Uniface Roadmap

Michael TaylorProduct Manager

11 June 2015

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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

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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)

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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!

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