Dion Hinchcliffe at ZDNet has another interesting article on Enterprise Web 2.0, and his observations serve to highlight the strengths of Visual Fusion.
Hinchcliffe talks about the growing trend of Open Data in the business world: “Open data holds up the promise of instant connectivity between arbitrary numbers of ad hoc partners while at the same time reducing integration costs, improving transparency, harnessing external innovation, and even (perhaps especially) creating entirely new and significant business models.”
There is business value to be had when companies can--at the very least--exploit the data that is currently available in the cloud, and then perhaps even move in the direction of opening up parts of their own data repositories to others for mutual benefit.
Visual Fusion has always facilitated this data integration of organizational content and cloud sources in visual mashups and composite applications. The product has evolved to the point that business users themselves can stand up a new application in less than 5 minutes and then craft a powerful visual application combining Excel spreadsheets with SharePoint lists/libs and web feeds, and potentially even data from SQL Server or any other database or LOB system, in less than an hour! All this on an interactive map, dashboard, or other useful canvas with world-class user experience in Silverlight.
Open Data is a priority at the highest levels of power in the United States government, as evidenced by the commitment to transparency advocated by President Obama and the implementation of data.gov. A few months back we created a public app that highlights content from data.gov, as well as Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative and the census bureau. You can read about Visual Fusion in the Cloud or demo it yourself.
The Open Data movement is a boon for Visual Fusion owners who will always be able to benefit from the newest relevant information available by quickly adding it to their applications, all in order to help produce new insight and speed quality decision making.
Scott Caulk / Director of Product Management / IDV Solutions /
scott.caulk@idvsolutions.com
