Speed, Simplicity, Security: Agile Business Suite 7.0

Tighter security. An emphasis on ease of use. Greater flexibility and productivity. Support
for modern development technologies.

The new capabilities we’ve built into Agile Business Suite (AB Suite®) release 7.0 enrich the solution’s unique model-driven development environment, giving you new ways to design, develop, generate, and maintain mission-critical applications. And because these capabilities help you define your applications at a high level of abstraction, you’ll improve productivity and overall coordination between IT and the business.

This way, you’ll have a number of ways to create and deliver innovative capabilities that help to differentiate your organization – while empowering it capitalize on fast-changing market dynamics.

Take a look for yourself:

• Data Encryption: With this new feature, you can secure the data within your Enterprise Database Server for ClearPath MCP (DMSII) database through two distinct approaches: data masking and data encryption.
• RATL over TLS 1.2: By extending support for RATL over TLS 1.2 between AB Suite Component Enabler and the ClearPath MCP® Runtime host, you’ll be able to send data between client and server over a protected channel, greatly enhancing security.
• Product Feature Modes: With this intuitive update, you’re free to use AB Suite in a way that best fits your unique needs. AB Suite 7.0 includes two specific Product Feature Modes:
  • Standard Mode, which offers a simplified way to develop applications in Microsoft® Visual Studio® using terminology, capabilities, and functionality that will be immediately familiar to EAE developers.
  • Advanced Mode, which includes advanced Object-Oriented features – such as inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism – as well as the XML Framework.
• ExportAs: Using this new capability, you can export changes from a higher release and import them into lower release – say, from AB Suite 7.0 to AB Suite 6.1 – enabling critical changes to flow from the current release into your production environment, while still allowing sufficient time to test the application before upgrading production.
• Debugger enhancements: With the features added to the Visual Studio debugger – such as the read-eval-print “Immediate” window – you’ll improve overall developer efficiency and simplify debugging. Beyond these functional additions, you can take advantage of performance improvements that accelerate the startup and runtime of debug sessions, helping you increase turn around speed.
• Contemporary software support: With AB Suite 7.0, you’ll be able to take advantage of native support for the market’s newest and most contemporary development technologies, including Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2018, and Microsoft Windows® 10.

No matter if you’re an EAE client moving to AB Suite, or an AB Suite shop that’s upgrading to latest version, there’s sure to be something in release 7.0 that will help you and your development team work better – and faster – together.

To learn more about AB Suite 7.0, please visit our web site, check out the AB Suite 7.0 announcement webinar, or give this newsletter article a read.