Java and e-collaboration

Rajeev AroraVP, Strategy & Business Developmentrajeeva@elluminate.com480-419-8603

The History of Personal Interaction

Telephone/Fax

Face to faceLetter

EmailIM

E-Collaboration

E-Collaboration Functional Taxonomy

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cal P

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nt G

roup

Siz

e Real TimeCollaboration (RTC):

Web/Audio/VideoConferencing andVirtual Classroom

Portals andOnline

Communities

Synchronous Asynchronous

Tacit KnowledgeManagement and

IntellectualCapital

DistributedProject

Management (DPM)------

Virtual WorkplaceAnd Process

CollaborativeCustomer

Relationship (CRM)Management Collaborative

ContentManagement

Unified and WirelessMessaging

Collaboration is a process by which people work together on a practical endeavor

A Different Perspective

Communication

Collab-

oration

E-Learning

E-Training

Live eLearning/ E-Collaboration– The new Paradigm

An Architecture for E-Collaboration

vClass

E-CollaborationObjects

JINX CommunicationFramework

Java Multiplatform

Compensate for different speeds, Internet disruptions

Chat, Whiteboard, Voice

E-Collaboration Application

Why Java and Jinx• Java runs on multiple platforms

– PC’s; Macs; Unix; Linux

• Java allows Web based connectivity and application startup

• Jinx is the Collaborative Communications Framework on top of Java

– Optimized for Shared Live Experience of multimedia collaboration applications

– Supports Many-to-many connectivity– Supports wide range of simultaneous bandwidths– Real-time Data Integrity

Jinx

Compresseddata

Data Integration (objectdisassembly / assembly):• Bandwidth Managed• Priority Queuing• Packet Sizing

Data Management

Client

Server

Client

Client

Client28.8 Dial-Up

Cable/DSL

ISDN

T1

Data sequence is ordered separately for each individual connection

Data Sequencing

Client

Server

Client

Client

ClientLAN T1

ISDN

56K

Amount of data sent is determined separately for each individual connection

DataObsolescence

E-Collaboration Objects

• Extensible Objects sharing the Jinx communications framework

– VoIP audio– Instant messaging– Shared Whiteboards– Application Sharing

E-Collaboration Benefits

• It allows meeting/learning/training to take place anywhere, anytime

• Cost savings via the elimination of travel expenses, conference calls etc.

• Online training is less intimidating to learners• Less employee turnover• It maps to the way people work

Barriers and Challenges

• How to measure its effectiveness and ROI• Issues around the development and

maintenance of organization-wide strategieso Leadership/executive buy-in and supporto Corporate culture/employees

• Technologyo Network bandwidth o Hardware capabilitieso Security

Questions & Answers