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Appeon for PowerBuilder
BRINGING THE POWER OF PB TO THE WEB™
Appeon for PowerBuilder Introduction
PRESENTATION FOR NAME
Armeen Mazda
[email protected]
1-877-3APPEON x621
Topics
 Appeon Overview
 Live Demonstration
 Technical Details
 Conclusion
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About Appeon Corporation
 Worldwide leader in providing
PowerBuilder-based
development products and IT
outsourcing services
 Patented technology in deploying
applications built in PowerBuilder
to J2EE and .NET platforms
 Sybase distributes & supports
Appeon worldwide. Over 600
customers using Appeon today!
 Subsidiary of Shell Electric, a
Hong Kong conglomerate
founded in 1952 and publicly
traded on the HKSE
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PowerBuilder’s Relationship to .NET
 .NET is any programming language deployed to a single
framework/OS, for example, C#, ASP, etc.
 Traditional 4GLs have become .NET languages, for
example, VB, Delphi, etc.
 PowerBuilder is the latest .NET language, following the
likes of VB and Delphi
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What is Appeon for PowerBuilder?
Appeon for PowerBuilder (APB) is …
Add-on for PowerBuilder to develop complex .NET or
Java Web applications rapidly and easily.
.NET/Java N-tier Web
PowerBuilder Client/Server
Automatically
Deploy
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Why Choose Appeon?
More companies prefer to use Appeon for their Web projects
because they find that Appeon delivers superior ROI by…
 Shortest development time and lowest cost.
Develop new Java or .NET Web applications 4X faster and migrate existing
PowerBuilder applications in just a few months or even weeks.
 Least project risk.
There is no need to rewrite your entire code base, no need to re-architect your
system, no need to retool your engineering team, and even no need to re-train
your end-users.
 Most powerful PowerBuilder Web deployment.
Effortlessly handles the largest of applications (up to 600MB) with the most
robust PowerBuilder feature support, and offers powerful desktop integration
with the richest Web user interface.
 Extraordinary performance and scalability.
Delivers virtually the performance of client/server with the scalability of the Web
– there is no faster or more scalable Web deployment option.
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The Appeon Technical Edge
 Rich-Client architecture utilizing ActiveX and AJAX
technology to deliver the power of PB on the Web
 Most powerful and interactive Web user interface
 V6.0 optimized over 8 years and 1,000 engineering years
of R&D to handle real-life complex applications
 Technology agnostic: simultaneously deploys to .NET and
J2EE platforms with numerous integration options
 Performs under real-life load situations and features
numerous “automatic” performance boosting features
 Hundreds of successful deployments where all other
solutions failed, including Citrix, Web rewrites, and status
quo
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Case Study: Appeon Savings
Just spending one week, one PowerBuilder engineer implemented the
PetShop blueprint application of Microsoft .NET, which took two .NET
engineers four weeks to develop.
Appeon is able to implement
the same .NET application with
1/4 of the lines of code;
1/4 of the time;
1/8 of the cost.
Item
Lines of Code
Time
Cost
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.NET
PB/Appeon
2,213
564
4 weeks
1 week
2 * 4 = 8 engineer-weeks 1 engineer-week
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1/4
1/4
1/8
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Healthcare – Practice Management
HENRY SCHEIN (NASDAQ: HSIC)
CHALLENGE
 To grow their customer base further, the Dental Vision business unit
was forced to offer a standard Web solution and move away from
Citrix.
 Complicating matters worse, the Web solution must deliver all
existing functionality, including X-ray, imaging, RichTextEdit and MS
Word integration.
 However, with 30 person years already tied up in the flagship Dental
Vision client/server solution, budget and manpower to devote to
rewriting Dental Vision a second time for the Web proved to be scant.
SOLUTION
 Appeon for PowerBuilder
 Appeon Global IT Services
RESULTS
 Successfully delivered a Web product that can seamlessly scale up
to 5,000 users (the largest customer size in the dental industry).
 Not only preserved all functionality of existing client/server solution,
but also UI remained unchanged eliminating complicated re-training.
 Project completed within 12 months and within limited budget.
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Health Care - Human Resources
RES-Q HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
CHALLENGE
 Customers demanded RES-Q expand their HR solution to offer
hospital staff the ability to schedule themselves from anywhere and
at anytime (i.e. Web-based self-scheduling).
