Developing a 'NET Strategy

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Developing a.NET Strategy
Presented by AURA Consulting Iowa Technology
Showcase Dino Lack, President
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maximizing business with .NETFour Ways .NET Can
Improve Your Business

• lower costs
• Leverage Business Investments - Share
  Collaborate
• Lower IT Costs - Develop More Rapidly
• more effective
• Create an Edge - Form New Business Models
• More Effective Collaboration Common Method
• with Customers, Vendors, Clients, Departments

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maximizing business with .NETMajor Benefits
The List

• Faster development
• Greater built-in functionality
• Interfacing and integration simplified and
  expanded
• More reuse
• Easier deployment
• Scalability
• Sophisticated development is simplified
• Integrates with existing software

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technology drivers

• Computing power
• Still doubling every 18 months
• PC-based data centers
• Connectivity
• Low cost, broad reach Internet
• Wireless, broadband access
• Device proliferation
• Connected devices - PDAs, cell phones, gas pumps
• Internet standards
• XML-based integration

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collaboration dilemma

• Historically an afterthought
• Too hard, too expensive, too slow, too brittle
• How we collaborate
• Inside organizations
• Between organizations
• Individuals personal network

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internet bubble lessons

• Laws of economics still apply
• Risk/reward at a new level
• Technology enablement available to all
• Infrastructure is a means, not end
• Internet connectivity doesnt mean integration
• Big changes take 5 years

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the virtual enterprise
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XML .NET next generation software
A New Generation Of Open Software
XML
VS.NET

• XML - Building blocks of .NET
• Universal data format
• Standards-based integration
• Two-way, adaptive
• Adapts to devices
• Adapts sender to receiver
• User-customizable
• Programmable XML Web services

Web
ASP
GUI
Visual Studio
PC
Q-BASIC
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XML web services explained

• Whats new?
• System to system, not just user oriented
• Modular in design
• Integration with other XML Web Services
• Hows it work?
• XML interactions in system to system
• Standards based
• Cross-platform
• Expose code as XML Web Service (new or existing)

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XML web services foundationSimple, Open, Broad
Industry Support
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building on an XML foundation
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benefits of XML foundation

• User Beyond browsing
• Empowered information
• Supports greater control, decision-making, and
  collaboration
• Any device, anywhere

• Business Integration by design
• Best-of-breed
• Collaborate internally and externally
• Improving agility

• Industry New opportunities
• Makes reuse easier, better, faster
• Plug and play business relationships

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microsoft .NET A Software Platform for XML Web
Services

• Enterprise-wide - clients, servers, and services
• More effective and productive developers -
  consistent programming model,
• XML Web Service compliant
• Key capabilities
• Deliver software as a service
• Integration becomes intrinsic
• Enable smart, service-aware systems
• New, richer user experiences

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.NET Clients
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.NET enterprise serversFoundation for the Agile
Enterprise

• Integrated suite for running, managing,
  orchestrating Web services and apps
• Enterprise reliability and scalability for
  todays most demanding solutions
• Deep XML support for integration within and
  across organizations
• Supports scale out for performance, availability,
  economics

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.NET enterprise servers
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.NET development

• .NET Framework
• Only native XML Web Services platform
• Deliver services via ASP.NET
• Nile e-commerce benchmark 3x performance, 70
  less code
• Multi-language development, integration
• Over 20 programming languages available
• Maximize developer skills, existing code
• Use tool best suited for your task
• Visual Studio .NET
• Next release of worlds most popular tools
• Highest productivity development environment
• Tap worlds deepest developer talent pool

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.NET development
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.NET get started

• Understand .NET concepts and benefits
• Analyze existing resources developers
  applications
• Select .NET language(s)
• Staff project train in-house developers or
  outsource
• Identify a .NET pilot project smaller project
  with large potential rewards

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case study how would you do it?

• Business Airline company
• Situation Connect all of your companies
  disparate systems to your back-end (Mainframe)
  Customer Relationship Management System (CRM)
• Mobile Applications
• Web site (B2C, B2B integration)
• Client Server Applications
• Note Your company doesnt presently have any
  middle tier applications capable of achieving
  resolution of your situation. Your developers
  only have two months to complete development.

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Questions