Category: Industry

November 8, 2019

The Difference Between SmartClient and Smart GWT

We often get asked about the difference between SmartClient and Smart GWT. The answer is: ‘not much‘. When you’re running SmartGWT, you’re also running SmartClient When you are running SmartGWT, you are also running SmartClient.  You are using SmartClient’s widgets, data binding, browser compatibility, etc. See the SmartClient vs SmartGWT architecture diagrams below: As you can see, we only use the...

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February 1, 2018

Customer Success: Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

Developing IT solutions to support research for new, more effective and efficient treatments for heart and lung disease. Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is a partnership of two specialist hospitals, known throughout the world for their expertise, standard of care, and research success.  RBH has achieved incredible things: performing the first successful heart and lung transplant in Britain,...

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December 27, 2017

Customer Success: Big Pharma

Last week we talked to a Principal Scientist (let’s call him Ken) at one of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies. Ken gave us some really great insight into why and how they use SmartClient. Ken’s organization provides software support (at varying levels) for thousands of in-house scientists scattered across “innumerable areas of expertise and roles”. Scientists come to his group when they need...

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December 6, 2017

Tahoe Spotted in the Wild

Early Adopter of Tahoe SalesDriven (BPM and CRM application provider) adopted our Tahoe skin before it was even released. We thought you might like to see it in action. (Note: You can learn more about the Tahoe skin and how to get it here). Project Management SalesDriven’s project management capabilities feature filterable grids with grouping and multi-level summaries, and charts to...

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April 24, 2017

The Future of GWT

Here at Isomorphic, we fairly regularly get asked about the future of GWT. We thought we would give you a status update and provide some background info to put your mind at rest. Back in Jan 2012, Google switched from total control over the evolution of GWT, to a new model where GWT would be controlled by a “steering committee”....

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October 13, 2016

Java Ecosystem Insights, Free Cloud Expo Pass … and One More Thing

  Exec Insights on the State of the Java Ecosystem Tom Smith from DZone recently interviewed Isomorphic CTO, Charles Kendrick, and several other execs, to get insights into the state of the Java ecosystem. Tom’s article was published in Dzone’s Guide to Modern Java. A few of the highlights were: The open source community is driving more innovation than Oracle Java continues to...

Categories DevOps/Industry/Roadmap/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology/Tools

July 19, 2016

DevOps Patterns and Anti-patterns: How to do the Right Thing in the Real World.

In DevOps, what patterns lead to success? What are the anti-patterns that should be avoided? Charles Kendrick – CTO here at Isomorphic Software – recently participated in a DevOps power panel at the Cloud Expo in New York. The session was very well attended and incredibly well received. We thought we would share a few of the questions posed to...

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May 4, 2016

Join us at the DevOps Conference – Get your FREE Pass

Join us at the DevOps Conference Isomorphic will be at the DevOps Summit in the Javits Center, NY next month (June 7-9), and we’d love you to join us. Follow the steps at the bottom of the page to get your FREE VIP GOLD FULL CONFERENCE PASS.. One of the highlights will be our CTO, Charles Kendrick, discussing how to leverage technology to accelerate Agile development...

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January 4, 2016

Three Problems with Agile

The essence of Agile is to ramp up communication between team members to an extreme degree. The idea behind this is to minimize the functionality gaps, design misses and rework so often encountered in waterfall development processes, with an end goal of maximizing the output of usable software. Ramping up communication, however, has its own set of challenges. For starters, here...

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November 25, 2015

Is ‘lightweight’ always a good thing?

Business applications are supposed to improve productivity. That is why they exist. However, as developers, we sometimes get excited about a newly released technology and the benefits it claims. We can then end up adopting technology that actually degrades the final product – creating a less productive UI, and even ruining performance, despite promising performance claims. At Isomorphic, we see...

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