Next Generation Of Enterprise RIA's

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Next Generation of RIA’s in the Enterprise Michael Hodgson

Matthias Zeller

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Agenda

LiveCycle Mosaic Overview

Technical Whiteboard Discussion

Creating a Mosaic Tile Hands-On

Running a Mosaic Application

Q&A

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Current Business Challenges

Problem: Plethora of hard-to-use applications

in the enterprise Different navigation systems and

user experiences Lack of shared application context

forcing users to re-enter the same data in different applications

CRM ERP ECM PLM

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. Consequence: Low user productivity due to

swivel chair integration Poor decision making due to lack

of data visibility High training costs to use all

needed applications Low return on existing

investments Poor customer experience

resulting in customer abandonment

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Solution: Mosaic, New LiveCycle Solution Module

Composite RIA Framework for rapidly assembling intuitive, personalized and activity-centric RIA applications that aggregate existing enterprise applications

Increased productivity Increase end-user productivity

through simple, personalized, highly responsive and consistent user experience

Improved decision making• Make faster decisions through

aggregating relevant, timely information from multiple sources

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Application Pattern: Composite Rich Internet Applications

New breed of context aware enterprise applications composed of existing and new web applications.

Development Characteristics:

Client-side framework APIs (JavaScript/ActionScript)

Client-side context

Client-side communication between applications

Build from a central or distributed catalog of mashable components

Created and delivered by IT department

Additionally mashed up and customized by business users

Integrate with existing SSO, directory and entitlement management solutions

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LiveCycle Mosaic ES2

For Business Users

Easy access via desktop (AIR) application or browser

Task-centric composite views bringing complete context to daily work

Create new composite views from IT provided tiles

Customizable views & dynamic layouts

Work on tasks with different contexts in parallel and persist work in progress

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LiveCycle Mosaic ES2

For Developers

Composition approach to application development

Comprehensive ActionScript and JavaScript API

Client side communication between application components

Central catalog for housing all reusable application components

Out-of-the box skins, shells and layout managers

Pluggable component model

Integrates with existing SSO, directory and entitlement management solutions

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Target Use Cases

Case Management:

• User environment uniting all case information to speed case resolution

• Ex: call center applications, case worker

• Sample tiles: customer contacts, reported bug defects, internal knowledge base

Financial Advisor Workplace:

• Rich, simple and customizable workplace

• Contextual views unifying over 200 applications

• Sample tiles: investment portfolio, Google finance, salesforce.com

Sales Workplace:

• Unified customer views aggregating all relevant customer data

• Sample tiles: customer contacts, order history, RFP responses, projected pipeline

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Project Timeline

LC Mosaic in pre-release program since June ‘09

General availability planned for Q4/09

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LC Mosaic Catalog Browser (planned for 1.1)

Browsing features Search based on

metadata

Sorting & filtering

Customizable catalog UI

Multiple catalog support for easier management

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LC Mosaic Design-Time Client (planned for 1.1)

AIR-based design client

Drag & drop assembly of reusable application components found in catalog

Ability to create layouts visually

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Technology

Next Generation Of Enterprise RIA's