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ColdFusion 8 Customer Success Stories...

January 29, 2008 11:28 AM

The following ColdFusion 8 case studies are available in the Customer Showcase at adobe.com:

Adobe ColdFusion enables fast, flexible, hosted delivery of schools' administration package

New Zealand online community and marketplace brings together sellers and buyers of mobile content--games, video, audio, images--using powerful Adobe ColdFusion 8 solution

Check out the ColdFusion sites of the day for more examples of how customers are using CF.

One could be your's..

Speaking of case studies. To those of you running on ColdFusion 8 in production, I'd like to offer an ROI/Case study (value of over $17,000 on Adobe). We would hire a third party to evaluate what results your organization realized by using ColdFusion 8 to develop your applications. You would be given a report at the end of the study with metrics around you application's development and deployment. I've worked closely with IT departments in a past life and I know it can be a thankless job. Here's an opportunity to showcase the results and story behind what you've accomplished for your company and an internal tool that shows the value of CF. In turn, I can showcase your story. If you're interested, please contact me either via the comments or via my contact form here. I would like the following information: how you are using CF 8 today (types of applications) and which features you are leveraging in those apps. Are the apps internally or externally facing? Anything else you want to tell me. I can also be reached at kwebb at adobe dot com. ColdFusion *8* customers only please. :) I am looking to act soon - so please don't wait if you are interested.

- Kristen

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Hi Kristen,
As you may know the Wharton School is a longtime and heavy user of ColdFusion. We use CF to develop many of our web applications and as a back-end to our Flex applications. The team I am involved with develops student facing applications such as SPIKE (student portal...outlined below). We also develop Faculty facing administrative applications such as Online Grading and Online Seating Chart (http://technology.wharton.upenn.edu/instruction/). We have a Learning Labs (http://technology.wharton.upenn.edu/learninglab/) team that develops experiential classroom simulations. Our widely known Knowledge@Wharton (http://technology.wharton.upenn.edu/knowledge/) online business journal is also running on ColdFusion 8. We'd love to highlight some of the ways we are using ColdFusion 8.

We released a new student portal (http://technology.wharton.upenn.edu/spike/...http:...) this past Fall running on CF8. SPIKE is an externally available app but much of the interesting functionality is available once you log in. All of the standard functionality in CF helps us tremendously (development speed, performance, db connectivity, CFCs, importing Java libraries). We are using the exchange integration to display and integrate the student's personal calendars with their course schedule, events calendar, and more. We are using more and more of the built in Ajax functions (cfgrid, binding to form elements, tab navigators, etc) as we have found them very easy to implement. We are using CFFeed on our homepage to bring in external feeds (ie knowledge@wharton). We are using some of the image manipulation functionality provided with cfimage to upload images to our Life@Wharton modules. We are beginning to use the cfpdf functionality in order to manage and serve up syllabi to our students. We are using the SMS gateway to be able to run SPIKE SMS applications for on the go students. And the list goes on...We love ColdFusion and we love what it enables us to do. Thanks

Posted By Jason Lehman | 1/31/08 11:47 AM

Is Adobe looking to perform these in the immediate future, or could they potentially be 6 months or more down the line? I just took over as the lead developer for a large travel information company, and we're completely redoing our chain of highly-popular Web sites (more than a million visitors per month from the logs I browsed) in CF 8. I'd estimate that our usage, profits, and site performance will both increase exponentially, while the facility of site maintenance will DECREASE exponentially, but we won't launch/have visible results for 4 or 5 months.

Bonus: We'll be doing a lot of our administrative/intranet tools with Flex 3, and I'm pitching it for certain consumer applications too.

Posted By David McGuigan | 2/1/08 2:22 AM

Kristen,

We just finished a terrific derivatives charting application for a financial customer.
It has a flex front end and a CF backend. The backend combines the use of Java libraries
for calculations, caching, cfthreading and then recombining real time data direct from
the exchange for up to the milisecond results. The end result is a dual chart that works
in tandem and keeps track of date elements with multiple cross hairs, 12 or 14 studies etc.
It's pretty unique and it currently has 2000 subscribers and growing.

If that is the sort of thing you need for your white papers or success stories let me
know - I'll be glad to show you more :)

-Mark Kruger
(CF Webtools)

Posted By Mark Kruger | 2/22/08 6:51 PM

	March 22nd we upgraded our production clusters to CF8 and have seen great performance gains. This site gets over 3 million page views a day and we saw a 400ms improvement in the average response time per our Gomez monitors, which monitor from 30 locations. CPU utilization dropped by about 15%. Now those planned capacity servers are on the back burner. Great product, nice job Adobe.
	Posted By RyanTJ \| 4/14/08 2:06 PM

	Hi, Kirsten. Advantages of CF 8 by Adobe express me but study's price scare me. I prefer online services powered by google like http://www.google.com/notebook/public/139255901658...
	Posted By Glenn \| 5/4/08 3:54 PM

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	Posted By szitakalman \| 6/13/08 5:12 AM

	Hi. I will try this application now, I report on him then. thanks
	Posted By Alex Griffin \| 6/16/08 12:36 PM

	We just finished a terrific derivatives charting application for a financial customer.
	Posted By Peter Wolf \| 6/22/08 6:02 PM

	We love ColdFusion and we love what it enables us to do. Thanks
	Posted By Christian Solei \| 6/28/08 4:05 PM

	We are using the exchange integration to display and integrate the student's personal calendars with their course schedule, events calendar, and more.
	Posted By Kiss Laslo \| 7/13/08 2:39 PM