Timmons Group Selected by the United States Forest Service to Develop Nationwide Geospatial Activity and Accomplishment Tools Enterprise Solution

Richmond, VA (PRWEB) June 07, 2011

Timmons Group, a leader in geospatial consulting and application development, was recently selected by the United States Forest Service to develop the nation-wide Geospatial Activity and Accomplishment Tools (GAAT) enterprise solution for management planning and reporting.

Approximately forty-five percent of all forestland in the United States, or 354 million acres, is under nonindustrial private ownership. These lands contribute significantly to America’s clean water and air, wildlife habitat, recreational resources and timber supplies. Authorized by the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, the Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides technical assistance, through State forestry agency partners, to Nonindustrial Private Forest (NIPF) owners to encourage and enable active long-term forest management. A primary focus of the Program is the development of comprehensive, multi-resource management plans that provide landowners with the information they need to manage their forests for a variety of products and services. The U.S. Forest Service State and Private Forestry (S&PF) organization selected Timmons Group, through a competitive review process, for the development of the next release of the Forest Stewardship Plan, a writing and reporting tool. These tools are fundamental to a Redesigned S&PF that is able to relate on-the-ground accomplishments to priorities identified in the State assessments and strategies and consistently report on the core set of S&PF performance measures.

Timmons Group has worked with many state land management agencies over the past 10 years developing spatial accomplishment tracking and land management solutions. Developed solutions include Web-based geospatial/GIS planning and accomplishment tools, water quality monitoring and wildfire tracking tools, and reporting tools for Web and mobile platforms.

We are extremely excited to work with the USFS, S&PF team for the development of their GAAT, said Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group. Both the USFS and S&PF have an important mission to better understand where work is planned and accomplished across the country and to be able to report that in a timely manner. With the recent adoption of the State Forest Assessments in each state, a refined sense of priority for conservation delivery exists. Being able to track planned and completed activities against those defined priorities, both state-by-state and nationally, is imperative to the mission of the USFS. We have built many strong friendships with USFS state partners and are eager to provide the same capabilities to S&PF.

About Timmons Group:

Timmons Group is a leading provider of geospatial, information architecture and engineering services focusing on ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Mobile and Enterprise solutions. Timmons Group develops solutions across multiple platforms including Adobe Flex / Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and JavaScript. Timmons Group is a privately held ENR 500 company and maintains a strong business partner relationship with ESRI. Timmons Group has been a recipient of both the ESRI Business Partner of the Year award and the ESRI Foundation Partner of the Year award. For more information, visit http://www.timmonsgis.com.

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Timmons Group Selected by the United States Forest Service to Develop Nationwide Geospatial Activity and Accomplishment Tools Enterprise Solution

appendTo Releases AmplifyJS 1.0, a JavaScript Component Library

(PRWEB) June 15, 2011

appendTo, LLC, a jQuery company dedicated to IT experts and business professionals, announced today that it has released version 1.0 of its set of JavaScript components designed to solve common front-end web application problem with a simplistic API. The library called AmplifyJS, http://amplifyjs.com was developed to “amplify” your current JavaScript skills and provide some missing components that are important for developing scalable web applications.

AmplifyJS aims to simplify all forms of data handling by providing a unified API for various data sources. amplify.store component handles persistent client-side storage, using HTML5 standards like localStorage and sessionStorage, but falling back on non-standard implementations for older browsers. amplify.request adds some additional features to jQuery’s ajax method while abstracting away the underlying data source. AmplifyJS also provides methods in its API for the Publish/Subscribe messaging pattern that has seen a rise in popularity with front-end developers.

AmplifyJS solves the following problems:

Ajax Request Management – amplify.request provides a clean and elegant request abstraction for all types of data, even allowing for transformation prior to consumption.
Client Side Component Communication – amplify.publish/subscribe provides a clean, performant API for component to component communication.
Client Side Browser & Mobile Device Storage – amplify.store takes the confusion out of HTML5 localStorage. It doesn’t get simpler than using amplify.store(key, data)! It even works flawlessly on mobile devices.

AmplifyJS is an open source project released under the MIT and GPLv2 licenses. To download or for more information regarding AmplifyJS, visit http://amplifyjs.com.

