Technologies that make technicians unemployed by info2.0

Give the user a piece of puzzle and fill in parameters according to the specifications to generate a new application. This was the latest info2.0 concept proposed at the ibm iod 2007 conference a few days ago. Info2.0 allows enterprise users to build new applications independently without relying solely on technicians. At the meeting, some people joked that the technicians would be unemployed.

Business personnel can collect applications by themselves
The disconnection between IT applications and business needs has become a bottleneck restricting enterprise information management today. IT Applications promote the development of enterprise information management, but with the explosive growth of business data, complexity increases and flexibility changes, no technical vendor can develop applications for each enterprise separately to meet the individual needs of business personnel. In an enterprise, the knowledge gap between technicians and business personnel has become a challenge to develop IT applications that meet full business needs. Therefore, a new technology is required to allow business personnel to build their own enterprise applications.
Perhaps to grasp this trend, IBM proposed the concept of info2.0 at the IOD conference and demonstrated the mashup starter kit pre-release of the auxiliary development platform of info2.0. It uses the web development technology mashups and abstracts enterprise application data into feeds (Small Business modules). Enterprise personnel can drag and drop these feeds to build new applications. At the same time, IBM highlighted the XML feature "purexml" of "viper2" in the next version of DB2 9 ". The significance of integrating XML into the database is not only because XML is the format of data exchange, but more importantly, it makes the data have the business meaning, so that the business personnel can understand the data, it is the guarantee for business personnel to build their own enterprise applications.

Are technicians really unemployed?
Enterprise Application staff can develop their own applications. are technicians in the enterprise really unemployed? The answer is no. In fact, the division of labor among technicians is more accurate. The front-end business problems should be solved by the business personnel themselves. Business Development always requires better tool support, and new computing platforms are also emerging, these technical challenges should be completed by technicians. Just like the history of pilots, the earliest pilots were all mechanics, but the pilot's specialization did not make them unemployed. At the IOD conference, IBM provided the technical components for the development of technical personnel Web2.0: ajax/Ria, mashups/XML, collaboration/SOA. It can also be seen that enterprise application development, regardless of the implementation of Ajax/Ria interaction between front-end users and the SCA/sdo soa development method mapped to the IT architecture, must be agile to backend services, it leaves a vast space for technicians.

Info2.0 promotes Web2.0 penetration into SOA
SOA is a set of ideas and methods to quickly respond to agile business needs. Abstract The business data, content, and information of the enterprise's backend into public resources for internal and external use of the enterprise. As a supplement to the SOA idea, Web2.0 is changing the enterprise's front-end application interaction mode and collaboration mode. The link between backend SOA and frontend Web2.0 is business data. This pattern is considered to be a direction for enterprise IT architecture to meet agile business needs. The info2.0 proposed at this IOD conference can be seen as the implementation of SOA ideas. Info2.0 will further promote the penetration of Web2.0 technology applications such as mashups and feeds into SOA, and re-integrate the business information of the backend SOA according to the requirements of the front-end application, so as to bring the back-end business data to the front-end application.

New action of Information Management
From making profits directly from users to making profits by helping users' business grow. This has become a basis for all IT vendors to sort out their own products and services. It is difficult to understand some of IBM's new actions in the information management market for the year 08 at the IOD conference. The launch of the new partner program further opens up the resources of its global sales experts, marketing and technical consultants, users added to this plan are allowed to enjoy this resource for free to achieve their own business growth. The new Master Data Server helps you centrally manage key business data such as customers, products, and accounts. The new DB2 Data Warehouse version 9.5 is embedded with Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and analysis capabilities for unstructured information. Of course, the concept and product of info2.0 will also be officially released.

Through this IOD conference, we can think about whether to sell only general enterprise management software in the enterprise application software market in the future, or should we hand over the information management technology to users?