We will provide two days packed with exciting and practical technical content that will be guaranteed to accelerate your application development projects with Omnis Studio. Along with the organized sessions there are plenty of opportunities to meet & chat to our technical staff, network with other experienced Omnis developers, exchange ideas and knowhow, or discuss possible partnerships – and during the evenings, you can relax at the special BBQ we’ve arranged for you, socialize with fellow developers, and watch the passing ships on the Rhine in the evening sunshine.

What the conference offers

The packed programme includes live presentations on key areas of Omnis technology for web, mobile and desktop application development, as well as sessions by invited speakers on in-depth technical aspects of app development, demos of successful customer apps, business topics on marketing and business models for Omnis applications, as well as short “flash sessions” on technical tips & tricks. Here is a summary of the topics we will cover:

• Omnis Studio 11 – the next release. You’ll have to attend to see these exciting features coming to Omnis in this year’s releases.
• Omnis Studio Now – find out what it is and how developers have been taking advantage of this great new service.
• Omnis noCode – see for yourself this great new tool that will accelerate web & mobile app development.
• UX & UI
– Insights and practical tips from experts about how to build better apps!
• Omnis Roadmap and Q&A – hear about our product plans and ask our senior staff about any technical or business matter.
• And more… check back regularly on our Events page to see updates to the conference programme, and details about speakers as we add them.

All conference sessions are presented in English and German, running side-by-side over the two days, so we try to cater to all developers from across Europe – in fact several of our staff and invited speakers are bi-lingual, so you won’t miss a single topic! All conference materials & presentation notes are provided in your preferred language, and many of our speakers provide useful example code and libraries for you to download.

Where the conference takes place

The conference will be held at the Welcome Hotel in Wesel near Dusseldorf, Germany, which is situated directly on the beautiful Rhine river and offers great conference rooms and very spacious rooms with a balcony or conservatory. It is easily accessible by all means of transport including road, rail and via Dusseldorf international airport.

Information and Registration

Full information about the conference is on our website, and you can register today via the Events page. The conference rates include all conference materials, your hotel room, all day time meals and snacks, and the conference BBQ and dinners, plus you can book for one or two days if you like, with or without the hotel accommodation (and there’s a spouse option) – and if you book before 28 March you will get an ‘Early bird’ rate, so please do register today!

Register here: www.omnis.net/events

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Omnis Software has always supported its developer community, with a focus on its attendance at the annual developer conferences – we always send key staff to talk about the latest releases, like Omnis Studio 11 (released in May), and to share insights about our upcoming product and business plans. We are therefore delighted to support and attend EurOmnis 2023, which this year returns in October 2023 to The Netherlands.

Conference sessions and the agenda are being finalized as we speak, but it is guaranteed that there will be a vast array of in-depth Omnis related sessions, fascinating use case studies, and many chances to interact and swap knowledge with other developers in each session – these are not lectures, each session is a chance for you to delve deep into a topic and ‘learn by doing’ collaboratively many valuable coding skills and practices. This year, the organizers tell us, familiar speakers and new presenters have committed to 28 different topics, in all aspects of Omnis coding, database programming, testing & deployment, app development lifecycle, and many features in the very latest Omnis Studio version 11 – plus there is a ‘Studio 101’ track dedicated to newcomers to Omnis, so all levels of Omnis knowledge are catered to.

Learn about the JavaScript Client from an expert!

One confirmed speaker is long-term Omnis developer Jim Pistrang, who has been immersed in the Omnis world since 1990, providing Omnis training, analysis, and programming for large and small corporations, while developing client-server, ultra-thin, and JavaScript applications using Omnis. Jim has developed an extensive JavaScript Client web application that is used by many employees on iPads, has over 60 JavaScript client forms, extracting and updating data from 300 Postgres database tables.

Jim’s double session will help you understand a successful JavaScript Client architecture, including testing, web deployment, and debugging. Each session will be accompanied by a heavily commented, custom-built Omnis Studio 11 library, available to all EurOmnis attendees, that illustrates the session details.

About the Conference

The EurOmnis Conference 2023 will be held in Arnhem, in The Netherlands, a great location for developers to attend from all parts of Europe & further afield, with convenient transport links by road, train and air – Arnhem is only about an hour’s train ride from Schiphol international airport.

