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You have been doing some really cool stuff out there! Yes - I mean that. In my job as host of ARCast I run into a lot of people who have been solving hard problems, building systems that work and getting the job done. Well we had an idea about this... I think that your peers would like to hear about the great work you have done. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for a minute. I want to help you tell your story in a 30 minute video case study. Not the typical glossy, marketing feel good case study... no I want people to know about the pain you went through. The challenges you faced and how you overcame those challenges to build something that works.
What is it with banks and Composite Smart Clients? This is the second ARCast case study I've done on this exact scenario. This time it is Raiffeisen bank in Austria. Could it be that the mix of many diverse back end systems, web services and the need for a powerful front end just matches up well with the Smart Client Software Factory and Composite UI application block?
Warehouses are fascinating places especially when you think about the goal of the warehouse. It's a definite balancing act of warehousing just the right amount of goods or parts so that when the demand occurs at a retail outlet or factory floor you can get the right part to the right place quickly. But on the other hand excess inventory stored in warehouses is expensive and could lead to a disaster if you build things that people don't want.
CommSee is a simply amazing application written by the team at CBA. This application is visually stunning, architecturally interesting and on top of that it has delivered solid business value to the bank stakeholders, users and customers. Wouldn't you love to be a part of a project like that? After hearing about it we decided we had to learn more so we spent a day chatting with the team.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is simply the idea that instead of paying for the bits and running them on your server, you ought to be able to buy the service you want and let somebody else manage it. Of course, this is nothing new. You may have my website hosted by people you've never met. You don't care too much about the bits that actually run the server, you just want it to run and you don't want to think about it. In this case study overview we meet Remend one of the new crop of companies who are moving to a SaaS business model.
Flatburger... a strange name but an interesting concept for a company that is enabling the little guys to have a marketplace for selling modular software and bringing together the three main components of Software as a Service (Saas) the customer, the hoster and the developer. In these type of 3 way relationships you almost always need a middleman to negotiate the deal and Flatburger aims to be just that.
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