Relationships Make Loyal Customers
[ Source: PRISM ]
January 2008-
Mainstream western commercial culture has for the past decade searched for its lost roots in customer centricity and the fundamentals of being closer to the customer. The author in this paper states that if CRM executives recognize that they are today planting the seeds of tomorrow’s customer centricity, the entire organization can work simultaneously on growing profitable customer relationships. It’s this kind of customer focus can help a business stay close to its customers: committed, ....
Improve XPath Efficiency With VTD-XML
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
Even though XML and XPath have been around for several years, there’s still room for performance improvements - and VTD-XML and its XPath implementation provide them. XPath has been steadily gaining popularity as an effective tool when developing XML applications. XPath was originally viewed as an adjunct element for the W3C’s XSLT and XPointer specifications, but developers found its simplicity appealing. However, most existing XPath engines work with DOM trees or similar object models, which ....
Industrial CRM: General Practitioners Need Not Apply
[ Source: TR Cutler ]
January 2008-
The author in this paper explains that how a brain tumor demands a neurologist; similarly industrial CRM requires similar expertise. Whether fully integrated in ERP systems or stand alone industrial CRM, a general practitioner is not sufficient. The paper states that elimination of waste in the sales and marketing aspect of industry companies requires the capacity to read the data accurately; experience and specialization matters.
Application Modernization: Preserving Your Organization's DNA
[ Source: Software AG ]
March 2008-
The term "modernization" has once again achieved buzz-word status in the IT industry. The term became very popular around Y2K and then went back into hibernation. Now nearly every major software vendor uses the term somewhere in their marketing, and major analyst firms such as Gartner and Forrester are devoting more and more ink to it. And it's no wonder. A group of CIOs surveyed by Gartner in 2008 reportedly named "legacy application modernization" as ....
Efficiently Isolating Contractors From Sensitive Data: The Many Advantages of Software-based Contractor Isolation
[ Source: Apani ]
March 2008-
For information security directors at large corporations, the growing reliance on contractors is a major concern. Local and offshore programmers provide businesses a competitive edge, but they also increase security risks. Often contractors are hired to rapidly solve problems while operating outside the security policies of employees. Once within the network, they have free access to confidential data and business systems. Even when access is restricted, these savvy individuals can easily jump to unauthorized systems-unknown ....
Service-Oriented Software Reengineering: SoSR
[ Source: University of Washington ]
January 2008-
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has emerged as a software development paradigm that enables the design of software systems as a set of services, i.e. Software as a Service (SAAS). The paper published by University of Washington describes about Service-Oriented Software Reengineering: SoSR. The purpose of this paper is to propose a Service-Oriented Software Reengineering (SoSR) methodology that can be applied to a legacy software system so that it can be reengineered into a service-oriented software system(s) ....
A LCD Control Panel for Your Linux Server
[ Source: LinuxFocus.org ]
January 2008-
In this paper the company designs a LCD control panel based on a Hitachi HD44780 LCD display and the AT90S4433 AVR 8?Bit RISC Microcontroller from Atmel. The new design goes much further than that. It adds buttons for user interaction and includes a hardware watchdog to supervise the server. In addition to that the hardware provides for one analog input line. The author doesn’t use it here but one could connect a temperature sensor to ....
SOA Categories
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
March 2008-
SOA can be categorized as various types based on the expansion stages which constitute allocation of responsibility between frontends and services of the applications. For example, application frontend owns most of the complexity and responsibility then it is a Fundamental SOA. However this fundamental SOA will be lacking all the features in a fully leveraged SOA. I am going to disuses more on the SOA types and its relevance in ....
Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization
[ Source: Nexaweb ]
March 2008-
Legacy applications built with technologies like PowerBuilder, ColdFusion (v5 and older) Oracle Forms, COBOL and Visual Basic are costing enterprises millions to maintain, and more to upgrade. Modernizing these systems to fully functional Web applications, however, is not as simple as adding flashy UIs and deploying them in a browser. It requires well-designed procedures to transform the legacy code to a common language, and utilize that data and business logic to deploy highly-functional, interactive applications ....
Microsoft Queuing Frameworks: SQL Service Broker Vs. MSMQ
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
Microsoft offers two queuing frameworks to its ’brand’ of developers: MSMQ and SQL Service Broker. Microsoft originally provided MSMQ in the Windows NT4 Option Pack, and has since published multiple revisions. With the release of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft also offers Service Broker as an alternative to MSMQ. Service Broker functionality is available in any language one uses to access data from SQL Server. This paper outlines some of the differences and may help one ....