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By Chris Freund
The following is an all too often scenario when trying to implement the enterprise system:

The decision is made at the executive level to build a new computer/software system. A project manager/coordinator is assigned and holds meetings with a newly created RFP committee, stakeholders and users to best determine how this system needs to look, and documents it to tremendous detail. The committee publishes the RFP and invites prospective vendors to submit bids. Continue Reading »
The 9 Pitfalls of the Public Sector Enterprise Level Computer Systems

By: Jay McCormack
When making a decision to buy any piece of software there are a number of criteria typically evaluated. One of the most important elements in the decision process is the strength of the company that builds the software. In fact a survey of 19,000 customers has identified that company strength is the most important factor in choosing software, with the price of the software being the fifth most important element. Continue Reading »
15 Questions To Ask Your Software Vendor

By Bruce Taylor
For you engineers out there -

I can tell you your worst nightmare: you go to bed one night as a competent secure in your technical competence, and you wake up the next morning as a technological dinosaur. All your strong technologies are now quaint footnotes in the history books and you’re faced with re-learning a whole new repertoire of technologies. You open up the morning paper and you see a want ad like this: Continue Reading »
Keeping Up With Technical Change

By Tim Bryce
INTRODUCTION

We now live in a fast paced society where we expect products and services to be delivered rapidly (some say “yesterday”), cheaply, and with a high degree of quality. This is particularly true in the systems and software industry. If we lived in a perfect world, systems and software would be developed rapidly and inexpensively, they would effectively satisfy business needs, and would be easy to maintain and modify. There is only one problem with this scenario: it is a fantasy. In reality, we live in a “disposable” world where systems and software are slapped together in the hopes everything will hold together and will pacify the end-user for the moment. Some people believe striving for a Utopian world is an impossibility and, as such, resign themselves to rewriting systems and software time and again as opposed to designing them to be industrial strength. Continue Reading »
What Price Quality?