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Author :: Syed Feroz Zainvi  |
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| Article Title :: Rapid Application Development - Is it Really a Need of Today? |
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| Rapid Application Development (RAD) is a software development methodology. In this competitive world, software product delivery time should be as little as it can be. The RAD is a way to this. As the name suggests, RAD technique allows RAPID application development, with development time, usually, 30 to 90 days.Before touching upon the topic in details, I would like to make you feel that you are not away from this methodology.
The code generators, visual tools like Visual Basic (VB) and Visual C++ (VC++), and CASE tools like Rational Rose are based on RAD technique. For e.g., you design your application with Rational Rose and it can then automatically generate code in languages lik (read full article) |
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Author :: Julia Lukianova |
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| Article Title :: Ukraine IT Myths Dispersed |
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| While Ukraine is becoming a new popular IT outsourcing destination, there are still many myths about it and no clear understanding of the opportunities outsourcing to Ukraine can present. Let us look closely at some of those myths and find out whether there is any truth behind them.Myth No. 1 – Ukraine is politically unstableThis myth has seen its rise in November-December 2004 during the events around the presidential elections that led to the Orange Revolution. However, presently there are no grounds for concerns. During the Orange Revolution, the Ukrainian people have shown their devotion to the democratic ideals and prevented the worst scenario from happening, b (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Integration Manager: Using Continuum – Overview for Developer |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has I’d say end user integration tool – Great Plains Integration manager. Integration Manager itself uses OLE functionality to validate text or ODBC integration files data through Great Plains forms behind the scenes. This sounds very promising and powerful – however the realities place the restrictions. We heard a lot of complains about Integration Manager slowness and inability to integrate data to multiple companies automatically – without operator intervention. This is probably true if you do not have IM expertise in your company. However there are Microsoft Great Plains maestros who could make magic things happen• Great (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: MultiNational Corporation ERP Implementation – Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains |
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| If you look back to the history, you will see that ERP for large publicly traded company had to be built upon very reliable hardware (more likely non-Intel hardware: mainframe, Sun sparc, etc.), powerful database platform: Oracle, DB2, Ingress, Sybase and reliable OS: UNIX. 10 years ago Microsoft had Windows NT first tries, plus Windows 95 was kind of revolution, but not the one to stake on for corporate users. Nowadays hardware (from Intel side), Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition, WindowsXP Pro, and Microsoft SQL Server could be considered reasonably reliable plus it is certainly easier to support these products, because of the large pool of Microsoft-oriented IT professionals ava (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Ash Seha |
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| Article Title :: Seven Reasons Why a Hosted Inventory Management Solution Might Be Right For Your Organization |
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| Upgrading. Downtime. Maintenance. Hardware obsolescence. Implementation issues. The litany of headaches related to the implementation and on-going care-and-feeding of enterprise based applications is enough make the savviest of companies want to engage in anything but another software implementation. Like a full-blown IRS audit. Anything…If your organization is evaluating inventory management systems, consider that a hosted solution inventory management solution may be ideal for your needs if you feel this way. Hosted inventory management solutions such as Invendia eliminate the justified concerns of many companies that another software implementation is the last thing they want (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Ash Seha |
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| Article Title :: The Software 2005 Conference - A Review |
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| The Software 2005 conference is now a wrap. This conference, presented by M.R. Rangaswami and The Sandhill Group, is now an annual event and attendance increased 35% this year over 2004. It is an ideal opportunity for those in the enterprise software industry to see what's new and what's coming, as well as to catch up with old colleagues and make new connections. It is also a perfect forum for startups to gain exposure as well as solicit funding and key partnerships.According to Sandhill, there were 1500 attendees this year, including 100 press and 100 VCs. Half of those in attendance were CEOs. We spotted a number of them, including entrepeneur/CEO (now a VC) Ken Ross, Indus (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Cross-Platform Custom Software Development & Integration – IT Strategy for Large Corporation |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions products: Great Plains, MS CRM, Navision, Axapta, MS RMS integration with UNIX/Java based platforms & non-Microsoft applications: Oracle, Lotus Notes/Domino, DBII, PeopleSoft, SAPThe history of software application development indicates that global trends to unification might be reversed in the future. If you take a look at C programming language, intended as cross platform solution (which resolves graphical interface cross platform migration). Later on java was invented to encapsulate the application within java virtual machine, and at the same time we see thin client conception development, which can not be done in C, due to the nature of the intern (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Customization Tools Evolution – Overview for Consultant |
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| When Great Plains Software introduced the first graphical accounting application for Mac and Windows in the beginning of 1990th it had Great Plains Dexterity customization tool, IDE and programming language. Dexterity design was based on several longevity principles: Graphical platform independence and database platform independence and easy switch from one DB to the other among the most important ones. Dexterity was written as a shell in C programming language, which was “platform independent” and at the same time very efficient in compilation (close to assembler). Since then we saw new tools and options:• Modifier with VBA. This tool allows you place custom buttons and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Mohammed Amerullah Qureshi |
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| Article Title :: Things You Can Do With Windows XP! |
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| Did you ever give a thought to the number of things you can do with Windows XP? Take your own time and think... I hope you remember few basic and easy things if you are not new to Windows family. Check it out the following paragraph.Welcome To Windows XP!Here you have, once again a new operating system of the Microsoft Windows family. But as usual every new version of software is updated with some specific new features that helps the user in dealing with day to day PC usage.Lets find out what is Windows XP?
Windows XP is an Operating System that you run on a computer.May be you can have this question. Well! What is Operating System?Good question! Opera (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: eConnect: eCommerce Development for Microsoft Great Plains |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has several options to enable web ordering. Traditionally Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise had eOrder – this is ASP pages based ordering application, enabling you to place or retrieve your Sales Order Processing (SOP) Sales Orders over the web. There were several drawbacks however with eOrder. You should be the customer in Great Plains company database to be able placing the orders. Also if you were planning to customize eOrder – you could only do cosmetic style changes only – if you wanted to alter scripts on the ASP pages – then you would have very serious eOrder upgrade issues. Upgrade simply wipes out your custom scripts and you (read full article) |
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