutions. Over the years, we’ve introduced features, such as bit-map and bit-slice indexing, to help with decision support tasks. We’ve also added text indexing and searching capabilities. This session will focus on how to turn Caché data into the information you need to run a business.
16.15	Connecting Applications, Processes and People - Demo By Alain Houf and Olivier Caudron, InterSystems Benelux. A life demonstration.
17.00	Conference wrap-up & Close Questions & Answers