Business Intelligence on tablet

Understanding organization’s business environment and internal capabilities is essential for profitable operating and development of the company, especially on the stage of saturated market. Business Intelligence (BI) tools have became commonly accepted instruments for dealing with analysis of both complex external factors and data and internal business indicators. However BI tools are constantly developing further in order to provide users not only with more reach functionality but also with mobility, flexibility and even “fun” aspects. BI on tablet computers appeared as a response to these most prominent technological challenges.

Developing a Geographically Distributed Insurance Company with a Corporate Portal

Continuous and effective exchange of information is a key success factor in developing a competitive, cost-efficient insurance company. This is especially true for companies pursuing geographical expansion — to ensure a new regional branch and achieve desired sales results, an effective informational infrastructure is needed apart from many other prerequisites. Insurance companies expanding their business through mergers and acquisitions are no exception to this rule, with the only difference that their new subsidiaries already have legacy information systems and business practices which are probably different to the ones of the head company.

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Increasing trend: iPad for managers

Having emerged as a separate type of gadgets, tablet pc’s (and first of all, Apple iPad) are now becoming a real working tool for managers worldwide. Unsurprisingly, the new platform has drawn attention of corporate systems developers that now offer their own custom solutions.

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WPF Routed Commands: Overview and Examples

This article focuses on such WPF capability as routed commands, their structure and ways of using them. Apart from this, here we will describe benefits for the developer who use routed commands and problems that the developer can encounter.

Rail Fleet Management System — the Foundation Stone of Logistics Chain

Speech of Leonid Osminin, Business Analyst of Digital Design Company presented at Green Logistics seminar 11 of March 2010 at Saint-Petersburg State Transport University.

Contract Programming in .Net

Design by Contract (DbC) or Programming by Contract is an approach in designing computer software. It prescribes that system components (similar to classes in object-oriented programming) collaborate with each other by agreeing on contracts, on the basis of mutual obligations and benefits. The term was introduced by Bertrand Meyer in connection with his design of the Eiffel programming language in 1986. Contract programming enables better software reliability and provides a basis for specifications, documenting and testing.

Systems Approach to Usability: Identify Design Flaws That Were Not Anticipated

What is usability? This is what takes consideration of users, their goals, tasks and environment

Being a novice concept, usability is perceived in various ways. While some people regard it as a GUI attribute (which is either present or otherwise), others see it as a measure of convenience. Many think it is a separate branch of science with its instruments to achieve certain goals. All of them have a point, in a way. Usability is the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.

Usability as ROI Booster

When speaking about usability, in the first place we think of ease and convenience of use as well as effectiveness and overall satisfaction with a product. There are multiple recommendations, articles and books on usability standards, methods of improving usability and usability testing. However, you will be surprised to find out that usability does not come down to user friendliness of your product, but can help maximize ROI of your project.

Better way to use binding in the WPF applications

Common goal of the binding is notifying business objects by the UI elements about changes of the UI elements' values and setting new values to the appropriate properties of the bound business object.

We will review another way of the binding in this article - our business object will notify UI element about changes itself and UI element will be redrawn according to changes in the business objects.