2012: a great year that made the GeneXus global Community shine like never before. Here are the top 8 events!
The continuous changes that the world is undergoing as a result of technological advances are nothing new. This reality is a momentous and cross-cutting fact, where our global community has played a responsible central role. In that sense, the year we are now leaving behind was undoubtedly a great one. To prove it, let’s go over some of the most outstanding instances that became a reality as a result of our joint efforts!
2012 was a quite prosperous year thanks to each of the 86,000 developers who make up the GeneXus Community and contribute, in countless ways, to our qualitative and quantitative growth. Just some figures to demonstrate this are:
206,000 downloads at GeneXus Marketplace
214,000 messages in the Community’s over 37 forums
14,361 pages published in the CommunityWiki
46,500 subscribers of GXnews
6,500 fans on Facebook
2,200 Twitter followers …
… and these numbers continue to rise as we write.
But it’s not just about figures! Facts have proven that, as the old saying goes: an image is worth a thousand words. And that’s why we decided to summarize the 8 events that have proven most relevant to Artech and the GeneXus Community, so as to illustrate the best moments of the year that is now coming to an end.
As we may recall, the initial steps taken in 2012 took place in January with the RC of GeneXus X Evolution 2 (in the global technological context, HTML 5 was consolidated as WEB standard, while GXplorer also had some good news of its own, as it launched the first beta of the new WEB version).
March was a very active month for the IT industry, as the whole world discussed the newly-arrived post-PC era, Windows 8 released its first beta -consumer preview- version, the iPad 3 became a reality and Android Market changed names to Google Play. As far as Artech was concerned, GeneXus X Evolution 2 was introduced at the IX GeneXus Meeting in Mexico.
The release of GeneXus X Evolution2 took place at the IX GeneXus Meeting in Mexico.
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15 March 2012: release of GeneXus X Evolution 2, the new version that includes SD technology
2012 implied a huge challenge for the IT industry worldwide. Given its magnitude, the first aspect to point out is the smart device revolution that brought along new business habits and styles. Thanks to the GeneXus Community’s indispensable beta-testing work, we were able to release, last March 15th at the IX GeneXus Meeting in Mexico, the new version which included generators to develop applications in tablets and smart phones (Android, iOS and
BlackBerry).
So as to benefit from the business opportunities implied by the boom of mobile smart devices, the new version of the GeneXus multiplatform includes HTML 5, in addition to easy ways for deploying applications in the cloud, besides a SD generator that enables customers to develop in a flexible way, while spreading their business to tablets and smart phones, namely Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and BlackBerry.
The beta testing of this new version took almost a year and a half and involved 1337 developers from 594 firms, which turned this process into one of the most intense in the history of GeneXus, as GeneXus X Evolution 2 became one of the most tested versions within the Community.
April was the time for Brazil’s IX GeneXus Meeting, where the local Community gathered to have first hand technology news relative to large-scale company databases and in regards to developments for tablets and smart phones.
In May, the app “Virada Cultural” –developed with GeneXus X Evolution 2- was acknowledged as #1 entertainment app in Brazil, and was #6 in the overall ranking :: This was also the month of the first Colombia GeneXus Meeting, and of the launching of GeneXus X EVolution 2 in Panama.
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30 May 2012: Nicolás Jodal representative of GeneXus at the first International Fair on Trade in Services in Beijing
Nicolás Jodal was invited, as part of this international fair, to speak at the conference on software along with IBM China’s General Manager and other academic and entrepreneurial names of renown. The exhibit took place on May 30th, and the topics were a global vision of technology trends, focused on the challenge of providing SD solutions y due time and manner, in addition to achieving this without manual programming, with automated processes.
GeneXus was one of the ten Uruguayan companies attending the Fair. It was accompanied by Zhitong (GeneXus distributor in China) and its stand represented Uruguay along with the country’s official delegation led by the Ministry of External Affairs, Mr. Luis Almagro, plus a group of twenty entrepreneurs from Uruguayan software, consulting and logistics companies.
June was the month of the VII GeneXus Meeting in the U.S.
En junio se realizó el VII Encuentro GeneXus en Estados Unidos.
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26 July 2012: Artech’s recognition on its “Work towards the development of service exports in the ICT sector”, as part of Uruguay’s National Exports Day
GeneXus started its exports business in the
year 1990. Since then, GeneXus continues to be increasingly present throughout the world, with official distributors in over 25 countries and affiliates in Brazil, Japan, Mexico and the U.S. More than 85 thousand developers around the globe use GeneXus, and there are millions of users worldwide who are unawarely resorting to applications developed and generated with GeneXus.
Antel, Barnes & Noble, Conaprole, DHL, Faber Castell, Grupo Salinas, ITAU, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mormaii, NEC, Pemex, Roche, Sancor, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Toyota, United Nations and Warner Music are just a few of the renowned customers of GeneXus who apply it in developing their mission critical entrepreneurial systems.
