Posted by: Amburkar Sankar Rao on: January 29, 2010
As discussed in my earlier post(Extensibility Design), an extensible design provides the ability to customize an enterprise application software to server business needs of different customers. Extensibility is critical to the application software vendor especially if the software is delivered through a SaaS or On-Demand model. The underlying application architecture should support a metadata based [...]
Posted by: Amburkar Sankar Rao on: January 24, 2010
Multinational companies generally have operations in multiple countries and they have requirement to run transactions with multiple currencies. They need to be able to see the amounts used in transaction (Budgets, sales revenue, sales targets etc.,) in multiple currencies with current and historical exchange rates. For example, consider a multinational company with head quarters in [...]
Posted by: Amburkar Sankar Rao on: January 19, 2010
Enterprise Software products are unique and generally different organizations use it differently. It will be rare or impossible to see enterprise software used without modifications by enterprises. A typical enterprise has unique needs based on their organization structure and they customize the software available off the shelf. They hire functional and technical consultants, who have [...]
Posted by: Amburkar Sankar Rao on: January 19, 2010
Data visualization is the study of visually representing data for the purpose of effective communication of data through visual means. Data visualization will improve the aesthetics (you no longer have to see the boring tables and standard widgets) and improve the intuitiveness of the data being resented. Data visualization is a effective tool to present [...]
Posted by: Amburkar Sankar Rao on: January 16, 2010
What is Enterprise 2.0? Enterprise 2.0 is the latest buzzword that is generating interest in corporate IT circles and software vendor’s boardroom. The word was coined by Harvard university professor and as I understand this is about bringing Web 2.0 collaboration tools and techniques such as social media, wikis, blogs, twitter etc., in to corporate [...]
Posted by: Amburkar Sankar Rao on: January 1, 2010
Introduction Predictive analytics is the latest buzzword in the enterprise software industry and it you go by predictions from industry watchers, every vendor will offer predictive analytics solutions. With most enterprise vendors acquiring predictive analysis technologies (i.e. Oracle acquired Hyperion, SAP acquired business objects and IBM acquired SPSS) we would definitely see some predictive analytics [...]
