| Rob Sarkis, CompuSystems’ CIO and VP of Information Technology said, ‘Association clients today
are more sophisticated in the way they collect and use data. Integrating systems allows faster
membership file updating and a more efficient registration process; web services enables that in
real time.’
Paul McCaffray, CompuSystems’ Executive VP and COO said, ‘Web services has provided the ability
to leverage the collective data, eliminate duplicate data entry, and deliver a truly integrated registration
service.’
2. VisualCV Inc. creating an online multimedia resume portal service:
VisualCV Inc. is creating an online multimedia resume portal service utilizing cloud computing from
Amazon.com.
According to Scott Herman, VP of product management at VisualCV, job seekers can also add
audio, video clips and links to Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files. VisualCV is using Intridea Inc’s
MediaPlug on-demand service, which allows developers to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to
transcode and store complex media files.
“The reason we built it with Ruby on Rails is we wanted to have the very strong Ajax interaction,”
Herman said. “It’s not just that the users create and own all the content. It really is a portal builder
for a non-technical user. So we really had to have our act together in terms of how the user
interface works with very heavy Ajax.”
3. Amazon Web Services Premium Support offering technical assistance for customers of
S3, EC2 and SQS:
New support program from Amazon is offering technical assistance for customers of Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Queue
Service (SQS).
Amazon’s Silver premium support plan is offering businesses a response time of four hours to two
business days and is also providing access to an unlimited number of support cases.
The Gold premium support plan is offering Silver Premium Support Plan along with around-theclock
phone support and one-hour response time for urgent matters.
The customer when signing up to the account can select AWS Premium Support. 4. SOA for pets also not just for humans:
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not just for humans any more. VetSource Inc. has developed
an SOA e-commerce application that provides veterinary prescriptions at home.
According to Craig Sutter, the technical director at VetSource, ‘With the new service veterinary
hospitals can set up their own website where pet owners can order medications directly once they
have a prescription from their veterinarian’.
RESTful e-commerce applications (in Java) use MuleSource Inc’s ESB (enterprise service bus)
technology for the information from a MySQL. The SOA implementation also uses the Apache Web
Server. VetSource also has an Ajax-based dashboard that provides sales and other business data. |
