Meeting with Rick Kephart - Ovation Software Feedback - 2025_07-July_2025

Date: 2025 07-July 23

#ovation

Steve Ballmer: Developers, developers, developers.

• People who know your buttons.
• Versus, People who can take ownership.

What I can tell you

• I have coworkers who have been through training, and it seems like they have fatigue. They aren't using it.
• I look at it, and I'm really not excited to be involved.
• Security guardrails versus proprietary guardrails versus a lack of developer tools.

Glenn Heinl and Rick Kephart

• graphics
• the industry changes
• generate a graphics file using
• configuration in the database gets touchy
• Are there ways to configure things through a gui
• Emacs
• belts and suspenders
• Python scripting Ovation Intelligence Framework, or OIF, or Ovation Intelligence. - Write to point record fields.
  • Predictor corrector
  • Things the kinds of things you want to do with configuration.
  • How to extend it
• Ovation 4.0
  • Introduce the user agent builder
  • Starting off as a python script
  • Scripting feedback
• The Power World versus the Water World

The SQL server and the database is probably a bridge too far in terms of easy access.

• Cyber security
• Guiderails up for preventing users from knotting up the rope.
• Python scripting in OIF

Lunch on Monday

• With Rick and Glenn
• Rick will be on the stage that morning