VENDOR SHOWCASE: n-Tier in a Box - Data Abstract in Action
Building n-tier applications is a complex task. Data Abstract not only allows building an n-tiered system without caring about networking and DAL issues: It empowers you to build your application in a real cross-platform way. If it's interesting for you to provide your data to several devices, Web, and desktop applications while keeping a single point of change for your business logic, attend this session.

Sebastian Gingter - REMObjects

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PRODUCT ADDRESS: DB Change Manager XE Tips & Tricks
DB Change Manager XE is an excellent tool for managing change across QA, UAT and Production environments. Within the past year, new functionality has been added to the product that further enhances its usefulness. Learn some of the best practices for leveraging this new functionality and revisit some of the less well-known, but equally important, existing functionality that the tool provides.

Brad Wulf - Embarcadero

Advanced Customizations of the ER/Studio Portal
During this session, we explore some more advanced techniques for customizing the ER/Studio Portal. The ER/Studio Portal is built using powerful technology that you can leverage to make the Portal adapt to your organization's unique needs. Coverage includes customizing Portal look and feel, modifying search functionality, and adding new pages to the Portal.

Andy Grohe - Project Leadership Associates

Metadata for All: Publishing Live Metadata Reports via SharePoint
Discover how to provide widespread access to customized database documentation including data dictionaries. The documentation will be live (automatically updated) and available via SharePoint.

Solomonn Waters - Embarcadero

Discover How to Automate Database Builds and Upgrades
In this session, learn how to use DB Change Manager XE to automate the process of pushing a Configuration standard and Schema compare task across multiple targets, and how to automate reporting upon completion.

Joshua Travers - Embarcadero

DB Change Manager XE Security Features
This presentation covers the database security aspects of DB Change Manager XE such as data masking, database server parameters, object permissions, and log ins.

Robert Loranger - Embarcadero

You Say Presenter… I Say Controller - Calling the Whole Thing Off
Learn to make better sense of the often fuzzy ideas and terms found in object-oriented data frameworks by mapping these concepts to more rigorously defined, and timeless ones. We start by distilling the essential concepts, then discuss how these map to and are sometimes lost by modern data management frameworks.

Nathan Allan - Database Consulting Group

Top 5 Techniques of Metadata Capture You Need to Know to Better Service Your Organization
Metadata has evolved greatly over the last several years. Capturing and documenting data definitions is a great start, but you need to take it to the next level to align your data architecture strategies with your business. Metadata related to stewardship, organizational structure, data quality, privacy and information security, system of record, and much more needs to find its way into your models and be communicated to the appropriate audiences in a timely manner.

Jason Tiret - Embarcadero

Cross-platform Database Development
Database development inherently presents its own challenges. Being tasked with the undertaking of developing on multiple platforms can push even the most efficient developer to their limits. In this session, we take a look at some ways to limit the challenges that supporting multiple platforms introduces and focus on general database development best practices.

Scott Walz - Embarcadero

Innovation in DBA and Data Modeling Tools: Lowering the Cost and Complexity of Tool Management
Today, most sizable IT organizations have hundreds, if not thousands, of licenses for software tools that are critical for building and running the databases that power their business. Managing these tools licenses, including deploying, provisioning, and updating them, is time-consuming and incurs many hidden costs. At best, challenges in getting the tools mean delays in business-critical projects; but worse, the wrong tools can cause costly mistakes, wrong configurations, and production setbacks. The problem multiplies as today's teams are typically spread across customers, outsourcers, and around the globe. A new approach is needed to remove the complexity of getting tools to IT professionals. Organizations need to centrally manage, but still be agile in responding to changing needs and heterogeneous systems. This session introduces a lightweight tool management technology that can be easily deployed behind the firewall and leverages cloud computing principles to reduce costs and simplify tool management.

Rosie Pongracz - Embarcadero