1 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Solve Your Top Business Problems Today with PowerBuilder Hands On the Challenge John Strano, Sybase Technology Evangelist

2 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge01 & Challenge02

3 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge01 & Challenge02 Thou shalt not rewrite in PowerBuilder. HOLD ON! Did you say refactor? Isn’t that a fancy, marketing type of word for rewrite? I’ve been told that any rewriting will be done in a new language, NOT PowerBuilder!

4 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge01 & Challenge02 Solution: Using PowerBuilder 11.5, you will modify an “old app” that gets a new ID and the default sales representative for a newly-inserted customer according to their state or province of record…all within the clicked event of a commandbutton. You will move that logic to methods of a new NVO that is then deployed as a.NET Web Service.

5 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge01 & Challenge02 Take away message: Rewriting in PowerBuilder is ALWAYS the best investment because it will be the cheapest, fastest way to solve your business problems.

6 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge03 Challenge: I need to expose my internal logic to my.NET peers. Our PowerBuilder application has some critical business logic and data that the.NET development team needs access to.

7 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge03 Solution: Deploy the NVO as a.NET Assembly.

8 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge03 Take away message: Assuming that your application was well written and you’ve encapsulated your business logic, separating it from the UI, you can easily redeploy this NVO as a.NET Assembly. Rewriting anything, fixing anything, will always be easiest to do and the most cost effective when done with PowerBuilder.

9 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge04 Challenge: Web Services...we need to build ‘em, use ‘em, and manage them. Can PowerBuilder do this?

10 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge04 Solution: Create an NVO with 4 methods to SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE a Customer. Deploy this NVO as a.NET Web Service. Change the detail DataWindow Object in Customer maintenance to use these Service operations as its data source. Add logic to the INSERT method/operation that calls the NVO that has been deployed as a.NET Web Service to get the new Customer’s default sales representative.

11 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge04 Take away message: PowerBuilder is the easiest way to use Web Services, whether that means building them, using them, and/or managing them.

12 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge05 We must, we must, we must increase our ubiquity! Or, we need to access our applications from the Web! My users want a Web interface for their application, so management wants a new application written for the Web. Is there anything I can do quickly to get a few pages up on the Web?

13 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge05 Solution: PowerBuilder 11.x WebForms. From scratch, build a single window with a single DataWindow that retrieves and updates the Employee table from the demo database…then deploy it to the Web…in less than 10 minutes.

14 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge05 Take away message: It’s always been easy to quickly build a working prototype and a working application in PowerBuilder Now, you can just as easily build a few new Web pages and access your client/server data sources. With PowerBuilder ease and speed, you can quickly give you users Web access by building new Web pages in a Win32 environment.

15 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge06 Challenge: We must move our ENTIRE application to the Web. My problem is bigger than just a few pages – I need to move my entire application to the Web. It’s huge and complex, and because it’s written for a c/s architecture, my management thinks it’s old, outdated, and needs to be rewritten.

16 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge06 Solution: Demonstrate deploying your traditional Win32 application using PowerBuilder’s WebForm deployment capability…along with its extant Web Service usage.

17 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge06 Take away message: Your business is run with a solid application that was designed for a c/s environment, but now it can easily be moved to the Web, without taking years or hundreds of thousands of dollars…or more. PowerBuilder’s WebForm deployment can Web- enable that application.

18 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge07 Challenge: It is too time consuming, and therefore too expensive, to keep updating our client desktop application. But, we’re not sure the Web is the right way to go as there are issues moving to the Web, too, such as managing state, ensuring a specific browser is used, etc.

19 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge07 Solution: Deploy your application as a Smart Client! You will publish your traditional Win32 application as a Smart Client.NET WinForm application.

20 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge07 Take away message: Take advantage of the ubiquity of the Web, but deliver a fully functional, feature rich GUI. Smart Client is smart. PowerBuilder does Smart Client. Therefore, PowerBuilder is smart.

21 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge08 Challenge: Update an old, ugly UI. Or, “You can see a PowerBuilder application coming from a mile away...” My existing PowerBuilder application looks old and dated, sporting a Win95 look and feel, and this is a huge issue because it only serves to perpetuate the undercurrent in my company to rewrite this app in C# or Java (depending upon type of shop).

22 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge08 Challenge (cont’d): If I could only update this application’s UI quickly and easily, I could use that to demonstrate PowerBuilder’s power. What should I do?

23 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge08 Solution: Perform a quick, yet significant update of a portion of your application using PowerBuilder 11.5 DataWindow enhancements. You will optionally publish these visual enhancements using Smart Client.

24 – Sybase Confidential June 10, 2016 Challenge08 Take away message: PowerBuilder applications can get a facelift in no time and look modern and up-to-date by simply updating your version. In the future, we’ll be taking you to new heights with WPF and beyond.