The Business Analysts
Use a top down approach to instantly mockup the application and its workflow

The Application Owners
Piece together a “real” application that produces what your end user will see and experience, while at the same time generating screens, widgets and attributes for your developers to write to

The Architects
Design a highly modular and reusable architecture and leverage the full integration with Github for reuse across tenants, applications and users

The Senior Developers
Develop a highly reusable library of widgets, events, parameters, context settings and data queries to allow the same asset to be used across a variety of contexts

The proliferation of APIs and how they are being leveraged today is fast transforming the way business is being conducted. Most vendors have rallied around the concept of publishing APIs to their application to ensure their apps can be integrated into this new Cloud-based economy. Driven by simple yet powerful standards, the world of apps has been simplified to producers and consumers. DreamFace is the answer to these challenges – the “UI for the API Economy.” The product can virtually consume any service, API, enterprise data item, social media element, and Big Data component to create a coherent, composite application. The “Lightning UI” utility automatically “discovers” available APIs and “generates” data-enabled visual components.

The built-in Data Dictionary allows the creation of “Enterprise Business Objects” associated with the visual components, allowing reuse across APIs. Additionally the tool allows for “API choreography” to respond to more complex use cases as well as "API filtering" to support various devices or different API consumption contexts. To ease the creation of API-driven applications, DreamFace integrates with API repositories such as IBM API Management and BPM, as well as integration hubs such as IBM Cast Iron Live, Integration Bus and more.

DreamFace’s streamlined approach to development is a key differentiator to the offering. Whether you think “top down” – implementing the application flow and filling in the details later – or you prefer creating “building blocks” for use and re-use to assemble your applications, DreamFace allows you the freedom to choose. At the heart of the product is a very flexible design that allows reusability of the widgets or data queries in a variety of ways.

IBM Bluemix is a PaaS with the goal to provide a portfolio of enterprise-class assets as “services” to the tenants of the platform. Imagine the world of developing modern apps where “rules,” “notifications,” “quality management,” and “security” are all services that can be added to your application by a simple click. 

DreamFace complements this paradigm by empowering you to add a “Face” to your application. As a Visual Interface provisioned seamlessly provisioned within Bluemix, developers gain access to a growing ecosystem of services to create sophisticated, composite applications. There are no uploads or downloads and no need to provision a test or runtime environment outside of Bluemix. The result is a powerful approach to developing applications in the Cloud, for the Cloud.

As an example, all you need to develop an enterprise mobile application accessing enterprise or cloud data, APIs and services, is a browser and access to Bluemix. From the Cloud to Mobile in minutes – DreamFace is a solution to implement the forward-thinking “Systems of Engagement.”

Businesses are able to reduce the total cost of ownership by introducing savings inherent to cloud and by leveraging the flexibility cloud applications provide such as the ability to self-provision server resources, the instant availability of updates to all team members, and the ability to get new applications into production.