Operational data warehouses (ODWs) provide a better approach to managing data in the moment and making it actionable across a business. This session will delve into the key ways ODWs eliminate the pitfalls of traditional solutions and how businesses achieve better real-time insights and results.

Comprehensive student safety requires schools to track students from the time they enter school until the time they leave the premises. Furthermore, automating attendance saves schools time and eliminate paper checklists.

Join this session to hear how Plurilogic uses RF-ID technology on Raspberry Pi small-computers running Zen Edge database to capture and record student attendance with full synchronization capabilities between RF-ID antennas and the centralized student of record database. A full demonstration will show you how we used the Zen embedded database through a C++ API, running on Raspbian and Windows IoT Core, to rapidly deliver cross-platform and secure functionality.

Docker has become one of the fastest-growing technologies in devops and web development. Docker containers are easy to reproduce and guaranteed to be identical on any system that can run Docker, making deployments much easier to manage. Docker’s application isolation capabilities allow devops to run multiple containers on a single server without creating any dependency issues, reducing costs and management overhead. Cris Ianculovici, Principal Support Engineer at Actian, will guide you through setting up Docker containers for Actian X, including configuration tricks to make licensing a snap.

Wondering what’s limiting your PSQL/Zen applications performance?  Is it a network bandwidth or latency issue, lack of hardware resources? Is it an OS, DB or other configuration problem? Or is it just time to upgrade to a new version of Windows or PSQL?  Bill Bach from Goldstar Software will provide insights into common configuration and resourcing mistakes and other performance bottlenecks that can slow down your PSQL or Zen-based applications and users.  Bill will also highlight features available to you in Zen v13 (along with some third-party tools) to monitor your system and optimize your Zen application’s performance.

The session showcases how DataConnect accelerates hybrid data integration for Data Driven Enterprises. You will explore the integration platform architecture and how it enables you to build, deploy, run, manage integrations anywhere with no limits on data types or volumes.

As database services move to the cloud, there are a huge variety of options available.  We’ll show the pros and cons of different choices, and explain what criteria to use to determine the best fit for your requirements.  Is separation of storage and compute a good idea or not?  What are the performance and cost implications?

If time is money to your business, we’ll show how and why Actian Vector consistently delivers the best value across a range of workloads against all competition, both on single servers and Hadoop clusters.

Come see how Actian Integration Manager can help your operations team quickly and efficiently deploy integrations by configuring, scheduling, and then monitoring DataConnect integrations. Learn how to extend to power of a single integration package by using template configurations, macros, and other configurable properties. The session will also showcase “what’s new” in the latest release of Integration Manager and a discussion of “Deploy Anywhere” so you can leverage existing assets on-premise or in the cloud, or both.

Learn nine approaches to improve performance for both single server and Hadoop cluster configurations of an analytic workload

Software developers, product managers, and SIs face a myriad of Edge data management options.  Unsurprisingly, this is increasingly turning into a knee-jerk reaction to put all data into the cloud or settling for different databases for Windows, Android, iOS, and embedded OSes, leading to design complexity and higher cost of integration and procurement.  Join this session to hear how Actian’s single data management platform supports virtually all operating environments, hardware platforms, and programming languages you would expect to find in Edge environments, from the Cloud to remote and field environments to mobile and IoT gateways and devices.

Explore how DataConnect studio provides users a highly interactive design experience to quickly build, run, and debug integration flows to improve productivity and realize faster time to value You will experience the new feature set of DataConnect Studio, example of data integration (multimode database), example of application integration (REST invoker) etc.

Business critical enterprise applications rely high-availability clusters to minimize downtime and ensure smooth business operation. Steffen Harre, Director of Development Products for Actian, will guide attendees through the steps of setting up high-availability Linux cluster and installing Actian X. Attendees will learn the tips and tricks for setting up a 3-server HA cluster, using Corosync / Pacemaker, the most widely used Linux cluster suite.

Data fuels the analytics engine, and keeping data flowing smoothly is critical to delivering timely insights to the business.  Learn how Actian DataFlow complements Actian DataConnect and Apache Spark to ensure the analytics engine performs optimally.

Increasingly software developers and product line owners recognize they must add features and functionality to their code to make it “sticky” for end-users and customers.  This will require applications to offer decision support and situational awareness in multiple formats, run across existing on-premise, cloud, and mobile environments, work in real-time, in periodically disconnected environments – all with improved security and performance.  Join this session to hear from Actian thought leaders and their cutting-edge customers and partners as to how they are overhauling their Edge data management architectures and implementations to vastly improve the capabilities of their applications.

