As the consumerization of the enteprise evolves, organizations have a unique opportunity to rethink how they manage IT.

It has traditionally been assumed that enterprise users are very transactional in focus and are either uninterested or ambivalent about superfluous experience features. However, what was once considered fluffy experience stuff isn’t just fluff any longer. Enterprise users, even more than consumers, don’t have time to waste. Forcing an enterprise customer to porpoise in and out of multiple read more

Here at Roundarch we’ve been keeping an eye on Kinect (formerly code named Project Natal), the new controller-free gaming and entertainment system that will soon be available for use with Microsoft’s Xbox. The technology behind Kinect seems to be unlike anything we’ve ever experienced and we can’t help but think that it will affect many things beyond gaming.

Last Month we had the chance to once again work with the Chicago band Wilco on updates to the successful iPhone application.  The updates gave us a chance to improve some of the features already in the application and add even more.  Wilco has always been dedicated to using new technologies to help the band connect to their fans and these improvements strengthen that connection.  The new version features an all new roadcase with live concert recordings from the Boston, read more

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About Dave Meeker
Dave Meeker has been professionally involved in the strategy, design and development of next generation creative technology since 1993 and currently serves as the Director of Emerging Technology for Roundarch as well as Co-Director of Roundarch Labs.

Prior to his role at Roundarch, Dave was Managing Partner at EffectiveUI, Director of Custom Applications at Whittmanhart, and Director of Information Architecture at Chicago’s dotCom darling, Web Design Group. Dave got his start in read more

I was on a flight recently for a conference, striking up conversation, when asked, “… so what conference are you attending?” I reply, “… a cloud computing conference, have you heard of that type of thing?” The answer was the best guess so far. “You mean for meteorological studies?”

That’s exactly what it should mean.

The cloud buzzword is hopelessly abstract. In a previous post, I summarized the three top level categories of cloud computing (Iaas, Paas read more

Despite 30 years spent automating financial transactions, financial institutions offer customers no more financial insight than when people used passbooks and accordion files.  The first institution to buck this trend will redefine the industry.  And there is no guarantee that it will be a bank…or credit card company.

Read the full American Banker article here.

Roundarch thrives on creating and implementing digital experiences. Part of building that experience is creating a robust web analytics infrastructure that supports future business decisions.

The Problem:

When using the square bracket notation to de-reference a property of an object within the mxml, you receive an invalid warning as in the following example. It stops you from noticing warnings that actually mean something, I’ll call it “warning blindness.”

First seeing these warnings a developer might think they need to add the [Bindable] tag to the object. Doing so will eliminate one of the errors, but will add to the compilation time and won’t really add any read more

Last month we attended the third annual Google I/O 2010 Conference. The conference, held at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco, CA, was the largest yet with over 5000 attendees, 90 breakout sessions, and 180 demonstrations in the Sandbox area.

NYSTROM Herff Jones Education Division, Roundarch’s client, was invited to show StrataLogica in the Sandbox area. We were on hand to answer technical question while Don Rescigno demonstrated StrataLogica to the attendees. We are proud to say that read more

Geoff Cubitt, President and Chief Technology Officer at Roundarch, spoke with Mike Vizard for his blog post on CTOEdge about the future of RIA and the cloud.

Geoff Cubitt, CTO of Roundarch, an IT services firm, says that while the lack of clear standards is unfortunate at the moment, most businesses want to see rich applications in the cloud sooner rather than later. That means many will read more