Designing Global Applications: Requirements and Challenges

This paper explores various business drivers for globalization and examines the nature of globalization requirements for software products and applications. It discusses typical globalization challenges that must be addressed before building global applications.

Understanding the 360-Degree Risk Management Model

Organizations, often, view risks as threats and devise means to avoid risks instead of planning effective mitigation strategies. Risks provide opportunities for innovation. Managing risks well has a positive impact on business. This paper discusses... the imperatives of holistic risk management and proposes a 360-degree Risk Management Model to identify risks and plan the right mitigation strategies.

Performance Engineering and Global Software Development

One of the principal goals of IS organizations is to achieve system performance in a way that minimizes risk and improves cost-effectiveness and time-to-market for critical systems. It requires a holistic and quantitative approach to performance..., without compromising on attributes such as flexibility, maintainability, reliability and usability. Infosys has put into practice such an approach by combining practices in performance engineering with client delivery experience. Adapted to ensure collaboration among globally distributed application development teams, it combines performance modeling with benchmarking, tuning and optimization to deliver high-performance systems.

Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) represent the next transition in the evolution of web applications - they promise the richness, interactivity and usability lacking in many of today's web applications. As with any technological transition, this implies that... there are new opportunities to be explored and new challenges to be negotiated.

A Model for Effective Asset Re-use in Software Projects

Software Asset re-use has the potential to enhance the quality and reduce the time to market of software projects. However, there are many challenges on the road to successful asset re-use. The key to success is discipline.

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