• Date: Sunday Oct 22 – Friday Oct 27
• Location: Hotel Klein Zwitserland – Arnhem, Netherlands
• FOUR packed days and evening sessions
• Multiple tracks for you to ‘compose’ your own conference
• Keynote, Roadmap & Tech support Q&As by Omnis Software
• Meet & greet buffet on Sunday evening October 22
• Depart after breakfast Friday, October 27
• Many ‘fringe’ events and plenty of discussion on Omnis from morning till night!
• Cost: all conference sessions, meals, single room for only 1350 €

The EurOmnis conference is a community event, and is organized by an enthusiastic team of Omnis developers, who combined have many decades of development and business experience of using Omnis Studio – we would like to thank the team: Doug Easterbrook, Gavin Foster, Mike Matthews, and Rob Mostyn and wish them every success with EurOmnis 2023. This will be a highlight in the Omnis calendar, so we strongly encourage you to check out the details of this year’s conference and sign up as soon as possible.

More details and registration are on the EurOmnis website: www.omnisworld.co.uk

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First up there will be the US conference, which will be held April 25 & 26, 2023 at the Hampton Inn Tropicana in Las Vegas. We have assembled a stellar group of Omnis Developers & Engineers to present at this conference, who will bring you all the latest developments in Omnis including Omnis Studio 11, as well as customer apps, must-see coding examples & demos. The speaker list is being finalized now but already includes the following Omnis developers: David Karoudjian and Owen Thronson from SNF, John Hosmer of DealerBuilt, Carter Ford from UpYourVote Inc., and Scotte Meredith, a very experienced Omnis Consultant. They will be joined by Bob Mitchell, Jeramy Jeffreis, Dean Wright, and Stephen Mitchell from Omnis Software, who will bring you all the latest and greatest developments in Omnis Studio 11, information about new products and services, the Omnis Roadmap, and will be available for Q&A sessions. We urge you register now for this fantastic 2-day conference via our Events page.

Next up is our European conference, which will be held 24 & 25 May, 2023 at the Parkhotel am Taunus in Oberursel near Frankfurt, Germany – we must stress that the conference has a complete session programme in German and English running in parallel over the 2 days. As with the US conference, we will be showing you all the new developments in Omnis Studio 11, plus details of new products and services, as well as many in-depth demos from guest speakers and Omnis technical staff. The conference agenda is being added to day by day, but here is a taste of some of the confirmed sessions:

• Omnis Studio 11: new features, new possibilities – live development, including a glimpse of the brand new UI and IDE.
• Subscription: new licensing models for you, support for your business models.
• Omnis Studio Now: new Omnis service offerings.
• Omnis No-Code/Low-Code: Be the first to see the new Omnis product live and in action.
• Omnis Roadmap: What comes after Omnis Studio v11?
• Questions & Answers: tell us your requirements for Omnis Studio, maybe you’ll see your suggestions in the next release!

We encourage you to check out the Events page on our website, where you will find full details about both the US and European conferences, including the conference agenda, hotel information, different price options, and conference registration. We feel sure that you will not want to miss any of these important Omnis product updates, so please do get your registration done today – and we look forward to meeting you all in Las Vegas or Oberursel!

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We are extremely grateful to Marcel Ramanantsoa, Director of CapData Software, and Osmosis Business Solutions (OBS OI) for organizing and hosting the event in Madagascar and for their warm welcome for the Omnis team and all conference attendees. Special thanks also to Augustin Andriamananoro, General Director of DGPP for sponsoring ODC Africa and helping us to promote Omnis Software in various digitalization projects for public administration in Madagascar. Prior to the conference, we were delighted to meet Augustin at the ministry to present our ambitions for Omnis Software in Madagascar and Africa.

We were delighted to present Omnis Software’s global strategy to everyone at the one-day conference, to demonstrate the latest Omnis Studio software and JavaScript client, and answer all technical questions from the 200 or so developers, students and senior officials who were present. Watch this video for a conference report:

The main objective of the event was to show off the full capabilities of Omnis Studio, to support the developer community in Madagascar, and to strengthen our presence in the African market – and this we feel has been firmly achieved. We look forward to working with all developers in Madagascar and right across Africa, and we wish you great success with Omnis!

Omnis Community Edition

If you would like to try Omnis Studio, to see how quick and easy it is to create web and mobile apps using Omnis, then we recommend that you download the Omnis Studio Community Edition. With it you get everything you need to create great web and mobile apps in record time:

• full stack development of web and mobile apps
• on Windows and macOS
• for both iOS and Android
• data access modules for PostgreSQL and SQLite
• for multiple apps
• 5 concurrent user licenses included
• free tech support (by email) included
• free training in the Omnis Academy

Download it now and get started straight away, read more here: www.omnis.net/community-edition/

Or if you would like to know and see more, why not attend one of our free online Intro sessions: www.omnis.net/community-edition-intro/

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Why Should You Attend

The conference is aimed at professional application developers, whether newcomers or experienced in Omnis or other languages, as well as project and IT managers, consultants, and commercial decision-makers.

