As we move to a situation where most computers are connected to a single global network for most of the time, we need different architectures. The idea of the general network goes back almost as far as the concepts of individual computers, Windows...
By this I mean ‘proper’ business intelligence - not the isolated, disconnected and overly complex products of the 1990s but the latest web-based architectures, combining data integrity with enterprise-wide access.
The advent of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) should be an absolute godsend for public sector IT, where the need to employ 'joined up' services across organisations mirrors the need to apply processes across different parts of the value chain...
This I have always considered, rightly or wrongly, to be the start of management by metrics and death by numbers. If year-on-year improvements in examination results have been demanded, then by god such a system will be delivered.
We teach it from the ground up," which means right from the fundamental "digital electronics", through architectures and OSes and up to the software programmes that sit on top. He tells silicon.com: "At uni you're taught the concepts that you need...
These include business process outsourcing; software as a service (SaaS); low-cost development environments, such as China and India, combined with modular architectures and service-oriented architectures; the emergence of third-party software...
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