Product roadmap mike taylor brno_9_jun2015

1. Uniface Roadmap
Michael Taylor
Product Manager
11 June 2015
Advanced Development Technology

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Agenda
 Things we’re
working on
 Uniface 9
 Uniface 10

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Things we’re Working on...
Turning up the heat on quality
 GUI testing tool replacement
 Ranorex is the replacement tooling
 Implementation underway in Uniface
 Windows client/server

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Uniface 9.6 – Released December 2012
 Delivering enhancements for +/-2 years
 Agile delivery
 New model of frequent enhancement releases
 Success has exceeded our expectations
 Uptake within the customer base
 Positive feedback
 Ongoing enhancement requests
 Will be maintained until 2017
 Enhancements until 2015 (Uniface 9.6.07)

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Uniface 9 - the Currency plan
Operating Systems
Databases

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Uniface 9.7
 Aiming for a Q3 2015 delivery
 Addition to the roadmap enabled by additional investment
in Uniface
 Support life cycle for Uniface 9.6 will change as a result
 18 months after the delivery of Uniface 9.7
 Migration from Uniface 9.6 to Uniface 10.02 as previously
communicated.
 Uniface 9.7 is NOT mandatory to migrate to Uniface 10.
 Move from 9.6 – 9.7 will require recompilation
 This is usual! Nothing new!
 Enables us to deliver mobile (and other) enhancements in Uniface 9
Advanced Development Technology

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Uniface 9.7 planned content
 Planning to Modernize the Uniface 9.7 UDE
 Colors, buttons, etc
 Some minor functionality improvements
 Revised start screen, open form, etc
 Title bar naming
 Windows enhancements
 Attach properties for labels
 Flat (Win 8 style) buttons
 HTML5 control 64 bit
 SDI functionality (definable, probably ini file)
Advanced Development Technology

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Uniface 9.7 planned content
 Web services enhancements
 Additional UHTTP tweaks
 Semantic URLs
 Struct performance tweaks
 Currency - Uniface 9.7 will not be available on Windows XP
 We plan to move to MS Visual Studio 2013
 Opens up other possibilities
 Refactoring
 Windows features and functionality
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Dynamic server pages
 Promises
 INOUT params
 Standard HTML widgets
 HTML classes
 HTML attributes
 Combine and minify
 uniface.js
 Bootstrapping
 JavaScript API for labels

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On device app testing – UScan
 Test Mobile apps
 Access to hardware
 Integration with development
 Will be made available in app stores

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Themes
 Advanced development environment
 Agile development methodology
 Mobile deployment
 Cloud deployment

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Our objectives:
 Deliver a new development experience
 IDE development familiarity
 IDF familiarity for the current user community
 Usability
 Functionality
 Maintain development productivity
 A showcase Uniface application

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Web Edition
 Early Adopters Release
 Targeted for new development projects
 New customers
 New projects within existing customers
 Develop applications for the cloud/web
 With a new Uniface IDE!

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Phased release schedule based on Editions
Early adopters – released last week
Planned for Q3 2015
Planned for Q1-Q2 2016

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Uniface 10 support strategy (continued)
 Support of Uniface 10 Web Edition
 Uniface.info - U10 specific forums
 Enables data to be collected and shared
 Seeding for the future
 Enables focus on real u10 projects
 Delivery of maintenance
 No planning on a regular patch delivery schedule
 Planning for a ‘significant update’ as a maintenance pack in
June/July
 Real u10 projects we will do everything needed
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Uniface 10 support strategy (continued)
 Support of Uniface 10 Mobile Edition (and afterwards)
 Will use our usual support process(s)
 Preference would be forums
 Usual channels will be open
 Online call logging and maintenance will be operational by then
 Delivery of maintenance
 Will revert to our regular ‘rhythm’ of patches and service packs
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Planned
Date
Release Functionality Targeted customer
‘audience’
Uniface 9
2013 Uniface 9.6.x (4
month cycle)
• Unicode
• Web
• Web Services
• Windows
New/existing
2014
2015 Q3 Uniface 9.7 Mobile/web New/existing
Uniface 10
2013 Q4 Uniface 10.00b • Advanced
development
• Agile development
Demo
2014 Q1 Uniface 10.00c Demo
2014 Q2 Uniface 10.00d Workshop release
2015 Q2 Uniface 10 WE Early Adopters
2015 Q3 Uniface 10 ME New/existing
2016 TBA Uniface 10 EE New/existing
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Q&A
Thank You!
Advanced Development Technology