In a broad sense, business intelligence encompasses all the strategic information that
management relies on to plan and decides. We use the term “strategic” precisely, not in the
loose way it is often bandied around, because every CEO and committed head of an operating
unit feels the urgency to contribute to growth and profits...
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As a general rule, all IT projects count as strategic decisions and business investments. In the
past, both in-house and independent software developers have gotten away with platitudes when
presenting six- or even seven-figure budgets:...
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Since 2004, publications and Web sites have talked up “Web 2.0” and “Web 3.0” to represent the latest and greatest advances in the Internet. Certainly, usability has come a long way since the dot-com bubble burst in 2001. But are there true unifying and meaningful themes that we can point to or is this pretense at “versioning” of the World Wide Web just so much marketing hype?
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You are looking to outsource your system development and application programming. Perhaps yours is a leading-edge technology start-up, very knowledgeable and looking to strengthen your product offerings. Or yours has grown to be a very large enterprise that has a one-time requirement for very capable custom software...
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Test Driven Development is not really a new concept. In fact, programmers have adopt the approach of test-first, code-second around for many years. The latest Microsoft's premier developer tool, Visual Studio 2005 Team System has included many new features, including features for testing software...
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Open source community has developed an ERP package under GPL to benefit medium size Businesses that don't need expensive ERP packages like SAP, JD Edwards and the like. There are many benefits of implementing open source ERP packages like Compiere...
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Enterprise Resource Planning is powerful business software, as it integrates all departments in single software. This software caters need of all different departments who have their own particular needs. ERP are available as commercial ERP and open source ERP...
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Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an industry term that is used to refer to technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual items. The most common method of identifying objects using RFID involves devices called transponders or tags...
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The fundamentals of operations research and industry experience provide a framework for optimizing process to benefit the bottom line while ensuring efficient customer delivery...
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The operations management team didn't go in much details of the planning in the beginning because of the lack of data and implementation time. A very simplistic 3 month bucket / 5 year optimization model was put in place to establish global railcars and trucks requirement across the company...
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This article is a comparative study of two of the popular software development methodologies, Agile Methodology and RUP where it tries to highlight the differences as well as pin-point pros and cons of using one or the other in various scenarios...
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Many of small to medium software development and consulting companies struggle between allocating resources between software development and testing...
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32-bit Operating Systems, such as Windows NT and Windows 2000, support up to 4 gigabytes (GB) of memory. Over the years, 32-bit Windows applications have not only grown in size, but the need for applications to have the ability to manipulate large amounts of data has dramatically increased...
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OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture based on CORBA. OpenSTA is designed to be used by Performance Testing Consultants or other technically proficient individuals. Using OpenSTA a user can generate realistic heavy loads simulating the activity of hundreds to thousands of virtual users...
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This article describes a study of web technologies ASP.net 2.0 and PHP 5, along with the supporting databases SQL server 2005 and mySql. In this article, we have compared the web application development platforms based on some crucial parameters. Our comparison does not quantify or claim superior nature of one platform over the other. We understand that the selection of the technology depends on various factors, and specific business goals...
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