Although Standish Group has seen overall improvements in project success rates, data from the second quarter of 2004 showed only 29% of projects succeeded, while 18% failed and 53% were challenged.
When a user ran “purge transaction history” just to see what it would do and lost a history of all transactions, the IT department at publisher Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) knew it was in trouble.
Logical Apps’ flagship product, AppsRules, integrates with the business rules engine in Oracle E-business Suite. From an architectural standpoint, the product sits on top of each of the elements of the Oracle applications technology stack, according to Chris Capdevila, LA’s CEO and co-founder.
Kathy Quirk is research manager for Nucleus Research in Wellesley, Mass., a provider of ROI-focused research and advisory services. ADT recently spoke with her about the costs and paybacks from enterprise application integration.
Building Java applications
that generate customized
graphs and charts for plotting
business metrics or
that dynamically produce printable PDF
and RTF documents presents a unique
challenge to any software development
team. Creating the kinds of complex, interactive
charts and reports that Quest
Software’s JClass products are capable of
—out of the box—would require a downright
Herculean effort.
Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry used outsourcing as an issue during this year’s campaign as a way of saying President Bush cared little about the American worker. (Remember Kerry’s attempt to connect it with the war on terror with his charge that Bush had “outsourced” the job of capturing Osama bin Laden?) As Bush prepares for his second term, what lies ahead for IT outsourcing, especially work that may be headed outside the U.S.?
New features continue to appear in this application, which now supports MySQL and the latest Windows Installer technology.
SmartDraw 7 is a drawing program with an amazing variety of built-in symbols and impressive ease-of-use at an excellent price.
ANTs is aiming at the market segment where speed is most important. Their innovative architecture can put other database servers to shame.
The addition of controllable widgets brings even more flexibility to this affordable graphics package.
Mike Gunderloy's popular Developer Central e-newsletter is being transformed into the first ADTmag.com Blog.
Altova has revised their XML suite to support the latest standards, including XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery.
A reasonably-priced package for monitoring event logs and other sources of administrative information, LogMeister makes good use of RSS and a modern interface.
Perforce is a superbly flexible source code management system that runs on a wide variety of platforms.
The long-time setup utility starts to integrate with the rest of the MacroVision line in a version that continues to add new features.
Uche Ogbuji has expounded on XML and Web services on the pages of Application Development Trends and on our Web site. Read more now!
Not content with selling books, music, videos, and lawn furniture, Amazon.com is now ready to expand into...message queueing?
This IDE for SQL Server continues to add new features at a fast pace. Recommended for any SQL Server developer.
ESP is a helpful and inexpensive tool for those with too darned many files to sort through.
DotNetBar offers a solid and flexible set of controls in modern visual styles for your .NET applications.