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State of the company Community Today’s new currency DataFlex, VRW & DAI An invitation The year ahead

State of the Company Business is good; profitable for several years; strong financial year in 2012 Consistent Visual DataFlex revenue growth Strong team, working together globally to build great software and support customers Exciting, market-expanding new products coming in 2013

Our priorities Contributing to the success of our clients by delivering innovative, productivity enhancing business software tools and services. Good, consistent communication Seeking simplicity, openness & positive change Building a strong community  Developers + Data Access Worldwide = Community  …working together to build great applications

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In the past… Applications could be stand-alone Interoperability among business applications and data was not expected Focus:  Automation manual business processes  Structure and systematize data  Connect facilities; resources  Increase operational speed and efficiency

Success has driven business change Recognition that better information means better business Constantly increasing demand for more responsiveness and speed in business “Success” has created a “sea of data” from applications  A challenge to manage  A valuable resource when managed & used well

Integrate business applications & processes  Intra-company and inter-company  “M2M” machine to machine Deliver timely, actionable information  To desktops, via , to smart phones & tablets Empower people to…  Make good, fast information-based decisions  Identify risks and opportunities for better business Today… the future…

Products must be good citizens in a diverse community of technologies Interoperability of business programs and their data is expected  Essential to provide enterprise wide views of information for decision makers at all levels Changes in product concepts

LOOKING AHEAD… DIRECTIONS…

Evolve our core technology  Expand & enhance the capability of tools and applications  Support new platforms as they become available Provide continuity  Protect the value of our customers’ investments Innovate new ways to develop applications  Fast & easy…. Directions & investments

Enable easy web business application development  Over time, accommodate a variety of web devices  Capitalize on the value of customers’ existing application assets for new web solutions  Adopt to changing market and technology opportunities Directions & investments Realization: The DataFlex Web Framework

Directions & investments Facilitate information use  Enable applications that deliver information any time, anywhere to increase the speed of business and the productivity of people Create, manage and deliver…. The new currency - information

Effective integration is critical Dynamic AI Visual Report Writer Studio Delivering the new currency involves…  Building applications and databases  Reporting  Interactive query, analysis & dashboards Using a well integrated suite of development tools

Visual Report Writer Robust, capable, operational reporting tool V2.1 recently released Many new and significant features  Evolving rapidly with more to come… Unprecedented ease of report integration…  With Windows applications  With DataFlex Web Framework applications

Dynamic AI The time is right... product, marketplace Completes the “suite” of products to create and deliver the “new currency” today Offers a great platform for…  Developing a new line of business  Differentiating applications among competitors  Creating new value from enterprise data assets Easy integration of “intelligence” in applications

What’s the reaction? Comments following the “Entwickler Tag 2012” on November 14, 2012… “It is exactly the way I had imagined developing web applications with DataFlex for years... you are on the right track! I became increasingly aware how open DataFlex is in all its facets and, that with a little bit of creativity and know-how, almost anything is possible. Impressive!” Roman Köhler Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim, Germany

AN INVITATION…..

April 8-12, 2013 in “Music City” – Nashville, TN Conference: April 10 th – 12 th Training for Developers: April 8 th & 9 th  Web Framework  Styling Web Apps  Framework Extensions  Visual Report Writer  Dynamic AI Workshop

DataFlex Synergy 2013 Will address key questions:  What can the framework do out-of-the-box?  What do apps look like; how do you write them?  What is the development process?  How do I extend web applications?  How do I leverage existing Windows applications?  What will I need to know to succeed?

DataFlex Symposium Agenda Wednesday, 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm  Understanding the Web Framework  Building a Web Application  Web Application Debugging  Styling Your Application Thursday, 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm  Starting a Web Project  Web Application Deployment  Licensing  Product Roadmap

In the year ahead, let’s work together…. Building the tools to deliver the new currency Delivering the new tools effectively to current and new customers …to earn more “currency” for the entire DataFlex Community

THANK YOU & ENJOY SCANDUC!