Flex has seen a lot of uptake by large enterprise companies since its release. Philips, Taleo, n2n, Oracle and many others are Flex customers. Today EMC, makers of Documentum, announced that they're launching a new client based on Flex.

From the press release: “We have been known as having the best platform but not the best client,” says Karin Ondricek, an EMC senior manager for product marketing. “Our client has been a weak spot. But with the new client, people are immediately going to be able to pick it up and know how to work it.” Sounds like I'm not the only one that's been frustrated by the UI for Documentum.

The article has a few screenshots of the Flex applications that have been built.

There seems to be a lot of news about Flex lately, especially with large enterprises selecting Flex as their RIA platform. I posted about AOL using Flex earlier, and last week I highlighted applications built by Philips and Taleo. In the past few days I've come across a few more large companies have created Flex solutions that I wanted to share.

The first is n2N Commerce, which is launching an e-commerce platform based on Flex. Victoria Secret will run its business on this platform next year. (Victoria Secret takes in $1.4 Billion a year in revenue.)

The second is FirstBest Systems, a software company that sells to large insurance companies has also created a Flex based application with a Java backend for creating insurance contracts.

Taleo is a company that focuses on talent management solutions for large enterprises. Their software is used by more than 1,200 companies worldwide, including 33 of the Fortune 100. Today, at their Taleo World 2007 conference, they announced a new product called Taleo Performance, which the company hopes to roll out next month. The UI for Taleo Performance was built with Adobe Flex. Click here for a marketing demo of the UI to their new product.

"Web 2.0" sites are cool, but what's interesting to me lately is the number of high profile, large enterprise companies that have adopted Flex for their applications. They might not be as "cool" as some of the other applications that have been developed, but they show the momentum that Flex has in the marketplace these days. And who can blame these companies? Event Yahoo's Ajax evangelist admits that enterprise applications are faster to develop in Flex than with Ajax.

(Via David Mendels and Money.CNN.com)