February 3, 1998 |
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To Demo or Not To Demo? |
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Where can companies go to demo their innovative new products to VCs, developers, and corporate executives? Demo98, put on by Chris Shipley. "Demo is the only executive conference to selectively showcase emerging technology and new products from across the spectrum of the personal technology marketplace," according to the conference's Web site (painless registration required). And wouldn't you guess, Java is well represented among the products.
We've highlighted two of the Java apps before, Organik and AlphaBlox, and there is a third standout that deserves mention -- Expense Reports from Extensity. This Java Fund-ed company has developed a Java application that automates the agonizing corporate process of generating, approving, and paying various expenses. The client app allows employees to input their expenses from anywhere through an easy Web interface, and the data is then passed to the company's RDBMS for processing. No more waiting several weeks for that expense check to come through. But be careful -- unallowable expenses will be rejected faster than you can say, "Wait, I can explain that..."
In reviewing these new Java products at Demo98, it is clear that Java has found its way onto corporate intranets in order to manage information between the client and server. Many of these new apps are focused on increasing employee productivity by making daily tasks easier and more distributed. Innovative young companies are realizing Java's promise, and events like Demo98 are vital to give them the exposure they deserve.
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