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Dharmesh Mistry has supported financial services organisations with technology and management expertise for over 20 years. Dharmesh is CTO of edge IPK focusing on developing and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

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Everything is going mobile

One out of every seven minutes of media consumption today takes place on mobile devices, according to new research from IPG’s Universal McCann and AOL. How can companies prepare for – and communicate with – their customers in the...

Tags: apple

SOA:Now is the time to find a competitive advantage

“The choice is no longer whether to do SOA or not do SOA. It’s how to do it,” said Gartner research vice president Paolo Malinverno at the analyst’s recent Application Development and Integration Summit. With Gartner estimating as much...

WYSIWYG is dead go with the flow

Since the birth of window based user interface (MAC, Microsoft Windows) application designers have adopted the What You See Is What You Get approach to creating User Interfaces. Visual Basic was one of the early tools to provide a canvas...

Tags: applications, windows

Project failures can be good news

When it comes to software development, the latest research from the Standish Group presents very little in the way of good news. Failures are up and projects are considered less successful. Just 32% of all projects deliver on time...

Tags: applications

Arise, sir presentation architect

Someone, somewhere is always willing to step into the limelight. In an age of celebrity culture, where self-promotion almost seems like the key to success, the real stars can sometimes get hidden beneath the hype. The same is true...

Tags: applications

Buying usability

Buying online should be convenient and simple. Rather than having to traipse around town centres or retail parks in the pouring rain, customers should be able to buy from the comfort and convenience of a broadband-connected computer. Time and...

Tags: security

Technologies for the new age of mobility

The talk of the IT industry is that we are about to enter a new age of mobility. But as the market for mobile phones and chips is actually falling, it is important to seek the deeper trends beneath...

Tags: apple, applications

What will happen to the in-house IT professional?

The new generation of all-knowing users are the future of your IT department, using development tools – such as spreadsheet macros, process models and collaborative wikis – to create winning applications. As a recent Forrester report suggests (see further...

Tags: applications

Making BrITain Great Again

Making BrITain Great Again - Well done Stephen Kelly of Microfocus for putting his foot forward for IT in the UK! At last some recognition that IT has a key role in growing our economy and that we should...

The browser is your new operating system

It is a theory that has been talked about for a while: why use an operating system on your desktop, when everything you need can be run through your browser? Theory is about to become reality, due to a...

Tags: applications, windows