White Papers

API services are the foundation of modern distributed applications. Today, microservices are the basis of modern application architectures. Instead of a monolithic and cumbersome software, the entire functionality is distributed among manageable subsystems. The resulting services are then typically provided via the Internet and RESTful APIs.

Read in this technical whitepaper how you can work with RAD Studio and RAD Server from the Client to the backend and reduceg the time-to-market.

Experienced developers know that retaining users can be a challenge, so they continuously invest in making their applications faster, more functional and more user-friendly. This effort isn’t for the user alone - cleaning up unused and inefficient code makes it easier for the developer to maintain apps moving forward.

Read this whitepaper to learn how modern market trends are putting pressure on stable legacy applications, and what you can do to stay relevant and future-proof your applications.

Adopt These Collaborative Methodologies to Streamline Development

Explore the different collaborative methodologies and available tools to improve collaboration between development teams and designers, operations, and QA teams to realize faster release cycles without sacrificing quality.

• Reduce software release cycles
• Improve communications between Design and Development
• Shift-Left and incorporate QA and Operability into product backlog
• Learn what tools can improve inter-team communications to reduce rework

Enter the mobile world with less development work

The use of smartphones and tablets has become more popular over the years. This applies both to the private sector and the corporate environment. The typical target platforms, which differ considerably in technical terms, are iOS and Android. Learn in this whitepaper how the mobile worlds are already growing together in design and development.

Learn why Windows 10, the most significant PC release in many years, is a big opportunity for software developers. Gain an understanding of how RAD Studio developers are ideally placed to take advantage of Windows 10 and why now is the time to prepare for new ways of developing and deploying Windows applications.

The new InterBase® patent pending feature “Change Views” introduces a new approach to tracking data changes (with field level granularity) in server as well as personal computer/tablet/mobile databases. It is designed for today’s mobile centric world. Furthermore, Change Views offer developers a way to break traditional constraints in their thinking about data change tracking and the life span of data in briefcase models. Through its Change Views technology, InterBase provides easy access to a highly scalable change-tracking engine that developers can easily mold to fit their requirements, regardless of whether they need to keep 1 or 100,000 destinations up-to-date.

Enterprise Mobility Services (EMS) is a multi-tier framework that first shipped with RAD Studio XE7. This white paper is designed to provide you, the software professional, with the information you need to get started with EMS today. You will learn how EMS interfaces with the various technologies necessary to support your applications, and why this approach is so valuable in today's distributed computing landscape. The paper continues by showing you how to get started with your EMS development including how to install EMS and make basic calls into this service. Importantly, these calls are standard REST REpresentational State Transfer) calls, which can be emitted by any language or framework that understands HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). After a brief discussion of REST, you will learn how to make some of these basic calls using a browser, RAD Studio's REST Debugger, and a Delphi application.

A global survey, sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, reveals 2015 will be a big year for developing business solutions with integrated “Things” – such as industrial sensors, drones, health monitors and smart buildings. The majority (84%) of software developers building IoT solutions in 2015 are targeting business markets, while only 16% are exclusively targeting consumers.

Today, apps are connected with an expectation to easily store information across multiple platforms and devices while still providing immediate and instant access to the user’s data and files. Whether you’re building a new app or updating an existing one, add these 5 BaaS features to your app and you will drive an increase in user engagement and retention.

Thank you for your interest in reviewing RAD Studio XE6, Embarcadero’s complete software development solution for building true native applications for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac OS X from a single codebase. This Reviewer’s Guide will give you an overview of some of the key benefits that developers will enjoy with RAD Studio XE6 as well as a walkthrough by building both multi-device apps and Windows applications.