:: Select Business Solutions - Application Development Tools
Solutions |
 |
|
Find out more about Select's relationship with 75% of the UK's academic institutions.
Select’s A&D tools help close the communication gaps between business people and IS developers, as well as between developers and developers. This not only helps you ensure you build the system right but also that you build the right system for your business.
Select's tools help minimize the costs of maturity and allow organizations to rapidly deliver improved, compliant processes as well as maintain their bottom line.
Select’s processes and tools implement best practice from hundreds of successful real-life projects, in which service\component management and reuse has been a core principle.
|
|
Application Development Tools Blog |
-
Do you know your business processes well enough to outsource them?
20 Mar 2009 | 11:44 am
If you read the Daily Telegraph you might have come across the Media Planet supplement “Sourcing” last Tuesday (March 17th); it had the strap line “Utilising sourcing as part of your business strategy”.
Of course we are all pretty familiar with the now standard model of outsourcing, or off-shoring software development. There are numerous destinations for [...]
-
Easing the ‘complexity’ of BPMN
2 Mar 2009 | 3:30 am
As a consultant with a business and systems modeling tool vendor, the conversations I have involving business analysts invariably seem to turn to the perceived complexity of the business process modeling notation (BPMN).
It’s a topic which has had much coverage in the last year, following the publication of a research paper on BPMN usage by [...]
-
Why? Identifying the purpose of business systems
27 Feb 2009 | 8:09 am
Those familiar with the Zachman framework will recognise the need for identifying the ‘Why?’, and certainly I’ve come across many projects where without a clear indicator of the business reasoning behind development of new systems, those systems have, not surprisingly, failed to fully meet the business needs.
Identifying the business motivation behind a project is perhaps [...]
-
One man’s goal is another man’s objective
25 Feb 2009 | 7:37 am
In my travels in recent weeks, talking to clients about the business motivation model, I’ve been struck by the number of folks who have welcomed the BMM simply because it provides a definition and context for business planning terms like goal and objective. While many have tried to communicate their business plan to a wider [...]
|