About the Company

Founded by jQuery Team Members, appendTo, LLC (http://www.appendto.com) provides companies worldwide with the industry knowledge needed to make front-end web development projects a success. Through comprehensive training, guidance and support, appendTos team of industry-leading professionals leads corporate IT teams and web development professionals throughout the development life-cycle.

appendTo offers a full range of JavaScript Development Services, with affordable pricing options, whether you are starting a new project or need to optimize an existing web development application. With a wide range of expertise appendTo can assist you with your JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3 and various front-end technologies and best practices.

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appendTo Releases AmplifyJS 1.0, a JavaScript Component Library

Ecommerce Sites Can Now Choose From Four Different Offer Types To Help Increase Sales

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 16, 2011

Effective immediately, SalesBump (http://www.salesbump.com) has developed four different offer types designed to help e-commerce sites increase sales by allowing them to convert more visitors into buyers.

The tight economy and increasing advertising costs means e-commerce sites are looking for creative ways to increase traffic sales with real time promotions said Etesh Mangray, CEO of SalesBump.com.

With SalesBump, ecommerce sites can now show four different types of offers to help increase sales – discount offers, lead generated offers, custom offers and video offers. All offer types are completely customizable to match the design of the site. Site owners can change the timer, the size of the offer box, the font, and the color. All offers are connected to Twitter and Facebook to allow shoppers to share deals with their friends. Owners can A/B test offer messages as well as create offers that are targeted to display on the top landing and exit pages.

SalesBump allows sites to create customized offers to fit their current traffic and revenue needs. Salesbump can be used to help convert traffic from an expensive Google AdWords campaign, run a holiday sale, run an end of month sale, a slow day sale or any other type of promotion to help increase sales based on real time business conditions.

In one recent case a client was able to effectively use a video offer to show a short personalized video on how to install a car seat cover along with a free shipping discount. They were able to increase sales significantly from the product offered.

With sites spending so much on SEO and SEM and average conversion rates hovering around 3%, we are excited that SalesBump is able to show tangible ways in which ecommerce sites can increase sales said Etesh Mangray, CEO of SalesBump (http://www.salesbump.com)

About SalesBump.com

SalesBump offers a new solution to help e-commerce sites increase sales by converting more visitors into buyers. By adding a few lines of java script code, sites will be able to create promotional offers with intelligent messages on any page, and distribute them via social media. Offers can be easily set up and managed via a central dashboard. For more information and a free 30 day trial, contact us at http://www.salesbump.com.

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BlueMelon Photo Sharing is Becoming a Strong Platform for Photography Selling

Miami, FL (PRWEB) June 19, 2011

BlueMelon (http://www.bluemelon.com), has considerably extended the functionality of their account covering the needs of professional photographers and artists who want to sell their work online. By extending the basic functionality, such as convenient price list management and watermarking, they succeeded in creating a comprehensive solution with advanced presentation and selling features. The major enhancements include customer registration, customers photo uploading, two-way shopping cart sharing, discount coupons, and product packages.

In reply to the question How would you describe the recent development of BlueMelon?, Miroslav Liska, the BlueMelon CEO replied: We at BlueMelon consider the recent development a success since we managed to extend our services to create a solid platform for photography selling while retaining our main focus – usability.

Presentation features have been enhanced as well. Most notable among the enhancements are the global design changes, and the simplified theme and menu editors which obviate the need for the knowledge of HTML and CSS when customizing the look of an account. The overall design has undergone vast improvements and is now more accessible, usable, and professional in character while offering even more possibilities than before.

As far as discounts go, the photographers can choose from two ways of promoting their products : discount coupons and product packages. Discount coupons are implemented in the usual way of codes with an expiration date, which provide the customer with a discount of a fixed value or of a percentage of the total price. On the other hand, product packages are a convenient way of grouping common product choices together for an easier checkout and more satisfied customers. The packages can also be used to offer free of charge gifts to certain products or simply advantageous pricing for customers buying more products at once.

Professional photographers will surely welcome the concept of visitor registrations. They can set up a simple form to serve as a required or an optional registration form. After a visitor has registered with a photographer, the photographer can view the visitors details and answers to the questions in the registration form if any. The photographer can also see which photos the visitor liked and disliked.

An important feature that is missing in other similar photography selling services is enabling the sellers customers to upload their own photos to the sellers account. This feature can be set up so as to create an album for each customer or create one into which more customers can upload. A highly requested feature that has been added recently is the possibility for the sellers to prefill shopping carts for their customers and the possibility for the customers to share their shopping carts with the sellers who can subsequently help them with the checkout process.

