IBM Alpha Works Overview August 2007

2 What is alphaWorks?  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

3 alphaWorks reach: Relevance in the marketplace  Primary resource for early adopters alphaWorks  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  Top 10 Google hit for “emerging technologies”

4 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

5 alphaWorks Services

6 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

7 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 W eb applications.  ThinkPlace: Facilitates innovation through idea generation, collaboration, and refinement.

8 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

9 alphaWorks Services: DevEngage  alphaWorks Services homepage > Select service

10 alphaWorks Services: DevEngage  Overview > browse content > Login/Register

11 alphaWorks Services: DevEngage  DevEngage > Create new app

12 alphaWorks Services: DevEngage  DevEngage > Create new app > Select criteria > Publish

13 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

14 alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes  Many Eyes > Browse visualizations

15 alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes  Many Eyes > Browse visualizations

16 alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes  Sample visualization

17 alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes  Sample visualization, corresponding data set

18 alphaWorks Services: Many Eyes  Create a visualization > 3 easy steps

19 Emerging technology downloads

20 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

21 www.ibm.com/alphaworks

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IBM Alpha Works Overview August 2007

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