Modernizing product development
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The past few years have seen companies doing everything they can to reduce costs. From outsourcing and offshoring to RIFs (reductions in force), the byword has been, âCut expenses.â But if most of the economists are right, 2005 will be a much better year, and companies will go back to concentrating on increasing revenue.
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New solutions lead the way to market leaders.
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Conversations I've had this week at TechEd with attendees have made me rethink an opinion I stated early on, about how nice it was to see Microsoft toning down the marketing message and getting down to brass, technical tacks.  Some IT managers who want their employers to get the message of Windows Server 2008, would appreciate it if that message were easier to be "got."
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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A smooth integration will not be a matter of simply swapping one set of software or hardware for another. It may hinge on changing deep-seated mind-sets.
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(Source: Borland) Don't let distributed development, SOA and shifting methodologies sabotage software quality...or turn your QA teams into IT managers!  Virtualization can provide a better alternative to physical testing.  Learn how to get more out of virtualized testing by integrating it within testing processes.
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Chipmaker looks at moving toward product lineup with lots of different choices depending on a customer's workload.
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Ushering in a new term of sorts today is this new article from Nick Lo on the Zend Developer Zone talking about the Zend Framework and the "New Hybrid Designer":   While a good sense of aesthetics is important, it does not in itself directly equate to a well designed product. This is particularly true with web design, as a recent Web 2.0 Expo session entitled "The New Hybrid Designer" put it; "modern web design requires the coding savviness of a developer coupled with the aesthetics and user awareness of a designer".   The idea behind the article is to propose a simple setup of the Zend Framework that developers can use as the powerful system that it is and the designers can get into and understand how to use (things like building forms and templating the site). He touches on a few topics including the MVC pattern the Framework follows, security in the application and the "pretty URLs" that it allows.
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Open Source methodology has gained some ground in one of the last places you and I might expect: In the development area of corporations. Consultants are calling environments like Sourceforge Enterprise Edition a Digital Development Environment.
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Daily progress reports for agile development teams.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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Digital technology changes from workhorse to entertainer.
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One big challenge, analysts say: building a developer base and overall ecosystem for its products.
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Turning a purchase requiring specialized knowledge into something for Everyman â everywhere.
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As important as a physical supply chain Readers may recall that I wrote last year about Silver Creek SystemsÂ®. At that time I extolled its capabilities for product data quality (matching, cleansing and classification) through the use of semantically-based content profiling and attribute identification. This is particularly relevant when information comes into the organization in unstructured formats as most conventional data quality tools have historically been limited to support for structured information.â¦
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Revamped website signals desire for broader customer base
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By Anonymous  SolidWorks' new PDMWorks Enterprise PDM (product data management) software enables distributed workgroups to access, store, change and approve designs.  With it, they can share and manage enterprise data and engineering documents with version control and workflow.