$7.00 U.S. INTERNATIONAL ® SSpecpecTHE MULTIVALUE TECHNOLOGYttrr MAGAZINumumE I MARCH/APRIL 2015 Are You a Technology Bigot? Also in this Issue y Rocket U2 talks about UniData 8.1 y OAUTH 2 Login with MultiValue BASIC y Clif Notes New Blood – Part 2 intl-spectrum.com GET CONNECTED. K NOWLEDGE AND E DUCATION FOR THE MULTIV ALUE PROFESSIONAL. A BOUT O UR PROFESSIONAL ME M BERSHIP We are all busy in our day-to-day work and staying up-to-date with the current MultiValue technologies can be difficult. Professional Memberships provide you access to knowledge, solutions, information, and code that you won’t find in other locations. 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BY KEVIN KING interviews Vinnie Smith, Michael Byrne, John Zagnoli, Heather Smiles, and John Nunziato at Rocket Software to see how the release of UniData 8.1 provides enhanced value to UniData customers. BY CHARLES BAROUCH OAUTH 2 Login with MultiValue BASIC Overview 14 Consuming web services like Avalara Saletax within your MultiValue applications is easy, but many web services are starting to require OAUTH 2 login authentication. OAUTH 2 adds additional complexity, but implementation is much simpler than it seems when you read the documentation. This article will cover what is required to create an OAUTH 2 login process within your MultiValue applications. BY NATHAN RECTOR Clif Notes: New Blood – Part2 In part one, Clif discussed DEPARTMENTS 16 some of what that could be done to attract new blood to the MultiValue Community. In part two, Clif discusses not only how to From the Inside page 4 attach Millennials to MultiValue shops, but also how to keep them From the Press Room page 12 engaged and interested. Millennials look at IT and the Enterprise from a totally different perspective than previous generations. With that in mind, read about how Clif suggests changes to the International Spectrum and MultiValue IT departments to address these conflicting perspectives. BY are registered trademarks of International CLIFTON OLIVER Spectrum, Inc. All other registered trademarks are the property of the respective trademark holders. INTL-SPECTRUM.COM u MARCH/APRIL 2015 u 3 From INTERNATIONAL the SpectrumMARCH/APRIL 2015 NATHAN RECTOR Spectrum Inside President NATHAN RECTOR International Spectrum President [email protected] CHARLES BAROUCH Editor The future is catching up with the placed into well-defined structures. power of MultiValue Applications, This is either because the structure SYDNEY BAROUCH but are your MultiValue Applications is constantly changing, or because Editor catching up to the future? making it structured would require TRACEY RECTOR We all know the power of the Multi- too many files, tables, accounts, and Layout Value data model. We also know the relationships to make it feasible. power of the Enhanced Stored Pro- Challenge: Data Any Place cedure abilities included with Multi- Most people would define this as dis- Value Databases: BASIC, I-Types, and tributed data. People want to access Dictionary Correlatives. 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