Adobe Flex Business Intelligence Tool – Staff Forecasting

Chris Giametta — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:01:07 +0000

RecentlyAppFoundation worked with McManus Software to deliver a business intelligence system that provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, using real-time data from a large company’s accounting system and staffing application.

AppFoundation built this application using our Enterprise Flex Development Framework FxConnect. FxConnect cuts down on as much as 35% of development required to deliver Flex and AIR applications. The goal of FxConnect is to simplify development of large scale rich Internet applications (RIAs). The result is a framework that allows your company to start developing features out-of-the-box instead of worrying about core architecture issues that FxConnect addresses.

• Application Context
• Module Management
• Application Navigation
• Style Management
• Resource Management
• Data Transport
• Error Management
• State Management

We were able to turn this application around quickly by having the core architecture already in template form using FxConnect. This allowed us to focus directly on the features of this forecasting application.

For this project we started with the wireframe and design comps and then moved directly into development from here. This application is built on Adobe Flex, FxConnect, JSPs, and SQL Server as the database.

This application was broken down into three major functional areas; Workload, Client, and Timekeeper.

Workload allows the user to select a period in time to view total budgeted fees by month as you can see in the screenshot below.

Workload View

The Client tab allows the user to drill down to the individual client level to see their budget by month. This view allows you to update the forecast, investment, and hours. If you modify hours, the calculation for % Time and Billable Capacity are updated from the server. This is a key point for decision makers to look at resource allocation to determine if a resource is over-allocated for project work.

Client View

The Timekeeper view is used to input Vacation, New Business, and Other hours by month. This is done by selecting a timekeeper and filling out the matrix shown in the image below.

Timekeeper View

To learn how AppFoundation can help your organization develop Business Intelligence tools like this one, please visit www.appfoundation.com and contact us now.

http://adobe.flex.appfoundation.com

WASABI-SIG Dallas User Group Speaker

Chris Giametta — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:25:59 +0000

I will be the guest speaker on October 14th. You can find out more here. I hope to see you at the event. Here is the information regarding the location and topic.

October 14th, 2009 – 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Christopher A. Parr Library, Program Conference Room
6200 Windhaven Parkway, Plano, TX 75093

Data Visualization with Adobe Flex

ABSTRACT:

In this discussion, Chris Giametta will present an overview discussing the challenges of large data sets, complex data arrangements, and effective UI implementations using Adobe Flex.

This presentation is about building rich Internet applications that combine the interactive user experiences of Adobe Flex with the delivery of complex data from large data warehouses and databases. The goal for this discussion is to give you a better understanding of how RIAs can solve client needs in the business intelligence space.

BIO:

Chris Giametta is founder and President of AppFoundation Technology Group, a leading RIA company in Dallas/Fort Worth focused on data visualization and web based application development. AppFoundation employs advanced methodologies and tools to help decision makers build the situational awareness of their competitive terrain.

Chris is an Adobe Certified Expert in Adobe Flex. He was been working with Flex since 2004. Before learning Flex and Spring (Java based framework), he cut his teeth with EDS developing customer relationship management (CRM) systems built with Java on the front end, and a C++ implementation on the server side. He has extensive experience in delivering Business Intelligence systems, e-commerce, and ERP applications in a rich format.

As the author of Pro Flex on Spring, Chris focused on how to develop large scale applications using patterned based development to implement RIA technology.

You can contact Chris by visiting:

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Adobe Flex Business Intelligence Tool – Staff Forecasting

WASABI-SIG Dallas User Group Speaker