Intuit Partner Platform team blog

Chance to Win $12,500! Contest for Location-Aware Apps

The Intuit Partner Platform has recently partnered with Xtify Inc. to incorporate mobile phone location technologies into Intuit Partner Platform applications. By building and publishing a location-aware business application using the Intuit Partner Platform Flex SDK, plus the Xtify Flex API, you’ll be eligible to win up to $12,500 in cash prizes.

Three Prizes

• Grand prize: $7,000
• First place: $4,000
• Second place: $1,500

Key Contest Dates

• Contest begins: 4/23/09
• Application publishing deadline:6/23/09
• Panel judging date:6/25/09
• Contest ends (Workplace users counted):8/05/09

The Judges

• Ed Zander, recent CEO and chairman of Motorola
• Jeff Samberg,managing director of Acadia Woods Partners, LLC
• Alex Chriss,business leader of Intuit Partner Platform
• Andrew Weinreich, CEO of Xtify, Inc.

Watch the Sample App in Action

 

Check out all of the contest details here.

Thanks,
—The Intuit Partner Platform Team

Intuit Partner Platform v1.4 updates

IPP version 1.4 contains several significant enhancements to the application toolbars that appear at the top and bottom of every Workplace application. Additional changes have been made to address known issues.

Toolbar Enhancements

A significant number of enhancements have been made to the application toolbars that appear at the top and bottom of every Workplace application. Highlights include:

• Cross Application Navigation

Users who have access to multiple IPP applications can now easily switch between applications directly from the toolbar without having to revisit their Workplace “My Applications” page.

• Ability to Share and Administer

Toolbar options have been added which allow:

• All users to edit their Workplace profiles
• Users with admin permissions to share the application with other users, manage application users / permissions, and manage their Workplace account

• Application Ratings

Users can post reviews and rate Workplace applications on a one- to five star scale. Rating / review information is presented in the Intuit Marketplace.

• Expiration Reminders

Users evaluating applications using Beta or Trial plans are presented with a reminder that indicates how many days remain before they need to select a paid subscription plan.

For more information on these and other new Workplace toolbar capabilities, click here.

Software Updates / Fixes

For a complete list of software updates / fixes included in IPP v1.3, please review the release notes located here.

Communications from the Developer Relations Team

Please make sure you add news@developeremail1.intuit.com to your safe-senders list in your email client.  This is the address we use to send out our developer communications including Newsletters and Member Alerts. 

Remember, Member Alerts are for breaking changes or updates to the Intuit Partner Platform that require you to update your application.  Newsletters include information on non-breaking platform updates, contests, news, and upcoming webinars.

Inside SaaS: Deep Dive - Intuit QuickBase Architecture - Presentation, IASANE, April 23rd

Jim Salem, Platform-as-a-Service Group Architect, will be presenting the QuickBase architecture to the IASA New England chapter on April 23d. If you are in the area, and are interested in the nuts and bolts of how QuickBase is built, come on by! You can register at: http://bit.ly/odJjm

Details are below:

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Inside SaaS: Deep Dive into the Intuit QuickBase Architecture

Examine a rich software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform in detail. Used by over half of the Fortune 100, Intuit QuickBase solves critical business problems via its easy-to-use and easy-to-customize applications.

Jim Salem, QuickBase’s architect and co-founder will present its unique, highly scalable application engine which seamlessly integrates multiple web services including database, email, workflow, and reporting.  We’ll discuss its patented active-active load balancing technology that has made it one of the most reliable, fast and proven SaaS technologies today.

Its Windows-based hosting technology has  been extended as the basis for the Intuit Partner Platform, a service for RIA developers to deliver QuickBooks-integrated applications to small businesses. We’ll cover key design choices in data flow, network, and container design that have made QuickBase especially suited to hosting diverse applications for thousands of businesses.

Jim Salem
For the past 25 years, Jim Salem has been a pioneer in distributed computing and in the software/platform as a service space. He has extensive experience in all aspects of internet service delivery including scalable hosting infrastructure design, automated application provisioning, efficient resource management, and 24×7 operations.
In 1999, Salem co-founded Intuit’s QuickBase, where he has been responsible for architecting and delivering fast, reliable PaaS and SaaS services to hundreds of thousands of users. While at Intuit, he has held senior management positions in engineering and operations. Salem is currently the Platform-as-a-Service Group Architect.
Prior to Intuit, Salem served as Director of Web Hosting Engineering at GTE Internetworking (BBN Planet) where he supported thousands of servers in ten data centers. Earlier, he was a senior engineering manager at Thinking Machines, which developed a 65,536 processor parallel computing platform. Salem earned a B.S.E.E. degree from M.I.T. in 1984.

Date: April 23rd, 5pm-8pm
Location: Intuit Offices
100 5th Ave
7th Floor
Waltham, MA 02451
Agenda:
05:00pm-06:00pm Networking
06:00pm-06:15pm Chapter Announcements
06:15pm-07:30pm Inside SaaS: Deep Dive into the Intuit QuickBase Architecture

Register at: http://bit.ly/odJjm