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Widget Platform

The DreamFace Widget Platform is used to define new Web 2.0 applications, which are composed of the user profile (identity and rights), the applications screens, the widgets and their interactions, and the data sources that populate the widgets. The DreamFace Widget Library provides pre-built widgets that can be customized by developers. Business users can personalize their Web 2.0 applications by adding new widgets from the DreamFace Widget Catalogue, and personalizing them with the DreamFace Interaction Editor.

This ability to create new interactions between widgets, possibly of different origins is an important differentiation of DreamFace widgets. Widgets talk to their container but also talk between themselves. Interactions can be pre-configured but can also be defined on-the-fly by business users with the DreamFace Interaction Editor. DreamFace widgets are easily integrated with existing enterprise infrastructures and can seamlessly embed Ajax, Flex, and any other Web technology that can be displayed in a browser (including other frameworks' widgets and gadgets). DreamFace widgets or widget-based applications can run anywhere, including on the desktop, on Web sites, on Web platforms, such as Facebook, SalesForce, or MySpace, and on mobile devices, such as iPhones and Android phones.

Our leading-edge widget technology is complemented by a business model that permits enterprises to meet their business goals by publishing DreamFace widgets directly on other platforms without the compromises of alternative widget platforms, such as deploying the widgets to a hub or sharing revenue. DreamFace widgets are entirely skin-able making them easy to brand for deployment on other platforms.

Social Networking Framework

DreamFace 2.0 takes enterprise application development into the future by providing a fully widget-based Social Networking Framework within the DreamFace Platform. The DreamFace Social Networking Framework takes the best features from the most popular consumer social networks, extends them and makes them available in your application. The result is completely flexible to put as much or as few social networking features in your application. You can include all the pre-built social networking widgets, and extend the features by creating your own widgets and linking them in with the state-of-the-art DreamFace Interaction Editor.

Each DreamFace user has a user profile that ensures authentication and privacy, manages preferences, and enables single sign-on. The DreamFace platform is open, allowing enterprises to link DreamFace profile management functionalities with existing enterprise identity management systems, such as LDAP, to ensure compliance with established corporate authentication and security policies.

Like consumer social networking platforms, DreamFace enables users to find and link with other users and to define groups of users. Each user has a "Wall" that lists contacts' activities and other messages. DreamFace also supports other powerful Web 2.0 activities, such as the tagging, rating, searching, and sharing of widgets and applications.

Uniquely, DreamFace has abstracted the widget content allowing any kind of content to be put inside. With this feature, users can define digital assets, such as documents, photos, videos, links and even widgets or whole applications and group them into asset categories. A user can then subscribe to other users' or groups' categories. This powerful feature allows groups of users to implicitly share information about how they use the application, everyone becomes smarter by this rich exchange of information and collaboration becomes second nature.

Integrated Mobile Services

DreamFace 2.0 provides a platform for live broadcasting or publishing to mobile devices, providing faster access to critical or dynamically changing information. Users receiving these alerts can interact with their DreamFace widgets and applications directly from their mobile devices. Users can also broadcast information to select members or an entire group of users, from the Social Networking Framework. Targeted customer support, marketing, branding campaigns, and contests with user voting are examples of ways that enterprises can use DreamFace Mobile Services to implement new and innovate, increasing user satisfaction and retention.