What do we mean by FOA? (Software product delivery aspect)?
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First Office Application
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Pls visit this link\nhttp://www.webreference.com/programming/enterprise/2.html\n\nEAI relies tool developed by vendor whereas SOA is mainly on Standard and open source. Webservice is the key to achive SOA.
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It's kinda like the difference between 1.0 and 1.1.  A book or software publisher will produce a 1st version  then later releases comprising of minor edits.  If they produce anything consisting of any major changes they'll call it a new version.  Also, if a piece of software is still in beta testing they'll call a new release a 'prerelease'.
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Been there, done that.\nOO is the flavour of the moment -  Inheritance, methods, encapsulation and the re-introduction of the class-system to middle england.\nPile of crap, relational (which all OO fundamentally relies on anyway, even if the guy trying to sell you .NET won't admit it) is at least a hundred times quicker if you DON'T know what you're doing.\nShut down the microsoft corporation - they are very good at marketting, but know dick-all about computers.
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UnixWare is a product of SCO... You know, the company that took the highly smart step of suing IBM over Linux, and has completely changed its story a few times. I wouldn't touch their stuff with a bargepole. \n\nhttp://www.groklaw.net
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On Demand Software (ODS) is much more popular than people think, simply because the concept of on demand software has been ill defined and is generally concieved ad limited to "Net Licensing" Here are a couple of recommendations to round out your research paper.\n\n1) Start by breaking the mold: Define ODS in it´s full conception. On Demand is a service definition not a product spec. The whole idea behind On demand, is to have your service when you need it. Bluntly put, almost all net transactions and particularly all DOWNLOADS are delivered on demand. so the biggest consumer of ODS is really the home end user, and the real market is in the "Upgrade and fringe bennefit" segment of ODS rather than the "Full Service application"\n\nThe best example of this (other than the all powerfull i Tunes) is probably the MS Office Clipart gallery, absolutely on demand, but dellivering only a fraction of all the suite's functionalities.\n\n2) Proove the market assumptions before you measure the market. as the old saying states, "to assume is to make an A** out of U and ME" so before you bring out your calculator and start adding customers Proove the real motivation behind each consumer and service segments.\n\nSome less looked at segments may be "Patches", "Demos" "Add ons", "Advertising on Demand (Which actually acounts for most of the profit of web based e'mail)"\n\nThen there is the classics "WEB MAIL" as the king of the ODS software services, which led to "CONTACT MANAGEMENT" and "SCHEDULING" "MEETING MANAGEMENT and MESSAGING" Services, then and only then consider SUITE Services and ERPs which are at the pinnacle of complexity and thus have a smaller segment.\n\nIf you can make a case for each relevant service segment you will see that your customer count is high, composed of many interdependent market response surfaces. \n\n3) Round out by explaining some of the unique attributes of the ODS business model such as. . .\n\nA) the money is in the service not just the license fee. . explain how service creates and audience and the audience creates a media profit (Once again the case of web based e'mail)\n\nB) A different service calls for different measures. .  the importance of measuring transactions and consumers, badwidth and feature richness.\n\nC) Data management builds uncontested loyalty. (ask how much you value your information, thats how much you will want to stay once you decide on an ODS service provider.)\n\n4) Last measure the size of the market according to simple facts. If your cost to run is $1,000,000/mo and your profit margin per account user is $10/mo Than your real market is the top 100,000 consumer over the total response surface of the features in your ODS platform.
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Telling the people writing the program exactly what you want the software to do.  NOT HOW to do it, just WHAT to do.  This should be agreed upon before the code-writing begins.  Otherwise you find yourself having to re-write lotsa code to do what the customer actually wants it to do.
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There is usually another step in the process - product readiness - it's a separate group of people / different dept.  Prevents those crazy QA guys and gals from taking over the world :)
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For me there are Five challenges\nFirst there needs to be an AWARENESS of product and/or service.\nSecondly there has to be an INTEREST in the product and/or service\nThen a DESIRE to acquire\nand with the ACTION that produces result, mainly using your product and/or service.\nThe final one is KNOWING WHO YOUR MARKET IS and understanding what motivates them to move from AWARENESS to ACTION
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when its bugs are fixed, and they think it has enough features for it to be called "offical release." Its probably very close, since there is a link to yahoo answers on the main page of yahoo.
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The systems that I supply work, and they are turnkey.\n\nYou problem has to do more with management of the situtation, and not suo much a technical problem. If you are buying a system that is not completely "turn-key", then what you are saying is that you are an integrator of a subsystem.\n\nSo for an acceptence of the subsystem, you have to define an acceptence criteria and test to that criteria, that establishes that the requirements of the subsystem are satified, i. e. when you plug it into the rest of your system, it plays and interfaces as advertised.\n\nDepending on the cleaves or control volumes in your system, you may not be able to function test subsystems. This can be a recipe for disaster - the last guy who touches the system is presumed to be at fault.\n\nIf you need help with the development of acceptence testing or plans - email me; info@haysengineering.com. We have become experts at this sort of thing, based on our products and clients. We could assist you and act as a proxy for you to clean this type of thing up.\n\nIf these wounds are self-inflicted by some manager or authority within your own organization, then I am sorry. Those kind of problems are very difficult to fix.\n\nYou are on the right track - you need a better definition of "turnkey". You should hold your vendor responsible to an acceptence test, and you should make that test be as "functional" (as opposed to "dimensional", for example) as possible.
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BETA - means that it's available for public consumption and release but it's not the final product intended to launch. \n\nIt's basically an early release with the possibility of bugs, problems, outages, etc.\n\nThe goal is to learn from the usage of the product, gather user feedback & improve the product and work towards the final release of the product
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The gentleman above wrote: "The intent is to get the client to bypass a formal RFP process and view your consultative approach as a "service" beyond the software you intend to sell."\n\nIt's correct, but incomplete. Consultative selling (a method largely developed by Mack Hanan) aims at selling a business value, as opposed to a mere product.\n\nIt is not enough to sell a "service beyond the software"; a consultative seller must offer a "profit improvement that will be brought about by the implementation of the software in the client environment."\n\nThis means you have to understand a client's business so well that you can apply your solution in a way that results in a profit improvement for him.\n\nUsually, only salespeople who master business and/or have consulting skills, can use Consultative Selling.
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Make Model Of The Product Using UML or Other Modelling\nLanguages,Get The Complete Requirement of Client, Then\nMake That Model As SRS- Software Requirement Specification,\nThere U have To Mentiion The Diagrams as Well, YOu must\nbe clear with that Software Developement Life Cycle,\nThen Make Proper Documentation including the table structure\nand users Provision who all are interact with tha system\nonce u finshed those things, show to ur client and get his\napproval, then start database design and project design\nthen make coding and test it, then finally deploy that
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fob destination or shipping point
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I assume that the roadmap is refering to something like the deployment schedule of products and/or services. The roadmap would therefore be the tactical execution of the company's objectives.\n\nFor example, if a company's objective is to gain as much market share as possible by doing a rapid introduction of a series of new services and product in the next workyear, the roadmap will be skewed towards a plan where there will be more deployment and marketing of such services and products early in the year and more of consolidation in the later part of the year.
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Performance and availability issues, as they relate to scalability. \n\nWhat are you Requirements are they relate to  \n\nResponse time\nThroughput\nData availability / Operating schedule \nCapacity\n\nConcurrency