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Alpha Anywhere 3.0:Build & Deploy offline capable enterprise apps Fast

Richard Rabins
For a recorded Webinar around this Slide Show along with a demo please go here  For overview of why Alpha Anywhere 3.0 is worth checking out, please click here. For more info on what is new in Alpha Anywhere 3.0, please click here.       sel1  

What’s New In Alpha Anywhere Version 3.0?

•Many, Many New Features •‘Headline’ New Feature is Support for Disconnected Applications •List Control Enhancements •Useful for Standard Web Apps and Mobile Apps

Miscellaneous New Features

•New Video Finder •Working Preview –Chrome •NoSQL Database –Mongo, Couch •Improved Client-side Templates •Alternative Login using Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn •CURL •JavaScript Syntax Checker •Interactive Window Shell Commands –CMD, Node, CURL •List Control –Many New Events and Methods •Security Framework –Active Directory •Twitter API

Disconnected Mobile Applications

•Pure HTML5 Solution •Based on the List Control/DetailView Combination •List Control Data Represents ‘In-Memory’ Tables•Support for Hierarchical Data •Data Persisted to Local Storage. OnPersistEvents –EncryptData at Rest •Built-in ‘Local Storage’ Manager •Search Part -User Enters Criteria to Select Records to ‘Take Off-line‘ •‘Search Result too Big’ Events •Geography Support •Capture Location at Timeof Edit •Capture Location at Timeof Sync •Quick Setup Genie

Data Synchronization

•Two Way Synching –Client-to-server and Server-to-client •Automatic Generation of SQL to Update SQL Databases •Support for Custom Synchronization Handlers •Automatic Handling of Write-conflict Errors •Resolved by User or Programmatically Resolved •Automatic Handling of Server-side Validation Errors •Synchronize Data in Batches •Transaction Support •Rich Event Model –Server-side and Client-side

List Control

•Built-in Detail View •Built-in Search Part •Individual Search Controls, Keyword Search, Query by Form •Client-side or Server-side Searches •Quick Setup Genie to Add Search Part to Existing Lists •‘QBF’ Syntax Supported •a..m,paris,london,t..
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About Author

Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.

The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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