Five Minute Briefing - MultiValue
April 2012
A comprehensive monthly publication filled with news and insight serving the MultiValue database community.
News Flashes
PK, a software firm based in The Netherlands, has been recognized with the InterSystems Award for Breakthrough Applications. PK, an InterSystems application partner, was recognized for its CU-BOX mobile application for real-time emergency services response measurement. CU-BOX uses the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance database system and InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform to provide critical, objective information about the quality of emergency healthcare delivery.
OpenInsight Development Suite (OI) 9.3.1 is now available from Revelation Software.The new release includes OpenInsight for Web (O4W v1.3) which provides additional integration with the new Banded Report Writer, support routines for RSS feeds, and a new ad hoc report builder, along with additional mobile enhancements such as mobile-specific menu and report output. Through O4W's integration with jQuery Mobile (the companion library to O4W's jQuery), web pages can be built using "finger friendly" user interface elements and design.
BlueFinity International will demonstrate how to create a simple SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) transformation to move MultiValue data into MS SQL Server using mv.SSIS in a free webinar on April 26.
Rocket U2 has announced UniData 7.3. The first major UniData release since the U2 group was acquired by Rocket Software from IBM, UniData 7.3 represents over a year of work on a combination of development and QA, Susie Siegesmund, vice president and general manager, U2 Brand, Rocket Software, tells 5 Minute Briefing.
Think About It
It's hard to overestimate Amazon's influence on cloud computing and on NoSQL databases. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first and still is the leading concrete example of an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud - a collection of cloud-based services such as compute (EC2), storage (S3) and other application building blocks.