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14 November 2002, 10:33 PM
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Scenario
The modern business world is fast moving and turbulent. Information overload is already here and operational systems compound the problem collecting millions of bytes of additional data every day. Improved responsiveness, faster time to market, flexibility, manoeuvrability, and productivity are all seen as a necessary, indeed essential ingredient of competitive advantage.
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Produce a briefing document describing the key trends in technologies that are now being used to provide business, computing solutions. In addition to technical issues you should identify the rationale behind the use of the technologies identified making them attractive and relevant to modern business needs and strategy. Your paper should contain real business examples to illustrate the type of information processing and business problems being addressed.
i dont have aclue where to start! at all!
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The modern business world is fast moving and turbulent. Information overload is already here and operational systems compound the problem collecting millions of bytes of additional data every day. Improved responsiveness, faster time to market, flexibility, manoeuvrability, and productivity are all seen as a necessary, indeed essential ingredient of competitive advantage.
Tasks
Produce a briefing document describing the key trends in technologies that are now being used to provide business, computing solutions. In addition to technical issues you should identify the rationale behind the use of the technologies identified making them attractive and relevant to modern business needs and strategy. Your paper should contain real business examples to illustrate the type of information processing and business problems being addressed.
i dont have aclue where to start! at all!
Pitch your ideas in
15 November 2002, 12:45 AM
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Sorry, I fell asleep after the first couple of words.... 
Mention two-tier, multi-tier, server2server, business2business systems. Throw in XML, SOAP, .Net and any other buzzwords you can think of.
That should do the job.
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Ian
[Edited by IWatkins - 11/15/2002 12:46:37 AM]
Mention two-tier, multi-tier, server2server, business2business systems. Throw in XML, SOAP, .Net and any other buzzwords you can think of.
That should do the job.
Cheers
Ian
[Edited by IWatkins - 11/15/2002 12:46:37 AM]
15 November 2002, 08:48 AM
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Bit old hat, but mention intra,intra and extranets. Explain VPN and its benefits to workers and partners. Security would be a good thing to cover off, and you might want to mention that OASIS has just ratified SAML (STFW )
SOAP and XML for B2B deserve quite a bit of attention, but as an anecdote we've just delivered a system that does NOT use XML for data formatting but sticks to ASCII. The reason? Performance, especially when running over processing over 20 million statements (not records) in a small window of time...
Whatever you do, make sure you understand what you're writing otherwise you'll find that you can get yourself caught out very quickly. Stick with this attitude in working life too, as you WILL meet someone who can out bullsh1t you
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)SOAP and XML for B2B deserve quite a bit of attention, but as an anecdote we've just delivered a system that does NOT use XML for data formatting but sticks to ASCII. The reason? Performance, especially when running over processing over 20 million statements (not records) in a small window of time...
Whatever you do, make sure you understand what you're writing otherwise you'll find that you can get yourself caught out very quickly. Stick with this attitude in working life too, as you WILL meet someone who can out bullsh1t you
Nick.
15 November 2002, 08:59 AM
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Si,
you could start with something like CRM (Customer Relationship Management) thats big biz. and has been for some time. Best examples of this are loyalty card schemes, talk about they are were originally developed as a loyalty incentive followed by tracking what a customer buys to building systems to target offers specific to customers buying patterns.
Nick raises a good point about technology for technologies sake. Dont believe the hype regarding XML and .Net, often in the real world it is the shortest solution not the one that uses the latest technologies that gets implemented. Im sure you'll catch me on MSN if you need to know more but you would do yourself a favour to look at industry news sites (zdnet, cw360, vnunet, theregister) to look at trends and opinions to learn about what is going on!
cheers
Gary
you could start with something like CRM (Customer Relationship Management) thats big biz. and has been for some time. Best examples of this are loyalty card schemes, talk about they are were originally developed as a loyalty incentive followed by tracking what a customer buys to building systems to target offers specific to customers buying patterns.
Nick raises a good point about technology for technologies sake. Dont believe the hype regarding XML and .Net, often in the real world it is the shortest solution not the one that uses the latest technologies that gets implemented. Im sure you'll catch me on MSN if you need to know more but you would do yourself a favour to look at industry news sites (zdnet, cw360, vnunet, theregister) to look at trends and opinions to learn about what is going on!
cheers
Gary
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erm, learn what it is before writing anything about it mate
All it is is an extensible markup language for formatting data, that's it...
...but the uses are huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
Nick.
All it is is an extensible markup language for formatting data, that's it...
...but the uses are huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
Nick.
15 November 2002, 09:12 AM
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I think ive covert that in Quality Managment + Software Engineering last year. Dig out the old notes i think. Might even read Ian Sommerville 
15 November 2002, 10:06 AM
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Not forgetting Content Management Systems for intranets and websites. This seemed to be big news at last weeks Internet World North Expo. i.e. lots of companies trying to sell CMS.
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cheeky ****.
Big deal not hard
500 words each on E Commerce, Client Server architecture, Data Warehousing and Object Orientated Programming/dev.
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