This is my Adobe MAX 2009 presentation focusing on composite Rich Internet Applications for Enterprises and announcing Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic.

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Next Generation of RIA’s in
the Enterprise
Michael Hodgson
Matthias Zeller

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Agenda
 LiveCycle Mosaic Overview
 Technical Whiteboard Discussion
 Creating a Mosaic Tile Hands-On
 Running a Mosaic Application
 Q&A

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Current Business Challenges
Problem:
 Plethora of hard-to-use applications in the
enterprise
 Different navigation systems and user
experiences
 Lack of shared application context forcing
users to re-enter the same data in
different applications
CRM ERP ECM PLM
. .
.
Consequence:
 Low user productivity due to swivel
chair integration
 Poor decision making due to lack of
data visibility
 High training costs to use all needed
applications
 Low return on existing investments
 Poor customer experience resulting in
customer abandonment

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Solution: Mosaic, New LiveCycle Solution Module
Composite RIA Framework for rapidly assembling intuitive, personalized and activity-
centric RIA applications that aggregate existing enterprise applications
Increased productivity
 Increase end-user productivity
through simple, personalized,
highly responsive and consistent
user experience
Improved decision making
• Make faster decisions through
aggregating relevant, timely
information from multiple sources

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Application Pattern: Composite Rich Internet Applications
 New breed of context aware enterprise applications composed of
existing and new web applications.
Development Characteristics:
 Client-side framework APIs (JavaScript/ActionScript)
 Client-side context
 Client-side communication between applications
 Build from a central or distributed catalog of mashable components
 Created and delivered by IT department
 Additionally mashed up and customized by business users
 Integrate with existing SSO, directory and entitlement management
solutions

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LiveCycle Mosaic ES2
For Business Users
 Easy access via desktop (AIR)
application or browser
 Task-centric composite views
bringing complete context to daily
work
 Create new composite views from
IT provided tiles
 Customizable views & dynamic
layouts
 Work on tasks with different
contexts in parallel and persist work
in progress

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LiveCycle Mosaic ES2
For Developers
 Composition approach to application
development
 Comprehensive ActionScript and
JavaScript API
 Client side communication between
application components
 Central catalog for housing all
reusable application components
 Out-of-the box skins, shells and
layout managers
 Pluggable component model
 Integrates with existing SSO,
directory and entitlement
management solutions

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Target Use Cases
Case Management:
• User environment uniting all case information to speed case
resolution
• Ex: call center applications, case worker
• Sample tiles: customer contacts, reported bug defects, internal
knowledge base
Financial Advisor Workplace:
• Rich, simple and customizable workplace
• Contextual views unifying over 200 applications
• Sample tiles: investment portfolio, Google finance, salesforce.com
Sales Workplace:
• Unified customer views aggregating all relevant customer data
• Sample tiles: customer contacts, order history, RFP responses,
projected pipeline

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Project Timeline
 LC Mosaic in pre-release program since
June ‘09
 General availability planned for Q4/09

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LC Mosaic Catalog Browser (planned for 1.1)
 Browsing features
 Search based on metadata
 Sorting & filtering
 Customizable catalog UI
 Multiple catalog
support for easier
management

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LC Mosaic Design-Time Client (planned for 1.1)
 AIR-based design
client
 Drag & drop
assembly of
reusable application
components found
in catalog
 Ability to create
layouts visually

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