THE ENTERPRISE LOVES GADGETS TOO
Everyone loves gadgets. You see them on the Web, on your desktop, on your mobile device. Gadgets enable you to keep track of your social network, your activities, your finances, your family – your life.
Now you can bring this technology to your enterprise. You can easily assemble a customized dashboard to help you keep track of your business — whether you manage a whole organization or a vital niche
With the WSO2 Gadget Server, you can offer your execs, employees, partners, or customers a way to get all the information in one place that they need. Each user’s dashboard is individualized, allowing him/her to add, customize, and rearrange gadgets, as well as group them into tab sets. The open “Web” model means users can select gadgets not only from your enterprise, but also from Google and many others.
“The ‘Web-centric’ design of gadgets differs powerfully from existing portlets because of the separation of concerns between the gadget author and the gadget server administrator.” – Paul Fremantle, WSO2 CTO
Build your own gadgets
Google Gadget development is an easy, standards-based process – any Web developer with basic skills in HTML, Javascript, and XML can develop and deploy a custom gadget. These gadgets can be hosted at any URL, or stored and advertised within the Gadget Server’s Gadget Repository.
Accessing enterprise Web services through a gadget is easy, reliable, and secure. And the WSO2 platform provides many options for connecting with diverse data sources-from the WSO2 Data Services Server connecting to data bases and spreadsheets to the WSO2 Mashup Server connecting and collating data from multiple sources (which might include external cloud services and even Web pages).
Cost effective open source
The WSO2 Gadget Server, like all WSO2 products, is 100% open source under the Apache license. No onerous license restrictions, no costly “enterprise editions,” and no special sauce that costs extra. WSO2 believes in providing clear and demonstrable value through world-class support. Our customers find our services a great investment in their own productivity, responsiveness, and peace of mind during development and deployment of advanced technologies.
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WSO2 Gadget Server
- In Action
- Features
- Architecture
Executive Dashboard
As CEO, Jack is ultimately responsible for understanding the operations of his company. Although he gets lots of reports, and in theory has access to a lot of raw enterprise data, gaining a comprehensive view of the company’s operations really only happens periodically at the end of each month. Consequently, Jack is not able to address emerging daily problems before they start to snowball. By rolling up his Key Performance Indicators into a series of live gadgets, Jack monitors company health with an executive dashboard hosted by the WSO2 Gadget Server. Supply chain, sales trends, customer trends can be monitored and alerts raised when deviations from norms occur. The enterprise gadgets comprising Jack’s dashboard were put together easily and incrementally by the company Web development team and are powered by a variety of existing backend services and mashups. Jack also includes some public gadgets in his page, displaying news feeds that keep him abreast of his industry, announcements from his primary competitors, and even traffic maps to ensure he doesn’t miss the opening pitch at his son’s evening baseball game.
Individual IT Command Center
Wendy manages a number of services for the IT department of the company. Her personalized dashboard includes gadgets that show the traffic patterns through a number of critical systems. One system is powered by the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, and she pulls performance numbers–and a gadget to display them–directly from that system. A number of legacy systems rely on the WSO2 Business Activity Monitor to roll traffic metrics up and provide a gadget that she can place on her page. In addition, she wrote her own trivial gadget and stored it in the Gadget Server’s repository to ping an external service and report downtime. This gadget proved popular with her co-workers too!
Enterprise developer
Adam is a developer who has worked with JSR-168 portals. In a service oriented world, he finds Java-centric portlets a bit out of place. His backend infrastructure consists of both legacy and service enabled applications, some written in Java and others in .Net and PHP. Writing adaptors for JSR-168 to bring them to the presentation layer is a tiring task. Google Gadgets appeal to him because finally he can easily present information from backend services in a language-neutral way. Adam starts by writing gadgets in easy HTML and Javascript, and hosting them in the Enterprise Gadget Repository. When Adam and his team upgrade gadgets, all they have to do now is update the repository, and enterprise-wide users get these updates in their dashboards upon the next browser refresh. Wendy in IT and Jack the CEO are among his fans.
