Microsoft Project Siena - Simple Windows 8/8.1 App Development

[MrKJLS]

Technet Link: Microsoft Project Siena

 

Windows Store Link: Microsoft "Project Siena" app for Windows in the Windows Store

 

Microsoft Project Siena (code name) is the beta release of a new technology for business experts, business analysts, consultants and other app imagineers. Now, without any programming, you can create powerful apps for the device-first and cloud-connected world, with the potential to transform today’s business processes.

 

• Apps to explore media-rich product catalogs and create ensembles that together serve a customer’s needs

• Apps used on the spot to resolve customer service bottlenecks and logistics exceptions, with the custom intelligence to help the user make local trade-offs

• Apps for auditing and inspecting a manufacturing facility through photos, videos and pen and voice notes, all tied to an asset database

 

Siena apps are as easy as editing a document. You place some visuals on a canvas. You hook them up to your data. You customize how your app looks and works. Then, if you need special logic and intelligence, you write some Excel-like expressions. You can use your app immediately, or share it with colleagues or the world.

 

With Siena, you can conceptualize, validate and build your app ideas almost as fast as you can come up with them. And if your needs change tomorrow, updating your app is no problem. Open it. Change it. Share it again, and you’re off to do business.

 

Siena works well with corporate and web data and media content: SharePoint lists, Excel and Azure tables, RSS feeds and the gamut of RESTful services.

 

Siena apps are just HTML5 and JavaScript and are deployed and managed like any other Windows 8.x app. In fact, developers can open them up, see what’s there and, if needed, extend them in their favorite programming tools. (Source)

 

 

Edited December 30, 2013 by MrKJLS
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[jamesfed]

Something like this has been needed for a while - can think of a use or 2 to build something for a reception 'kiosk'.

[MrKJLS]

Something like this has been needed for a while - can think of a use or 2 to build something for a reception 'kiosk'.

 

Nice idea, would like to see someone do something like this. The only example's I've seen are the ones on their website (Link).

 

Kieran

[jamesfed]

With RSS support it should be pretty easy to build something in from the school website - a 'play around project' once the first week or so of term is out of the way.

[MrKJLS]

With RSS support it should be pretty easy to build something in from the school website - a 'play around project' once the first week or so of term is out of the way.

 

It would be interesting what maybe the community could do with this project.