1. Alpha Anywhere Product Roadmap and Overview
Selwyn Rabins President and Co-Chairman Alpha Software

2. Overview
Alpha Anywhere - Full-stack, low-code, platform for developing and deploying web and mobile applications.

3. Recent Developments Version 3.0
Major enhancements to the List control in the UX to support disconnected applications
Many other enhancements

4. Roadmap
Server-side
Client-side
Deployment

5. Server-side Roadmap Server-side JavaScript Node.js Oauth Reporting
Datasources
NoSQL databases 

6. Server-side JavaScript
Why?
One language client side and server side 
Most popular language in the world 
Fast
Multi-threaded
V8 engine is cross-platform
Demo
.a5w page written in JavaScript that does a SQL query
.debugging server-side JavaScript

7. Server-side JavaScript (Cont’d)
Xbasic to Javascript translation (demo)
User Code
System code (goal is to allow Alpha Server to run on Linux)
Components.a5w
Server-side event handlers in either JS or Xbasic

8. Node.js
Calling Node.js services from Xbasic (or Server-side JavaScript)
Exposing Alpha services to Node.js

9. OAuth Authentication done (login with Google, etc).
Consuming services (e.g. Google drive, calendar)
OData

10. Datasources Strong SQL support Web services Odata Salesforce SAP
Siebel, etc.

11. Reporting Custom data sources (demo)
JSON and XML datasources from web services
Templates 

12. NoSQL Databases Mongo (demo) Couch
Pouch - Built-into Alpha (Pouch runs both SS and CS)

13. Client-side Roadmap Disconnected application enhancements
Touch optimized forms
Large Single Page Applications (SPA)
Client-side data store
3rd Party Library Integrations
New style builder 

14. Disconnected Apps Local storage for pure HTML5
PhoneGap file system for hybrid apps
Image capture (both HTML5 and hybrid)
Video/audio capture
Static HTML pages / Application Cache (demo)

15. Touch Optimized Forms (Demo)
Editors
Many fields share same editor - benefits?
Editors are instantiated in slide-in Panels or Windows
Text editing can at top of screen
Template driven layout 
Keyboard optimization
Built on new 'ViewBox' (demo)
User-defined keyboard/keypads

16. Large Single Page Applications
What is a SPA?
Why do you need large SPAs?
Disconnected Applications
UX ‘Sections’
Advantages of a SPA over dynamically loading child components
One namespace
Light DOM load to keep performace good

17. Client-side Data Store
MVC Pattern
Angular ‘friendly’
Fits well with disconnected applications
Bind UI controls to the client-side data store

18. 3rd Party Libraries
Angular 
3rd party control libraries - e.g. KendoUI

19. New Style builder More 'SASS' friendly Easier to use
Map 3rd party styles (e.g. Bootstrap) to AA themes

20. Deployment Roadmap
IIS 
Alpha Cloud

21. IIS Benefits of IIS Tighter integration into IDE
Tight integration with ASP.net
Performance
Scaleability
No need for Always Up
Tighter integration into IDE 
Eventual goal of replacing existing Application Server

22. Alpha Cloud
3rd deployment option
Self hosting
ISP hosting
Alpha Cloud