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Review: 'Next Generation Application Integration'

Application integration is a complex process. You must master not only the technologies involved, but develop a strategy that will take into account your business processes and business goals.

A review of DevPartner Studio 7.1 and InstallShield DevStudio 9

Mike Gunderloy reviews DevPartner Studio 7.1 and InstallShield DevStudio 9

Will dev gain at IT’s expense?

You must apply software more carefully to justify new project expenditures these days. Most new expenses will have to be offset by savings elsewhere.

A new look for ADT

Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken unveils ADT’s new look, which is designed to improve readability and better underscore the magazine’s efforts to provide ever-improving insight into and in-depth coverage of subjects of vital importance to managers responsible for IT development operations.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

Borland targets ease of use in next JBuilder Java IDE

Ease of Java deployment is a major objective of next month’s release of Borland JBuilder 9.

Web extra: .NET

A supplement to our October feature story "Heard on the Street: Tales of .NET"

Guest Column: Application development in a services-based world

As we move toward a world in which functionality takes the form of services distributed across networks and the dynamic assembly of applications, development organizations find themselves facing new challenges.

Notes on the Grid: It’s a network problem

Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan shares his thoughts on grid and network computing.

BI: Real time or right time?

It is difficult to debate the need for real-time analytics because the definition of real time itself can be so highly subjective, but everybody wants data “while it’s hot.” Development managers need to navigate a wide field of hyperbole to find the big picture.

Q&A: Akamai takes grid computing to the Edge

ADT’s Will Kilburn recently spoke with Bill Weihl, CTO at Akamai Technologies, about EdgeComputing, his firm’s foray into grid computing.

.NET and Beyond: The big bet

Succeeding with Web services depends on winning the big bet we’re placing on this multi-part security scheme.

Heard on the street: Tales of .NET

Development teams are finding their way toward the new Microsoft platform. They are encountering decent performance, sketchy security standards and a handful of best practices.

.NET finally brings Web services to life

Microsoft has realigned its .NET product set and now finds a slew of customers using its Visual Studio .NET toolset to build applications and Web services.

Is UML heading for fragmentation?

In the “aught-world” of standards (2000 and beyond, that is), compliance is a moving target. Vendors are beginning to push UML 2.0 products, but some people wonder if today’s “standardization” is adequate.

What’s real at Fleet?

For its real-time needs, Fleet delivers business intelligence information through a portal called the Business Advisor.

Q&A: How to manage requirements

Dan Romanchik asked Paul Raymond, VP in charge of requirements management products at Telelogic, to share his views on managing requirements.