Direct credit card processing support implemented in addition to the standard PayPal payment method, the possibility of embedding the whole gallery in ones website, and many other improvements make BlueMelon the preferred choice among online photography selling solutions. The free 14-day trial is certainly worth a try for any who seek to present and sell their work online either digitally or in the form of prints and other products.

About BlueMelon (http://www.bluemelon.com)

BlueMelon is a Web 2.0 photo sharing and selling application extensively using cookies and JavaScript. It has been providing photo sharing services since the April of 2009. The services have been rapidly developing with great attention to usability and customizability and are now rated top-quality services of this kind available. This feature-rich service is constantly gaining on popularity among both professional, and amateur, photographers around the world. Visit http://www.bluemelon.com for a trial account, more information and the newest development.

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BlueMelon Photo Sharing is Becoming a Strong Platform for Photography Selling

JSON Supported as an Interface Option for Ivory Service Architect

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 20, 2011

GT Software, a global provider of mainframe integration and data access solutions, today announced that its flagship product, Ivory Service Architect, now supports JSON as an option for web service processing.

This latest enhancement makes Ivory Service Architect easier for developers to use, and opens the door for JavaScript web designers to access the IBM mainframe enabling more people than ever before to leverage mainframe applications and data, said Wes Young, Senior Vice President of Sales for GT Software.

This reinforces Ivory Service Architects position as the most cost-effective, flexible mainframe integration tool on the market today.

JSON, or Java Script Object Notation, is a lightweight text-based interchange format thats easy for developers and designers to understand. Its text format is completely language-independent but uses conventions that are familiar to JavaScript web designers. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.

JSON support expands the support of Ivory Service Architect beyond SOAP and XML servers and provides the ability to create web-based interfaces directly accessing IBM mainframe applications, Young said. Ivory Service Architect is unique in offering JSON support to access applications and data on both z/OS and z/VSE platforms.

Ivory Service Architect offers a deploy once, support many processes approach that enables mainframe-based SOAP, RESTful, and JSON services from a single service definition. It also supports the deployment of web services across z/OS, z/VSE, CICS, IMS, Windows, Linux and Linux on z. Key features include the ability to shift integration and SOA-related workload off the mainframe to reduce MIPS, as well as leveraging new mainframe MIPS-reducing hardware such as IFL processors with Linux on z, and the exploitation of the zIIP and zAAP.

About Ivory Service Architect

Market-leading Ivory Service Architect enables organizations to extend access to mainframe applications, data, and processes using web services with no code written, generated or changed and no additional MIPS usage. Plus, Ivory Service Architect requires minimal training and offers quick deployment. Ivory Service Architect helps integrate all mainframe assets, regardless of underlying platforms, languages, and data formats.

About GT Software

For nearly 30 years, GT Software has helped organizations derive the greatest business benefit from their mainframe investments by delivering cost-effective mainframe integration and data access solutions. GT Software offers a suite of industry-leading mainframe integration and data access tools that improve operational responsiveness by simplifying and accelerating access to mainframe applications, data, and processes while reducing total cost of ownership.

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JSON Supported as an Interface Option for Ivory Service Architect

Multimedios Selects InetSoft's Dashboard Software

Piscataway, NJ (PRWEB) June 28, 2011

InetSoft Technology, an innovator in data mashup driven dashboard and reporting solutions, announced that Grupo Multimedios, one of the largest media and entertainment companies in Mexico, has selected InetSofts Style Scope in order to create sophisticated enterprise data visualizations that summarize sales and operations data for top executives.

For several years, Multimedios had struggled to create executive performance management dashboards using spreadsheets, pivot tables, and other BI tools. Although the dashboards they created reflected the KPI’s that needed to be shown, they were visually cluttered with lots of numbers, making it difficult for the end-users to effectively understand and manipulate the data. Finally, this past year, the company began looking into new BI tools that would be both easier to use and visually appealing, and it chose InetSoft.

One of the advantages of this tool is that we started using it from the very beginning without major changes in the extracted data. Using Style Scope from InetSoft gave us the ability to provide a graphical representation of the key data to top management right out-of-the-box and move from static tables of numbers to charts and graphics that are much easier to understand said Sergio Riojas, Chief Technology Officer at Grupo Multimedios.

Before the use of Style Scope, it took us months to build KPI dashboards that were simple enough to manage by end-users; now in a couple of days we can customize several graphic views, and even the users can build their own reports without IT intervention. With InetSoft tools, weve been able to create consolidated sales figures very easy and quickly, said Riojas.