 However, RES-Q staff and resources were full committed to
maintaining their existing HR solution in PowerBuilder.
 The complexity and cost to add any new skill set or maintain an
additional product line made it prohibitive for RES-Q to appease their
customers.
SOLUTION
 Appeon for PowerBuilder
 Appeon Global IT Services
RESULTS
 Web-based self-scheduling delivered in just 60 days.
 Integrated into existing product such that RES-Q staff is required to
only maintain a single application.
 Existing RES-Q staff/skill set adequate for on-going maintenance of
the integrated solution.
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Healthcare - Procurement
LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITAL
CHALLENGE
 Improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of supply procurement
 Provide management with real-time visibility into the procurement system
SOLUTION
 Appeon for PowerBuilder
RESULTS
 Overall cost savings of ₤2.6 million to date
 92% reduction in total processing cost per order
 Reduction in time spent on supply issues from 20% to less than 5%
 Time between requisitions and purchase orders has been cut from 7 to 10
days to 3-4 hours
 Improved financial control to comply with audit requirements and
management information, including key performance indicators (KPI)
reporting
 Improved requisitioning capability and with integration to multiple systems
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ISV – Contract Mgmt
INTELLISOFT GROUP
CHALLENGE
 Intellisoft Group, after much success with it’s medical
credentialing software (IntelliContract) was looking to expand its
business beyond healthcare and offer a horizontal solution
 Wading through uncharted waters was a significant concern, and
as such, IntelliSoft wanted to quickly validate the opportunity with
minimal investment (potential loss).
 However, to be successful in this crowded market, needed to
offer radically superior and technically advanced product.
SOLUTION
 Appeon for PowerBuilder
 Appeon Global IT Services
RESULTS
 Successfully brought IntelliContract to market in 6 months
 Venture profitable within 2 months of being on the market
 Have won accounts against SalesForce.com and other strong
competitors
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Telecommunications - CRM
CHINA UNICOM INTEGRATIVE ACCOUNT SYSTEM
CHALLENGE
 As China Unicom’s subscriber base had rapidly grown in recent years,
the legacy CRM system had become outdated and difficult to maintain
 Off-the-shelf CRM solutions did not match China Unicom’s business
processes and departmental workflows or proved to be cost-prohibitive
 Time-to-market was essential since customer accounts were in jeopardy
SOLUTION
 Appeon for PowerBuilder
 Appeon Global IT Services
RESULTS
 System developed and successfully rolled out to China Unicom
customers in just 8 months
 Subscribers empowered to view account information and perform
various account modifications without calling customer service
 China Unicom engineers able to perform the ongoing maintenance the
Web application using familiar PowerBuilder skills and toolsets
 System runs stably at the rush hour when more than 1,300 online users
are accessing the system
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Topics
 Appeon Overview
 Live Demonstration
 Technical Details
 Conclusion
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DEMO
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Topics
 Appeon Overview
 Live Demonstration
 Technical Details
 Conclusion
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Secret to Automated Web Deployment
 Appeon replicates most powerful PB features such that existing
PowerBuilder code can be readily mapped to the Web
 All DataWindows styles
 All Windows types for
both SDI and MDI
 All UI controls and 27
common system objects
 Menus/Toolbars, all User
Objects & NVOs
 OLE/OCX/DLL
 Most PowerScript
 PFC Framework
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Preserving Rich GUI on the Web
Based on AJAX, Appeon precisely replicates the source PB
application resulting in the most productive UI for your
users that beats current offerings in JSF/J2EE and Web
Forms/.NET
Web
Click n’
Deploy
PowerBuilder
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N-Tier Platform for Web Apps
 Appeon Developer –
deploys to the Web using
only PowerBuilder skills and
IDE
 Appeon Server for J2EE –
implemented 100% in Java
providing runtime services
 Appeon Server for .NET –
implemented 100% in C#
providing runtime services
 Standard N-tier
Architecture – HTML, XML,
JavaScript, ActiveX, Java and
C#, HTTP/HTTPS, default IE
browser settings and firewall
friendly, seamless Web
loading
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Application Partitioning
Where does the Presentation & Business Logic run?
• Distributed to Web Browser Client & App Server vs. Consolidated on
App Server?
• This impacts the number of round trips across the Network or Internet
• This impacts the performance and scalability of the application
Web App
Consolidate
Distribute
Presentation Tier?
