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The Information Architect (IA) guides projects on their overall high level solution approach, engages with the architecture team, and chairs the formal architecture review and approvals meeting. The IA provides oversight to the portfolio of...

Businesses often make decisions about development languages and tools with a lack of real information. Whether the decision is short-term cost-based, or left to the development team's personal likes and dislikes, organizations need to have all...

Development managers must understand coding standards, the reason for those coding standards, and the methods to ensure those standards are followed.

Organizations developing solutions must understand the architecture of building and creating software programs. When managers and leaders have a better and deeper understanding of the methodologies and construction techniques, it is easier to...

This solution set will help business development managers understand what VS2010 can do and leverage the power and functionality to develop, deploy, and maintain their custom development projects.

Limitations, pros and cons to developing in the cloud are extensive depending on the point of view. The general principle, and leading benefit, is that any computer connected to the Internet can be connected to the same pool of resources...

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Building an RIA creates an advantage for businesses struggling to get their target audiences to accept their applications. RIA is user-centric and leverages a more interactive approach to business applications, allowing business users to access...

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Many organizations enter into RIA development without clear direction, scoping, or the proper expertise available. RIA is user-centric, but the average developer is not. Include a UI analyst/expert to ensure that the user-centric nature of RIA...

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Understand what type of benefits your business can achieve from adopting an RIA strategy.

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The User Experience Lead will be responsible for overseeing and contributing to the end-to-end user experience solution designs, ensuring that the user experience vision and goals are achieved.

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The Visual Designer is responsible for the end-to-end process of transforming complex product requirements into visually stunning and highly functional user interfaces.

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The ease-of-use of SharePoint leads to the false expectation that all IT needs to do is install and let each department begin using it, which results in disorganized and poorly implemented SharePoint solutions. Use this tool to assess the...

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Use this tool to estimate SharePoint development/customization TCO, whether you are outsourcing development, doing all the work in-house, or taking a hybrid approach.

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The SharePoint Developer is responsible for developing business-changing enterprise solutions with SharePoint 2010 and other leading-edge technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience developing web applications using Microsoft and...

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The SharePoint Designer is responsible for implementing custom workflow, collaboration, and document management solutions in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 using a combination of SharePoint Designer, built-in functionality, and custom web...

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The SharePoint Administrator is responsible for the administration and maintenance of the SharePoint application and servers in the SharePoint farm.

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The SharePoint Solutions Architect will be the point person for all SharePoint projects. This includes leading the SharePoint team in the analysis, design, development, and deployment of SharePoint solutions.

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The responsibilities of the SharePoint Business Analyst will include working with all stakeholders (including business leaders and end users) to analyze business needs and assist in designing appropriate solutions.

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SharePoint is vastly underused due to the challenges associated with customized solutions. To get the expected return on your SharePoint 2010 investment, understand the planning, customization, expertise, and training required for success.

Solution Set

SharePoint 2010 includes built-in functionality that allows organizations to create effective business solutions that take SharePoint beyond a document repository, even without development effort, provided staff follow best practices.

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Organizations are under greater pressure to engage a growing customer audience that will potentially access, use, and buy products and services via mobile devices. Understand the mobile application market and lifecycle and develop a strategy...

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Organizations are under greater pressure to engage a growing customer audience that will potentially access, use and buy products and services via mobile devices. Use this tool to help determine whether to pursue a native or Web mobile...

(23-Dec-09) For a tiny Toronto software manufacturer nestled in the city's grimy garment district, winning a $290 million court judgment against Microsoft is more than simply a long-awaited victory. "It's a battle cry for the entrepreneur and...

(23-Dec-09) Microsoft Corp. has lost an appeal against a small Toronto company in a patent fight that cost the world's biggest software maker $290 million (U.S.) and forced it to alter its ubiquitous MS Word program. The U.S. Court of Appeals...

(22-Dec-09) A U.S. federal appeals court upheld a ruling against Microsoft Corp. Tuesday, ordering the software giant to pay $290 million to Canadian software firm i4i Inc. in a long-running patent dispute. The court injunction will also...

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The software developer's role is to design, code, test, and analyze software programs and applications. This includes researching, designing, documenting, and modifying software specifications throughout the production lifecycle. The software...

Application development is a well-researched area and there are no shortages of articles, books or blogs written about it. Yet, even the brightest and best developers sometimes fail to identify inefficiencies in their development processes....

Given the pressure to deliver, application developers will inevitably resort to less than perfect behaviors. When such behaviors turn into habits, everyone suffers; moreover, habits are difficult to alter. Watch out for these habits before they...