How useful is the integration of business and IT really?
Sharing tasks in the creation and implementation of business software reduces the frequency of errors and the time required.
Sauerlach (Munich), June 03, 2008 – CIOs and IT managers are likely to sit up and take notice: Contrary to the general hype surrounding the integration of business and IT, software expert Novabit (www.novabit.de) is delivering Nucleus is a clear alternative when it comes to the creation and implementation of business software. Its revolutionary software platform Nucleus strictly separates the business logic (the business) from the technical platform (the IT) of an application. This separation of tasks means that business software can be implemented much faster and with a significantly lower error rate. According to Novabit, in future it will no longer be the IT department but the specialist departments themselves that design their applications, saving companies a lot of time and money.
Business and IT don’t get along
More and more is being demanded of software solutions in companies. On the one hand, they must constantly adapt to and support business requirements and, on the other, they must always meet the ever more extensive requirements of IT departments. This balancing act is only intensified by the trend towards integrating business and IT. This often leads to the result being a lazy compromise: when developing high-performance and ergonomic software, the IT department must always know and consider the business requirements of the business in detail and naturally cannot match the expertise of the business users. On the other hand, users are often unable to express their software specifications clearly enough using IT’s description options – which leaves IT experts with a dangerous amount of room for interpretation. The result is solutions that often fail to meet the actual requirements and lead to costly, time-consuming changes.
It’s up to the user: configuration instead of programming
Novabit sees the solution to this problem in a clear division of tasks between business and IT and, with Nucleus, offers a completely new approach to the development of business software. The ingenious trick: recurring mechanisms in software are abstracted with Nucleus to such an extent that the application-specific business logic no longer requires the development of its own software code, but only a configuration or parameterization. This is interpreted at application runtime and can therefore also be changed at runtime. As this adaptation no longer requires IT expertise, but only knowledge of the technical requirements, it can also be carried out by the user themselves.
Ramin Göttlich, Managing Partner of Novabit, sees Nucleus as a clear paradigm shift in software development: “Today, software developers must be able to understand and comprehend a wide range of business requirements in detail in order to implement applications, while users in turn must be able to express themselves in the language of IT. So a lot is demanded from both sides and the cart is being put before the horse. With Nucleus, on the other hand, our customers can fundamentally reorganize their software development projects and clearly differentiate the competencies of those involved. Specialist departments are thus able to make adaptations for their specific requirements themselves. This personal responsibility gives the user a completely new role in the implementation of an IT project.”
