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Issue 004 | Vol. 1 | 2006      
 
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Happy Holidays from QAT

Six Sigma in IT: Fad or Fiction?

Insider News: Top 10 Application Development Trends for 2007

QAT Flow Provides Business Logic for Critical Applications

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Happy Holidays from QAT!
Six Sigma  

Six Sigma in IT: Fad or Fiction?

Many quality and process improvement initiatives have graced the IT world over the years.  We are still in the middle of some of these initiatives’ acronyms-galore:  Agile, BPM, BRM, CASE, CMMI, Extreme, ITIL, ISO9001, RUP, SOA, etc.  Many IT organizations see their benefits and are quick to jump into the bandwagon.  However, interests wane as quickly as the next acronym starts to buzz around the hallways of IT management.   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?    Learn more!

  
  Insider News: Top 10 Application Development Trends for 2007

We find our e-mail inbox inundated with IT predictions for the new year from analysts, vendors and consultants. From those predictions and our own predictions, QAT presents our forecast for the top IT trends in application development for the year ahead in no particular order of importance.

  1. Shift to Granular Applications
  2. Shift of IT Spending to Development
  3. Security and Privacy
  4. Expanding Edge
  5. SOA and Standards Will Close the Gap between Legacy and Open Systems
  6. Business will demand more visible value from IT

.  Learn more!

  2007 Trends
QAT Flow

QAT Flow Provides Business Logic for Critical Applications

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.  QAT Flow goes a long way in solving these challenges.

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