Emerging applications of interactive information

technologies

INSEAD Seminar, January 2004

Thomas Baudel, Principal Scientist

a word about me

Principal Scientist, in charge of User Interface Research at ILOG:Evaluate the new interactive software technologies that

will impact ILOG’s business in the years to come and define product evolutions taking advantage of those trends.

Background:University of Paris, University of Toronto, Xerox PARC, Alias (3D graphics leader)

http://thomas.baudel.name

a word about ILOG

1st worldwide publisher of Software ComponentsVisualization, Optimization, Business Rules, MiddlewareComplete offer of « software bricks » + services

Customers: major ISVs such as SAP, Siebel, Oracle…

“Changing the rules of business”business rule management systems deploy and apply policy changes

across the enterprise. Our customers rapidly react to customer demands, regulatory changes and competition

http://www.ilog.com

Interactive Information Technologies are about...

Draw a computer…

60’s 80’s

00’s

A true computer

CPU

RAM I/O

Importance of the User Interface

The user interface is the only perceived part of a computer system.

50% of the development effort is spent at constructing the user interface

And yet, nothing changes…

Well, almost !

Where are Interactive Information Technologies going ?

New Applications

Distributed ITWWW…

Ubiquitous ITportable computing…

Specialized ITnew tasks

creationsupervisioninteractive analysis…

New Enabling Technologies

Information Visualization

Morphology of interaction

New design and construction techniques

Software Components

Business Rules Management Systems

Some trends we explore

New Enabling Technologies:– New interaction techniques– Information visualization– “Business Graphic Objects”: returning graphic design

to graphic designers– Customizable software components– Business Rules

For specialized IT applications