About a month ago I did a podcast with the guys from ZapThink to talk about a subject we are passion about here at IDV:  Empowering the Business User.  In this case, we discussed the ever growing reality of business users building their own applications on self-service platforms.  Visual Fusion is one such platform and it empowers the enterprise to build not only complex, robust, long-lived applications, but also situational apps that may only be used for a day or a week to help with a specific ad hoc business question, problem, or issue. 

Visual Fusion makes it easy for the business user to build these situational apps, and that brings enormous value to the enterprise: 

• The business can act agilely in response to any issue that arises
• IT can focus on provisioning resources and building larger systems
• An organization can react more quickly that its competitors
• The risk associated with building an application is reduced to almost zero since little time needs to be committed to the process

We will talk more about how Visual Fusion empowers the business user as the year progresses, but take a few minutes and listen to the podcast and envision how bringing this power into your own organization would give you a competitive advantage.