Tampa 2020 - 20^th to 23^rd April, 2020

Disaster Recovering planning is usually much like closing the barn door after the animals have escaped. Most planning is done after a disaster has taken place. Many times the disaster is minor, but planning for outages that span any length of time can be an eye opener.

This session will talk about the old and new techniques that are needed to make disaster recovery planning work, and how to keep Continuity in your business during a disaster.

There is a long standing argument in the industry that Re-architecting and modernizing existing business software costs more than replacing it with something new. In most cases, that is not the case, but providing the needed arguments, information, and other information to make the Re-architecting case is hard.

This session is both informational, as well as, an open conversation about promoting Re-architecting existing system.

As a powerful, flexible, easy to learn, and easy to deploy language, PHP provides a platform for an easy transition into web technologies. In this session we'll look at the basics of PHP and discuss how we can leverage Realtime MultiValue data and programming from a web context.

This session is designed to better equip IT professionals to communicate the business value that MultiValue applications provide to a company's operations. We will talk about generating a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) statement that you can provide to management.

We'll look at the cost benefits of upgrading UI and reporting versus replacing the whole business application with a new system. We'll cover the license and maintenance costs involved and provide a few comparisons.