Adobe AIR Showcase

O2Apps.com

Ucompass' O2Apps.com delivers advanced resources, tools, and services to expand community of developers creating and deploying Adobe® AIR™ applications.

Ucompass is an eLearning leader that has long recognized the benefits of delivering rich learning experiences online, as well as offline. That is why company executives were excited when they heard about Adobe AIR. With Adobe AIR, the company could improve the quality of experience and ease of use for existing clients, while opening up possibilities for new revenues.

As company managers embarked on developing Adobe AIR applications, they recognized the importance of having a strong, independent community of developers who could share ideas and inventions. Seizing the opportunity to strengthen its own development, support other developers, and provide a foundation for future Adobe AIR products and services, Ucompass created O2Apps.com.

"We saw the benefits of developing with Adobe Flex™ and Adobe AIR and wanted to promote developer adoption," says Edward Mansouri, chief executive officer at O2Apps.com. "This would also help promote use of our own Adobe eLearning applications that are built on Adobe AIR." Today, O2Apps.com is a popular resource for developers and business managers worldwide, offering resources and opportunities to share knowledge and applications about the Adobe solution.

"Adobe AIR delivers enhanced end user experiences and provides developers with options to extend services by using their existing skills to develop branded, dynamic desktop applications for use online or offline," says Mansouri. For Ucompass and other companies wanting to expand the reach of their applications, the ability to quickly develop and deploy applications using Adobe Flex means faster—and lower cost—delivery of services.

O2Apps.com consists of two sub-projects: the AIRapps.net website, and an E-Commerce Framework. AIRApps.net provides a platform for the developer community to collaborate and speed rollout of new applications. The focus of the AIR E-Commerce Framework is to enable Adobe AIR developers to easily monetize their applications.

Creating a Powerful Online Community

In addition to developer tools, AIRApps.net's resources include automatic discovery and coverage of Adobe AIR applications, coverage of Adobe's on Air Bus Tour, mashups aggregating Adobe AIR-related information, and interfaces with Twitter, YouTube, Google, Flickr, Amazon, and other sites.

"The response from Adobe AIR developers has been fantastic," says Mansouri. "We've already received more than 100 AIR applications to showcase on the site and the discussion communities are active with developers from around the world. Adobe AIR goes a long way in bridging the gap between the desktop applications and web services."