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Introduction to Components

There has been a widespread adoption of software system and application development based on using software components, called Component Based Development CBD. However, the definitions of component in this context are wide and various which can cause confusion amongst the business and developer communities alike. This paper develops a component...

Tags: Software, Component, Select Business Solutions, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Component-Based Development (CBD), Management, Software/Web Development

White papers 2003-10-29

Extreme Programming and Select Business Solutions

Extreme Programming XP has a set of guiding principles and values. These principles are not only good practice in extreme programming but are expounded by nearly all good software development processes. Extreme programming takes a set of agile software development practices and pushes them to their extreme conclusion. Extreme Programming...

Tags: Extreme Programming, Select Business Solutions

White papers 2003-10-29

Business Alignment - Working With Requirements

Most IT projects fail. An insufficient understanding of the requirements that are driving the project causes most of these failures. Lack of understanding can have many causes - lack of communication with the user community is a common fault. Select Perspective has always emphasized the importance of gaining and maintaining...

Tags: Requirement, Select Business Solutions, Research & Development, Process Improvement, Business Operations, Quality

White papers 2003-10-28

Select Perspective and PRINCE 2

PRINCE 2, a best-practice methodology for project management, is becoming increasingly popular in the private sector, both in the UK and overseas. This paper describes how PRINCE 2 relates to The Select Perspective, a component-based development methodology. It explains the advantages of using the two methodologies in tandem, and shows...

Tags: Methodology, Component-based Development, Select Business Solutions, Component-Based Development (CBD), Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2003-10-28

Introducing Component Based Development

Component-Based Development CBD is founded upon a solid background of experience within the software industry, however it is a relatively immature engineering science. It is the authors' experience within Aonix, that successful processes need to be shared and evolved into best practices if more organizations are to succeed with CBD....

Tags: Software, Component-based Development, Select Business Solutions, Component-Based Development (CBD), Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management

White papers 2003-10-28

Select Business Solutions Case Study: Nielsen Media Research Monitor-Plus

Nielsen Media Research, Monitor-Plus, a publicly traded company, monitors advertising across 16 different media types (such as radio, TV and magazines). Nielsen's current business initiatives are to add new services and expand into new market segments. These require a major transition - from being a company that provides data, to...

Tags: Nielsen Media Research, Select Business Solutions, Monitors & Displays, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Case studies

What Is MDA?: A New Way to Specify and Build Systems

This webcast covers software development challenges, MDA concepts and principles, the process of using MDA as well as the key benefits.

Tags: Model-driven Architecture, Select Business Solutions, Model Driven Architecture, Software Development, Development Tools, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software/Web Development

Webcasts

Select Process Director and Capabililty Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

This webcast, one in a series, shows one how Select Process Director can help one to move his or her company from CMMI Level 1 to Level 5.

Tags: Director, Select Business Solutions

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives

No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice

Small Business CRMI happened to come across your article today and was somewhat dismayed by your comments regarding Salesforce.com's customer service. As the CEO of Commence Corporation a provider of CRM solutions to thousands of small to mid-size businesses I have very little interest in defending Salesforce.com about...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Sales force management, CRM, Salesforce.com Inc., customer service, small and medium business

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Moderated Knowledge Sharing Bases

There's so much going on in the cloud world you need air traffic control to figure out what solutions to your problems are safe to bring to earth and put to work. The instant gratification world of cloud - select solution> apply credit card to...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Knowledge Base, MindTouch Collaborative Knowledge Base, Wiki, Strategy, Networking, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X

Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, ZBrush, performance, Upgrading Windows, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, clean install, CS4, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

American Document Management a Host.Net customer profile

I had the opportunity to communicate with Karen Unger of American Document Management.  Lenny Chesal, of Host.net in Boca Raton, FL, introduced us. Thanks, Lenny!  I though you might enjoy reading what she had to say. Please introduce your organization and your role there. American Document Management is...

Tags: Document Management, Data Center, American Document Management, Data Centers, Storage, Internet, Backups, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer

I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...

Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Avoid accidental complexity, and 96 other things every software architect should know

Favor simplicity. Avoid accidental complexity. Don't worry about building the 'perfect' beast. Don't worry about future-proofing. Treat people with respect. These common-sense pearls of wisdom come from a book titled 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, edited by Richard Monson-Haefel, that is packed with truisms...

Tags: Solution, Complexity, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Some important truths about pen-testing

Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks� of their own, or others’ technologies to test...

Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Wyse releases virtual desktop accelerator

Wyse has launched a virtual desktop accelerator and hopes that will open the door to greater acceptance of the concept of a hosted virtual desktop environment. One of the key inhibitors in the past have been overall performance due to transmission latency and loss of data that required retransmission. Wyse,...

Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Virtual Desktop, Wyse Technology Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-13

More alleged Microsoft Morro screen shots, details leak

More alleged Microsoft Morro screen shots, details leakRequest to uninstall other antivirusMary,The requirement to uninstall any other antivirus stuff in your computer should be mandatory in any installation routine of every antivirus product - and not just from Microsoft. As you know, no one should have more than one antivirus...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, antivirus, Microsoft Morro, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Morro screen shot, screen shot

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Virtual Instruments customer profile

I always enjoy the opportunity to communicate with a representative of a company using technology to counter balance discussions I have with the suppliers of that technology. On some occasions, the company does not want its name mentioned. This commentary on Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom is a case in point. I...

Tags: Disk, Performance, Virtual Instruments NetWisdom, Performance Management, Backups, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-16