Dr. Dobbs reports that "Microsoft has announced significant architectural advancements to the next version of its Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool. Code-named 'Microsoft Dynamics AX 6.'"
The enhancements will give independent software vendors (ISVs) the ability to get products to market faster with lower product life-cycle investments.
Dynamics AX 6 includes a model-driven layered architecture that the MS says will accelerate software development by requiring less coding. In addition to new developer maintenance and upgradability options, there is pre-built interoperability with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010 and other Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010." It will come with pre-built capabilities for five industries and 38 countries.
A "Community Technical Preview" of Microsoft Dynamics AX 6 is slated for February, with eneral availability planned for 3Q 2011.
Showing posts with label Application Development. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, March 15, 2010
Continental Uses Silverlight for Call Center App with Web-Based Tech
When it came time to update its call center reservations system, Continental Airlines and its partner Infusion Development chose the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in to build the new reservations solution as a rich Internet application.
The new system provides improved functionality and workflow for call center agents, which enables them to deliver better customer service and increase customer satisfaction. With the new solution, Continental saves money by consolidating servers and databases that currently sit in call centers around the world. By choosing Silverlight, the company also has reduced development and deployment time, simplified application management, and made it easy to integrate the new system with Continental’s existing Web services.
Click HERE for details.
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web and for mobile devices. Visual Studio and Expression Blend fully support Silverlight for application development.
The new system provides improved functionality and workflow for call center agents, which enables them to deliver better customer service and increase customer satisfaction. With the new solution, Continental saves money by consolidating servers and databases that currently sit in call centers around the world. By choosing Silverlight, the company also has reduced development and deployment time, simplified application management, and made it easy to integrate the new system with Continental’s existing Web services.
Click HERE for details.
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web and for mobile devices. Visual Studio and Expression Blend fully support Silverlight for application development.
Friday, July 31, 2009
opentaps Quarterly Update
Click HERE to see the Quarterly update for opentaps open source ERP/CRM solution.
Technical (framework) changes include:
Technical (framework) changes include:
- Integrated hibernate search for indexing and searching data. We will be developing a user interface for search next.
- Replaced AspectJ with AspectWerkz as the library to support Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
- Upgraded to the new version of Jasper reports, so that it is now compatible with the new version of iReport (3.5.2) as well.
- Incorporate customer and sales analysis reports from opentaps analytics back into opentaps, accessible under opentaps CRM. In the future, opentaps analytics will work as a stand-alone application, or as a part of opentaps
Application changes include:
- New splash page.
- Converted invoices, orders, and quote PDF's to Jasper reports. These documents can now also be e-mailed with our Ajax browser email.
- Financial reports have been migrated to Jasper reports as well. This means trial balances, income statements, balance sheets, etc. can now be exported to PDF and Excel.
- New screens for creating and managing quotes.
- New screens for creating purchase orders.
- New Google Web Toolkit (GWT) grid for entering both invoices and orders.
- Support for keyboard shortcuts. For example, you can now configure keystrokes to perform tasks in opentaps, such as "F2" to create a new order.
- Supports calculating encumbrances from outstanding purchase orders, so you can use it as a budgeting tool.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Google Developer Conference Snafu
I got a kick out of the following -- hope you do, too!
Google I/O Overrun By Developers
Posted by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, May 28, 2008 06:42 PM
More than 2,900 developers descended on the Moscone Center West convention center in San Francisco on Wednesday and Google wasn't ready for them.
At 9:15 a.m., 15 minutes before the Google I/O keynote was scheduled to begin, hundreds of coders from all over remained stuck in line, waiting to be issued their pre-registered badges so that they could be admitted into the company's annual developer conference.
It was as if Google had become an airline, trying to deal with canceled flights at peak season. Steve Gillmor, a longtime Bay Area tech journalist and contributing editor to ZDNet, rather pointedly told a harried Google employee at the media registration desk, "This is not how it's supposed to be done."
The keynote began about 15 minutes late. Vic Gundotra, engineering VP at Google, arrived on stage and apologized. Rather than have those waiting in the lobby miss the keynote entirely, those in charge of the event opted to let the would-be attendees in without badges. At management-level events, where movers and shakers mingle, security concerns preclude that sort of decision; developers apparently can handle self-policing, or perhaps they're just expendable.
And to top it all off, there weren't enough chairs to accommodate those wishing to see the keynote presentation. Google apparently is still getting the hang of developer conferences....
Such snafus hardly matter much in the long run, but they do suggest that Google's engineering culture has some blind spots. Apple's recent developer events, as befits a company obsessed with image management, have run like clockwork.
Hopefully, next year's event will begin more smoothly. There will almost certainly be a larger crowd.
Google I/O Overrun By Developers
Posted by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, May 28, 2008 06:42 PM
More than 2,900 developers descended on the Moscone Center West convention center in San Francisco on Wednesday and Google wasn't ready for them.
At 9:15 a.m., 15 minutes before the Google I/O keynote was scheduled to begin, hundreds of coders from all over remained stuck in line, waiting to be issued their pre-registered badges so that they could be admitted into the company's annual developer conference.
