OpenSpan

Automation is key to an optimized work force

by Francis Carden July 15, 2009

Without a doubt, many of our customers see significant benefits when they automate their end user tasks. Some customers have seen over $25m a year in time savings in their first automated solution rolled out to their users. This stands to reason though…

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Trial

by Chris Mills July 15, 2009

We’ve just announced a new way to try out the OpenSpan software using a cloud based service from Amazon. You can register here and you’ll be given a machine in the cloud that is preconfigured with a the OpenSpan platform and a set of tutorials and fin…

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How quickly can you integrate to Salesforce.com?

by Chris Mills July 13, 2009

OpenSpan has built a component that will allow you to integrate to Salesforce in under 5 minutes without writing a single line of code! That’s a big difference compared to the “normal” integration path people take – starting your IDE, creating an empt…

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UI in the Cloud

by Francis Carden July 9, 2009

How do you differentiate as to what is a cloud application and what is a client server application (thin client or fat client). Does it really matter?There are so many plug ins for the browsers now, along with so many browser incompatibilities I feel n…

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Accessible and Reliable

by Damon Lockwood June 28, 2009

Recently, Eric asked me to speak at one of our company meetings about the future of the OpenSpan platform. He didn’t want me to speak about releases or features, but rather about the platform as a whole. What is our vision for the OpenSpan platform?Thi…

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4.1 Feature Spotlight: Automation Stack

by Damon Lockwood June 17, 2009

It’s that time again! As our 4.1 release nears completion, it’s time to start posting about our new features. One of the new features we’re testing currently is a new automation stack implementation. As our platform has evolved, we have begun to use ou…

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Where should I put my desktop?

by Chris Mills April 6, 2009

It may sound like an odd question but in reality you don’t need to have your desktop on the machine that’s physically in front of you anymore. The cloud based desktop has arrived or has it?As the idea of the “cloud” expands, having your desktop hosted…

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Connecting Windows Applications to the iPhone

by Chris Mills March 24, 2009

How do you connect a closed Windows application to a killer device such as the iPhone? Most would normally expect to have to alter the existing application adding APIs or even worse be forced down an upgrade path which costs 10 times more than you hav…

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Wrapping Legacy Applications – IT JUST WORKS

by Francis Carden January 30, 2009

A legacy application is not just an 80×24 green screen. It can be; * A windows Client Server, fat client or thin client application * A web application plain old HTML * A web 2.0 Application, script, Java, ActiveX (with embedded widgets) * A Java apple…

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OpenSpan partners with IBM

by Francis Carden January 21, 2009

Had quite a few people ping me today since this great news hit the wire.

I was in Orlando this weekend and attended the IBM Lotusphere 2009 event. Whow, that was a big turnout. What we were demonstrating was interrogating components of Windows applications right within Lotus Expeditor and enabling you to wire any of these UI elements to any of the other Lotus API’s, portlets and components within Expeditor.

OPENSPAN ANNOUNCES WINDOWS CONTAINER FOR LOTUS

Also, OpenSpan has achieved Advanced Level World-wide Business Partner status within IBM’s PartnerWorld.

This continued expansion of the OpenSpan reach through partners like Software AG, Microsoft, IBM and Tibco is proof that the OpenSpan desktop integration technology is not only necessary, but in demand. Broad Integration techniques is key to successfully unifying user applications on the desktop and having them interact with other client applications and server components, regardless of underlying platform technology. We are pleased to have IBM on our team :) And of course, being on the IBM team.

Another useful link talking about the IBM Expeditor product can be found here : Using IBM Expeditor toolkit to extend IBM Lotus Sametime

Of course, I’d be amiss if I didn’t point out this news story too : IBM bucks gloom with rosy outlook
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