October 16, 2009 – 4:23 pm
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While at SAP TechEd this week, I snagged Matthias Zeller of Adobe for a leisurely discussion about enterprise RIAs. First, we talk about the freshly announced LiveCycle Mosaic, the RIA mashup/composite application/portal-ish product Matthias and team have been working on (previously under the name “Project Genesis“). As we note in the recording, this was the product he’d been doing a lot of field research around that we discussed in episode #55. Being at SAP, we then talk about the notion of “timeless software” that SAP had been talking about and what that means for RIAs: namely, layering client RIA’s on-top of SOA-faced back-ends.
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October 16, 2009 – 10:19 am
While at Adobe MAX, I had the pleasure of talking with one of the customer keynotes, Adam Mollenkopf of FedEx Custom Critical. His team had worked on a Flash Platform and LiveCycle driven console for tracking high-dollar shipments and monitoring just about every aspect of the shipment itself. I’m always searching for stories of why an RIA (here, Flash) was used over Ajax or traditional GUIs, and I think in Adam does a good explanation of why they came to pick the Flash Platform over Ajax in the first part, the interview. We then sit down and he walks us through the demo of the console in action.
Interview
Adam first tells us what FedEx Custom Critical does, and then we jump into a discussion of how they came to select the Adobe stack for implementation of their shipment tracking console. They not only chose Flex and LiveCycle for the rich interface, but also for the high-speed data transfer between front-end and back-end. Adam really likes the data management that comes with the stack, esp. being able to use “true push” to the client.
Demo
In addition to the general RIA-ness, the special thing to note is the rules engine backing all of the predictions and analyzing sensor and geo data. Those create an interesting (and for FedEx useful) stream of real-time data to console of realtime data to churn over, expose in the RIA, and start making business decisions around.
Disclosure: Adobe is a client and sponsored these videos.
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October 13, 2009 – 11:31 pm
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In this episode, I’m at SAP TechEd 2009 and jointed by SAP’s Thomas Jung and Colgate-Palmolive’s Ed Herrmann. Both, more importantly, are the the hosts of Enterprise Geeks. While this isn’t strictly an RIA themed episode, our guests Thomas Jung and Ed Hermann hit on many of the favored topics for RIA Weekly, including enterprise applications and HTML 5. We get into some HTML 5 talk as well. We discuss:
- The Enterprise Geek show – topics they’ve sussed out in the SAP, enterprise, and tech world and the emerging role the podcast plays in the SAP community.
- What they think of Google Wave: business uses for Wave and some theoretic thinking on what you’d have to do to start using it at a “normal” enterprise like, say, Colgate-Palmolive.
- What’s up with HTML 5? Does the <canvas/> tag make these two excited about dancing charts in HTML?
Disclosure: SAP is a client and paid T&E to TechEd.
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October 8, 2009 – 2:50 pm
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With the special numbering of 9,000, we kick off Ryan and I’s highlights of Adobe MAX 2009:
Disclosure: Adobe is a client and paid travel and hotel for Adobe MAX. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.
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September 24, 2009 – 1:16 pm
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Ryan and I are once again joined by Mike Downey as we go over recent RIA-related news and topics:
- Microsoft WebsiteSpark – get web app stack for $100 for 3 years.
- Flash Platform Services – Ryan’s post – what’s the story beyond “Distribution.” What’re the analytics, the ads?
- Telemetry in applications.
- And then what are the other parts of the Flash Platform Services – Collaboration (CoCoMo/Breeze/Connect stuff). And then Social stuff, sometime in the future.
- What’s going on in RIA social apps.
- Ryan in Singapore: what’s the scene in Singapore like? Some RIA apps using sound.
- Is the US mobile scene becoming like the Asian one we always get experience-clobbered with? Genuitec on stand-alone HTML 5 synchronized web applications.
- What do things like Silverlight on Intel Atom mean? Tim Anderson’s take: Silverlight on Linux desktops.
- What’s going on with tablets?
- Adobe and Omniture – Coté’s quick analysis, and James Governor’s as well. What’s the “M” in “CPM” mean anyhow?
- Upcoming conferences.
Disclosure: Adobe and Microsoft are clients.
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