Notes from the Boston Omnis mini-conference

Hi all,

Last week I attended the two day ‘mini-conference’ in Boston held by Omnis Software. I am pasting my somewhat-cryptic notes from the Introduction, the Omnis Studio Sales and Marketing presentation, and the Omnis Roadmap presentation below.

The agenda of the conference is here: <www.omnis.net/news/agenda_us.jsp>

The conference was a nice first ‘baby step’ by Omnis Software to get back into the American market. It didn’t have the same technical value as the recent EurOmnis conferences have had with their 12 concurrent sessions, but it was a clear and sincere statement that Omnis is moving in the right direction. The overall theme, repeated often throughout the two days, is that Omnis Software cares about Omnis developers, is listening to the developers, and wants to work with the developers as we move forward. Overall, I think it is a pretty exciting time for Omnis!

Not mentioned in the agenda is that there is a new Sales Manager for US and Canada – David McGee. David was hired a day before the conference and didn’t even have business cards yet, so I’m not sure if I spelled his name correctly! We will presumably be hearing more from David soon.

OK, on to my notes, with apologies in advance for the errors!

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Omnis Boston 2018

20 to 30 attendees

David Lewis
1st year…
2 digit growth and profits
Adding staff
Reinvested profits
US slower growth, taken longer than hoped
More changes in next 24 mos
Steven Mitchell. UK sales dude
New sales person David ?? For US!!!
Free training via Omnis academy (coming soon to Australia)
Portal not as successful as hoped
Operational stuff…
Regular Skype board meetings
David L to Europe every 3 months
Have ideas? David says call or email him any time david@omnis.net
Wants customer experience to be easy & good

Steven Mitchell sales manager
management structure
Mgmt team: Bob, Bob, Birgit, Alain
Directors: Andrea, David, Geert
They use Omnis and need Omnis to be successful!

Progress update
18 months since acquisition by OLS
3 new engineers in UK in Dev and QR
New office Germany
New South America distributer
David McGee new sales exec for us canada
USA sales point of contact
Tech resource to follow

USA Canada update
Key priority, but not there now
Free Omnis academy
Omnis developer days
Pricing alignment
They have work to do
ODPP Germany has free development days
Working towards Run time Maintenance Agreement (RMA)
Timeliness & flexible
Easier budgeting & planning
Stay on latest version, upgrade when needed
Same RMA charge every year, 3 yr fixed agreement
No sales process for upgrades
Working well in Europe
For ODPP only
Can purchase for selected customers
Only for studio 8
Serial nums same for minor releases

Business focus
#smartchoiceforapplication
New pr focus
New www.omnis.net
Focus on new developers
Product development different approach
Market oriented
Access to management
Symbiotic relationship with developers

New initiatives
Dev portal
Still figuring out how to make this work
Omnis Academy
Free 3 day jsClient training
Videos & libraries online
Online exam
Stuff on web page
Tech Talks
Deep dive following a short demo
Plan for 1 per month
First one not much talking
Looking for more feednabk
Omnis Technical Committee
Consultative board
10 reps invited by OS
Customer voting tool
oVote
Available to ODPP
Prioritize development tasks
Conferences and Tech days
Regularly scheduled in US and Canada
Emails to trial version registrations
12 follow up emails
Free support
LinkedIn
Please follow, improves profile
Follow Omnis and Omnis Developer Group
Twitter
Follow!
More in the pipeline…..

Conclusion
Omnis is stable, profitable
Committed to developer community

Bob Whiting Omnis Roadmap
8.0 all about consolidation and housekeeping
8.1
JSON representation (export and import)
Responsive Forms
Headless Linux server (considering Mac OS X and windows)
Using JavaScript controls in remote forms
MacOSx code signed applications
Improved new user entry point (not the first!)
Web Services
Method editor enhancements
SQL workers
Code assistant
oW3 worker objects
Themes

9.0 (features not set in stone)
October 2018??
New Method editor
Removes a ‘new user’ barrier
Accessibility
WCAG 2.0
Keyboard control of js components
Studio Visible Controls
Refresh existing client server controls
Additional window objects
Additional js controls
Input desired!
Studio Remote Debug
Connection to RT and server from dev environment
Browser based method editor and debugger
Cloud Compatability
SaaS
Server farm
Metered licensing model
Remote Objects
Instantiated and executed on client
Deployment
Easier
Docker-type Linux install
JavaScript editor
The new free form editor might make this obsolete
Mobile applications
Auto wrapper and deployment
Automated testing
DML Emulation ???
New omnissqllite dam
Data files converted to SQLite
DML command emulation

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Jim Pistrang
JP Computer Resources
413-256-4569
<www.jpcr.com>

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