BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION EVENT DESCRIPTION
The season's most comprehensive industry event is scheduled for the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, August 23-27, 1993. Whether you're concerned
with the solutions side or the development side of the desktop software equation, you'll find the answers at Software Development '93 and/or Business Software Solutions (formerly the Windows & OS/2 Conference), running concurrently this summer.
For a FREE exhibition pass to either show, or more information, call (415) 905-2528.
For registration in the Business Software Solutions conference, call (214) 245-6358.
For registration in the Software Development conference, please call (214) 245-6012.
EVENT KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
The Keynote this summer will be given by Charles Wang, the Chairman & CEO of Computer Associates. Wang will focus on "the intelligent evolution of application development," and comment on how emerging applications will face the challenge of utilizing new technologies, while coexisting with the legacy systems that millions depend on every day. The Keynote will take place on Tuesday, August 24th, at 6:00pm.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS:
If you're charged with buying, building or assembling customized software
solutions that run on today's desktop GUI-based operating environments or if you need to integrate desktop solutions with established legacy systems, you'll discover that Business Software Solutions is designed especially for professionals like you who provide technical support to businesses large and small. You'll find answers to the specific problems faced by today's personnel working in these key technical areas:
1. Software Analysis/Evaluation
2. MIS Direction/Management
3. Programming/Systems Analysis
4. Network Set-Up/Administration
5. Software Training and Support
6. Systems Integration
7. PC Systems Support
8. Consulting
9. Custom Solutions Building
BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS SPECIAL SHOW FLOOR EVENTS
You'll be able to see your favorite magazine editors at the Solutions Showdown Theater express their views on new apps and technology, get free training on the most popular applications at the Hands-On Training Center, sit in on the Boston Computer Society's free technical seminar series, test drive (before you buy) applications and development tools at the Test Drive Center, see the latest in interactive computing at the Multimedia Test Drive Center and lots more.
BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE TRACKS
The Business Software Solutions conference program has been rebuilt from the ground up to focus on your bottom-line need to bring complex, integrated solutions to your workplace. At the Business Software Solutions conference you will:
1. Learn how to integrate applications using OLE and DDE into custom
workgroup solutions
2. Find out how to use the most cost-effective training tools and techniques to
support and train your end users
3. Learn how to build Windows and OS/2 solutions that meet the real - not just
the perceived - needs of your end-users
4. Discover how to give your enterprise easy access to legacy data on the desktop
5. Learn how workgroups using multiple platforms can all be connected to the
enterprise
TRACK TITLE: DEVELOPING WORKPLACE SOLUTIONS
1. Designing Distributed Client/Server Systems
2. Exploring Windows Development Options Part I
3. Exploring Windows Development Options Part II
4. Building Usability Into Software
5. Managing The Successful Development of Client Server Applications
10. Breaking Platform Barriers with Cross Platform Applications
11. Windows Integration Exploiting DDE & OLE in Applications
12. Reducing Support Requirements Through Usability Testing
13. Programmers Overview of Windows NT and Development Tools
TRACK TITLE: TRAINING & SUPPORTING END USERS
1. Windows & OS/2 Training Issues in the 90s
2. Installing & Configuring Windows Part I
3. Installing & Configuring Windows Part II
4. Help Desk Tools & Techniques
5. Determining End User Requirements
6. Installing & Configuring OS/2 Part I
7. Installing & Configuring OS/2 Part II
8. Windows Trouble-Shooting Tips & Tricks
9. OS/2 Trouble-Shooting Tips & Tricks
10. Key Issues In User Support
11. Designing On-Line Help Systems Using Windows Help
12. NT Systems Overview
TRACK TITLE: CONNECTING THE WORKPLACE
1. Business Security Concerns Networked Environment
2. The LAN System Direction Face Off: IBM, MS, Novell, Banyan
3. Installing & Configuring Windows 3.1 on a LAN
4. Building & Managing Cross Platform Networks
5. The Network Challenge: Hurdles in Developing & Implementing Large Scale Networked Applications
6. Integrating Workgroup LANs into the Enterprise Network
TRACK TITLE: MANAGING: THE BIG PICTURE
1. The Dawning of the LAN as a System
2. Windows Solutions: What's Hot & What's Not
3. Crystal Ball Session: Industry Experts Predict the Future of Business Computing
4. Operating Systems: The Premise
5. Operating Systems: The Practice
6. Operating Systems: The Promise
7. Client Servers Open Appeal: Windows Development in Heterogeneous
Envronments
8. Enterprise Computing-The Context for Client-Server Success
9. Integrating Micro, Mainframe & Network Teams
10. IBM LAN Systems Direction & Application Blueprint
TRACK TITLE: IMPLEMENTING NEW PRODUCTS & TECHNOLOGIES
1. Multimedia OOP & Case-Based Retrieval
2. E-Mail Enabled Applications
3. Workgroup Computing: Real World Strategies, Pitfalls and Successes
4. Image Processing and Productivity Improvement
5. Multimedia & Successful Mainstream Business Applications
6. Corporate Messaging: The Digital Gulag
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT '93
THE ULTIMATE IN DEVELOPER EDUCATION
If you are a full-time software developer - whether you build shrink-wrap software
or customized, corporate applications from the ground up - you will want to attend SD '93 where you'll find 150 classes in 12 tracks on subjects ranging from "Management and organizational Issues" and "Methods and Tools" to a complete 23-course track on C++, extensive coverage of the "how-tos" of developing for Windows, OS/2, or UNIX (over 30 classes on these subjects alone), more objectoriented classes than at Object World and a complete series of practical courses on User-Interface Design.
All courses are taught classroom-style by well-known industry experts & people like Larry Constantine, Tim Lister, Charles Petzold and Ray Duncan on the development side and Brian Livingston, Peter Coffee, Christine Comaford and
Amy Wohl on the solutions side. On the show floor you'll find over 300 exhibits featuring companies like IBM, Computer Associates, Microsoft, Lotus, WordPerfect, KnowledgeWare and Adobe Systems Inc.
MANAGER'S CONFERENCE
Management and Organizational Issues: 10 Classes
Methods and Tools: 8 Classes
People and Productivity: 8 Classes
Quality and Process Improvement: 9 Classes
DEVELOPERS' CONFERENCE
Object-Oriented Programming: 15 Classes
OS/2 Development: 9 Classes
UNIX: 9 Classes
Programming for Windows: 18 Classes
Analysis, Design and Software Engineering Principles: 18 Classes
C++: 21 Classes
Client-Server and Interoperability: 13 Classes
Graphical User Interface Design: 17 Classes
VISIONARY SERIES SPEAKERS:
1. Daniel Eilers, President & CEO, Claris
2. Roger Heinen, VP of Database and Development Tools, Microsoft
3. Mark Sokol, VP of Product Strategies, Computer Associates
4. John Soyring, Director of Software Development Programs, IBM
5. John Landry, Sr., VP for Software Development, Lotus
Together, these two events create the most comprehensive and dynamic event ever offered to the software community. You won't want to miss it.
