We are at the last week of 2016 and getting ready to welcome 2017. We wish you all a very Happy & Prosperous Happy New Year 2017. We here at Progress are busy trying to bring you new learnings in 2017. Our team has been brainstorming on possible topics for Jan/Feb 2017 webinars and we cant wait to make it live. In this blog post we take a look at the Jan/Feb 2017 Webinar Schedule. So read on. Continue reading
Resources from webinar “Using Salesforce data in your ASP.NET Web Application”
On Dec 15 2016, we finished yet another webinar. These webinars are our monthly webinars we do on 2/3/4 Thu of every month between 12-1PM IST. For this webinar our interest was to showcase how you can easily consume your cloud data for e.g. Salesforce in your ASP.NET Web Applications using our product called “Data Direct Cloud”.
This blog post will be a recap of the webinar and i will provide you the slide deck & video recording of the webinar itself. Continue reading
Building Surveys and Portals using Rollbase Platform
Events are an important part of your marketing strategy. They provide a unique opportunity for potential buyers to interact with your product and service and get to know your organization. Events also give you the opportunity to align your brand with other organizations that share the same values or customer demographics.
Whether your event is a webinar, meetup, training session, user conference, tradeshow, surveys are an indispensable tool for assessing your attendee’s needs and measuring how well you are meeting them.
Event surveys can be used at all phases of your event to:
- Explore your target audiences’ needs and expectations
- Setup registration forms and collect payment
- Collect logistical information to accommodate attendees
- Engage attendees with interactive polls and quizzes and conduct mid-event evaluations on speakers and workshops
- Increase leads/sales with lead generation forms
- Measure the success of your event
- Event Goal
UseCase: Recently, Progress Xchange, our premier annual event was conducted in Mumbai and post-event, marketing team wanted to conduct a survey to evaluate the event feedback.
So how do you approach a post-event evaluation? We are going to demonstrate creation of anonymous survey and hosting the survey on portal using Rollbase, low-code, RAD and adaptive platform. You can learn more about at www.rollbase.com and feel to give it a try.
Kendo UI Mobile Cordova Templates for Hybrid Mobile Apps
Hybrid Mobile Apps are one of the ways in which you can create a cross platform Mobile Applications using HTML/JavaScript/CSS technologies. The key here is Cross Platform. I want to write once and want to take my app to all platforms. One of the quickest ways is the Hybrid Way. Although Hybrid has its disadvantages when it comes to scenarios like high graphical UIs – it is a good choice when we have a simple data entry kind of scenario. In this blog post i will introduce you to Kendo UI Mobile templates we have done. These templates will speed up your Cordova based Hybrid Mobile App development. These templates make use of our Open Source Hybrid Mobile UI Framework called Kendo UI Mobile. Continue reading
Resources from webinar “Visualizing Your Cloud Data using Kendo UI DataViz”
On Dec 08 2016 we finished yet another webinar here in Progress India. This time we focused on an enterprise scenario where in you have data in your cloud for e.g. may be Salesforce and you want to create beautiful looking Data Visualization out of that data. As part of the webinar we looked at Data Direct Cloud and Kendo UI products from our portfolio. This post is a recap of the webinar. You will find the deck and video recording of the webinar.
Resources from webinar “Digitally Transform Sitefinity Sites into Mobile Apps with NativeScript “
On Nov 24 we finished yet another webinar here at Progress India. We do these webinars 3 Thu of the month. You can check the schedule for our future webinars and reserve your seat. This blog post is a recap of the webinar done on Nov 24. Continue reading
Intelligent Process Automation is Eating the Outsourcing Cake
The IT revolution in India started with a need met by offshoring. The expensive human resources were replaced with cheaper human beings in another country.
With advent of new technology, the low end offshoring is finding their cake being eaten by an invisible opponent. This is visible in the lower revenues being forecasted by major Indian SIs. Somehow, the amount of outsourcing that the firms were doing earlier is not continuing. Intelligent Process Automation may be to be blamed. Continue reading
How To: Provide Custom Series Colors for Kendo UI Data Visualization Charts
In this blog post i will take a look at one of the simplest API configuration we have for Kendo UI Data Visualization. When you use Kendo UI Data Viz to plot a chart have you ever wanted to provide your own custom colors for the series in the chart. If yes, well read on – i will show you how to achieve custom colors on series using Kendo UI Data Viz. Lets get started. Continue reading
Resources from Webinar “A Conversation Experience in your CMS with Bots”
On Nov 17 2016 we conducted yet another webinar here at Progress India. We do these webinars almost every Thursday of the month between 12PM to 1PM. This time we focused on two technology – Microsoft BOT Framework & Sitefinity. This blog post is a recap of the webinar. You will find the video recording from the webinar. Continue reading
Demonetisation and Support by Progress Technologies
The demonetisation of INR 500 and INR 1000 currency notes sent a shock wave across India. While people have been facing inconvenience because of this, the majority believe that this is an important step in clearing out our economy from the evils of “black” or unaccounted money.
The general implication is that the banking industry will attract huge deposits from CASA. This will enable better liquidity in the market leading to lower interest rates and improved business investments. Softening of inflation due to reduced monetary supply is also likely. Continue reading
Nov – Dec 2016 Webinar Schedule
Its that time of the month when we tell you what we are thinking in terms of spreading knowledge for next 2 months. As you know we normally put up schedule for 2 months of webinar content upfront to you. You can decide which one you would like to attend and book your seats early. This blog post you will find our schedule for Nov & Dec 2016. We have some interesting ideas lined up for webinar. Continue reading
How To: Create HTML5 Chart through code in your ASP.NET AJAX Applications
Almost 4 years ago just when i started working for Telerik or now Progress Software, i had written a blog post titled “Step by Step Guide to work with RadHtmlChart for ASP.NET AJAX”. The idea behind that blog post was to give you a step by step instruction on how to use the HTML5 Chart controls in our UI for ASP.NET AJAX suite. Couple of days ago i had a comment on that blog post where the user asked me “How to create the same chart from code behind i.e.entirely through code”. A common scenario if you ask me. So i thought of doing a step by step instruction on how to create HTML5 chart entirely through code and this blog post will outline that. Continue reading
Resources from webinar “Graphs Charts for Cross Platform Native Mobile Apps “
On Oct 20 2016 we finished yet another Webinar. These webinars are usually held between 12PM to 1PM IST on 2/3/4 Thursdays of every month. This webinar we talked about “Graphs/Charts for Cross Platform Native Mobile Applications using NativeScript”. Continue reading
Resources from webinar “Enterprise Cross Platform Native Mobile Apps with Telerik Platform and NativeScript”
Hi there. Its one more webinar to be shared with you all. On Oct 5 2016 we conducted one more webinar. This time it was titled “Enterprise Cross Platform Native Mobile Apps with Telerik Platform and NativeScript “. Continue reading
How to: Drill Down Kendo UI Chart using Angular JS 1.X
Recently a customer was evaluating Kendo UI for one of their applications. Their team was using Angular JS as the UI framework. They wanted to know how to achieve a drill down on Kendo UI Chart with Angular JS. Now, Kendo UI has always supported Angular JS 1.x directive out of the box. Eventually i built a small demo on how to achieve this to showcase it to the customer. I thought why not turn this to a blog post and hence this post. I will be walk you through on how to create a drill down Kendo UI Chart with Angular JS 1.x. Lets get started. Continue reading