Genesis Overview Slides from Adobe MAX 2008

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Genesis (code-name): A Collaborative Mashup Client for Business Users

Steve Yankovich Matthias Zeller

11/17/2008

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Genesis Zen – The Persistent Personal Portal

Persisted, Shared Context, Shareable

Today’s Desktop

Tomorrow: Genesis

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Genesis Improves Knowledge Worker Productivity

Email

IM

Phone

MS Office

Portal

Internet EDMS

ECM SFA

CRM

BA

BI

PLM SCM

ERP

Multiple, disparate information sources

Unite relevant information in a single, shareable workspace available online/offline

Intuitive UI and drag-and-drop simplicity promote information use and sharing

SaaS delivery, easy-to-use templates facilitate cross-functional, cross-geo collaboration

No need to re-start work from scratch Knowledge Worker Value Proposition

Online/Offline Availability

Adobe-quality Aesthetics

Persisting Applications

Rapid, Easy Collaboration

*Multiple Silos

Genesis Workspaces: Personal, Shareable,

Collaborative

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Product Overview

Allows for drag-and-drop creation of Workspaces and offline use

Catalogs of templates and tiles

Combine desktop files with applications and Web based services

Includes the same authentication and security as browser based use

Create custom workspaces and publish as templates

Communication between tiles

Easily share workspaces with others

Real-time collaboration

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How Does it Work

1. Launch AIR-based client

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2. Drag and drop files into new workspace

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3. Access the catalog

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4. Drag and drop tiles and templates

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Enterprise Server

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4. Drag and drop tiles and templates

5. Collaborate

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Demo

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Genesis - A New Delivery Channel for Flex Developers

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Genesis Current Overall Architecture (October 2008)

Storage

User Mgmnt

Connect

Amazon EC2

Genesis Core Server

XMPP Server (IM)

Catalog Server

Genesis Client

Internet Intranet

Workspaces

Local Catalog

Collaboration

AIR

SAP

Oracle

LiveCycle

Catalog Server

File(s)

Tile Data

Registration SSO (Adobe ID)

LiveCycle Data Services

Adobe SaaS Infrastructure

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Developing Tiles for Genesis

Flex 3.1 is recommended

New Parent Class

TileApplication

Data persistency

New Event

AddedToWorkspace

Called after createComplete

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Functionality of the Genesis Parent Class

Extends mx.core.Application

Gives access to Workspace API

Username

Current Role

Inter-Tile Communication

More to Come

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Get Data Persistency with One Tag

New Metadata tag [Persistent]

Automatically saved by workspace

Shared along with the workspace

Managed as a blob, can be any data

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New Event to Notify When Tile is Loaded and Ready

AddedToWorkspace

Fired after the Tile as creationComplete-d

Fired when persistent data is set

Other tiles have been notified you are being added

Finally rendered on the Workspace

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More Information

Genesis Blog – http://blogs.adobe.com/mashup

Genesis on Adobe Labs – http://www.adobe.com/go/genesis

E-Mail

Matthias Zeller – Group Product Manager - [email protected]

Steve Yankovich – Entrepreneur in Residence – [email protected]

Twitter

Dan McWeeney – Solution Architect - dan_mcweeney

Matthias Zeller – Group Product Manager – matzeller

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