June 15, 2007
Flex 2 Developers Conference(FlexManiacs) Presentation on Coordinated Visualizations
Highly Coordinated Visualizations using Charting
Type: Lecture
Presented by: Arshak Navruzyan
June 25 - 26, 2007 in
Coordinated visualizations allow users to simultaneously view inter-related data from multiple perspectives to perform correlation analysis and discover patters that might otherwise go overlooked. The session will discuss how Flex 2 Charting component coupled with a coordination API can deliver sophisticated coordination actions including hovering/filtering, coordinated selection, coordination paging/scrolling and others. It will also discuss coordinations with custom developed visualization components such as Treemaps.
Fig Leaf Software/FlexManiacs 2007 Conference
RFF Conference Center
Fig Leaf Software Training Center
1400 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
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May 30, 2007
AppFusion Case Presentation at MIT Enterprise Forum
AppFusion - Case Presentation
Starting a Business Intelligence Revolution - How to Rise Above the Noise
Presenter:
Arshak Navruzyan, CEO
Wednesday, June 20 , 2007
5:00-8:00pm
Location:
The Salk Institute
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May 20, 2007
BO finally delivers zero footprint! ...ohh they mean carbon
Business Objects press release about a new Online Community should be read carefully. Zerofootprint doesnt mean "enterprise-wide deployment without having to install software on desktops they are referring to carbon emissions.
The visualization tool that BO is positioning as a possible solution still unfortunately has a substantial desktop footprint.
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May 15, 2007
SAP Acquires Outlooksoft
As previously predicted SAP has decided not to roll over and play dead in response to Oracles acquisition of Hyperion. Last week SAP announced its
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May 13, 2007
One Small Step for Desktop RIA
Adobe has released the Alpha version of its much-anticipated cross-OS runtime for deploying desktop Rich Internet Applications Apollo.
Apollo enables people to more easily maintain a connection with information in their web applications. Just like a desktop app, Apollo applications have an icon on the desktop, in the Windows start menu, or in the OS X dock. Also, when youre running a web application today, its a separate world from your computer. You cant easily integrate local data with your web app. For example, you cant just drag and drop your local contacts onto a web-based mapping application to get directions to your friends house. With Apollo applications you will be able to this kind of integration as it bridges the chasm between your computer and the Internet.
Adding to the capabilities of Adobes existing Flex 2.0.1 platform, Apollo is an attempt to put RIAs on an equal footing with Desktop applications. Although exact specifications for Apollo are still somewhat tenuous, Adobes product management has outlined the following areas for Apollo to build on the capabilities of Flex:
- PDF support
- Online/offline APIs
- Full top-level HTML application support
- Settings/data persistence APIs
- Drag and drop support
- Copy and paste support
- Native file picker dialog boxes
- Full native window support
- File extension registration
- Launching an application to handle a file type
- Full control of the right-click menu
- Transparency in HTML
It has been over three years since the release of Flex 1.0 by Macromedia. Only Adobe knows for certain how big the Flex community really is, but perhaps one can get an basic indication from the following stats:
- 100,000 developers have downloaded a copy of the Flex SDK as of 10/2006
- Flexcoders, the most prominent community forum for getting Flex community support has 6,354 registered members (as of this posting)
- FlexManiacs conference will likely have approx. 200-300 attendees (at which I have the privilege of presenting)
- Apollo Camp had 300 attendees (but was sold out so perhaps many more would have come if Adobe held it at larger venue)
Adobe can cause a fundamental shift in Desktop applications if:
- Adobe manages to build a community orders of magnitude bigger for Apollo than it has for Flex
- Adobe makes Apollo SDK open source and opens up the various protocols for data services such as AMF, RTMP (not advocating making LifeCycle Data Service Open source but allowing others to build open source alternatives easily)
- the $100 million that Adobe plans to invest in venture capital over the next 3-5 years goes into pipes and smokestacks type of technology rather than to frivolous startups in Web 2.0
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April 29, 2007
I have seen the future of BI and it is…Desktop RIA
LinkedIns new Toolbar for Outlook gives us a glimpse into the future of BI. Whats so unique and exciting about this little desktop utility is it takes an application you already use and adds some very useful information without any additional effort.
A few days ago, I received an unsolicited email that normally I would force myself to read perchance that its from someone I know or a referral , in which case I make it a point to respond even if the email is a blatant sales attempt.
The LinkedIn integrated window (which comes back instantaneously) told me that the email is from someone whos job is lead generation (so it wasnt specifically addressed to me), second the person is 3 degrees away from anyone I know and as an aside, the person is actually in LA even though his signature read PA.
Whats exciting about this utility is that it marries a desktop application (Outlook) with a web service (LinkedIn Website) and in the process eliminates any disconnects that current desktop-only and web-only applications tend to have.
In order for Business Intelligence to undergo a similar revolution in usability and productivity, two things have to happen:
- Databases need to become more web friendly (Michael Franklins presentation which touches on DataSpaces)
- A desktop Rich Internet Application platform (such as Adobes Apollo) is needed to truly bridge the gap between the web and the desktop
This is how an Adobe blog describes desktop RIA
Apollo enables people to more easily maintain a connection with information in their web applications. Just like a desktop app, Apollo applications have an icon on the desktop, in the Windows start menu, or in the OS X dock. Also, when you’re running a web application today, it’s a separate world from your computer. You can’t easily integrate local data with your web app. For example, you can’t just drag and drop your local contacts onto a web-based mapping application to get directions to your friend’s house. With Apollo applications you will be able to this kind of integration as it bridges the chasm between your computer and the Internet.
Adobes commitment to desktop RIA will make #2 into reality in the very near future. #1 is going to be much harder. The folks that you would expect to be innovating in these areas are still obsessing over spindle speeds and cpu cycles.
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