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5 Guiding Principles of Enterprise Modernization (part 3)
Thanks for joining me for my final post on the 5 Guiding Principles of Enterprise Modernization. So far I've covered the importance of delivering the best user experience, improving data quality and accuracy and getting information into the hands who need it. My focus...
5 Guiding Principles of Enterprise Modernization (part 2)
Continuing on from my post last week about the 5 Guiding Principles of Enterprise Modernization, the ultimate goal of modernization is to use technology to best support your customers and trading partners. This means providing users with the best experience, enabling...
5 Guiding Principles of Enterprise Modernization
Businesses are being bombarded with the message to modernize. In the IBM i world, most tend to define modernization in terms of low-level development tactics such as converting RPG to free form, updating databases to SQL or refacing 5250 screens for the web. While...
Mind the Gap: Addressing Ambiguity in Requirements
The lesson of the Tower of Babel, possibly the first post-project review in historical records, is that communication failure within the team will cause project failure. In today’s software requirements, often staffed by cross-functional teams spread across the globe,...
Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence and Trends in Data Analytics
Data is the foundation of information, information builds evidence and evidence allows you to make informed decisions about improving productivity, streamlining processes and understanding customers. You need data analysis tools to turn data into information from which you can gather the evidence required to make and support your decisions. Today, companies can collect more data than was practical in the past, and do so at a faster rate from multiple sources.
What’s old is new again
Guest Blogger: Tom Mavroidis, president of NTM Consulting Incorporated As part of Tom’s portfolio he manages the Computer Department for ITWAL Limited, Canada’s national network of independent distributors. In this article Tom shares how multiple vendors worked...
The State of Mobile on IBM i
There’s no escaping the rapid pace of our evolving mobile world – including the ensuing demand for mobile apps – and businesses can’t afford to take a back seat when it comes deploying mobile solutions. If you’re an IBM i organization considering taking the dive into...
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,...
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,...
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...
Building applications for mobile devices
These days almost everyone has one or more mobile devices, ranging from Smartphones to tablets. From a business perspective, widespread use of mobile devices is useful, as it allows immediate access to information for employees who work remotely and/or travel...
Using JSON to Build Efficient Applications
As modern web applications have become increasingly interactive and data centric, techniques have been sought to make these applications more efficient. A major breakthrough in this area was the advent of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML). Since then, developers...