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Future Focus of the Web: AJaX All The Way
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05/10/2006, By Stephen Swoyer
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For a product with a name like WebFocus, support for that most coruscating of new Web app dev paradigms—asynchronous Java over XML (AJaX)—was something just short of a foregone conclusion.
At its annual user Summit last month, Information Builders Inc. (IBI) made it official, announcing an AJaX-ready addition to its flagship reporting solution, slated to ship as part of WebFocus 7.6 this summer, along with a new process-driven BI capability, via integration with its iWay connectivity subsidiary. WebFocus 8 isn’t scheduled to ship until early next year, officials concede, but, they contend there’s plenty in the upcoming 7.6 release to keep users happy.
IBI introduced WebFocus almost a decade ago, says Michael Corcoran, vice-president of product strategy with Information Builders. Since that time, the complexity of IBI’s flagship offering has evolved in lockstep with the maturation of Web development paradigms: the initial CGI-powered WebFocus was replaced with a Java-based version, which in turn was supplanted by a Java servlet-powered approach. AJaX—which is premised upon concepts or technologies developers have been using for more than half a decade now, but which nevertheless came to the fore (as AJaX) only in the last 16 months —promises to up the ante in terms of interactivity and responsiveness, Corcoran contends. (For more on AJaX, check out the handy AJaX primer [link: http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=18432] at our sister publication, Application Development Trends.)
WebFocus 7.6’s projected July delivery date should make IBI one of the tier-one BI players to incorporate AJaX capabilities into its Web reporting solution, Corcoran says. From a user perspective, he concedes, the AJAX-ification of BI probably hasn’t happened fast enough.
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