According to Denny Morris of Parsippany, NJ-based Delta Services Corporation, successful offshore software development has five requirements.
With all the major server vendors planning to incorporate ESB capabilities into their core offerings within a few years, IT managers are wondering whether to jump in now with major ESB upgrades, or wait for the capability to show up in their new Microsoft or IBM servers with only the incremental cost to pay.
The job of technology architecture is to help people better organize, visualize, and communicate about technology.
Structure your IT organization to meet developing business environments.
Web services have become a standard for building client/server applications. Learn an approach for using the JAX-RPC SI toolkit to generate a Web service's client-side code.
What if software were manufactured like an automobile or a refrigerator, using off-the-shelf
components and assembly-line production
techniques to help automate many of the most repetitive development tasks? A new Microsoft strategy revives debate over whether software development can become a manufacturing discipline.
Location-based services help enterprises track employees, manage inventories, process customer orders and even find potential customers
Gartner, which plots market leaders and
challenges in a "Magic Quadrant," says the
2004 project and portfolio management
leaders are Primavera, Niku, Mercury, PlanView, Systemcorp, and Lawson Software; and the challengers are Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and PeopleSoft.
IT and the enterprise want it all: time to market, quality, and cost. And they want
it quickly. Now, they just might have the right stuff to get it.
Two years ago, the Object Management Group (OMG) introduced the model-driven architecture (MDA), a development specification that taps the OMG’s Unified Modeling Language (UML) to automate the integration of software from applications, middleware, or custom components. To a certain extent, says Thomas Murphy, a vice president with consultancy META Group, the software factory and its attendant notion of Domain
Specific Languages (DSL) constitute Microsoft’s response to MDA.
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.
Response time and scalability are key to optimal performance of your enterprise's applications. Set expectations and provide analysis tools to help you achieve performance goals.
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.
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.?
Avoiding failure is obviously critical to any plan for success, and requires constant patrolling for signs of processes gone awry, support slipping away and other omens of impending doom.
Among the most critical skills lacking in project management today are the ability to say “no,” and the willingness to be a naysayer.
Because Longhorn remains a vague concept to most Microsoft customers, a clue to its eventual success might be found by looking at how the installed base fared with .NET, released barely two years ago.
There are a ‘bazillion’ different ways of going about it, says one expert.