v9 Breaks Sound Barrier

Our v9 team is working rain or shine to make v9 products faster and more efficient. Edward Lizewski, Terrell Gray, and Harrison Fortier have been working hard, heads down on ways to trick out v9 for record breaking speeds. They honed in on the ways servers and clients talk to each other to juice up v9. They reduced round-trips (the back and forth data sharing between server and client), compressed data, and developed an option that will allow some organizations to load the user interface from the client rather than the server, reducing round trips even more. Client-server round-trips have substantially been reduced for record retrieval and workspace loading. For the first record you open in a workspace, they reduced the server client round-trips by 90%. For subsequent records, the retrieval round trip has reduced by 85%. They also reduced workspace loading round-trips by 64%.  Java object and XML information between server and client has been significantly compressed. This improvement reduced data sent back and forth between client and server by 87% for unfiltered data searches and 71% for record retrieval. If that's not fast enough, a new option will allow some customers to hold user interface metadata and graphics on the client side, rather than the server side. This eliminates all XML traffic between server and client,as well as transmission of the graphic images used to display workspace, actions and drilldowns. However, this option is only recommended for customers with limited bandwidth who require infrequent updates to the user interface. With this option, there is no client-server interaction for metadata loading. With these enhancements, v9 will load workspaces and retrieve records faster than ever. We're breaking the sound barrier right now, but our goal is light speed v9 products.