Have #winning ideas to extend LabVIEW? We are now accepting Submissions to IP Spark

[Jeff M]

In case you haven't noticed, partners are a big deal at NI.  Our Alliance Program is 600+ companies strong.  Our annual Certified Architect Summit (held this past March) had great representation from our partners.  And the LabVIEW Partner Team is all about Extending LabVIEW and supporting our partners that are innovating on the platform. 

Over the past number of years (and at the request of our partners), the LabVIEW Partner Team has delivered key infrastructure such as:

• Scripting and other APIs to better plug-in to LabVIEW
• Compatible with LabVIEW certification program
• Licensing/Activation to create commercial products with evals and automated fulfillment
• New Marketplace - www.ni.com/labviewtools
• Developer Luncheon and Add-on of the Year Awards at NIWeek
• And much, much more

A new initiative from the LabVIEW Partner Team in 2011 is called "IP Spark", and the idea is NI wants to help accelerate the development of cool LabVIEW add-ons/technologies.  We've modeled it (and gotten inspiration for the name) from Microsoft's BizSpark.   Here's a few tips on how you can engage:

Tip #1:  Want to build something?

IPSpark is a great opportunity to get a technology to market quickly for hosting on the LabVIEW Tools Network.  You can check out the an overview of the IP Spark attached to the blog post below. 

Tip #2:  Have ideas for someone else to build?

If you have an idea for an add-on, but would like NI or someone else to build it, you can always post ideas to the Idea Exchange:  www.ni.com/ideas

Have questions?

Feel free to ping me directly at jeff.meisel(at)ni.com. Thanks partners for all you and keep #winning.