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

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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