Mark Flaherty, Chief Marketing Officer at InetSoft was quick to point out how Style Scopes visual analysis and self-service end-user capabilities are a perfect blend for organizations like Multimedios that seek to improve the speed and ease at which they are able make smart decisions based on the data at hand.

Style Scope was designed under the guiding principal of agile BI. One meaning of agility that our customers value relates to speed of information access. The goal is that users experience no delay in getting the information they need because its right at their fingertips, no matter where the data is stored. When coupled with powerful visual analysis tools, this leads to decision making thats based on the most current data available something every organization strives for, said Flaherty.

InetSofts Style Scope is an easy-to-use interactive dashboard software application that includes real time reporting and data mashup capabilities . The application is 100% Java at the server level, and HTML, JavaScript, and Flash at the client level. That, combined with its SOA architecture and open standards-based technology, makes for an ideal embedding and integration-ready application for dashboards and reporting. End-users get visually compelling, highly interactive access to data, while solution providers get a highly customizable, easy to learn and quick to deploy business intelligence toolset and information delivery platform.

To view a Flash demo of InetSofts business intelligence software application with its advanced dashboarding capabilities, and to download a free evaluation copy, please visit http://www.inetsoft.com.

About Multimedios

In operation for over 70 years, Grupo Multimedios is one of the most important media groups in Mexico with assets that include: 37 AM and FM radio stations; nine broadcast TV stations; three television networks; a 150,000-subscriber triple-play cable MSO offering television, broadband and telephony; 12 local, regional and national newspapers; two national magazines; outdoor advertising; music concert venues, and amusement parks. For more information visit: http://www.multimedios.com/

About InetSoft

Since 1996 InetSoft has been delivering easy, agile, and robust business intelligence software that makes it possible for organizations and solution providers of all sizes to deploy or embed full-featured business intelligence solutions. Application highlights include visually-compelling and interactive KPI reporting dashboards that ensure greater end-user adoption plus pixel-perfect report generation, scheduling, and bursting. InetSofts patent pending Data Block technology enables productive reuse of queries and a unique capability for end-user defined data mashup. This capability combined with efficient information access enabled by InetSofts visual analysis technologies allows maximum self-service that benefits the average business user, the IT administrator, and the developer. InetSoft solutions have been deployed at over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies, spanning all types of industries.

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Multimedios Selects InetSoft's Dashboard Software

Sencha Wins 2011 SD Times 100 Award In Tools & Frameworks Category

Redwood City, Calif. (PRWEB) June 28, 2011

Sencha, the leading provider of HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile application developers, has been has been selected by the editors at SD Times for a 2011 SD Times 100 Award in the category of tools and frameworks. The award was published in the June 2011 issue of BZ Medias SD Times, and also on http://www.sdtimes.com.

Each year, the SD Times 100 awards the top leaders and innovators, looking back at their achievements in the previous calendar year. To arrive at their decision, the SD Times editorial team evaluated Senchas technical offerings and reputation, and also factored in the companys buzz to gauge the companys leadership within the industry.

The software development industry has always been led by innovation, and thats especially true in todays challenging economic climate, said Alan Zeichick, co-founder and editorial director of BZ Medias SD Times. When choosing the 2011 SD Times 100 winners, we carefully considered each organization’s products and services, reputation with enterprise software development managers, and the new ideas and thought leadership that it has brought to the industry. Thanks to companies like Sencha, the art of software development continues to advance at a rapid pace.

We are honored and delighted to receive an SD Times 100 award from a publication that is highly regarded by top application development managers, said Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha. This recognition by the expert editorial team at SD Times and our inclusion in the Tool and Frameworks category reflects the emerging importance of Senchas rich toolsets for creating tomorrows web apps.

Web apps are game-changers for application development and deployment

Demand for Sencha open-source Web application frameworks and tools is being driven by two key trends in both business and consumer markets. Publishers, retailers and developers of consumer-facing apps are gravitating toward mobile Web technologies as a flexible solution for reaching mobile users on smartphones and tablets. This transition has been accelerated by the emergence of advanced, WebKit-based mobile browsers that embed the latest HTML5 technologies. In addition, many enterprises have begun to migrate their core enterprise applications from first-generation Web architectures to modern, single-page Web applications powered by the latest AJAX technologies. Enterprises and development firms are increasingly choosing Sencha tools and SDKs because of their ability to deliver faster development times and better user experiences on both the desktop and mobile devices.

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Sencha Wins 2011 SD Times 100 Award In Tools & Frameworks Category