The Live Web Platform from Aftercad

The Live Web Platform represents a revolutionary step in delivery of complex visual data and social media across the web. Live Web eliminates the need for proprietary and restrictive client side software to engage users with a broad spectrum of high visual quality and dynamic media. Live Web is the first platform of its kind to go beyond video, allowing direct access via the web browser for complex visual media for CAD, GIS, maps, games and virtual goods. This means that vendors can now literally offer live and interactive CAD, social media, gaming and virtual environments right in the browser without the need for any special software on the users computer. Live Web removes all barriers to access.

Absolute zero barrier access opens up a whole new potential for Software-as-a-Service and social media deployment. For example, where you used to have to distribute a 3D part with the viewing technology, now you can simply post and share the 3D part like Youtube(tm). Modern 3D Games require downloading a game app and waiting for gigabytes of content to load, now that can all be done away with and the user simply clicks a link and is in the game instantaneously. Virtual goods can be fully 3D, animated, interactive, sound tracked and dropped directly into Facebook without a clunky viewer app. Worlds like Second Life can be accessed from anywhere with a browser without having to install anything first. This becomes even more poignant considering the explosive growth of mobile usage and the processing power restrictions on mobile. Live Web is able to deliver social media effortlessly to mobile devices as all of the heavy lifting is being done server side.

The Live Web platform is a game changer. Now that complex visual media publishers can remove all barriers to immediate content access, this opens up incredible new potential to spread these new media across the entire web including mobile. The exact trajectory complex visual and social media will take in the future is difficult to predict but the Live Web Platform will be there to accelerate the adoption of whatever media formats take hold and deliver a consistent media experience to the user where ever they are in the real world.

Backbone Top 20 Web 2.0 for 2009

Aftercad received this prestigious award for its Live Web 3D technology

Client Spot Light: The Open Design Alliance

"While SaaS may be relatively new to the technical graphics and CAD industries, adopting new technology and offering more opportunities to our ODA members is a core part of our component strategy. The collaboration with Aftercad opens new paths for innovation and success for our members." - Arnold van der Weide, ODA President

Host Your Own Cloud

The LiveWeb Platform lets you host and run your own cloud services for the creation, editing and publishing of complex visual media. LiveWeb is built around a simple philosophy of centralized content management that acts as both an assembly point and publishing engine. Different workflow tools can be used with LiveWeb to produce content, both Software-as-a-Service and traditional desktop apps can be used side by side in your own managed workspace. Once your content is ready for publishing, LiveWeb can share it over the web with unlimited reach to anyone with a web browser 24x7. Detailed media deployment analytics and stats are kept by the LiveWeb publishing applications for use by marketing professionals and clients.

Flexible Coding & Development

The Live Web Platform is built around .Net technology to allow the maximum flexibility and integration with modern coding practices. It has an extensive API to allow the easy addition and tuning of functionality within the system. Being modular in nature, new workflow and publishing tools can be added and developed live in parallel with live features without disruption to existing workflows. These new features can be run through the proof of concept/alpha/beta/rc cycle live right there in the system to allow maximum input, testing and feedback.

Architecture & Features

The live Web Platform is divided into three main areas of functionality: Core, Workflow and Publishing. The Core services handle users, content, security, event notification and backup. This provides you with an immediate out-of-the-box solution for a robust portal to run your cloud services in. The Core is highly extensible and has been designed to be compatible with the integration of most modern web technologies. For content creation the Live Web workflow can accommodate both desktop application and browser based workflows and combinations thereof. This provides maximum flexibility for content creation teams who are based in different tools sets and geographies to work together in one place. Live Web utilizes award winning Web 2.0 technologies to publish your content to anyone anywhere with a browser. This guarantees the absolute zero barrier delivery method unique to Live Web and also gathers content deployment metrics for marketing analysis.

These Live Web core component tools help you administer and operate your cloud portal and manage resources based on users and projects:

• User Admin Tool
• Storage and Backup Planner
• WebFS
• Event Notifications & Audit Trails

Live Web comes with some excellent SaaS tools for usage in the browser as well as conversion utilities for desktop applications;

• DWG2SVG
• DGN2SVG
• Aftercad DWG Markup Tool
• Aftercad Collada Markup Tool
• Weblink Support
• Google Docs Support

These Live Web Publishing Applications are designed for maximum deployment ease for complex 2D, 3D and Streaming Media

• Aftercad 2D Web CAD Viewer
• Aftercad 3D Web CAD Viewer
• Zoomthere Web Map Publisher
• Live Web 3D Immersion
• Live Web SuperCaster