{"id":1487,"date":"2008-07-28T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T00:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/07\/28\/rias-for-the-enterprise-ilog-ibm-more-adobe\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T00:17:44","slug":"rias-for-the-enterprise-ilog-ibm-more-adobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/07\/28\/rias-for-the-enterprise-ilog-ibm-more-adobe\/","title":{"rendered":"RIAs for the Enterprise &#8211; iLog + IBM = More Adobe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/2711464931\/\" title=\"ILOG Elixir by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3065\/2711464931_800e526cb2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" alt=\"ILOG Elixir\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/news\/software\/soa\/IBM-to-buy-Ilog\/0,130061733,339290895,00.htm\">IBM purchased iLog this morning<\/a>. Now, I&#8217;ll admit that I don&#8217;t know iLog extreamly well. I actually heard about them for the first time last week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/eventtrack.info\/?t_event=AdobeAnalyst08\">Adobe Analyst Summit<\/a> (which was a nice introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/livecycle\/\">LiveCycle ES<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2>Dark Data in the Enterprise<\/h2>\n<p>On the other hand, I am nuts for the RIA. Even more so, I like seeing how RIAs get themselves into the enterprise world. I&#8217;m fond of pointing out that most RIAs need a back-end. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/05\/01\/ria-stacks-comin-atcha-silverlight-astoria-apollo-livecycle-data-services-lighting-the-dark-data\/\">limitless &#8220;dark data&#8221; in the enterprise locked behind boring interfaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Think of how boring geo-data and local land tax estimates were before <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wwww.zillow.com\">Zillow<\/a> came along. Now we can&#8217;t get enough of tax estimates!<\/p>\n<h2>Enterprise Data RIA Frameworks<\/h2>\n<p>So far, I haven&#8217;t seen an extremely tight connection between enterprise back-ends and RIAs. Sure, there are several examples here and there &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/07\/08\/Adobe_readying_new_mashup_tool_for_business_users_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/07\/08\/Adobe_readying_new_mashup_tool_for_business_users_1.html\">Adobe Geniuses<\/a> is a recent stand-out, <a href=\"http:\/\/talk.bmc.com\/podcasts\/arora1\/\">BMC has the dashboards<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2006\/12\/01\/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods\/\">James loves the TMobile RAP<\/a>, and folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/evapt.com\/resources\/demo.php\">eVapt are examples of the architectural-viral nature of Flex<\/a> (it starts in charts!) &#8211;  but I haven&#8217;t found many general, middle-ware centric frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/enterprise\/partners\/sap.html\">SAP has stood out as the biggest enterprise user of Adobe&#8217;s RIA suite<\/a>. Getting back to IBM and iLog, it&#8217;s fun parlor games to think on what IBM would do with the Adobe RIA connection wrapped up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilog.com\/products\/ilogelixir\/\">iLog&#8217;s Elixer<\/a>. I hear iLog, now IBM, and Adobe have a working relationship on the LiveCycle ES front, and it seems like there is &#8211; or could be &#8211; something going on in RIA-land as well. We&#8217;ll have to see if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/enterprise\/partners\/ibm.html\">this page<\/a> gets fleshed out more ;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Adobe, IBM, BMC, and eVapt are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM purchased iLog this morning. Now, I&#8217;ll admit that I don&#8217;t know iLog extreamly well. I actually heard about them for the first time last week at the Adobe Analyst Summit (which was a nice introduction to LiveCycle ES). Dark Data in the Enterprise On the other hand, I am nuts for the RIA. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,12,29],"tags":[62,225,349,366,463],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-tools","category-enterprise-software","category-ria","tag-adobe","tag-darkdata","tag-ibm","tag-ilog","tag-ma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}