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Building Software Solutions using Web 2.0 Technologies. Panelists: Dave Strite Chief Information Officer, Biz-LX Elango Kanagaraji Head – Web 2.0 Specialization, Aspire Systems Moderator: Kanchana Rajagopalan Marketing, Aspire Systems. For Webinar Audio, Dial in: Conference Line
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Building Software Solutions using Web 2.0 Technologies Panelists: Dave Strite Chief Information Officer, Biz-LX Elango Kanagaraji Head – Web 2.0 Specialization, Aspire Systems Moderator: Kanchana Rajagopalan Marketing, Aspire Systems For Webinar Audio, Dial in: Conference Line US: 1 888 436 6494/ 1 866 581 2411 (Toll Free) UK: 08000518866/ 08081681734 (Toll Free) Audio Conference ID: 37174681 Date: Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Time: 11 AM ET/ 04:00 PM BST/ 09:30 PM IST
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About Aspire • Thought leader in Outsourced Product Development • 1100+ product releases to date • 80+ customers; 475 producteers • 63% CAGR over the last six years • Offices in Chennai (India), San Jose, CA, and London, UK • ISO 9001:2000 certified Awards Ranked 7th in Business Today Survey featuring the Best Companies to work for in India in 2005 Ranked in the top 500 fast growing technology companies in Asia Pacific for 3 years in a row
Panelist Elango KanagarajiHead – Web 2.0 Specialization, Aspire Systems Currently heads the Web 2.0 Specialization Business unit at Aspire Systems. Responsible for the business/product development in Consumer Internet and Software enabled business areas and manages all customer engagements from North America and Europe. Actively participates in customer interactions and new customer acquisition and drives various value added initiatives for customers Instrumental in defining Aspire's focus in Web 2.0. Closely monitors industry trends in Web 2.0 and collaborates with Aspire's Web 2.0 CoE to build internal expertise. Elango has a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PSG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
Web 2.0 Principles for Product • Services and not Packaged Software with cost effective scalability • Hard to re-create data sources that gets richer as more users start using it • Users as co-developers • Harnessing collective intelligence • Software above the level of Single Device • Lightweight User interfaces and service delivery
Web 2.0 Design • Architecture for Participation – not just software development, enhance your product by involving the users explicitly or implicitly • Data is the next Intel to your Product – hard to re-create data which is unique to your product • Network Effect – Design for hackability and re-mixability • Design to cooperate and don’t control – Offer light weight service interfaces, content syndication and re-use data of other services • Design your product from get go to integrate services across handheld devices, PC’s and Internet browsers
Web 2.0 Techniques/Models • Mashups – Hybrid Product Development(Dashboard, etc.) • Widgets – Personalized content aggregation • Aggregation/Social Bookmarking – Content Categorization • Syndication – Data delivery • AJAX- Real time Data processing
Technologies that enable Web 2.0 in your Software AJAX Platform Java Platform JQuery YUI DOJO JSF JavaFX Webstart Adobe Platform Microsoft Flex AIR Silver light Flash
Technologies that enable Web 2.0 in your Software Twitter API FaceBook API Linkedn API Participative Web Wiki Liferay Portal Sharepoint
Technologies that enable Web 2.0 in your Software SOA REST Open Web Standards RSS JSON/ATOM
Challenges with Web 2.0 • Integrated UI Engineering • Developers creativity • Adherence to Global standards • Use of high bandwidth technologies when not required • RIA technologies limitations with browsers
Panelist Dave StriteChief Information Officer, Biz-LX™ Technology professional with over 12 years experience managing software development and delivery Prior to his current role, he worked for Safeco Insurance in Seattle managing $1M+ technology projects and delivered technology solutions for the second largest surety company in the United States From 2000-2002, he was a Product Manager and Business Analyst for Captura Software, a start-up software company, which developed and marketed expense management software used by Fortune 500 companies Dave has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with minors in mathematics and religion from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA and an MBA from Darden Business School, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA.
Biz-LXTM and Ethics-LXTM Biz-LX™ offers learning experiences that ask current and future business leaders to confront real-life situations in a safe virtual environment. These situations, authored by professors at the top of their field, are designed to test and challenge participants’ instincts for ethical decision-making, but in supportive and structured virtual learning environment. Ethics-LX™ is a series of cutting-edge, online learning experiences that challenge students with the complex and ethically charged nature of managerial decision making in a global economy by fusing incisive, analytical learning challenges with broader issues surrounding the purpose and values of business enterprise.
Delivering Ethics-LXTM How do you deliver a series of cutting-edge learning experiences to universities, corporations and individuals around the world via the internet? • Store and deliver streaming video • Collect and report data input from the users • Make it easy to support • Use open source software • Incorporate a shopping cart • Integrate with a payment vendor • Make it available on multiple devices • Provide scalability, security, reliability and availability www.ethics-lx.com And…
Delivering Ethics-LXTM How do you create a community of actively participating users? • Use discussion boards • Employ RSS feeds • Integrate with social networking sites • Allow product rating • Encourage user-created content • Let users mine the data www.ethics-lx.com Using Web 2.0!
Shopping Cart Flex Javascript RSS RIA Integration Adobe Flash Zend Payment Vendor Facebook User-authored Content Product Rating Networking MySpace Twitter Participative Digg Delicious Interactive Reporting Discussion Boards Google Using Web 2.0 www.ethics-lx.com
Web 2.0 Benefits • Rich content • Scalability • Ease of support • Viral Marketing • Community of users • User content • Data mining • Multiple platforms www.ethics-lx.com
For more details Elango Kanakaraji Head – Web 2.0 Specialization Aspire Systems E-mail: elango.kanakaraji@aspiresys.com Website: www.aspiresys.com
For more details Dave Strite Chief Information Officer Biz-LX™ E-mail: dave@biz-lx.com Website: www.biz-lx.com