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17 August 2012: Nicolás Jodal was awarded the Granato Prize at the Computer Science Symposium for Public and Private Management
This prize is awarded as an acknowledgement of those who have contributed to closing the digital gap, as well as to the promoters o widespread technology who have worked towards putting technology within the reach of more people, while carrying out a firm and sustained activity aimed at technological development and the promotion of ICT. It is worth noting that this prize was also awarded, in 2007, to the GeneXus Artech President, Mr. Breogán Gonda, in recognition of his long-standing work as a guide for the development and evolution of computer science technology in Uruguay.
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October 1, 2 and 3, 2012 - XXII GeneXus Meeting! Growing Pass
This event, considered –due to its magnitude and quality- one of the most important in Latin America as far as technology and innovation are concerned, brought together in Uruguay over 3,500 people from 25 countries, all of whom arrived in search for discussion forums on topics such as smart devices, cloud computing and trends in the software industry.
The Meeting included the presence of 180 top-notch lecturers like Google‘s Nicolás Bortolotti, Amazon’s José Nilo Cruz Martins, Microsoft’s Wilson Pais, and Oracle’s Dimas Oliveira, who brought GeneXus news such as generating for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, and provided a sneak-preview of the features of Tilo –the upcoming version of GeneXus–, and the possibility of creating apps to work remotely in offline mode.
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3 October 2012: Breogán Gonda appoints Nicolás Jodal as GeneXus’ new CEO
Breogán Gonda, who appointed Nicolás Jodal as the new CEO at the closing event of the XXII GeneXus Meeting, confirmed that he will continue to be the Chairman of the Board and will be focusing his work on the areas of GeneXus training, research, and strategy.
As the newly-appointed GeneXus CEO, Nicolás GeneXus, takes office, Gonda stressed the fact that he will remain at the Company presiding the Board of Directors, and will continue working mainly towards the promotion of innovation within the Company and the GeneXus Community.
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26 October 2012 – Official launching of Windows 8
This anxiously expected release offers developers from the GeneXus Community a great opportunity in the Windows 8 scenario. Artech’s development team has already announced, at the GX22, that they were working on a new generator to be included in GeneXus Tilo for Modern UY, Windows 8’s new interface, and invited the Community developers to the beta-testing process.
Microsoft’s Eduardo Mangarelli presents applications for Windows 8 developed with GeneXus.
November was the month of GeneXus Japan Day
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13 December 2012 - Release of #GeneXus Tilo CTP!
To round off the year, the GeneXus development and support team has announced the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of GeneXus Tilo!
GeneXus Tilo will be among us in 2013. It means the upcoming step in GeneXus evolution, which will enable the generation of Windows 8 applications, mobile apps in limited-connectivity contexts, and enhanced user experience and interface for generating web and mobile applications, among other new features.
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And this is how we arrive at the end of another year, after experiencing significant growth, only possible with the joint efforts of the whole Community!
We want to wish the whole GeneXus Community a HAPPY 2013! See you in yet another Prosperous New Year!
206,000 downloads at GeneXus Marketplace
214,000 messages in the Community’s over 37 forums
14,361 pages published in the CommunityWiki
46,500 subscribers of GXnews
6,500 fans on Facebook
2,200 Twitter followers …
… and these numbers continue to rise as we write.
But it’s not just about figures! Facts have proven that, as the old saying goes: an image is worth a thousand words. And that’s why we decided to summarize the 8 events that have proven most relevant to Artech and the GeneXus Community, so as to illustrate the best moments of the year that is now coming to an end.
As we may recall, the initial steps taken in 2012 took place in January with the RC of GeneXus X Evolution 2 (in the global technological context, HTML 5 was consolidated as WEB standard, while GXplorer also had some good news of its own, as it launched the first beta of the new WEB version).
March was a very active month for the IT industry, as the whole world discussed the newly-arrived post-PC era, Windows 8 released its first beta -consumer preview- version, the iPad 3 became a reality and Android Market changed names to Google Play. As far as Artech was concerned, GeneXus X Evolution 2 was introduced at the IX GeneXus Meeting in Mexico.
The release of GeneXus X Evolution2 took place at the IX GeneXus Meeting in Mexico.
1
15 March 2012: release of GeneXus X Evolution 2, the new version that includes SD technology
2012 implied a huge challenge for the IT industry worldwide. Given its magnitude, the first aspect to point out is the smart device revolution that brought along new business habits and styles. Thanks to the GeneXus Community’s indispensable beta-testing work, we were able to release, last March 15th at the IX GeneXus Meeting in Mexico, the new version which included generators to develop applications in tablets and smart phones (Android, iOS and
BlackBerry).So as to benefit from the business opportunities implied by the boom of mobile smart devices, the new version of the GeneXus multiplatform includes HTML 5, in addition to easy ways for deploying applications in the cloud, besides a SD generator that enables customers to develop in a flexible way, while spreading their business to tablets and smart phones, namely Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and BlackBerry.
The beta testing of this new version took almost a year and a half and involved 1337 developers from 594 firms, which turned this process into one of the most intense in the history of GeneXus, as GeneXus X Evolution 2 became one of the most tested versions within the Community.
