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ALER brings REAL value
Fred Mikkelsen's Blog |
January 17, 2008 1:17 PM
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AquaLogic Enterprise Repository (bundled today with AquaLogic Service Registry in the AquaLogic Registry and Repository) provides a level for business semantic content, and can build upon the source code repository you use today (CVS, SVN, ... ). But rather than discuss the features of ALER, let's look at problem domains that people are trying to solve.
UML - Program modeling in UML and other tools starts with diagrams, and evolves to software. How do you track the ROI of UML modeling? How do you assure the process of updating UML diagrams as the software changes? ALER can help with those issues.
ISO-9000 - To be compliant, you need to be able to produce documentation and software lineage to substantiate that the testing and process have been followed properly. Asset values on testing, documentation, training coverage, inspection, and other ISO-artifacts can be related to your software. ALER can help you do that and to assure that your ISO-9000 compliance tools are being applied as they should.
Financial Due Diligence - we've all heard the story. "We have 3 man millennia invested in our product. When we IPO, it will be impossible for the competition to catch up." How could you substantiate that? How could you follow the software development ROI more closely to get figures on not only how much effort is put into a software project, but the effective effort and saved effort? How could you substantiate your off-shoring strategy's success? Code per unit cost? What is the Net Asset Value of your software? Resulting bugs per product? Returns per unit sale? ALER can be configured to work with your metrics to determine the asset value of your software as it pertains to your business.
508 mobility compliance - when working with the Federal Government, it is important to be able to provide handicapped accessibility to your software products. How do you coordinate and estimate the cost of, and scheduling of, mobility compliance? For example, if you use old DOJO widgets in your software, that may not be compliant. However, a new UI toolkit can be selected to be compliant. What is the impact of changing that? How would you coordinate the visibility into your project to accomplish that? ALER's flexible schema allows you to track time, cost, trouble tickets, earnings, compliance, customer satisfaction figures, and any other enumerable values.
Total Quality Management (TQM) -- in total quality management, you will want to be able to investigate the error rate by component software contribution and overall test coverage. By integrating your automated tests and testing strategy into ALER, you can produce lifecycle charts of how software is proceeding towards acceptance levels.
ALER is a very exciting product because it can produce value for development, finance, professional services, and support. It is the knowledge base of how your software projects are doing.
Unlike many other enterprise software products like Struts or JSF, ALER does not need to be designed into the base of the project. In fact, some of the highest ROI is seen by customers who have an existing product deployed in numerous places, and it needs to be changed. COBOL -to- Java. Stand-alone -to- hosted. Locally-clustered -to- Geographic failover.
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