It was as if Google had become an airline, trying to deal with canceled flights at peak season. Steve Gillmor, a longtime Bay Area tech journalist and contributing editor to ZDNet, rather pointedly told a harried Google employee at the media registration desk, "This is not how it's supposed to be done."
The keynote began about 15 minutes late. Vic Gundotra, engineering VP at Google, arrived on stage and apologized. Rather than have those waiting in the lobby miss the keynote entirely, those in charge of the event opted to let the would-be attendees in without badges. At management-level events, where movers and shakers mingle, security concerns preclude that sort of decision; developers apparently can handle self-policing, or perhaps they're just expendable.
And to top it all off, there weren't enough chairs to accommodate those wishing to see the keynote presentation. Google apparently is still getting the hang of developer conferences....
Such snafus hardly matter much in the long run, but they do suggest that Google's engineering culture has some blind spots. Apple's recent developer events, as befits a company obsessed with image management, have run like clockwork.
Hopefully, next year's event will begin more smoothly. There will almost certainly be a larger crowd.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
New SOA Platform and Language from MS
From eWeek: Microsoft, which in October officially announced its intent to support model-driven development in a broad strategy known as "Oslo," is beginning work on a new declarative programming language called "D," a supporting editing tool and other components of the initiative, according to sources close to the company.
Microsoft announced Oslo as part of an amorphous vision for simplifying application development, design, management and deployment. Company officials said Oslo will represent a core set of technology investments that will encompass both a services infrastructure — spanning server, client and the Internet "cloud" — and an executable modeling platform that will include a general-purpose modeling language, tools and repository....
In a talk at the Lang.NET conference on the Microsoft campus on Jan. 30, Don Box, an architect in Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division, said that Microsoft engineers "care deeply about having natural ways to write things down in a text file that are not only natural to write, but more importantly, natural to read."
The Connected Systems Division is working on D and Intellipad, sources said. However, other groups within Microsoft, including the Developer Division, are working on different components of the Oslo strategy.
For more on the new Services-Oriented platform and declarative programming language, see eWeek.
Microsoft announced Oslo as part of an amorphous vision for simplifying application development, design, management and deployment. Company officials said Oslo will represent a core set of technology investments that will encompass both a services infrastructure — spanning server, client and the Internet "cloud" — and an executable modeling platform that will include a general-purpose modeling language, tools and repository....
In a talk at the Lang.NET conference on the Microsoft campus on Jan. 30, Don Box, an architect in Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division, said that Microsoft engineers "care deeply about having natural ways to write things down in a text file that are not only natural to write, but more importantly, natural to read."
The Connected Systems Division is working on D and Intellipad, sources said. However, other groups within Microsoft, including the Developer Division, are working on different components of the Oslo strategy.
For more on the new Services-Oriented platform and declarative programming language, see eWeek.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
IBM, Mainsoft Facilitate .NET Integration
Developers using Microsoft's .NET Framework technology and SharePoint can now readily integrate their .NET applications with IBM's Java-based portal technology, after IBM agreed, in a global reseller deal, to sell Mainsoft Corp.'s .NET Extensions solution with the IBM WebSphere Portal solution.
IBM WebSphere Portal lets users create composite or "mashup" applications in service-oriented architectures and enables organizational performance monitoring, self-service applications, document access and team collaboration.
"Portal-to-portal interoperability is going to become increasingly important," said Yaacov Cohen, Mainsoft's CEO and president. "With a service-oriented architecture you want to connect all of your systems together, and you want to deliver your composite applications -- coming from different platforms."
Mainsoft's technology can integrate a number of Microsoft .NET technologies:
* Windows SharePoint services
* Microsoft Office document libraries
* SQL Server Reports
* .NET-based applications
Mainsoft, an advanced IBM business partner, provides solutions that help organizations with mixed .NET and Java environments. The company's solutions are certified as "Optimized for Visual Studio" and have been validated as "Ready for WebSphere Software."
Mainsoft Portal Edition solution is a plug-in to the Visual Studio development environment. It has a cross-compiler that compiles .NET code into Java bite code. The solution makes it easier for developers with a background in C# and Visual Basic to integrate ASP.NET on WebSphere Portal.
IBM WebSphere Portal lets users create composite or "mashup" applications in service-oriented architectures and enables organizational performance monitoring, self-service applications, document access and team collaboration.
"Portal-to-portal interoperability is going to become increasingly important," said Yaacov Cohen, Mainsoft's CEO and president. "With a service-oriented architecture you want to connect all of your systems together, and you want to deliver your composite applications -- coming from different platforms."
Mainsoft's technology can integrate a number of Microsoft .NET technologies:
* Windows SharePoint services
* Microsoft Office document libraries
* SQL Server Reports
* .NET-based applications
Mainsoft, an advanced IBM business partner, provides solutions that help organizations with mixed .NET and Java environments. The company's solutions are certified as "Optimized for Visual Studio" and have been validated as "Ready for WebSphere Software."
Mainsoft Portal Edition solution is a plug-in to the Visual Studio development environment. It has a cross-compiler that compiles .NET code into Java bite code. The solution makes it easier for developers with a background in C# and Visual Basic to integrate ASP.NET on WebSphere Portal.
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