Always stay flexible – agility through business mashups
Novabit at “Business-Mashups 2009”: Agile software with generic mechanisms
Sauerlach (Munich), February 03, 2009 – New ways of creating software that enable companies to react agilely to necessary changes and adjustments to their business processes will be the focus of the “Business Mashups 2009” conference in Munich from February 17 to 18. The software expert Novabit (www.novabit.de) will be demonstrating how a universal approach can be used to successfully design customized business software efficiently and cost-effectively.
Time is money and money is expensive
Creating software today is a complex matter that consumes a lot of time and resources and often ends in failure. In an iterative process, requirements are defined, applications are programmed, tested, implemented and all too often discarded if the requirements have changed in the meantime. Often, the business department and IT do not understand each other well, as the business side of a task differs significantly from the technical side. Business and IT speak different languages here. This leads to long release cycles, and in many cases IT is no longer able to follow the agility of the business processes and provide what the business department needs “just in time”.
Create applications ad-hoc
Business mashups now transfer ideas from industrial component manufacturing and Web 2.0 concepts to software development and show a way out of this dilemma. “Universal software provides the perfect basis for business mashups. Here, recurring mechanisms in software are abstracted to such an extent and stored in metadata that the application-specific business logic no longer requires the development of code, but only configuration or parameterization,” explains Ramin Goettlich, Managing Partner of Novabit, the developer of the universal application Nucleus. It strictly separates the business logic from the IT and thus enables the user (the specialist department) to create, change and maintain applications “ad hoc” themselves. “Mashing up” in the final analysis.
