{"id":3992,"date":"2010-01-26T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/01\/26\/riaweekly069\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:50:48","slug":"riaweekly069","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/01\/26\/riaweekly069\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Intuit Partner Platform, Alterity&#039;s story &#8211; RIA Weekly #69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, I talk with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acctivate.com\/\">Alterity<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/briansweat\">Brian Sweat<\/a> about launching their new application, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyinventoryanalytics.com\/\">Easy Analytics for Inventory<\/a>, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ipp.developer.intuit.com\/\">Intuit Partner Platform<\/a>. We talk about IPP, Flex, cloud, analytics, and the ready to go QuickBooks customer-base of 4.5 million users &#8211; a pretty exciting setup for one development team&#8217;s story on using RIAs and the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/riaweekly069.mp3\">download this episode directly directly<\/a> and it&#8217;ll also show up in <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/riaweekly\">the RIA Weekly feed<\/a> for iTunes and other podcatchers. Or, just use the controls below to listen to it right here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"embed\">\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in an overview of IPP, I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaweekly.com\/2010\/01\/11\/riaweekly068\/\">last week&#8217;s episode with Intuit architect Jeff Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Show Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian tells us about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acctivate.com\/\">Alterity<\/a> and their new offering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyinventoryanalytics.com\/\">Easy Analytics for Inventory<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I ask Brian to tell us how they started getting interested in using IPP and what the process was like getting up and running.<\/li>\n<li>We talk about the use of Flex and how the IPP platform integrates with the UI layer.<\/li>\n<li>Brian tells us about the ability to more closely track what users are actually using and doing (or not using) in a cloud-based application.<\/li>\n<li>While customers don&#8217;t seem to be overly concerned with cloud vs. desktop deployment &#8211; at this early point &#8211; Brain says the support and even install time on cloud seems much smaller than for traditional deployment options.<\/li>\n<li>This leads to a discussion about the other effects a PaaS, like IPP, has on a company&#8217;s structure: namely not having to worry so much about billing and other back-office concerns. And then there&#8217;s all the marketing Intuit does for them in the App Center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Full Transcript<\/h2>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaweekly.com\/2010\/01\/26\/riaweekly069\/#transcript\">the full transcript over on the RIA Weekly post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Intuit is a client and sponsored this episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One company&#8217;s story of using Intuit&#8217;s Partner Platform to deliver new, cloud-based RIAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43,23,29,30],"tags":[301,381,390,580],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-development-tools","category-programming","category-ria","category-ria-weekly","tag-flex","tag-intuit","tag-ipp","tag-paas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","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=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}