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Entries from March 2010

New Mobile System Improves Customer Satisfaction

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments

I was recently directed to this entertaining 4 minute video produced by one of our customers, Polfärskt Bröd AB of Sweden. Polfärskt is a large bread distributor, serving more than 3500 stores throughout Sweden. The video describes how a new IT system improved the service they provide to their customers. Each of the Polfärskt sales [...]

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Tags: Mobility · SQL Anywhere

Foxhound – A Useful Tool for SQL Anywhere Users

March 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I am always excited to hear about tools being developed that support SQL Anywhere. SQL Anywhere was designed from the beginning to be very open, and support a wide variety of standard interfaces, such as ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET. As a result, virtually all development tools that are popular can be used with SQL Anywhere. [...]

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Tags: Software Development · SQL Anywhere

Where are You? Where is Your Company? Where are Your Customers?

March 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Most smart phone devices today have some form of location capability, whether that is GPS, or cel tower triangulation. Up to now, the location information has been for relatively simple applications where the single point is used in applications for things like mapping, finding a restaurant, or getting directions. The spatial data being captured is [...]

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Tags: Mobility · SQL Anywhere

Sybase TechWave 2010 Returns to Washington DC

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Mark your calendars, Sybase has just announced that Sybase TechWave 2010 will be held August 9-11 at the Hilton Washington, in Washington, DC. At the moment, there are very few details on the official Sybase TechWave website, but I am sure they will be filled in as the details become finalized. One thing I can [...]

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Tags: SQL Anywhere