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CIO Insight's recent survey - RIA is 2nd highest in priority to increase revenue

Posted by jnan May 24, 2008

"CIO Insight" magazine did a recent survey of 240 CIO's on which new technologies will boost revenue for their companies.

And guess what? Rich Internet Applications(RIA) ranked as Number 2 (23.6%), right after SOA (23.9%).

Last year, I had mentioned in an interview with Dr. Dobbs about RIA as the low hanging fruit for the enterprises to embrace Web 2.0 for business benefits. Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research mentioned in a keynote address at WebBuilder 2.0 last December that for enterprises to endorse Web 2.0, the future is now. He also mentioned that 32% of the enterprises surveyed by Forrester were using or considering RIA. Therefore, the CIO Insight survey showing RIA as second highest in priority to boost revenue does not come as a surprise.

Curl's RIA Platform has been used by over 300 enterprises and many have shown quantitative benefits to their business, over the client-server applications. The requirements to use RIA at the enterprise level is very different and much more stringent. They are looking for industrial-strength attributes such as high performance, extreme reliability, very high security, and big-time scalability. I recently blogged about what questions companies need to ask RIA vendors. Just getting a Flash video stream is not good enough for business-critical applications.

Earlier this year, Curl was awarded the best RIA Platform by InfoWorld. The proof is always with real deployment and benefits by customers.

Mike Vizard of eWeek refers to this survey in his recent blog. He covered the importance of RIA and mentioned Curl as a vendor to watch last December.
When it comes to Enterprise RIA, Curl clearly is the defacto leader.

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Reflections - 2007

Posted by jnan Jan 3, 2008

As we get closer to the end of 2007, it's important to reflect on the progress we have made at Curl in the US market. We launched Curl formally at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last April. We should count that as the start of our US launch. We have done numerous analysts briefings to explain the positioning of Curl, in the enterprise RIA space. The result of all that effort , for example, is the latest post from Ryan Stewart's about us. This is what he said: "Flex had a great year but is it the primary technology for building RIAs? I think at this stage of the game it’s the most mature but primary is a strong word. One thing that’s happened over this year is that the field of RIAs has really blown up. We’ve got Curl, Ajax getting more advanced and Silverlight/WPF applications in the wild. It’s too tough to call Flex the primary technology."

We also saw yesterday's post by Mike Vizard of eWeek. This is what he said: "RIA is expected to be one of the hottest categories inapplication development circles this coming year thanks to the efforts of Microsoft and Adobe, but if you want to create a rich Web interface for an existing client/server application you might want to take a look at what companies such as Curl, Asperon and Nexaweb are up to these days."

During August 2007, we published a study comparing Ajax, Flex, and Curl. This study was widely discussed and I presented it at WebBuilder 2.0 two weeks ago at Las Vegas. Curl's strength as the high-end RIA platform came out loud and clear. Take a look at our new website. We introduced the RIA Knowledge center. We had our first developer day at Paisley 's (a key customer) office in Minneapolis last May. We also launched a brand new developer site.

So all in all, we have raised the awareness of Curl and as we step into 2008, the mantra is execution and customer adoption.
Happy holidays to all of you.

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Technologies Of The Future

Posted by richard Dec 4, 2007

That last keynote at WEBBuilder 2.0 featured Jeffrey Hammond speaking about key trends in Web2.0 adoption in the enterprise. There was lots of really interesting data that makes the compelling case that 2008 will be THE infection point in the adoption of Web2.0 in the enterprise. Regarding Web2.0 adoption Jeffrey's message was clear:

"The Future is NOW"

Through his research and discussion with clients and vendors he predicts a "perfect storm" as changes in workforce, software, business process and design collide.

One of the key drivers is 70-80% of GenYers create content and use Internet and mobile apps in all their interactions - virtual and real. As they enter the work force their expectations of a productive environment will drive change faster then ever before. Some other interesting points.

47% of surveyed CIOs see Web2.0 as more than a passing fad
70-80% GenXers and GenYers are creators of content as compared to only 12% for Boomers
1 out of 12 employees is blogging
The Web has brought people closer - In his research Jeffrey uses Linkedin and he has never looked up a person that was less than 3 degrees away. Remember the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon...
Web2.0 is is creating the 4th major programming model - Dynamic applications - these are assembled "just in time" Mashups from parts that are ready to use. This is the process savvy mashup.
32% of enterprises are using or considering RIA

All in all there is a lot of positive trends that say it will be a good year for RIA adoption and Curl.

I asked Jeffery to send me the slides and will follow-up with a more thoughtful post after the conference.

Richard

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Thoughts on WEBBuilder2.0

Posted by richard Dec 4, 2007

It's day 2 at the WEBBuilder 2.0 Conference here in Las Vegas. This is our first time at this conference. Compared to the buzz and hype of Web2.0 Summit and Office2.0 this conference is very low key. Attendees are here to learn in detail about how they can improve their on-line properties. Speakers are not the trend setters but the teachers and doers of the web building world. Sitting next to me is Jeanne Morton from Avon who is here to learn how Avon can improve the way they do business with their partners. Much of Avon's systems are old and the company is very conservative and reluctant to open up to Web2.0 technologies and social networking.

Given the audience, Scott Deitzen's first keynote, a sales pitch for Zimbra seemed off the mark. It is interesting that Zimbra struggled to implement their email application in Ajax - some 250,000 lines of code. To handle off-line they wrote a fat client. Isn't this back to a client-server solution.

There must be a lot of companies like Zimbra that think their only option is Ajax and struggle to make that work. We need to be on a mission to explain there are other RIA options like Curl. Hopefully our work with Forrester will help. We'll see today as Jeffrey Hammond is presenting "Technologies of the Future." I sure hope he mentions Curl.

I thought Mark Lucovsky's presentation on "Interactive Search Applications" was on target for the conference audience. Mark's is currently at Google and his background includes more than a decade at Microsoft. Microsoft understands better than any company how to talk to developers and Mark showed that competence in his delivery. Google's view of the lowest level of web developer is "someone that can cut and paste." This is indeed lowering the bar but you can immediately see the power in that paradigm. Mark went through a host of Google Ajax routines that any one can cut and paste into their web page and create sophisticated full function web applications. Google is now creating wizards that prompt you for defining parameters then generates the java code for the function. From there you simply cut and paste and viola - your web mashup! We should look at doing something similar with our Ajax wrapper for Curl functions.

On to Jeffrey's presentation.

Richard