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Reliable legacy-extended apps a reality

Large enterprise organizations use Jacada technology to modernize existing legacy apps to reengineer legacy application workflow, generate a more efficient GUI to replace green screens and to Web-enable these core business systems.

Emergence

John Williams describes the trend of emergence, and how one example of this technology, eBay, is an excellent business example of emergent behavior creating self-regulating and self-organizing communities of interest.

Data Warehousing Special Report: Data mining comes of age

A decade-long effort to build useful data marts and data warehouses has set the stage for a new generation of analytical application software tools that find patterns in the vast quantities of corporate data available for consumption.

Making sure legacy-Web links are in sync

As Web access to legacy data becomes more critical, IT developers must ensure that the links are strong and reliable; without testing throughout the development process, experts say the ties will likely break at some point.

MDA brings standards-based modeling to EAI teams

Model-Driven Architecture is based on UML, MOF and CWM standards. Its creator, the OMG, promises the new modeling standard will evolve to follow and incorporate more standard technologies.

Data Warehousing Special Report: Data quality and the bottom line

The quality of data degenerates over time. Companies fragment, and data begins to mean different things to different divisions. These are not trivial problems, as poor data quality can have a negative impact on the health of a company.

Data Warehousing Special Report: Let's share -- extending CRM with collaborative technology

Extending the concept of customer to include the entire value chain -- channel partners, suppliers, dealers and influencers -- can create a solid consortium that benefits all.

Putting the business in Business Process Modeling

Experts blame technology focus for lack of widespread business process reengineering implementation.

ADT's Programmers Report

Meeting development challenges depends on the full utilization of the programmer's craft. Planning, tools, technologies, and more are required. ADT focuses on these crucial issues in its series of 'Programmers Reports.'

Agile modeling: Avoiding the spills, speeding development

Agile modeling was born of the Extreme Programming movement, which aimed to simplify the development process. The methodology now brings diagrams to the "rip-and-run" development world.

UML overhaul winding up

OMG extends standard beyond notation to construction; new version 2.0 adds standards support, eliminates "unnecessary" features and simplifies others.

UML and IIOP

While the OMG proceeds with its plans for UML 2.0, some observers say it is a waste of time. They contend that UML is merely a rehash of IIOP, the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol of the OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).