RevCon 2010 - Rio, Las Vegas.

Despite the economic pressures, last week saw nearly 100 Revelation users, developers, vendors and resellers arrive in Las Vegas for yet another busy and exciting Revelation conference. I was kept so busy with learning and networking that I never even got to touch my blog, despite my plans to post each evening. However, I did have my camcorder and you can see some of the presenters in my YouTube conference video.

The conference reception was held on Tuesday evening atop the Rio Casino and Hotel and it gave everyone an opportunity to catch up with existing friends from around the Revelation community and to also meet some new friends, not least Erik and Jared, being the two newest members of the Revelation Team at the conference. With gusts of wind reaching over 40mph and being 50 floors up, the reception was a windy one, with spectacular views across the Las Vegas Strip as the sun set.

The conference kicked off for real on the Wednesday, with Mike Ruane’s opening remarks (Video Part One / Video Part Two) following breakfast and punctuated by a keynote from Tom Wilson, President of Database Trends and Applications Magazine and Unisphere Research. Tom spoke about the predicted year ahead in information management and touched on the key trends for the whole IT Industry and their relevance to the MultiValue marketplace in particular. One of the key points from the keynote was that whilst budgets are still being restricted, business still wants more from their IT departments, an area that MultiValue vendors and developers are well placed to exploit.

Revelation Software’s official conference wrap-up contains a mention for all of the technical presentations, but over the next two and a half days attendees were treated to two technical tracks with over 20 presentations ranging from OpenInsight 9.2, the SQL connector and O4W, through to full on technical talks on The Web Browser Control, Interaction with MS Office (a new way), Using MVC concepts, Virtual Server solutions, Trouble Shooting OI Applications and much more.

The first full day was rounded off with dinner in the conference centre and an evening performance from Penn & Teller. Whilst some insight into some of the tricks was provided, they still left you baffled and wanting more. The second day concluded with a very busy Vendor Fair providing vendors and attendees with the perfect forum to meet and discuss just about anything, plus an opportunity to win a Netbook ( Revelation Software, Inc. ) and an iPod ( TigerLogic (D3) ), both winners were drawn at the conference close.

Friday, the final day, saw two O4W presentations from Bob Catalano and Bryan Shumsky back to back - two of the biggest draws across the whole event. However, Clay Borne from CLB IT and Andrew McAuley from Sprezzatura (presenting at the same time as the O4W talks) still had a good attendance at their presentations looking at ‘Web Applications Using Abobe Flex and OI’ and ‘Troubleshooting OI Applications – the Logging Approach’, respectively. Bryan’s talk (video coming soon) was especially well received with a visual explanation of Web2.0 followed by clear examples of using the O4W APIs.

The whole event was then closed by Mike Ruane (Video Part One /Video Part Two) with a suggestion of 64-bit OpenInsight and a return to Las Vegas during 2011 for more of the same – watch http://www.revelation.com/ during mid 2011 for more details.

Finally, I would personally like to thank Mike, Nancy and the whole Revelation team for hosting a great event and also a very big thank you to all of the speakers who gave up their time to plan, write and deliver some of the best and most informative presentations yet. I look forward to see your all (and a few more new faces) for the next Revelation Conference at the Rio in Las Vegas sometime in late 2011.

Click here for the RevCon 2010 Video PlayList featuring all of the videos noted in this posting.

May '10 Special Offer - 50% off WORKS.

Time has finally caught up with me and today is the last day that I will be in the UK office for a week, as next week I’ll be flying out to Las Vegas for the Revelation Conference.

I say that time has caught up with me as I’ll be coming back to the May Special offer – a whopping 50% off of new OI WORKS subscription purchases (I confirmed my first new client WORKS purchase on the offer overnight :) ) for the duration of May 2010 – and I am still only half way through producing the OpenInsight Quick Start guide video tutorial series. However, two more lessons have been completed and published this week and I have more planned following the conference, so that makes 12 lessons published thus far.

So, if you are an OpenInsight developer who is still not on the WORKS program or if you are still considering whether to adopt OpenInsight as another tool in your arsenal of application development tools, then now is the perfect time to pull down the OpenInsight evaluation, run through my tutorials and get ready to take advantage of the WORKS offer over the next 5 weeks.

I’ll be back in Blighty a week Monday.
M.

Last Day for Hotel Room Block!

Revelation USA have just sent out the following email about booking rooms for the conference. It is included here for anyone not on their mailing list.

As you are probably already aware, our 2010 User’s Conference begins on Tuesday, April 27th, just over four weeks from today.

However, the ability to book a room in our block at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino, the venue for the Conference, expires today. Booking a room in our block ensures a good price for you, the attendee, and it actually lowers the cost of the conference for us, because the Hotel knows it has customers for those nights, and they lower their charges to us.

Today is the last day that this block of rooms is being reserved for us. If you are thinking about attending the Conference, and even if you haven’t signed up for the conference, I urge you to contact the hotel and reserve a room. You can cancel if you decide not to attend, but you will have a guaranteed room if you do attend the conference.

Let me add that these are not your typical Las Vegas hotel rooms – the Rio is an All Suite hotel, and the rooms are great. You won’t be disappointed by them, and by staying in the same hotel where the conference is being held you’ll save a lot of time and cab fare getting around Las Vegas.

You can reserve rooms by calling 1-888-746-6955 and asking for the Revelation Software room block.

Thanks – we hope to see you at the show, where you’ll learn more than you would have imagined about what OpenInsight and Revelation Software can do for you.

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN VEGAS IN APRIL 2010?

I have previously written about this years conference on my blog (see links below), but with only 41 days until the welcome reception, now is the time to book your place if you have still not registered but intend to join us in Vegas.

Revelation Software’s 2010 Users' Conference will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday, April 27th - Friday, April 30th, 2010 and, over the weekend, Revelation announced that the dinner event at the User’s Conference will include the PENN & TELLER show.

Contact NANCY RUANE (info@revelation.com) at Revelation Software in the New Jersey office in the USA for further details and to obtain booking details.

Conference Website Links:
WELCOME
VENDORS
KEYNOTE
TOPICS
SPEAKERS
REGISTER

Previous Blog articles:
http://revsoftuk.blogspot.com/2010/02/revelation-world-conference.html
http://revsoftuk.blogspot.com/2009/11/revelation-users-conference-2010.html

Revelation User's Conference 2010

Revelation Software is pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for our 2010 Conference is THOMAS J WILSON, president and CEO of Unisphere Media which publishes DATABASE TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS. Tom's keynote presentation is titled "Ten Trends Shaping Information Management in 2010".

Our 2010 Users' Conference will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday, April 27th - Friday, April 30th, 2010.

Please drop me a line if you would like more details about this main Revelation event.

Revelation Users Conference 2010

Mark your calendars! The Revelation Users' Conference will be returning to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference dates are Tuesday, April 27th - Friday, April 30th, 2010.