April was the time for Brazil’s IX GeneXus Meeting, where the local Community gathered to have first hand technology news relative to large-scale company databases and in regards to developments for tablets and smart phones.
In May, the app “Virada Cultural” –developed with GeneXus X Evolution 2- was acknowledged as #1 entertainment app in Brazil, and was #6 in the overall ranking :: This was also the month of the first Colombia GeneXus Meeting, and of the launching of GeneXus X EVolution 2 in Panama.
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30 May 2012: Nicolás Jodal representative of GeneXus at the first International Fair on Trade in Services in Beijing
Nicolás Jodal was invited, as part of this international fair, to speak at the conference on software along with IBM China’s General Manager and other academic and entrepreneurial names of renown. The exhibit took place on May 30th, and the topics were a global vision of technology trends, focused on the challenge of providing SD solutions y due time and manner, in addition to achieving this without manual programming, with automated processes.
GeneXus was one of the ten Uruguayan companies attending the Fair. It was accompanied by Zhitong (GeneXus distributor in China) and its stand represented Uruguay along with the country’s official delegation led by the Ministry of External Affairs, Mr. Luis Almagro, plus a group of twenty entrepreneurs from Uruguayan software, consulting and logistics companies.
June was the month of the VII GeneXus Meeting in the U.S.
En junio se realizó el VII Encuentro GeneXus en Estados Unidos.
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26 July 2012: Artech’s recognition on its “Work towards the development of service exports in the ICT sector”, as part of Uruguay’s National Exports Day
GeneXus started its exports business in the
year 1990. Since then, GeneXus continues to be increasingly present throughout the world, with official distributors in over 25 countries and affiliates in Brazil, Japan, Mexico and the U.S. More than 85 thousand developers around the globe use GeneXus, and there are millions of users worldwide who are unawarely resorting to applications developed and generated with GeneXus.Antel, Barnes & Noble, Conaprole, DHL, Faber Castell, Grupo Salinas, ITAU, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mormaii, NEC, Pemex, Roche, Sancor, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Toyota, United Nations and Warner Music are just a few of the renowned customers of GeneXus who apply it in developing their mission critical entrepreneurial systems.
417 August 2012: Nicolás Jodal was awarded the Granato Prize at the Computer Science Symposium for Public and Private Management
This prize is awarded as an acknowledgement of those who have contributed to closing the digital gap, as well as to the promoters o widespread technology who have worked towards putting technology within the reach of more people, while carrying out a firm and sustained activity aimed at technological development and the promotion of ICT. It is worth noting that this prize was also awarded, in 2007, to the GeneXus Artech President, Mr. Breogán Gonda, in recognition of his long-standing work as a guide for the development and evolution of computer science technology in Uruguay.
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October 1, 2 and 3, 2012 - XXII GeneXus Meeting! Growing Pass
This event, considered –due to its magnitude and quality- one of the most important in Latin America as far as technology and innovation are concerned, brought together in Uruguay over 3,500 people from 25 countries, all of whom arrived in search for discussion forums on topics such as smart devices, cloud computing and trends in the software industry.
The Meeting included the presence of 180 top-notch lecturers like Google‘s Nicolás Bortolotti, Amazon’s José Nilo Cruz Martins, Microsoft’s Wilson Pais, and Oracle’s Dimas Oliveira, who brought GeneXus news such as generating for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, and provided a sneak-preview of the features of Tilo –the upcoming version of GeneXus–, and the possibility of creating apps to work remotely in offline mode.
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3 October 2012: Breogán Gonda appoints Nicolás Jodal as GeneXus’ new CEO
Breogán Gonda, who appointed Nicolás Jodal as the new CEO at the closing event of the XXII GeneXus Meeting, confirmed that he will continue to be the Chairman of the Board and will be focusing his work on the areas of GeneXus training, research, and strategy.
As the newly-appointed GeneXus CEO, Nicolás GeneXus, takes office, Gonda stressed the fact that he will remain at the Company presiding the Board of Directors, and will continue working mainly towards the promotion of innovation within the Company and the GeneXus Community.
7
26 October 2012 – Official launching of Windows 8
This anxiously expected release offers developers from the GeneXus Community a great opportunity in the Windows 8 scenario. Artech’s development team has already announced, at the GX22, that they were working on a new generator to be included in GeneXus Tilo for Modern UY, Windows 8’s new interface, and invited the Community developers to the beta-testing process.
Microsoft’s Eduardo Mangarelli presents applications for Windows 8 developed with GeneXus.
November was the month of GeneXus Japan Day
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13 December 2012 - Release of #GeneXus Tilo CTP!
To round off the year, the GeneXus development and support team has announced the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of GeneXus Tilo!
GeneXus Tilo will be among us in 2013. It means the upcoming step in GeneXus evolution, which will enable the generation of Windows 8 applications, mobile apps in limited-connectivity contexts, and enhanced user experience and interface for generating web and mobile applications, among other new features.
*****
And this is how we arrive at the end of another year, after experiencing significant growth, only possible with the joint efforts of the whole Community!
We want to wish the whole GeneXus Community a HAPPY 2013! See you in yet another Prosperous New Year!