Issue 5
March 31, 2009

How VF Helps When Budgets Tighten
by Scott Caulk
The current economy is having an impact on every business. For just about everyone there's a renewed emphasis on cutting costs and leveraging existing investments for greater strategic value. Visual Fusion plays very well in this type of economy. It promotes operational savings as well as value/revenue creation, making Visual Fusion ideal when the times call for doing more with less.
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Let them see what you see. Send photos and content from your mobile to SharePoint®
by Deborah Davis
Two new Visual Fusion mobile applications let you add content to SharePoint seamlessly from anywhere you go with your mobile device.
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Drawing the World Together - SpatialWiki in the Enterprise
by Scott Caulk
SpatialWiki™, the newest member of IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion Suite, empowers organizations to quickly and easily create, store, and share geographic information. SpatialWiki combines with other components of Visual Fusion to create a powerful enterprise mashup platform for SharePoint. SpatialWiki is built on Silverlight 2.0 and Virtual Earth, and is deployable within the Visual Fusion Suite in SharePoint, or in a standalone deployment.
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A collaboration portal for a humanitarian emergency
by Deborah Davis
When Cyclone Nargis hit the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar in May 2008, the humanitarian emergency required swift action. Within a week, international relief agencies were visualizing information on weather, travel, flooding, and resources through an interactive Map Center built with Visual Fusion.
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