Articles avec le tag ‘Flash’

Mobility: custom business application or off-the-shelf software? – Final Thoughts (Part 2)

11 mai 2011

As we mentioned in our previous post, it’s clear that, mostly for economic reasons, companies want applications that are « ready-to-mobilize ». The demand is there: 75% use standard applications and 20%, custom business applications. Further, we continued on to show that developers see positive opportunities for both options – off-the-shelf as well as custom-made business applications…

One in the hand, is better than two in the bush

Recently however, a senior mobile developer confided to me that he had seriously considered dropping some mobile development platforms (there are 7 major mobile OSs) because customers were just not ready to absorb the costs of cross-platform development. Instead, in order to save money these clients were asking him to select THE platform (or sometimes two) with the greatest reach and potential, to evaluate the costs for it and to eliminate the others! While this is understandable, it’s not necessarily an elegant solution and very often proves problematic because there are few companies or homogeneous target audiences that use only one model of mobile device, let alone a single OS.

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Web or Windows? No, Web & Windows! (Part 2)

4 mai 2011

The debate has been raging for over a decade and the heights the confrontation and rivalries at the turn of the Millennium. So, what is it, Web or Windows? At the time, these two diametrically opposed visions each had hard core advocates who had sworn allegiance to the death. Much water has passed under the bridge since then and today we understand that reality is not quite so simple; not everything is black or white.

The vast majority of businesses – be they big, medium or even small – have purchased numerous office software programme licenses from Microsoft (Windows, Office, SharePoint, etc.) since the arrival of Windows and a great many of these have invested in the development of applications custom built in Microsoft’s .Net framework or other platforms. And today, almost all IT managers are turning to the Web where they are seriously considering or at the very least evaluating their options there.

Walking the Web / Windows high wire with my business

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Web or Windows? No, Web & Windows! (Part 1)

28 avril 2011

The debate has been raging for over a decade and the heights the confrontation and rivalries at the turn of the Millennium. So, what is it, Web or Windows? At the time, these two diametrically opposed visions each had hard core advocates who had sworn allegiance to the death. Much water has passed under the bridge since then and today we understand that reality is not quite so simple; not everything is black or white.

The vast majority of businesses – be they big, medium or even small – have purchased numerous office software programme licenses from Microsoft (Windows, Office, SharePoint, etc.) since the arrival of Windows and a great many of these have invested in the development of applications custom built in Microsoft’s .Net framework or other platforms. And today, almost all IT managers are turning to the Web where they are seriously considering or at the very least evaluating their options there.

Between the Web and Windows, my… company teeters

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Migrate my applications to the Web or die. Really?

7 avril 2011

The time has come to migrate the technology of many of your existing applications and your IT Management Director swears by the Web, he or she wants all new applications (or almost all…) to be Web-based. The main argument being made is that all these web applications will be much easier to deploy and maintain and that there will be huge savings in fees.

Oh Web!  Oh how we adore you!

Some of your current applications actually contain a lot of business intelligence and your users have gotten used to the way they’ve accessed it over the years.  Will your new Web-based applications allow you to preserve the integrity of your business intelligence and maintain the current level of usability?

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Mobilité – application métier sur mesure ou commerciale ? Suite et Fin

29 octobre 2010

Nous mentionnions dans notre billet précédent qu’il est clair que les entreprises veulent, principalement pour des raisons économiques, des applications « prêtes-à-mobiliser » et ce, dans une grande proportion : 75% utilisent des applications standards et 20% des applications métiers sur mesure.  Et nous poursuivions en précisant que les développeurs perçoivent bien l’opportunité tant du côté applications standardisées qu’applications métiers…

Un tien vaut mieux que… sept tu l’auras

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Migrer mes applications en mode Web ou mourir. Vraiment ?

26 août 2010

Le temps est venu de migrer la technologie de plusieurs de vos applications existantes et votre directeur TI ne jure que par le Web, il veut que toutes vos nouvelles applications (ou presque…) soient « Web ».  Son argument majeur étant que toutes ces applications web seront beaucoup plus faciles à déployer et à maintenir et que nous sauverons donc des frais importants sur ces deux plans.

Ah ! Web, quand tu nous tiens !

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Silverlight : et la lumière fût ou fût-elle… futile ?

15 février 2010

Dans la foulée des multiples révisions et innombrables mises à jour d’anciens produits et des tout aussi nombreux lancements de nouveaux produits auxquels procède Microsoft à chaque année, Silverlight se rapproche lentement mais sûrement du quatuor de tête que constituent Windows OS/Server, Office Suite, le framework .Net et SharePoint.

Et pourquoi Microsoft déploie-t-elle tant d’efforts à mousser Silverlight ?  Et pourquoi devrions-nous utiliser Silverlight ?  Que veut Microsoft ou encore que propose-t-elle de nouveau en Web avec Silverlight ?  Et n’allez surtout pas croire que je veux là entamer un autre débat entre le bien et la mal.  Non,  nous n’entrerons pas ici dans la sempiternelle confrontation « Open Source »  vs « .Net » car nous devrions alors doubler voire tripler le format du tableau ci-dessous.  Non le but de cet exercice est de mettre en lumière les particularités des différentes approches pour le développement d’applications Web et la conception de sites Web en regard, à la fois, de l’étendue des fonctionnalités, de la qualité de  l’expérience utilisateur et de la capacité d’intégration avec l’environnement TI des entreprises.  Nous voudrions ainsi pouvoir dégager l’offre ou, à tout le moins, circonscrire le positionnement de Silverlight.

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