Take BYOD From Challenge to Advantage – Introducing MobileTogether

We are so excited to announce a brand new product from Altova for the mobile space, which we will be unveiling today at the sold-out TechEd North America show in Houston, TX.

 

Introducing MobileTogether

 

Armed with smartphones and tablets, we are constantly connected to touch screens – yet when it comes to true business productivity, these devices still only provide email, calendar, and contacts connectivity, and not much else. Think about it: when’s the last time you used your work phone for anything other than email?

There has to be a better approach. Altova MobileTogether is the answer.

It brings control of mobile data in-house, where your team can create, test, and deploy mobile solutions quickly, moving from business requirement to live mobile solution within hours. Your organization retains full control of your data, user security, access control, and the entire development cycle.

MobileTogether is a revolutionary approach to creating mobile app solutions for corporate data. Instead of cumbersome and time-consuming native app development tools, MobileTogether unifies the development experience and provides a visual designer, a powerful simulator, and a stream-lined deployment process. It allows you to build one solution for all platforms – in record time – and deploy it seamlessly to all the mobile devices in your workplace.

MobileTogether supports all platforms with free, native client apps:

• Android
• iOS
• Windows Phone 8
• Windows 8
• Any other device via HTML5 browser client

 

 

Cross-platform support makes MobileTogether perfect for today's ubiquitous BYOD scenarios and provides for easy adaptation to changes.

Availability

In the weeks following the MobileTogether announcement at TechEd, we will make a public beta available to interested customers, with full commercial availability expected this fall.

If you’re attending TechEd, stop by booth 2027 for a demo!

 

Learn more and stay tuned for more details about this revolutionary new platform for building mobile business solutions!

Houston, Altova here, we have landed at TechEd

Altova will be exhibiting in Houston, TX from May 12-15 at Microsoft TechEd in booth #2027. Come on down to the George R. Brown Convention Center and speak with our experts about our server software products and MissionKit Developers tools.

If you are attending TechEd, stop by our booth to see first-hand how our products offer high-speed automation for projects designed using familiar Altova MissionKit developer tools. While you are at our booth mention this blog post to receive a special giveaway. We can’t wait to see you next week in Houston!

FlowForce Server Job Cache Enhancements

FlowForce Server Version 2014 Release 2 was launched on March 19, 2014 with enhancements that add functionality to job caching. Job caching allows administrators to schedule execution of time consuming jobs, store the results, and deliver output instantaneously in response to HTTP requests from end users. Our earlier post titled Result Caching Accelerates Application Response Time described how to configure a job to take advantage of caching.

Caching is especially beneficial for FlowForce Server enterprise-level data transformation jobs that work with large amounts of data, require complex database queries, or consume Web services where the performance of an external system may not be predictable.

Now in Version 2014 Release 2, caching is supported for jobs that use parameters and combinations of multiple parameters. In the job configuration dialog, administrators specify multiple cache entries to match the number of possible parameter combinations that are expected in typical day-to-day usage.

For example, let’s say we have a job called SalesQuery that uses parameters to generate unique sales reports for individual regions and products.

We can define the job as a service that is called via a URL that supplies runtime parameters to select the region and product, such as http://flowforce:4646/service/salesquery?region=East&product=widgets

If there are four sales regions and five products, then a total of 20 unique combinations of parameters are possible. When we enable job caching, we simply define the maximum number of cache entries to match:

The first time the job is run, FlowForce Server records the parameters supplied and caches the result. When the job is run again with the same parameters, the cache entry is instantly supplied.

We can also create a Refresh Cache timer to automatically update the cache:

Most systems define a cache time limit to prevent delivery of stale data and FlowForce Server supports such simple cache expiration limits, too. However, to provide the best possible performance optimization of your data integration projects, FlowForce Server goes much further. The Refresh Cache timer triggers FlowForce Server to automatically run the job again in the background, using the same parameters, to update the cache. Instead of the typical stale cache expiry, you get automatically refreshed cache entry and can fine-tune the exact performance load on your back-end systems.

And, the same behavior applies for each possible combination of parameters, corresponding to each individual cache entry. Each parameter combination is seeded the very first time it runs, then, based on the Refresh timer, it is continuously updated.

Version 2014 Release 2 is a free upgrade for all currently-licensed FlowForce Server users, and a free trial is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS platforms. Click here to visit the Altova Server Software download page!