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IDV Solutions has released Visual Fusion 4, boasting that with this latest version, everyone in an organization is empowered to build interactive, business-focused applications in days or weeks, not months or years. Using templates, lists, libraries and application building GUIs means that even a marketing weenie such as myself should now be able to build a “mashup” data visualization application that features Microsoft Virtual Earth maps. I’m pretty excited about that!

Visual Fusion 4 also allows users to take advantage of Microsoft Silverlight for smoother and more dynamic web application experiences, and Microsoft Office Sharepoint for collaboration. For real-time collaboration, the program includes Visual Fusion Contribute, an iPhone application that sends geo-tagged photos and comments to a SharePoint Library.

The full press release can be found here. It doesn’t mention Virtual Earth, but we all know its in there! Meanwhile, IDV has posted a live demo that you can play with to get an idea what can be done with Visual Fusion 4.

Pretty slick. Be sure to check it out … plenty of fun functionality here to test drive. Go crazy!

-=Virtual Jerry