February 16th, 2010 by admin
When business owners discover that a better database design gives them greater voice in embedding their desired business rules into their application software also find out that this approach contributes significantly to cost savings - their interests are spurred into an accelerated project acceptance mode.
This truism comes to fruition quickly. Because when a development team [...]
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November 15th, 2009 by admin
By thinking of business data transactions as messages you open your mind to new database design possibilities that can help you articulate more effective business models. The metaphor becomes a reality when you begin to actually incorporated the idea into the software
A Message Center can essentially be embedded into a database design by identifying the [...]
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September 14th, 2009 by admin
The term Iterative and Incremental Development (IID) describes a class of methodologies for software development where the system grows incrementally through a series of complete development cycles. Agile software development methods are a group of specific iterative methodologies that combine relatively short iterations with evolutionary refinement of the requirements, plans and targets across each subsequent [...]
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September 12th, 2009 by admin
Requirements analysis mistakes serve as the most troublesome aspect of a good database design. Design mistakes are often the result of a shallow or poorly conducted requirements analysis scenario. And even for the experienced developer, it is almost impossible to build a software application that meets most of business needs once the requirement analysis is [...]
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August 24th, 2009 by admin
An example was created of a cube to be manufactured is provided to illustrate the structure and process for creating the ontology, model, and visualisation/representation used for the 3 step translation process. This example was small enough to illustrate the whole three step process, with screenshots.
The cube model, as for all the engineering/process models was [...]
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August 15th, 2009 by admin
The next time you plan to install a new software application, you should seriously consider designing a database-assisted test configuration. The table-records of the new database can then be populated with values that contribute to a strenuous requirements-validation and verification series of tests.
This configuration will provide you with a handy tool that can generate test-values [...]
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August 8th, 2009 by admin
Applications Service Providers (ASPs) are firms that give computer based services to customers over a network, usually the Internet. Sometimes called “On Demand” service providers, their business model relies on the ability to sell their expertise in a particular area to a wide swathe of customers. Much the same way that most small businesses don’t [...]
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July 20th, 2009 by admin
A Good business database design within a competitive market whose complexities seem to be growing exponentially can make everything easier for your company. But the effort requires that you find a way to get your mind around the complexity and make it more manageable. This article suggests that it can only be done by introducing [...]
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June 30th, 2009 by admin
Managing a virtual environment is a lot like cleaning your car: No matter how many times you run the vacuum head over the carpet, the sand just bounces around among the fibers.
In the IT world, virtual machines would be the sand and your data center infrastructure would be the carpet. You, of course, are the [...]
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June 23rd, 2009 by admin
Database Driven Telemetric Monitors can introduce manufacturing companies to a new kind of innovation that incorporates current off-the-shelf software components that control GPS, RFID, telemetry systems and a host of additional database driven products that range from classical accounting software to new XML-sensor transportable software.
This related grouping of ideas is easily translated into prototype systems [...]
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