SoftElegance become a sponsor of the 7-th International Open Students Olympiad of Programming “KPI-Open”

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

SoftElegance become a sponsor of the International Programming Olympiad

SoftElegance announced its support of the 7th Open Students Programming Olympiad named after S. O. Lebedev and V. M. Glushkov “KPI-Open”, which will take place from 9 till 14 of July 2012 in Kiev, Ukraine.

KPI Open sponsor

This contest is driven by National Technical University “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” with the support of Ministry of Education and Science, youth and sports of Ukraine, and Cybernetic Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, since 2006.

Aside from providing general support for the Contest, SoftElegance will hold its own competition on practical programming with separate rewards and prizes.

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Another opinion for Windows RT in the Enterprise

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

There are two different views to Windows RT’s Enterprise role

Here is Gregg Keizer’s, ComputerWorld: “Questions about IT’s ability to manage Windows RT tablets makes the new OS a weak business candidate”.

That’s different form our internal opinion about future of Windows 8 RT in the enterprise IT, but today we decided to share another point of view about the future of Windows RT.

windows 8 rt

“Windows RT, the operating system designed to run on battery-saving devices powered by ARM system-on-a-chip (SoC) silicon, will NOT include features critical to enterprises”…

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GigaOm: BYOD is unstoppable. Smart companies must build apps

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

BYOD — Bring Your Own Device (at Work)

BYOD is one of the most challenged issues in the today’s Enterprise IT world. According to GigaOm’s article it unstoppable.

“The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum. And thanks to the burgeoning mobile app market, employees have high expectations for these tools. They want an attractive user experience tailored to their devices. In other words, companies need to invest in building apps, period.”, says GigaOm on today’s article

byod -- bring your own device

“Despite all the buzz around cloud and big data, I believe mobile will dominate enterprise IT transformation over the next decade and help to shape those other two trends”, says Matt McLarty. In fact we can agree with Matt, based on our software development outsourcing experience.

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Windows Phone SDK update available for Windows 8 and more

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Windows Phone SDK now available for low memory devices and runs on Windows 8

March 26 Microsoft released Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 with two main updates. The first one is the optimization to run on low-memory devices (less than 512MB, and less than 256MB) and the second one is possibility to use the WPSDK 7.1 on Windows 8.

We believe that it’s important update and it will drive WP as one of the top mobile OSs, at it will be installed not only at Nokia and HTC devices (at the moment WindowsP available only for this mobile vendors)

At Windows Phone Developers Blog, by Cliff Simpkins was released update of Windows Phone SDK. Official information is “it’s the final version of the CTP we released last month, and enables Windows Phone developers to do two things: 1) Develop apps that work well on the new 256 MB devices; 2) Use the WPSDK 7.1 to develop on machines running Windows 8“.

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3 Predictions on the Future of Enterprise Software by TechCrunch

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Predictions for Enterprise Software

It’s not a typical post for TechCrunch, and I was surprised to found an article about Enterprise Software, but it really useful and could be considered as good predictions for Enterprise.

“There are three key paradigm shifts that accelerate the consumerization of business software: 1) The devices we use, 2) The way we work, 3) The way we interact with software“, says Uzi Shmilovici.

Predictions for Enterprise Software by TechCrunch

“The “cloud” and the Software as a Service model were the last innovations in enterprise software. There were not a lot of changes in other aspects of the software though. For most, they remind dull applications running on regular PC computers and sold to CIOs. Consumerization is changing that and is doing it fast”.

WHY IS CONSUMERIZATION ACCELERATING? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR BUSINESS COMPUTING?

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Introducing ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta released 15 February 2012

Yes, ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) 4 Beta was released last week. And it’s a great post of Scott Guthrie, VP in the Microsoft Developer Division ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. There’s no sense to repost all article and features, but here is the most important information for executives.

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0. The ASP.NET MVC 4 will also be built-into the upcoming VS11 / .NET 4.5.

ASP.NET MVC 4 includes new support for building mobile web applications and mobile web sites, including new mobile project template. ASP.NET MVC 4 includes support for creating “Web APIs”. More about ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta at official Microsoft’s ASP.NET website.

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Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence — Market Analysis and Technology Forecast through 2016

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Forecast till 2016 to Growth

Here at SoftElegance we are always deep in our customers industry. Manufacturing is the one of such industry we are keeping in touch. This post is about enterprise manufacturing intelligence, the one of the fastest growing segments of Manufacturing Execution Systems.

Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI), or simply Manufacturing Intelligence (MI), is a term which applies to software used to bring a corporation’s manufacturing-related data together from many sources for the purposes of reporting, analysis, visual summaries, and passing data between enterprise-level and plant-floor systems, according to Wikipedia.

ARC - Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence

Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence market experiencing rapid growth. The Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence market is one of the fastest growing segments of the CPM/ MES global automation software and service markets. The market growth is a result of manufacturers need for timely information to support and drive operational decisions.

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Will Silverlight live or die?

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

What is the future of Microsoft Silverlight? Will HTML5 break Silverlight6?

The latest version of Silverlight is 5, it was released on December 2011. And since those date there are no news about the future of Silverlight. The company saying that’s too early to comment the future. Can Silverlight survive in a world of HTML5?

Microsoft Silverlight logo horizontal

“Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web and mobile applications. Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the .NET Framework and compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works” says official MS website. So can it live together with HTML5?

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ComputerWorld’s new rules for Enterprise Apps

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

To be successful enterprise apps must be…

Originally “The new rules for enterprise apps” posted by Minda Zetlin for ComputerWorld. SoftElegance as software development company with major part of enterprise customers attended in the latest trends in enterprise IT world.

“To be successful today, enterprise software must be more user-friendly, get updated more often, and offer users outside your company more transparency than ever before”.

computerworld enterprise apps

In this post you’ll find some of most important new rules for enterprise apps and software.

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Introduction to the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP)

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

How to include the entire software process to enterprise level, not just development process

The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) is the modified Rational Unified Process for the enterprise need, adopted RUP to software development process at enterprise level. The original source is ‘The Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational Unified Process’ book by Scott W. Ambler, John Nalbone, and Michael J. Vizdos.

Book short description: This book describes the fundamentals of the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), an extension of the IBM/Rational Unified Process (RUP) that helpsmake it a full IT lifecycle. This is a “how to” guide usingreal-world experiences and examples for the practitioner. Enterprise Unified Process is built onbeing an add-on to the RUP, instead of a detractor.

Enterprise Unified Process EUP logo

Also we introducing you ‘Introduction to the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP)’, the whitepaper summarized the book The Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational Unified Process, published by Prentice Hall PTR, February 2005.

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