App Server
Web Browser
Business Logic?
Consolidate
Client
PB Client
Client/Server Architecture
Client
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Database
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Appeon Partitioning Approach
Appeon Utilizes a “Balanced” Architecture
• Preserve business logic and UI of the original PowerBuilder application
as a rich-client in standard Web browser
• Deploy DataWindows, Embedded SQL, and heavy business logic to
the J2EE or .NET application server
• Re-use database and stored procedures via JDBC
or ODBC
Web
App
Presentation Tier
PowerBuilder
App
Export
Replicate
Convert
Web browser
Business Logic
Client
Deploy
DW, NVO
Retain
Database
Database
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HTML,XML,
JavaScript
Appeon Server
Application Server
Database
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Rich Client Architecture
 Performance
 Supercharge Web performance/scalability through a “balanced”
N-tier architecture ideal for complex functionality
 Compiled language is 10X faster than interpreted (e.g. JavaScript)
 Eliminate unnecessary, timely, and costly server roundtrips that
frustrate end users (customer, partners, employees, etc.)
 Features
 Go beyond the browser and integrate seamlessly with any
application, Windows OS, or hardware (scanner, printer, etc.)
 Bring the rich functionality of traditional PowerBuilder applications
into the standard Internet Explorer Web browser (OLE/OCX/DLL)
 Desktop look n’ feel with multi-tasking floating windows, toolbars,
menus, drag n’ drop, hot keys & shortcuts
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Automatic Performance Boosting
 Numerous functionalities built-in to boost Web performance
under real-life situations
 Download manager offers Just-in-Time (JIT) or Preload options
for running the Web application
 ActiveX optimized to be only 2MB in size yet virtually deliver
same power as 8MB PBVM
 10X data compression to compress DataWindow result sets
 3-level DataWindow caching technology caches at the application
server, Web server, and Web browser
 Micro-refresh (via AJAX) eliminates all redundant generation and
downloading of data, such as in commonly and frequently-used
“Master-Detail”
 Application server connection pooling can boost database
scalability by several folds through “shared” connections
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Complex Application Optimizations
 Automatic conversion up to 95% in many cases.
 Without doing any coding work, click deploy and see majority of
your application Web-enabled
 Occasionally, a line of PowerScript in an event handler that is not
supported will prevent the launching of the functionality
 Work around the unsupported feature using standard PB
programming, perform an incremental deploy, and voila!
 Not an all-or-nothing deal!
 An application with known unsupported features or errors can still
be Web deployed allowing you to explore the app
 Problematic (Web) code is automatically commented out
 Utilize Appeon Debugger to real-time debug the resulting Web
application tracing back to specific line of PowerScript
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New Web Development with Appeon
Step 1 – Analyze
 Define the scope
Step 2 – Design
 Design architecture
 Define requirements  Design UI layout
 Produce detailed
 Produce design doc
functional specs
and pseudo code
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Step 3 – Implement
 Code and test using
PB IDE and skills
 Re-use tools (PB
Delta, Winrunner, etc.)
 Re-use processes
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Automated Web Migration with Appeon
Step 1 – Analyze
 Analyze application
using built-in tools
Step 2 – Design
Step 3 – Implement
 Devise workarounds  Code and test using
for unsupp. features
PB IDE and skills
 Unsupported
PB features?
 Inefficient code?
 Optimize and/or
package some logic
for Internet/WAN
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 Re-use tools (PB
Delta, Winrunner, etc.)