The conference will include sessions on all the latest developments of Omnis Studio including new Omnis products and services, the Omnis Studio 11 road map and business update presented by senior members of the Omnis development team.

On day 2 there will be workshops and in-depth technical sessions to help provide Omnis developers with the skills to optimize new/existing applications, improving end user experience and maximizing the value of their applications.

What Can You Expect?

Meet and network with Omnis developers from all over North America and Europe, ask questions directly to Omnis experts and engineers, exchange ideas and experiences, view interesting technical solutions and successful Omnis apps, and join us for more than just a glimpse into the future.

Provide your feedback directly to the Omnis Development Team and influence the future development of Omnis products and services.

Senior members of the Omnis engineering team and executive management will be available for one-to-one discussions.

Pricing

Early bird pricing until 1st September 2022 $249.00
Regular pricing $299.00

Price includes entrance to the conference and lunch on both days (not accommodation).

Info & Registration

For further information about the conference, please go to our website: www.omnis.net/events

Or to register now, please go to: US Conference Registration 

We feel sure you will learn so much about the latest Omnis technology and our future plans for new products and services, so we look forward to welcoming you to the Hampton Inn Tropicana in Las Vegas in October – see you there!

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It will be a great international, multilingual event – indeed, a very special conference:

• Join us for more than just a glimpse into the future of app development and Omnis Studio.
• Learn about the latest cutting-edge tech from Omnis, and the exciting new features and services we are about to introduce for Omnis Studio.
• Don’t miss our announcement of a new Omnis product line.
• Discover interesting technical solutions and successful Omnis apps, and leave with new ambitions for what you want to build.
• Share experiences with Omnis customers and developers from around the world.
• Ask our experts and Omnis Engineers anything and everything you want to know about Omnis.
• Contribute to further Omnis development by updating us on your wishes and requirements.
• And join us to celebrate 40+ years of Omnis history.

Plus the Board of Directors of Omnis Holdings Ltd, together with the management and senior representatives of the Omnis development team, will be present and also available for one-on-one meetings. So you really don’t want to miss the chance to live and breath Omnis (and eat) over two intense and fun-packed days in Dusseldorf.

When?

The conference will start at 10am on the 18 May 2022 to enable some attendees to arrive on the same day. The event is expected to finish around 4pm on 19 May to allow everyone to get home at an acceptable time.

Where?

It will take place at:

Land Gut Höhne
Düsseldorfer Strasse 253
40822 Mettmann (near Dusseldorf), Germany
Tel.: +49 2104 7780
Web: guthoehne.de/en/ (EN) | guthoehne.de (DE)

Land Gut Höhne is an organic, wellness and conference hotel that combines the modern with the historic and offers state-of-the-art conference technology, fantastic food with live cooking, and great sports, fun and relaxation facilities in a beautiful natural setting. It is located in the Neander Valley (yes, that’s where the Neanderthals were first discovered) and is very easy to reach via any means of transport (details on our website).

Who?

The conference is aimed at professional application developers, whether “newcomers” or experienced Omnis developers, as well as IT and project managers, consultants, commercial decision-makers and managing directors – and especially prospective developers who want to get a more detailed picture of Omnis and learn from the practical experiences of Omnis developers.

The conference will be held in parallel sessions in English and German (plus some sessions in French and Italian) and the conference materials will be available in multiple languages.

What?

The conference program includes presentations and live developments on various aspects of Omnis technology for web, mobile and desktop, as well as: lectures by experienced speakers, breakout sessions in smaller groups on in-depth technical features of app development, presentations of successful applications, business-themed topics covering Omnis applications for various marketing and business models, and short, practice-oriented “Flash Sessions” on technical tips & tricks. Full details of the conference program will be added to our website very soon.

More info & Registration

Please note that the number of hotel rooms available is limited. Thus allocations will be made according to the order in which your registrations are received. So please don’t wait too long to register, especially as the favorable *Early Bird Rates* are only valid until 27 March 2022. 

More information (in English, German, French & Italian) and registration forms are available on our website: www.omnis.net/events/

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• Developer Week Conference & Expo, February 2-9, 2022, in Oakland, USA

Then in April 2022 in Las Vegas, we have our Omnis Developer Conference for North American customers, which will feature all the latest news and updates in Omnis Studio and other product offerings, with technical sessions, demos and Q&As – this is hosted by our Chairman, David Lewis, and will feature Omnis sales & technical staff from the US & Europe.

