Wednesday, October 29. 2008

New Microsoft Geovisualization Platform: Microsoft Single View Platform

You can read the press release, but it didn't really help me understand what Microsoft SVP is. I did find this elevator-pitch type sentence from the web area set up for the launch at GEOINT this week.

Microsoft SVP is an open, industry standards–based technology that provides a highly integrated foundation for a variety of data visualization solutions in the area of business intelligence, information sharing, work flow and business processes, project management and systems center.

(I've already contacted my PR person on this matter.)

Digging into the SVP white paper I learned:

The Microsoft SVP foundation architecture is based on the following core technologies:

 Microsoft Virtual Earth™
 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007; Exchange Server; Office Communications Server
 Microsoft SQL Server®
 Windows Server®

Sadly, when I went to watch the platform overview, I received this message:

The site that you visited was built for an earlier, beta version of Silverlight - not the current one. Please contact the site owner to let them know that they must upgrade to the latest release of Silverlight 2. Let us know if the site is not updated shortly so we can try to assist in upgrading the site to the latest Silverlight technology.

I'm counting on my colleague Joe Francica, who is attending GEOINT, to have a look at the SVP and help explain what it does.