NEWS AND NOTEWORTHY
From time to time, we'll post information on interesting happenings at LabNY. This section does not house all-encompassing news, events, and public relations - but rather a selective grouping of highlights and ongoing
successes we'd like to share with our visitors.
- Novell launches advanced User Experience Online Form for global Login to Novell.com leveraging Macromedia Flash.
- Macromedia - Rich Internet Application Starter Kit & Advanced Training Registration Application.
- LabNY assists Forrester Research in the continued exploration of X Internet technologies.
Novell launches advanced User Experience form for Global Login to Novell.com
Novell.com's global authentication destination - Novell Login - consumed a multi-page process - resulting in the necessary credentials to utilize secure areas of Novell.com. To users, Novell Login was functional - though it provided confusing navigation/workflow, and underperformed speed-wise. Technically, it's managed on a successful platform of Novell products, including iChain and eDirectory.
Given the sites valuable underpinnings, the obvious technical shortcoming was its shackles to HTML. From a management perspective, the business owners were unable to manage the interface or content without the involvment of IT resources - a problem that ultimately led to the development of a Flash-based model.The new application is an embedded Flash MX component that sits within Novell's iChain authentication page - and is managed by supporting XML files that render the user experience interface and content. Novell's e-Marketing team recaptured the ability to provide users with a simple intuitive interface, as well as comprehensive management of the site
Macromedia - Rich Internet Application Starter Kit
Early in the release of the MX family of products, Macromedia engaged LabNY to help define a 'kit' that IT managers could use as a resource to learn the value of leveraging Flash within their infrastructural environment. This community of IT professionals were not familiar with - or aware of - the levels of interactivity the Macromedia suite of products could provide. Further, they were not aware that all of this could be accomplished today - utilizing development and integration standards already in play within their organization.
So, the RIA Starter Kit was born. The premise of this kit is a fictitious project that was actually carried out at Macromedia - and then documented for this community to review. It contains a voluminous amount of real-world documentation - as well as the Flash-based application that resulted from the project.
LabNY assists Forrester Research in the continued exploration of X Internet Technologies
LabNY contributed to a recent report by publised by Forrester Research offering an approach, rationale, and experience behind the movement to thinner, more interactive clients. In their report X Internet Clients Save Enterprise Apps, Forrester Research analyzes the "backlash" of the browser-as-delivery-mechanism and provides some rather interesting insight. Considering the early market movement in this category, we offer an evolutionary approach to leveraging advanced user experiences...
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