• Omnis Developer Conference USA, April 5-6, 2022, Las Vegas.

Then in May 2022 in Dusseldorf, Germany, we will host our International Omnis Developer Conference for European customers, including a 40th Anniversary celebration for Omnis (see below) which again was postponed from this year.

More details about these events are on the Omnis Events web page, with greater details about venues and so on being released in the new year – we urge you to put these exciting events in your diary – we would be thrilled to see you at any of these events. Check out the Omnis Events: www.omnis.net/events

And Btw – Omnis is 40!

Forty years ago in December 1981, the company released its first software product “OMNIS”, a database application tool for the Apple II designed by Cambridge graduate and programmer David Seaman. The company that created Omnis was called Blyth Computers, founded by Paul Wright and Geoff Smith in England in 1979, which started as an Apple computer dealer, but they very soon realized the potential great software could bring to businesses, startups, and hobbyists – and so Omnis was born!

Omnis was written back then using Apple Pascal, but also the UCSD Pascal environment, which enabled a simple port over to other popular machines of the time, including IBM computers running MS-DOS – so Omnis was always cross-platform, right from the beginning! Learn more About Omnis and its history on our website: www.omnis.net/about-omnis

And we’ll be celebrating the Omnis 40th Anniversary at our International Omnis Developer Conference in Dusseldorf in May 2022, so bring along all your great Omnis anecdotes!

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Innovations for building attractive apps with improved usability and a better UX

The first impression can be decisive for the success of an app, both in the market and among users within a company. Therefore Omnis Studio 10.2 includes many new features and enhancements that will make it easier and more fun for you to build beautiful apps:

• A wealth of new and enhanced JavaScript controls including a new JS Split Button Control and enhancements to Edit Controls and Data Grids
• Animations for a modern UX
• JavaScript Client Themes to manage colors in your app
• Scalable SVG icons and themed (JS only) to match the selected color scheme
• Many new Window controls for desktop apps including a new Token Entry Field, the new Breadcrumb control, and enhancements to the Check Box control
• Side Panels for desktop apps that slide out automatically (vertical panels containing clickable options or other content)
• Toast Messages for desktop apps
• Components can now better cater to touch devices

Designing beautiful apps is now easier than ever with new helpful tools including:

• Position Assistance
  in a remote form, report or window class design screen
• Web Preview
  for designing a JavaScript Remote form to preview the look and behavior at runtime in the end user’s browser

Omnis Studio 10.2 also makes localization for web & mobile apps easier so you can translate your apps to multiple languages:

• Localization has been optimized, reducing data size for multi-language applications
• German, French, Italian and Spanish are supported by default, while support for other languages can be added

New features to speed up your development and ease maintenance of your apps

• The Omnis Remote Debugger has been further enhanced. You can now edit methods and code while stepping through live code in the Remote Debugger
• Omnis Studio 10.2 now generates OpenAPI 3.0.0 definitions, as well as Swagger 2.0 definitions for a RESTful web service
• Support of regular expressions in your Omnis code, or for Find and Replace via the PCRE2 library
• General support for OAUTH2 authorization for the OW3 worker objects
• Enhancements to the IMAP, HASH, and the FTP workers
• Support for dragging and dropping operating system files and file data (in the thick client) has been simplified providing more control

With the new release you can increase performance for your server based, web and mobile apps:

• The Linux Headless Server can now be run in MultiProcess Server (MPS) mode utilizing the multi-core processors on your server

And for those customers who want to convert an Omnis data file to either SQLite or PostgreSQL, this is much faster now as the DML emulator has been substantially re-written for Studio 10.2 to improve performance.

Omnis Studio 10.2 Online Launch Events

If you want to learn more details about the new release and see it live, you should attend one of our Omnis Studio 10.2 Online Launch Events, available for customers in North America, Germany, and Scandinavia.

We will show the exciting new features in Omnis Studio 10.2 for web, mobile and desktop apps, and present the major enhancements in IDE, Fat client and server as well as in the JavaScript Client. And we will also talk about the Omnis Roadmap. So don’t miss these online events.

If you want to attend a Studio 10.2 Online Launch Event, read more on our Events page: www.omnis.net/events

New Omnis Webinars

In case you can’t attend one of the Online Launch events, don’t worry: we will provide a new type of webinar about all the ‘Highlights of Omnis Studio 10.2’ many times over the next 3 months. Please have a look at our webinar schedule at: www.omnis.net/developers/webinars/

Download and Free trial

The new Omnis Studio 10.2 release is available for download from our website. If you want to evaluate it you can register for a free, 90-day trial serial number on our website.

