Presentation by Central Desktop's CTO Arnulf Hsu at Defrag Conference 2009 titled "The Curse of Simple - Why Less Isn't More in the Enterprise."

1. The Curse of SimpleWhy Less Isn'tMore in the Enterprise Central Desktop, Inc. Arnulf Hsu, CTO ahsu@centraldesktop.com

2. Less is More or Better Right?

3. Simple -> Sophisticated Workflow, Permissions, Auditing Relational Database, Custom Fields Database Spreadsheet Email Less People More People

4. Complex shouldn’t mean Hard to Use

5. Complex shouldn’t mean Crapware

6. Even Some Consumer Apps are Complex

8. Business or Enterprise Apps even more so

9. Collaboration Software is made up of many components People

11. But can you bridge the gap?

13. Industries

14. Departments

15. Use Case Models

17. Extend System Objects

18. Create Custom Objects

19. Flexible / Manageable Permissioning System

20. Workflow / Triggers

21. Audit Logs / Compliance

23. Can you handle Exceptions?

26. Flexible and Customizable for the Power User and Administrator.

27. Should NOT require IT personnel to do most of the Administration.