Transform your OpenROAD applications for web and mobile platforms with JSON-RPC. Cris Ianculovici, Principal Support Engineer at Actian, will lead this session for OpenROAD developers on a tour of the JSON-RPC API comparing old and new OpenROAD. Attendees will learn how to call existing procedures from JSON clients, convert code from OpenROAD to non-OpenROAD clients, and more. Examples will include Java Script and jQuery, but JSON-RPC calls can come from any client code that supports JSON-RPC calls.

There are more than a million mobile apps running on Android and iOS and they all have one thing in common: lack of access to a local, persistent data management platform capable of handling complex data management tasks without local configuration, added complexity for developers, or other drawbacks typically associated with Enterprise databases.  Join this session to hear about Zen Core database for Android/iOS, an embedded NoSQL database, to understand how it is more performant, supports far richer and more robust Android applications than now outdated rudimentary file systems or SQLite, typically used for embedded application data management.

Entity Framework reduces the impedance mismatch between the relation and object-oriented worlds, enabling developers to write applications that interact with relational data using .NET objects and eliminating the need for a large portion of SQL code they usually need to write. Morten Houston Ludvigsen, from 2PS Consulting, designed and built a provider for Entity Framework for Actian X and will guide the audience through issues involved in architecting and testing the provider plus best practices and customer requirements for .NET code development for Actian X.

The DataConnect test drive lab provides a great opportunity to experience DataConnect and engage with Actian DataConnect experts for a 1:1 demo.

AI/ML can completely change the game for your business.  We’ll be showcasing various ML algorithms in a data flow with an example that uses unsupervised learning to make clusters, then applying appropriate business rules to label the data in those clusters. Once the data is labelled, we’ll demonstrate the use of supervised learning to classify the data for a larger dataset.

There are several different architectures for NoSQL databases; which one is right for your Edge data management?  Does your NoSQL database provide a unified architecture across devices, gateways, and cloud environments?  Do you need to handle multiple data types, from traditional structured data to JSON to BLOB?  Should you use Restful APIs instead of JDBC or ODBC to provide lean data transfer between mobile and IoT apps?  Join this session to hear answers to these questions and see demonstrations of how Actian Zen is the perfect NoSQL embedded database for these evolving Edge  requirements.

Are you faced with performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities as you move data between Couchbase Lite, its sync server, and Couchbase Server, SQLite and Microsoft SQL or between other disparate databases and repositories?  For many IT and OT professionals this is painful but often uncharted territory, assumed to be an unavoidable cost of data movement across disparate systems.  Join this session to see how Actian Zen can remove the security vulnerabilities of ETL in Edge data management and significantly improve your performance.  In this session you will see demonstrations of Actian Zen benchmarked against typical alternative combinations of databases.

JSON has been called the ‘lingua franca’ of communication in programming. JSON has become a standard component of server-based web applications and is supported by almost all current programming languages. Join and learn about JSON support for Actian X 11.1. This session will provide an overview of the Actian X implementation JSON plus key tips for adding JSON to your application.

Data keeps growing – it’s a fact of life. You don’t want to discard old data but keeping it is impacting your OLTP stack and a separate OLAP stack is a big investment. In this session, we’ll show you how Actian X removes the pain of data growth. With the recent support of x100 table references in Actian X database procedures, and the planned support for joins across OLTP and x100 tables, building hybrid OLTP/OLAP applications keeps getting easier. Join Alex Hanshaw, Director of Engineering for Actian X, for a guided tour of managing hybrid data in a single Actian X database.

The world of Data projects are littered with large expensive and slow Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) projects. The world of Big Data and cloud are prevalent as a reaction to the old projects and every day there are new tools in the market place. However a lot of clients have a myriad of legacy technology and a desire to move to the new. Hear this use case as an example of one client’s journey.

Containerized deployments and the serverless paradigm represent a pattern change when it comes to deploying software and to accessing a diverse set of data repositories, data warehouses, and underlying databases. Simple use of JDBC, JPA, and other standard integration methods while straight forward are not optimized nor present themselves as easily accessible services. Join this session to hear how Actian thinks about a single backend as a service (BaaS) to solve this challenge.

With all the rage about Big Data it’s very easy to forget that only a fraction of most organizations existing data has been fully exploited. And, even when the focus needs to be new sets of data with complex relationships, full value for these cannot be attained without graph technology. Join this session to hear how Actian Graph can uncover inherent but difficult to analyze relationships in data sets. See a demonstration of how Actian Graph delivers new insights from data that already exists in your organization.