 Re-use processes
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Major Unsupported Features
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PowerScript Statements: GOTO, THROW, THROWS
DataWindow: TableBlob Control for DataWindow
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System Functions: Class Definition functions, DDE Server functions, Garbage
Collection functions, Help functions, Library functions, Shared Object functions,
Tracing functions
System Objects: ADOResultSet, ArrayBounds, ClassDefinition,
ClassDefinitionObject, ConnectionInfo, ConnectObject, ContextInformation,
ContextKeyword, CORBA (all), CPlusPlus, DivideByZeroError, DWRuntimeError,
EnumerationDefinition, EnumerationItemDefinition, Error, ErrorLogging,
Exception, ExtObject, JaguarORB, NullObjectError, OLERuntimeError,
OLEStorage, OLEStream, OLETxnObject, OMControl, OMCustomControl,
OMEmbeddedControl, OMObject, OMStorage, OMStream, ORB,
PBTocppObject, Pipeline, ProfileCall, ProfileClass, ProfileLine, ProfileRoutine,
Profiling, RemoteObject, ResultSet, ResultSets, RuntimeError, ScriptDefinition,
Service, SimpleTypeDefinition, Throwable, Trace (all), TransactionServer,
Transport, TypeDefinition, VariableCardinalityDefinition, VariableDefinition
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*Nearly all major unsupported features can be commonly worked
around utilizing server-side PowerBuilder NVOs
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**Many unsupported features can be readily worked around at the
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Unsupported Features Analyzer
 Identifies unsupported features based on keyword,
providing you with location, line number, and code snippet
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Appeon Code Insight
 Keeps future development Web-compliant by listing only
supported PowerScript at your fingertips
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Appeon (Web-to-PB) Debugger
 Utilize Appeon Debugger to real-time debug the resulting
Web application tracing back to specific line of
PowerScript
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System Requirements
 Web Browser:
 Internet Explorer 6 or 7 on Windows XP/Vista/2003/2008
 Web & Application Server:
 Microsoft IIS 7.0/6.0, Apache 2.x, Sybase EAServer 6.1/5.5,
IBM WebSphere 6.1/5.1, BEA WebLogic 10.0/9.2
 Windows 2008/2003, Red Hat Linux 5.0/4.0, IBM AIX 5.3/5.2
 Database
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Sybase ASA 10.0/9.0/8.0, ASE 15.0/12.5, IQ 12.7
Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2000
Oracle 10g/9i/8i
Informix 9/7
IBM DB2 9.5/8.2
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Topics
 Appeon Overview
 Live Demonstration
 Technical Details
 Conclusion
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Proven PB Web Migration Paths
Java/.NET
Rewrite
Highest TCR
Time: 1.5-2 Yr
Cost: 4-10X
Risk: >70%
Power
Builder
Time: 3 Mths
Cost: X
Risk: <5%
Appeon
Java/.NET
Web Deployment
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Lowest TCR
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•Java/.NET Web App
•Any Vendor Server
•Java/.NET EAI
•Java/.NET Developers
•Any Vendor Tools
•Open Web Source
•Java/.NET Web App
•Any Vendor Server
•Java/.NET EAI
•PB Developers
•SY Standard Tools
•Closed Web Source
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Future-proof Your Investments
PowerBuilder and Appeon empowers enterprises to build .NET
and Java applications that are device & technology agnostic,
deploying to many platforms at virtually the click of a button.
1 Skill, 1 IDE, 1 Project
PowerBuilder
Appeon
PocketBuilder
Desktop
Web
Mobile
Windows
Client/
Server
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Real Tangible Benefits
 Modernize PowerBuilder – Automatically convert
existing PowerBuilder applications to Web
applications in just months or even weeks.
 Develop 4X Faster – Instantly begin building new
Web applications that deploy to .NET or Java
platform at a speed that is at least 4 times faster
than typical .NET or Java development.
 Satisfy End-users – End users productively work
with the world’s richest Web user interface!
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Competitive Advantage for ISVs
 Preserve Existing Customer Base – There is risk of losing
segment of existing customer base due to lack of Web
solution.
 Upsell Existing Customer Base – Customers view Web
solutions as providing higher value than client/server
solutions, and as such are willing to pay higher license fees to
purchase Web solutions.
 Expand Customer Base – Now your company is well
positioned to go after prospects that demand enterprise-class
Web solution.
 Stay Ahead of the Competition - Agility to respond to
changing business requirements 4 times faster than your
competition.
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Competitive Advantage for ISVs (cont.)
 Differentiate your Product – Competing solutions lack the
rich UI and functionality of your Web solution Web-enabled
with Appeon.
 Lower your Cost - Achieve the absolute lowest cost position.
At least 4 times fewer headcount and even greater savings for
automated migration of existing product portfolio.
 Transition Seamlessly – Your existing customers won’t have
to undergo retraining and your existing user guides, training
program, and sales collateral will continue to be useful since
the UI is unchanged
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Appeon for PowerBuilder
BRINGING THE POWER OF PB TO THE WEB™
Thank You!
Armeen Mazda
[email protected]
1-877-3APPEON x621