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IBM Confidential © 2007 IBM alphaWorks
Cynthya Peranandam, Business Development
alphaWorks:IBM emerging technology
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A proving ground for emerging technologies and ideas
Facilitates immediate feedback from early adopters and targeted communities
Helps to determine new markets for technology, including commercial interest
Has established market leadership: over 800 technologies published, many graduations to products and open source
What is alphaWorks?
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alphaWorks reach: Relevance in the marketplace
Primary resource for early adopters Users consist of enterprise, SMBs, individuals,
academic and other niche communities Facilitates immediate feedback to help determine
demand and future of technology development Creates communities around key IBM strategies
including open-source technology, standards and specifications
Top 10 Google hit for “emerging technologies”
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alphaWorks 2007 focus alphaWorks Services: Increase pipeline of high-quality, broad-
appeal technologies for alphaWorks Services
Emerging technology: Focus on early-stage prototypes and less on later-stage incremental innovations
Community: Promote alphaWorks’ mission, goals and value proposition, and increase collaboration and feedback, in both internal and external communities
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alphaWorks Services
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alphaWorks Services
Online access to emerging software services from IBM labs
Targets broader communities of business, technical and end-users
Focus on building community: Web 2.0 tooling, feedback, collaboration
Emphasizes low barriers to the use and adoption of IBM services
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alphaWorks Services: Current offerings
QEDWiki: Extends current wiki technology to enable rapid deployment, content aggregation, structured data, and powerful extensibility.
IBM Development Engagement Service: Provides an Ajax-based development environment that enables business users to visually develop form applications.
ManyEyes: Combines information visualization with social software, enabling collaborative visualization by groups of users.
Web Relational Blocks: A visual builder for rapid development of Web applications.
ThinkPlace: Facilitates innovation through idea generation, collaboration, and refinement.
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alphaWorks Services: DevEngage
IBM Development Engagement Service: Provides an Ajax-based development environment that enables business users to visually develop form applications.
Allows the creation of simple form-based applications that solve daily tasks
Targets business users without technical skills Visual GUI familiar to business users Ideal for SMBs, individual users, enterprise Tools to provide immediate feedback to tech creators and
community Saves time and development work for the IT department Collaboration features in next phase
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alphaWorks Services: DevEngage
alphaWorks Services homepage > Select servicealphaWorks Services homepage > Select service
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alphaWorks Services: DevEngage
Overview > browse content > Login/RegisterOverview > browse content > Login/Register
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alphaWorks Services: DevEngage
DevEngage > Create new appDevEngage > Create new app
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alphaWorks Services: DevEngage
DevEngage > Create new app > Select criteria > PublishDevEngage > Create new app > Select criteria > Publish
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alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes
Many Eyes: Combines information visualization with social software, enabling collaborative visualization by groups of users.
Allows visualization and analysis of new and existing data sets Numerous methods and techniques for visualization Facilitates sharing of data sets and visualizations with the
community Targets business users and consumers Ideal for SMBs, individuals, enterprise
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alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes
Many Eyes > Browse visualizationsMany Eyes > Browse visualizations
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alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes
Many Eyes > Browse visualizationsMany Eyes > Browse visualizations
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alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes
Sample visualizationSample visualization
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alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes
Sample visualization, corresponding data setSample visualization, corresponding data set
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alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes
Create a visualization > 3 easy stepsCreate a visualization > 3 easy steps
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Emerging technology downloads
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Emerging technology for early adopters Focus on early implementations that:
– Explore new strategic directions for IBM or target early-entry marketplaces
– Introduce upcoming industry standards and/or specifications – Are appealing to early adopters
250+ technologies currently offered (over 800 published)
Numerous successes include: VitalFile: Became Tivoli Continuous Data Protection Servlet Express: Part of WebSphere Application Server UIMA: Included in OmniFind, on SourceForge, and continues to
be available on alphaWorks
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www.ibm.com/alphaworks