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QAT Product Articles

Agility BPM™ Provides Business Logic for Critical Applications
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Today’s IT applications are based on complicated business rules that require tight integration across multiple systems, dynamic processing capabilities to accommodate multiple business scenarios and coordination across multiple business units. For a Project Manager, identifying and defining the myriad of business rules can be a full time job in itself. For an IT developer, programming the complex business rules can be very challenging. Not to mention the never ending task of keeping the application current with the changing business environment. Agility BPM™ goes a long way in solving these challenges.
QAT ReFactor 2008: Realizing Productivity Gains of Over 1000%
QAT ReFactor is a plug-in for CA Gen that provides sophisticated Action Diagram view substitution between unlike Entities, Work Sets and their Attributes. Individual action diagrams, complete call chains or the entire model can be targeted for the ReFactor operation. The ReFactor operations even allow attributes with unlike domains to be matched and substituted in the Action Diagrams.
QAT ReFactor
The primary function of QAT ReFactor is to change (refactor) existing code that references one view to reference any other view.
Build Your Own Wizard
This release of the Wizard adds a new capability called Wizard Actions.

SOA Articles

Common SOA Pitfalls
As developers and architects seek to fully understand SOA best practices, it is important to consider the common pitfalls of SOA adoption.
Is SOA the Answer?
Even though we have decades of experience in software development, we have yet to solve the mysteries of software complexity. As complexity grows, researchers find more innovative ways to answer the call.
SOA Business Value
Explaining the business value of SOA to business manager is not so much a conversation about how to extract business value from SOA, its more about how to extract value from the assets that you have in place. A SOA can be the architectural approach to help make that happen.
The Path to SOA
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) provide clear business benefits by making software components freely interchangeable, reusable, and loosely coupled. Because SOA isn’t something you buy off the shelf, the implementation of a SOA can be daunting.

QAT Solutions & Services Articles

The C.A.S.E. for Six Sigma
Six Sigma plus i-CASE equals Lean software process. The Lean principle of Six Sigma emphasizes speed and efficiency.
Six Sigma in IT: Fad or Fiction?
Is Six Sigma just another fad to grace the runway of CIO offices and magazines, only to melt away to the heat of another upcoming major initiative? Is it just a fictional tale from the imagination of manufacturing folks, but somehow does not apply to IT processes?
Filling the Gap
Look below the surface when determining which way to go, full-time or contractor when the next IT resource need becomes apparent. At the end of the day, you and your management team may just be surprised which is the hands-down winner.
How to Develop a Productive IT Team
Having a productive IT team is essential to meeting project and departmental goals. Having solid team building processes is particularly important when teams consist of regular staff, consultants, and even offshore members.
Legacy Renewal
Legacy Renewal, simply stated, is the process of converting an existing production application into a more modern application system.
What Are Your Legacy Systems Really Costing You?
While your legacy systems have played a large role in your previous success, today they may be costing you much more than you may realize. Even systems that can be kept up today will become increasingly more difficult to maintain, afford, and keep compliant tomorrow.

White Papers

See QAT white paper on the "Simple Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Currently, the big architectural push is towards a service-oriented architecture (SOA). While the term sounds impressive, it is important to understand both what an SOA is and how it can benefit an enterprise.
See QAT white paper on "Unleashing the Power of XML in CA Gen with QWIK.xml Products
XML technologies are ideal to solve the challenges posed by today's business environments. In fact, the XML specification and its associated technologies (XSLT, XML Schema, Web Services, etc…) have been accepted in the industry as the “de-facto” standard for solving problems related to complex data exchange and data transformation.
QAT assists in the development of a key paper on Enterprise Architecture with Web services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Sharing critical information, while protecting that information from prying eyes that could compromise national security and trade secrets, is a delicate balancing act. In order to do this, one doesn't necessarily have to create entirely new systems; rather, one has to understand legacy systems that are available and see if they can be enhanced to meet requirements/ The popularity of using Web Services to do this by integrating data securely among disparate computing platforms is rising, due in part to economics.

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