BT brings communications to DIY programming tool [BT broadband office]

BT brings communications to DIY programming tool

Posted 4 October 2007 at 8:36AM by Simon Dickson in Doing business online

Coghead is either the answer to your IT manager's prayers, or his/her worst nightmare. One of the few web 2.0 companies consciously targeting businesses, Coghead's tool makes constructing complex web-based applications as easy as drag-and-drop. On the one hand, it means the users on the front line can create and customise their own online tools. But on the other, you may be left wondering why the IT department made it all sound so difficult.

BT has just announced a partnership with Coghead, which will bring BT's Web21C messaging and telephony services into the Coghead development environment. So let's say you're building a web-based CRM database for your business using Coghead; if you want to build in text-messaging functionality, BT's toolset will be just a click or two away.

Coghead CEO Paul McNamara says his product isn't about 'replacing programmers': instead, he pitches it as the solution for the many 'nice to have' projects which IT departments simply couldn't justify on cost terms. When IT says no, he points out, users often go off and build inappropriate things themselves - and that can make things even worse. 'We want to enable IT or business unit people to create relatively simple applications quickly to solve this class of needs,' he says, 'and to do it in a far better way than previous attempts.' But that hasn't stopped others suggesting Coghead could shake things up for the entire software industry.

If you want to know more about Coghead, this video presentation is probably the best place to start. You can sign up for a free 30-day trial; after that, it's $49 per month for a 'base plan' with five users, 25,000 data records and 250MB of attachment data.

Tags: bt, coghead, databases, programming, web21c

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1. At October 4, 2007 1:08 PM, Dark Djinn wrote:

Finally!!! I will be able to build a chess board that has solitaire and checkers capability. With the BT tool in there, I will even be able to send IMs to myself....will I need a static IP address for this?

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