DataHub WebView Raises Eyebrows at Microsoft Tech·Ed

Georgetown, Ontario (July 20, 2011) This spring Ken Collins, Cogent's Architect and Lead Developer for DataHub WebView, attended Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia, and introduced DataHub WebView to colleagues, vendors, and the Microsoft Silverlight product team. Tech·Ed is Microsoft's premier event for IT professionals and developers, offering comprehensive technical education across Microsoft's current and soon-to-be-released suite of products, solutions, tools, and services.

"This is an extremely knowledgeable group of people," said Ken, who was a highly-rated speaker at Tech·Ed in 2007 and 2008, and has led teams of professional trainers in the Hands-On Labs area. "Many participants hold Microsoft certifications and are experts in their field. The Microsoft Silverlight product team was very impressed with the finished appearance of DataHub WebView, and recorded a demonstration for Microsoft's Channel 9."

DataHub WebView's innovative application of Silverlight immediately attracted attention. "I was pleasantly surprised to see the extent to which data can be visualized," said Enrique Lima, MCT, Technical Lead for Consulting Services, Apparatus, Inc. "Having a framework that allows data to be rendered while maintaining control of a smart system that displays the changes in real-time is impressive. This implementation places the focus where it should be, on the data."

"Having worked with multiple manufacturing and utilities customers in the past, I can see how the WebView tool would be extremely useful in coming up with easy-to-use, real-time status monitoring and control systems that would assist instead of getting in the way," said Mike Bazarewsky, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Senior Consultant.

On learning about DataHub WebView's XML and XAML support for custom symbols and third-party controls, several component vendors expressed interest in partnerships to make their controls and components available in future versions.

Other attendees recognized DataHub WebView's potential as a cloud service application, allowing end-users to reduce infrastructure costs, provide redundancy failover, and protect their intellectual property while remotely monitoring their manufacturing processes and systems.

DataHub WebView and the Cogent DataHub are developed and maintained by Cogent Real-Time Systems. Founded in 1995, Cogent provides versatile and reliable middleware products to enable real-time data integration and access for industrial, embedded, and financial systems. Customers include Siemens, ABB, Honeywell, IBM, GE, Statoil, Goodyear, BASF, Cadbury Chocolate, and the Bank of Canada. Cogent DataHub and DataHub WebView are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.