Jnan R. Dash, Chief Startegy Officer at Curl

Jnan Dash is a technology visionary and executive consultant in Silicon Valley. He spent 10 years at Oracle Corporation and was the Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology.

Prior to joining Oracle in 1992, he spent 16 years at IBM in various positions including development of the DB2 family of products and in charge of IBM's database architecture and technology.

Mr. Dash is a frequent speaker at industry forums around the world on the future of software technology. He serves on several boards and advisory boards. He is also the Chief Strategy Officer at Curl Inc., a Cambridge, MA company.

Presentation: "Enterprise RIA - Deployment Examples"

Track: RIA in the real world: The Evolution of the Client

Time: Wednesday 10:45 - 12:00

Location: Cornell

Abstract:

This session will discuss 3 cases of highly transactional RIA deployments at actual customers in Asia. It will highlight why these customers decided to switch to a web platform (from the traditional client-server model), how they did it, what technologies they used, and what benefits they got.

While we are only starting to discuss enterprise-scale RIA with high scalability, reliability, security, and performance in USA, these customers in Asia are way ahead in deployment experience.

The underlying motivation was to give their users a far superior user experience (UXP) while lowering the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). This vindicates our hypothesis that RIA (not wikis, blogs, mashups, tags,..) is the low hanging fruit for bringing Web 2.0 to the enterprise.