the Next Frontier
Sneak Peek into the
Future of Spiceworks
Francis Sullivan - CTO & Co-founder
Greg Kattawar - VP Dev & Co-founder

Futures
• Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• Might make 3.5 (as alpha)
• Further out in 2009

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• Monitor and Network Settings improvements
–per setting area advanced settings
• Group level summary pages
• Activity feeds
–Widget, Environment, Group and Device

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• In-application help

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• glide improvements

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• Interface bandwidth charts

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• SQL based reports, optional widget view

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• SQL based reports

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• SQL based reports with widget view

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• Additional dashboard pages

Coming in Spiceworks 3.5
• User interface API’s
• Data API’s (Device, Ticket, Alert, Activity ...)
• Updated and optimized ruby/rails runtime
• over 100 enhancements / fixes

Futures - Alpha version might make 3.5
• Light Knowledge Base / User Portal
• \"Backbone\" Network Map

Futures - Further Out
• more use of crowd-sourcing
• sharing of application extensions
• deeper research / product data
• more real-time data for network management
• exposing groups - built-in vs. custom

Futures - Further Out
• helpdesk queueing / customizations
• mini-wizards for configuration
• enhanced network map drill-down
• performance / scalability improvements
• FIX FIX FIX - continuous improvements

Spice up the feature requests that you want!