Upgrade to Studio 10.2

All customers currently on the Omnis Developer Partner Program (ODPP) can update to Studio 10.2 free of charge, plus updates of your existing runtime, web or mobile licenses from 10.0/10.1 to 10.2 are available free of charge on request.

For information about upgrading to Studio 10.2 please contact your local sales office via our contacts page: www.omnis.net/contact/

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Omnis has turned 40 in 2020 and how better to celebrate than at our annual conference with our fantastic developers, customers and friends – and for this extra special conference we have secured a simply stunning venue, a moated castle near Düsseldorf/Dortmund (we will provide free shuttles from the airport). So we invite you to join us, to help us celebrate our 40^th anniversary, and to learn and share all the latest Omnis Studio technology, including all the great new features in Studio 10.2, as well as those in the pipeline on the Omnis roadmap, plus improved services that we will provide, with some exciting and important announcements regarding future Omnis products – so you really would not want to miss it!!

The main object of the Omnis conferences is for you to learn new Omnis technology, and to be able to put that knowledge to practical use in your business – the agenda is designed to tell you all about the latest Omnis Studio features, any features coming in the next release, and to provide you with a broad summary of any new propositions for products or services. After learning about the new technology at the conference, we know you will go away with new plans for your application projects and how you can move your business forward.

The sessions on the conference Agenda will be hosted by the top Omnis experts – our guest speakers will be amongst the best and most knowledgeable developers in the Omnis community, and key staff from our Consulting & Support teams and members of the core Omnis Engineering team will host sessions; the Board of Directors of Omnis Holdings Ltd and Omnis executive management will be present at this event and will also be available for one-on-one meetings. We will feature in-depth technical sessions on all aspects of the latest Omnis Studio product, including UI & form design, JavaScript programming, and deployment, as well as some very insightful case studies to show you how our partners have used Omnis Studio to create some very successful applications and businesses.

This conference is a multi language event with conference materials and presentations and sessions in English, German, French and Italian, so every Omnis developer will be able to participate.

Further info & registration

We will release the full agenda for the conference in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, you can read more about the conference and book your place here:

https://www.omnis.net/40-years/

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At the heart of our developer conferences are the technical sessions, delivered by some of the top speakers in the Omnis world – and this time at the Hampton Inn Tropicana in Las Vegas, March 24+25, is no exception with some brilliant speakers from the Omnis community and senior staff from Omnis Software itself. The technical content you will see, and the knowledge you will acquire, pays for the conference fees many times over, so you really don’t want to miss it!

• First, we are delighted to be joined by Thad Bogert of ClienTrax, an experienced Omnis developer, a regular conference speaker, and at one time an Omnis technical support engineer. On the first conference day Thad will demo the Datafile To SQL Emulation Tool, which he helped to develop, working closely with the Omnis engineering team in the UK – the tool provides developers with a clear path for migrating Omnis data file based applications to utilize SQL backends such as PostgreSQL and SQLite. We are so grateful for Thad’s assistance with the development of this product and we are delighted he joins us at the conference.
• Then we are delighted that Bob Mitchell, principal Omnis Engineer at Omnis Software in the UK and the main architect of the Omnis core, is able to attend the conference, and show you some of the great things in the current Omnis Studio, and the exciting new stuff coming in the future. On the first day Bob delves deep into the new features in Studio 10.2 (including the new MultiProcess server), then he steers you along the Product Roadmap. Then during the whole of the second day Bob devotes his time to showing you the new OW3 Workers (which can optimize apps with a heavy workload), RESTful Web Services & how to implement an HTTP/HTTPS application server, and he finishes with an overview of the enhancements in the Fat Client & controls used for developing desktop and Client/server apps.
• We’re also thrilled that Jason Gissing joins us from the UK engineering team – Jason is the main engineer behind the JS Client & its UI controls. On the first day Jason hosts a Break-out session all about the new JavaScript components (incl Toolbar, Calendar, etc), then on day 2 Jason shows how you can use Node.js running inside the new JavaScript Worker to perform more or less any server based task, allowing you to build robust & scalable apps. He also delves deep into the JS Client and using CSS to enhance & augment the UI in your browser-based Omnis apps.

We feel confident that we have assembled a great program of technical content, delivered by some of the top speakers in the Omnis community, and we really don’t want you to miss it. The extent of technical knowledge you will acquire will repay for the conference fees many times over, so we really hope you can join us in Las Vegas in March.

More Information & Registration

More information and registration here:

https://www.omnis.net/events/#2020

If you have any further questions about the conference, the location, or registration, then please do not hesitate to contact the team in the US:

https://www.omnis.net/contact/#northamerica

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