Select Business Solutions™ Launches New “Service- and Component-based Development” Book

Addison-Wesley published the new CBD book in their Component Software Series

BOULDER, Colorado April 17, 2003: Select Business Solutions, Inc a Gores Technology Group operating company, today announced the launch of “Service- and Component-based Development – Using the Select Perspective™ and UML” book by Hedley Apperly et al. This book is in print and is available through many leading online bookstores.

The Select Perspective, from Select Business Solutions, is a set of best practices for software development that has evolved over a decade into a world-class Service- and Component-based Development process. It is a blend of approaches from several object-oriented methods, improved and adapted to meet the new demands of CBD and Web Services.

The Service- and Component-based Development techniques are ideally suited to Web Services. The approach allows the abstraction and simplification of the application enabling well architected distributed solutions, while identifying problems earlier in the lifecycle. Select’s approach has been proven by its customers to improve productivity, quality and communications.

“The new Select Perspective represents a considerable advance on earlier processes and provides a mature guidance that is clearly based on deep and extensive practical experience”, comments David Sprott, CEO and Principal Analyst of CBDI Forum. “Today, the new Select Perspective provides detailed advice on how to achieve the real business benefits that come from a mature software delivery process that is predicated on the managed collaboration of supply, management and consumption of activities”.

“This book offers clients a process and framework for delivering quality applications on time and within budget with maximum reuse potential”, explains Hedley Apperly, VP Marketing, Select Business Solutions. “We use the Select Perspective Process internally and have found, in line with our customers’ experience, that our internal reuse of application components now runs at about 40%. This means we have more time available to extend and improve the functionality we offer our clients within our toolsets”, continued Apperly.

The book is collaboratively written by 7 Authors namely Hedley Apperly, Ralph Hofman, Steve Latchem, Barry Maybank, Barry McGibbon, David Piper and Chris Simons. These authors are all senior managers or consultants at Select Business Solutions and have a combined working knowledge which has been built up from their experience of helping 100’s of customers develop and deliver business driven IT solutions.

The book is published though Addison-Wesley ISBN # 0-321-15985-3.

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