Keynote Sessions

Simplicity       Simplicity
Paulo Rosado, OutSystems
Simplicity. Why is achieving simplicity so hard, so valuable? From streamlining complex IT processes to delivering highly usable applications simplicity is often undervalued, underestimated or simply ignored. The result is a loss of efficiency, increased costs and damaged reputation. Achieving simplicity is a lofty challenge that expands beyond IT to the entire business. Understanding the drivers, motivators and inhibitors will help put you and your business on track to greatness.
 
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  Reducing IT Complexity
Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs
Welcome to galaxy Future Tech racing towards you! On this brief tour you will get a very pragmatic opinionated view of the future. Warning - Be prepared for bizarre languages, strange tools and radical practices many not even speaking RESTfully. On return from our tour we will envision IT circa 2020. What skills and processes will be necessary to design, develop and deploy across so many planets? How can we meet business demands to deliver better, cheaper faster than we already do today? Will Objects, Tables and Agile all be legacy? Our mission is to discover Simplicity - the lean silver bullet that slays complexity before it consumes us!
 
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Agile Platform 7.0 Launch   Worldwide Launch of Agile Platform 7.0
Paulo Rosado and Mike Jones, OutSystems
See what’s new in the Agile Platform 7.0. Learn about the key features that were introduced and how they will help IT become even more productive.
 
 

Track 1 - Power to the "ility"

  The Art of Designing OutSystems Architectures
Francisco Menezes, OutSystems
From art to a repeatable framework, this session will explore methods for creating sound architectures for enterprise-class applications built with the Agile Platform. Learn how to bring more clarity to the design process by using a framework that will allow teams to design and evolve their solution's architecture.
 
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  A Framework Approach for Troubleshooting
Paulo Cunha, OutSystems
Great applications can only be great when they respond at the speed business demands. In this session you will learn form real world experience in troubleshooting, monitoring and running a complex enterprise application to cope with extremely demanding performance requirements. The take away is a simple framework you can apply immediately to make sure your applications are great.
 
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  When it's Slow it Sucks: Lessons From The Trenches
Ricardo Araujo, OutSystems
Knowing your application has a performance problem is half the battle. Fixing the problem typically falls into one of several categories. In this session learn from performance problems encountered across the OutSystems ecosystem and the approach taken to find and address each issue.
 
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      How to Design a Good OutSystems API
Nuno Baptista and André Vieira, OutSystems
A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use it. This session will present simple examples to highlight the the top rules for writing good and bad APIs using the Agile Platform.
 
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  GIS with the Agile Platform
Jorge Apolinário, AMBISIG
From the world of GIS, this session will explore a new realm of possibilities to create, present and deploy an enterprise class GIS application using the Agile Platform. By looking through the lens of a real world experience we will bring clarity on GIS applications and how you can achieve a great user experience by putting together the Agile Platform and GIS.
 
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  Hardcore SEO
Michel Ozzello, OutSystems
Most developers look at SEO as a marketing game and marketers as tech-clueless folks who use tricks like keyword stuffing, link building and other shady techniques to improve their rankings. The truth is that SEO is actually a hardcore function that relies heavily of technology and, in particular, on good web development practices. To deliver great customer facing applications developers need to understand SEO better, so they can get their apps to rank well naturally and drive more business demand. This session will look into the key elements for good SEO and explain how developers should use them correctly to ensure that their web apps will rule in the search engine results (without the help of those clueless marketers).
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Track 2 - Power to the Platform

  Supercharged Visuals and User Experience
António Chinita, Normática
How do you differentiate your OutSystems applications from the rest? And why does it matter? By making use of some web technologies and standards in perfect harmony with the Agile Platform, you can supercharge the way end users work and look at your product.
 
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  From Good to Great: Spicing Up Your Mobile Web App UI
Rodrigo Coutinho, OutSystems
This session will start with a mobile application built with Intelliwarp and demonstrate how to transform it incrementally by applying mobile usability patterns and a bit of css magic. The goal is to show how you can make your mobile applications much more user friendly with just a bit of effort and without loosing the power and speed of the Agile Platform.
 
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  Integration With Google Services
Carlos Paredes, Noesis
Google provides access to a wealth of worldwide information, making it globally available to everyone and every application. With such a wide array of services, it is attractive to use and integrate this content into enterprise applications. Come to this session and learn how to use OpenID for global authentication and how to extend the Agile Platform to integrate the Google Data API providing a natural path for getting the most of Google's publicly available services.
 
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  Service Studio Tips & Tricks
Tiago Simões, OutSystems
At OutSystems we love to eat our own dog food. We use Service Studio to create Service Center, our WebSite, the Agile Network and a majority of our internal business applications and tools. This assures that we understand how developers use Service Studio and provides the impetus to deliver the hundreds of small improvements that can make their lives easier. This session will demonstrate some of the advanced 'hidden gem' features that are not so well known and can help you improve your productivity.
 
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      Software as a Service, the Simple Way
Lúcio Ferrão and Nuno Antunes, OutSystems
When delivering a common solution for multiple partners or customers, one has to carefully balance the benefits of application and resource sharing, with data isolation and application security concerns. In this session you'll find out how the Agile Platform can help you address these challenges with simplicity and minimal costs.
 
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  Lifecycle Under Control
João Neves and José Caldeira and Hugo Lourenço, OutSystems
Managing the life cycle of multiple applications, where large teams are involved, can easily become a tedious and error-prone job. The session will show you how to simplify, avoid pitfalls and streamline your life, making the 'DevOps' dream a reality.
 
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Track 3 - Power to the Business

  OutSystems Projects: 10 Rules for Business Stakeholders
Paulo Rosado, OutSystems
In OutSystems agile projects business stakeholders, users and analysts are first class members of the project team and crucial for the success of a project. In this session we will list the top conditions and behaviors that Business Stakeholders need to be aware in order to maximize success of OutSystems application projects as well the top pitfalls they should avoid.
 
  A No Nonsense View on How Usability Saves Money
Gonçalo Gaiolas and Gonçalo Veiga, OutSystems
Usability has long been an optional afterthought in enterprise application development, under the premise that it represents a huge added cost with little benefit. However, in recent years the explosion of easy to use, beautifully designed applications across all platforms took user experience to the front stage again making it an instant requirement by default. In this session we will demystify the true cost and return of usability and explore techniques that you can use to save money while still making your applications look good.
 
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  The Surprising Impact of Mobile
Rodrigo Coutinho and Pedro Queiros, OutSystems
In this session we will explore several concepts and ideas to inspire you on how to use mobile to make your business more efficient. We'll also tell the story of how some OutSystems Customers used these concepts to radically improve their core processes while dramatically decreasing errors and losses.
 
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