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- Doing Software Right: Enterprise Architecture Development
- Solving complex problems with teams of people requires planning. For enterprise software systems, some of the most important planning is highly technical (i.e. planning system architecture). Planning generates artifacts, but planning as an activity is much more important, than project management plans, the typical artifacts. By this, the author means...
- Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Artifact, iCMG, Planning, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Software
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Software Architecture as a Discipline
- Alternative architecture approaches share concepts and principles, but their terminologies differ greatly. Each architecture school is relatively isolated from the others. In the literature of any given school, perhaps one or two other schools are acknowledged, however briefly. None of the schools appear to make any significant use of the...
- Tags: School, iCMG, EJB, J2Ee, Middleware, Application Servers, Operational Accounting, Java, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Finance, Programming Languages
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Why Interoperability Clearinghouse?
- Enter Interoperability Clearinghouse ICH. This is an entity that effects the necessary changes towards known product qualities, known product compatibility and coordinated industry architecture. It is a massive job of bringing towards every player in the industry ranging from product developer and standards body to the end-user. If one looks...
- Tags: Clearinghouse, iCMG, Management, Networking, Strategy
- White papers 2009-01-01
- A Standard for Architecture
- Among the various architecture approaches, there is a useful standard that defines what information systems architecture means, the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP). [ISO 96] The paper will cover this reference model as one way to think about software architecture. This model is representative of mature software architecture...
- Tags: Architecture, iCMG, RM-ODP, Research & Development, Tools & Techniques, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Business Operations, Management, Quality
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Advance to Components - An Imperative
- Why objects and components? Every new system development project that the author has encountered is headed for the object-oriented mainstream. Companies take a long agonizing look at commercial IT and see that everything currently seems to be based upon objects, e.g. C++, Java, CORBA, etc. It's all about objects. At...
- Tags: Software, Object-oriented, iCMG, Components, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Advice for Software Architects
- Too often, architectures are used as sales tools rather than technical blueprints. In a typical scenario, a fast-talking technical manager (the "Architect") presents a few high-level view-graphs to convince one of the greatness of his product or system. This is a presentation of a marketing architecture. Most marketing architectures are...
- Tags: Software Architects Inc., iCMG, Marketing Architecture, Marketing Research, Marketing
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Innovative Software Architecture (Part I)
- There are many active and successful schools of software architecture thought. Software architecture is a discipline unified by principles, but divided by terminology. The various architecture schools can be viewed as different branches of an evolutionary progression. The Zachman Framework has evolved from the traditional non-OO approaches. ODP is an...
- Tags: Software, iCMG, Software Architecture, Zachman Framework, ODP, Domain Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Innovative Software Architecture (Part II)
- The purpose of information technology is to establish new business processes. By separating concerns, one can focus on the business functionality which is the true purpose of the information system. Ideally, architects would like to separate the distributed system issues into categories of design where the majority of components are...
- Tags: Software, Information System, Distributed System, Object-oriented, iCMG, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Interoperability the Untold Ideal!
- To bring about Interoperabilty and compatibility, component technologies are the 'Key'. These coupled with distributed technologies offer the road to perfect 'Plug N Play'. Say for instance, a CIO of a hospital wished to make DICOM - based patient images available on the desktop of each resident physician. They would...
- Tags: Interoperability, Imaging, Compatibility, iCMG, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Componentware Revolution
- Many have serious misconceptions about the capabilities of current software approaches. Based upon surveys of corporate software projects in the United States, the realities of software development are as follows. About one third of all software projects are cancelled. Average projects expend twice as much budget and schedule as initially...
- Tags: Software, Software Project, iCMG, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Componentware Revolution (Part II)
- Resolving the software crisis requires fundamental changes in systems thinking, software processes, and technology utilization. The next major era of technology, The Componentware Revolution, contains key elements of the crisis solution. The componentware approach introduces a set of closely interrelated techniques and technologies. Componentware introduces a sophisticated mindset for generating...
- Tags: Software, Object-oriented, iCMG, Componentware Revolution, Tools & Techniques, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Componentware Revolution (Part IV)
- Software patterns comprise a common body of software knowledge which can be applied across all component infrastructures. The most famous category of software patterns, called design patterns, comprises proven software design ideas which are reused by developers. Other important categories of patterns include analysis patterns and antipatterns. Analysis patterns define...
- Tags: Software, Pattern, Modeling, iCMG, Software Pattern, Tools & Techniques, Research & Development, Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Why e-Learning
- With the proliferation of Internet and Intranet, learning through the net gets a new name "e-Learning" in conformity with e-Commerce and e-Business. Training requirements in the Software Development segments arise mainly from three sources viz. customer requirements out of a new project, from the organizations future plan and business expansions...
- Tags: Training, iCMG, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, E-learning, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The e-Learning Framework
- E-Learning is cost effective, facilitates higher retention of contents through personalized learning and above all Online learning is less intimidating than instructor-led courses. The spectrum of courses envisaged under e-learning are going to be of many folds, all the way from catering to students of high schools to the degree...
- Tags: iCMG, E-learning, Training And Certification, Time Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Productivity
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Anatomy of e-Learning
- The Technological Revolution in the area of Computers and Internet has brought one to the new economy called ?Digital Economy". One has always witnessed over the years that the life style, general trends in the attitude and behaviour of people and hence the day-today life have been influenced quite a...
- Tags: Life, iCMG, Technology Revolution, E-learning, Internet, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Era of "e"
- e-Citizen and e-Government will become reality and most public services will be offered over the Internet, one stop, non-stop convenience to the public. Even in a small country like Mangolia, the slogan is, "Better Governance Leads to Better Life" and like this every country in this world is getting into...
- Tags: Era, iCMG, E-government, Internet, Government
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Component Standards and Web Technologies
- The needs of software development is as broad as the world itself leading to a lot of internet jargons and standards flooding the IT industry. In this paper the focus is on how to leverage the technical benefits of upcoming web standards (SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL) and the widely accepted...
- Tags: Web Technology, Web, Standards, iCMG, Quality, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Exchanging Data Between Globally Accepted Technologies
- When one is totally confused in today's decentralized, distributed environment for exchange of information, one can still encounter well-standardized, globally accepted technologies. Each of these technologies serves very well in their respective domain. But when the question arises as to how data can be exchanged between these technologies, one face...
- Tags: Technology, iCMG, Corba, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The CCM and EJB Story
- Every Component Software technologies like CCM, EJB and COM+ offer a model for dealing with components. This is called a Component Model. The first step of integrating CCM and EJB is in finding the commonalties between the two component models. Before that one needs to understand what a Component Model...
- Tags: iCMG, EJB, J2Ee, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2009-01-01
- EJB and CORBA Integration
- As the enterprise started heavily relying on computing power for its day-to-day activities, the need for managing all that larger amount of data attained critical importance. Hence, the past two decades was indeed dominated by Data Base Management Systems. Relational Database technology enabled the needed data management technology. Then came...
- Tags: Transaction Processing, Integration, iCMG, Data Management, Corba, EJB, Databases, Storage, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2009-01-01
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