Top IT Trends in Application Development for 2008

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. Business Process Management
2. SOA and Standards Will Close the Gap between Legacy and Open Systems
3. Web 2.0 or Rich Internet Application (RIA)
4. Web Platform & WOA
5. Hardware virtualization will continue to grow become the "norm" for new deployments.
6. Green IT
7. The next big thing

Reflections on 2007 at QAT

Hello and Happy New Year from the entire QAT staff!  Well, we’ve been in business for nearly 13 years now and I’ve been proud to reflect back on each and every one of them.  The year 2007 is no exception.  We’ve accomplished a lot this year and worked hard to ensure that we continue to lead the way with ideas and technology that our customers need to drive change in their business.

One of our focuses this year has been centered on enhancing our capabilities to deliver state of the art web applications. Specifically, we gave the web user interface a lot of attention this year and I’m very pleased with the results. The QAT WebDaptive product, which is our AJAX development framework, has been the focal point for some very innovative enhancements that will definitely be a major factor in maintaining our competitive advantage. As we gain experience throughout each year and learn more about how to leverage new technology and techniques, we continuously apply that to QAT WebDaptive. By building our lessons learned and experience into the product, we also enable our staff and customers to gain from that experience and repeat the success with as little effort as possible.

Announcing QAT Publisher 2008

QAT Publisher 2008 will be released on January 16th! This release includes multiple enhancements based on suggestions and requests received from our customers. Check out the details to see how the top 10 enhancements can make your work easier and more productive!

- Enhancement: Support for subtypes

- Enhancement: FOP 0.94 is now supported and required

- Enhancement: Stylevision 2007 R3 and later is now supported and required

- Enhancement: Support for renaming tags

- Enhancement: Support for changing blocks' parent

- Enhancement: Automatic generation of Apply Stylesheet utility action block

- Enhancement: New search features

- Enhancement: QAT DOM module converted to DLL format

- Enhancement: Import/Export Publication

- QAT Publisher was upgraded and is now a native CA Gen 7.6 application

Please contact Chuck Snyder at 402-391-9200 extension 5 or 800-799-8545 to purchase or upgrade to QAT Publisher 2008 today.