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Introduction to Test Driven Development
Software Lifecycle and Quality Traditionally, when developers work on a software project, they write the application code or parts of it, and then test that code to verify correct implementation of the requirements. This unit testing process is usually a manual one,...
Managing Your Product Data Worldwide
It’s official . . . 1SYNC and SA2 Worldsync have completed their joint venture, combining the two organizations into 1WorldSync – representing one global platform for trusted product data. There was a lot of “buzz” in the market immediately following the...
Mobile in Today’s Enterprise – Reaping the ROI Rewards
If you have a Smartphone or tablet, when was the last time you used your home desktop or laptop? Why would you need to use these devices? You have access to information, emails, music, photos and social media all in the palm of your hand – and more importantly you do...
Designing in Supportability
This post is a bit of a rant. I'm not continually amazed by what I'm about to describe - because I have seen it too often. What I find hard to understand is why corporations continue to fall into the same trap. And what is the trap I'm talking about? It's failing to...
Performance is a Requirement
Top of the Requirements List What's the one factor that affects user satisfaction in every step they take, every time they use your web application? It’s not the feature set. Users can overlook your site lacking some piece of functionality. It’s not the design. Most...
Empower your Sales Force with Mobile Apps for ERP
Guest Blogger: Greg Johnson, Team Leader for New Technology at Mincron Software Systems Mobile applications that integrate with enterprise line-of-business applications may not dazzle your children like Angry Birds — but in the distribution world where margins are...
Selecting a Workflow Management System for Your Company
When most people think about workflow they may think about a manufacturing process on a production line. And that’s really where the whole concept of workflow got started — when business and academic minds worked jointly to improve and control a process. Today,...
Choosing Business Processes for Mobile Apps
Using Mobile Devices for Business The growing use of mobile devices has brought a new paradigm to software application design and development and also forced companies to discover new ways to publish and distribute information to employees and customers. The evolution...
Empowering your Enterprise Systems Management Team to be Innovative and Best-in-Class
Your organization has systems helping manage enterprise-critical activities and information – and your team is the key to keeping these systems vital. Sustaining the rapid pace of business and technology is crucial to your company’s success. Let’s look at how you can...
Business Process Integration Using “Virtual Users” – Risks and Rewards
In the context of modernizing character-based screens (a.k.a. 5250 screens in the IBM i world), the concept of “virtual users” refers to the technique of “wrapping” an existing 5250 interactive application with code that intercepts and controls the 5250 data stream....
Legacy Asset Management and Transformation
Legacy Asset Management and Transformation is the practice of maintaining older application assets so that you can continue to derive value from your stable line-of-business applications – while executing a plan to gradually transform and possibly even replace them. A...
How to Justify Application Modernization to your CFO – Episode 3
This blog series unveils the steps needed to make an ROI-powered business case for Application Modernization to your CFO. Prior episodes outlined your current resources, your goals and the first 5 steps of the process, culminating in a Project Scope or Requirements...