xCelerate North America 2008

Technical Track

Technical sessions at xCelerate will provide valuable best practices, architecture and product information. Many sessions will also include opportunities to participate in hands-on exercises.

xPression Technical Deep Dive
Todd Lauinger, Director Integration Architects, EMC Document Sciences
Craig Okken, Project Manager Sustaining Engineering, EMC Document Sciences
This highly valuable 4 hour pre-conference technical session will comprise four major themes.
$100 add-on conference fee to attend. Seating is limited.

  1. xPression 3 SP1 architecture briefing, designed to equip attendees with overall knowledge of the xPression suite of products
  2. xPression infrastructure needs, a detailed explanation of required resources and the importance of planning for those infrastructure needs
  3. Efficient xPression usage
  4. xPression system management, best practices


Output Processing in xPublish: Using Markers and Imposition
Dan Beery, Senior Product Manager, xPression Solutions, EMC Document Sciences
Abstract: The first part of the session will cover the definition and use of markers in xPression 3 to implement printer features such as tray pulls, plex mode changes and more. The second part will include an introduction to the imposition features of xPression 3. These features are designed to allow production of booklets, as well as the ability to print multiple small pages on a single sheet of paper for applications such as postcards.


Native CompuSet to xPression Migration – Modern Woodmen Success Story
Eric Fenton, Solution Architect, EMC Document Sciences
Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) used COBOL programs that generated tagged text that fed a Windows native CompuSet system. With hardware failing EMC Document Sciences Professional Services stepped in to help bridge MWA to xPression. This success story outlines the business objectives, project steps and the final solution design for their CompuSet forms, which allows them to use their existing COBOL programs and CompuSet code and leverage xPression Publish for their future development needs using the same architecture.


Using xPression in a Virtual Environment
Shuping Jia, Integration Architect, EMC Document Sciences
Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. xPression enterprise edition requires a certain amount of dedicated resources to process high volume and complex document generations. How do you make xPression perform efficiently under a virtualized environment? What are the pros and cons between virtualization and dedicated server? This session will answer these questions and share with you benchmark testing results and a customer use case study.


xPression-ready Data Made Easy with xQuery
Shuping Jia, Integration Architect, EMC Document Sciences
Given optimized XML data streams (what we like to call xPression-ready data) xPression can produce large volumes of documents very quickly. However, data in a large enterprise is often not available as xPression-ready data. The data required by a single document may be spread across different data sources, a mix of different data source technologies, and may be structured in a manner which is not efficient for processing by xPression. Traditionally you had to create elaborate data gathering programs in languages like COBOL, Java, or .NET. Fortunately xPression Enterprise Edition has a bundled an XQuery engine to handle this problem without the need for complex code. With XQuery, we will show you how easy it is to access data in flat files and relational databases. We will also show you how easy it is to transform existing data into xPression-ready data. And finally we will show you the potential to use XQuery to access and streamline data from practically any data source in your enterprise.


Bridging xPression to Legacy CompuSet Applications
Craig Okken, Project Manager Sustaining Engineering, EMC Document Sciences
Miff Laracy, EMC Document Sciences
A project is currently underway to allow Legacy Compuset tagged text to be utilized in an xPression environment. In this session we will demonstrate the ability to run Legacy Compuset Scripts in an xPression Environment, Compose and Emit Legacy output through xPression. We will show you ways to combine xPression xPublish and xPression CompuSet documents with your Legacy CompuSet documents, as well as how you how you can use Legacy Compuset tagged text within an xDesign document. There will also be opportunities to for you to provide input to this project on how your company currently uses Legacy Compuset and how you might desire to combine this with xPression.