Customer Round-up #0707
In light of the launch of ColdFusion 8 earlier this week, I thought I'd provide a round-up ColdFusion customers. Apparently, more than 300,000 developers at over 10,000 companies worldwide rely on ColdFusion. With more than 125,000 ColdFusion servers deployed, makes ColdFusion on of the most widely adopted web technologies in the industry.
Arizona State University - With so many things to do and see in today's 24x7 world, grabbing students’ attention and keeping it can be a formidable challenge. At Arizona State University (ASU), more than 500 graduate students around the world enrolled in Online MBA and Executive Education programs in the W. P. Carey School of Business enjoy appealing, interactive, online course work developed and delivered using a full complement of Adobe software, including ColdFusion. ASU is using the rich application services of ColdFusion to deliver content housed on ASU’s server to students, as well as tapping ColdFusion components for building functions for different student interfaces and platforms. "ColdFusion enables us to leverage existing development resources to publish anywhere—a vital capability in reliably reaching 500 far-flung students. With ColdFusion, students can load content far faster than if we were delivering flat XML files," says Michael Ritchie. "And we can combine ColdFusion with Flash to have a more fluid interface and a simple, elegant cross-platform solution."
Children’s Hospital Boston - Children’s Hospital Boston is the nation’s leading pediatric medical center and the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. In addition to its 347 inpatient beds and comprehensive outpatient programs, Children’s Hospital houses the world’s largest research enterprise at a pediatric medical center. All hospital workers require ongoing training to ensure compliance with requirements from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and professional accrediting agencies. This is no small undertaking at Children’s Hospital, where nearly 3,000 doctors and nurses work alongside 4,600 employees and approximately 1,000 volunteers. The IT staff at Children’s Hospital Boston uses ColdFusion to integrate front-end processes with critical back-end systems. Children’s Hospital also uses a range of other Adobe software including Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro, Acrobat and Acrobat Connect.
Here are a few other companies using ColdFusion in creative and innovative ways:
Aspen Skiing Company - Case study
County of San Diego, Department of Child Support Services - Case study
eBags - Case study - this site also use Scene7 (an Adobe company)technology to render the images.
International Speedway Corporation - Case study