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Is it time to consider converting your site-to-site WAN to an IP-VPN? To improve network flexibility and reduce operating costs, many large enterprises are evaluating the use of VPN devices, [...]

RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (RAD) is a systems development philosophy that can be effective in controlling waste and inefficiencies that are so common with systems development projects. The sad fact is [...]

Getting Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP-IP) traffic inside the datacenter can be accomplished easily. However, getting vital production data applications that were made to operate efficiently in a Systems Network Architecture (SNA) over TCP-IP will present a problem. SNA-IP integration, an urgent need for major companies, is expected to be accomplished from 18 months to two years plus an additional six months to one year for testing., Want to integrate TCP/IP networks with legacy SNA applications and databases? It's easier said than done. Centralized, top-down application and network integration projects are enjoying a renaissance. Ironically, this trend [...]

REENGINEERING IS NOT JUST FOR LARGE BUSINESSES. IT'S TRUE THAT ONLY GIANT CORPORATIONS CAN AFFORD TO PAY THE FEES FOR HIGH-POWERED CONSULTANTS TO COME IN AND TURN THE ORGANIZATION UPSIDE [...]

It's a nightmare scenario: You are the busy controller or CFO of a smaller organization. The information 'systems' are old, tottering geezers. You can't get that old Burroughs card punch [...]

With a building block approach using Complex Objects software, a company can tailor an information system to its environment in record time - and save implementation costs. How an organization [...]

Introduction Information is a corporate resource of such critical importance that a directed strategy for its development and management is essential. To plan effectively an organization needs to know its [...]

Practical -- and tested -- strategies for lightening the burden of 'legacy' systems THERE IS HOPE FOR EXECUTIVES imprisoned by their information systems. For years, an inability to change those [...]

The development of trading systems can be a difficult task for beginners. Common mistakes include designing systems using less than two years of data, utilizing all of the data for development, optimizing indicator values and according to a classical concept. Designers should remember that opening range breakouts are a prerequisite of successful systems. They can even be utilized for creating short-term position trading systems., New system designers make common mistakes. Here we follow the fable of Joe and Jane Trader, and their trials and tribulations of finding the perfect system. Read it and learn. [...]

Sales forecasting systems are necessary in providing efficient and accurate decision-support analysis for sales personnel. In developing these kinds of systems, the company must use the sales forecasting process as the basis for designing the system. A corporate data warehouse must also be built to aid analysts in examining volumes of data. The support of senior management in these undertakings is necessary.

Facilitated workshops allow systems designers to gather information needed to identify the requirements of a new system. This results to the reduction of time and costs spent on the systems development process. Workshops also empowers users to make system decisions on all aspects of the project and to develop creative techniques for implementing these decisions.

In the world of systems development, there is an on-going quest for the 'perfect' development methodology. This blueprint for building applications has a different name and a different face every [...]

Exhaustive testing is the key to coming as close as humanly possible to developing error-free software. We've all been frustrated by software that doesn't work. System errors, bugs and unexpected [...]