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

Flex Geographic Information Dashboard

Chris Giametta — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:00:13 +0000

Last week AppFoundation released a demo application built in Flex. You can read more about it here:

AppFoundation Company Blog: GIS

The application was built on top of Modest Maps. Modest Maps displays tile-based maps from sources like Microsoft, Yahoo!, OpenStreetMap and others. Here is an image of the app.

Launch the application

If you want to learn more about how AppFoundation provides solutions based on Rich Internet Applications, please drop me a line at www.appfoudation.com.

Dallas Based AppFoundation, Inc – Enterprise RIA Development

Chris Giametta — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:36:46 +0000

I wanted to get the word out that my new company, AppFoundation Technology Group, Inc. has launched its new web site in Adobe Flex.

The site uses Flex to communicate with PHP through HTTPServices to access dynamic content that drives ‘pages’ being created in the rich internet application. The graphics were mostly done using Photoshop and put into CSS using 9-slice scaling.

You can see the site here: www.appfoundation.com

Please drop by to see how Af can help you deliver your Enterprise RIA projects and much more.

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Adobe Flex Business Intelligence Tool – Staff Forecasting

Flex Geographic Information Dashboard

Dallas Based AppFoundation, Inc – Enterprise RIA Development