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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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Don’t lose that loving feeling

All of a sudden, everyone everywhere is talking about customer experience – “use social media to build stronger customer relationships; find advocates that will help build your brand and reputation”. It’s as if a massive light switch marked ‘the...

Try before you buy User Interfaces

Too many firms are failing to find a means to visualise their applications as early as possible, and those that do are having to throw away their “visualisations” so that the final application can be coded. If you want...

Tags: applications, windows

RIM = Rich Internet Mobile ?

Designing and creating a site for mobile devices is now easy. Rather than relying on a separate and proprietary programming language, developers can create mobile sites using tried and tested technologies from the web. Be careful, though. Beyond the...

Tags: applications

Decoupling the presentation layer

There is only one problem with finishing the job. When your work is complete and your software is integrated, it can sometimes be timely and expensive to modify your work. Just like in the case of a new home...

Tags: applications

The contradiction of BPM…

For IT professionals, it is an important question: does service-oriented architecture (SOA) include business process management (BPM), or is BPM an architectural approach in its own right? Many BPM vendors talk about SOA, suggesting a clear link between both...

Tags: applications

Write once, present many times

More and more organisations, especially in Financial Services, looking to take existing products and deliver them to different brands, a business approach called “white-labelling”. For example LV provides car insurance through their own brand but also to a number...

Tags: applications

Does CTO mean “career transition occurring"?

Does CTO mean “career transition occurring As IT professionals, we are not great at defining what we do and why we do it. In an attempt to show the importance of our work, we hide beneath a collection of buzz...

Tags: open source, security

Three brides for three technology specialists

The season of good will is fast approaching. But let’s not concern ourselves with the triviality of showing good will to all men. After all, there’s fun to be had. When it comes to festive frivolities, sitting round the...

Mobile usability: Is it good enough?

The business world’s suddenly gone mobile, with workers logging on to enterprise applications through handheld devices. Sounds good, but are mobiles really ready? Increasing hype surrounding cloud computing suggests more and more enterprise apps will be accessed online. Email...

Tags: applications

Providing structure through model-driven development

When you think of end-user development, you might think of IT taking a back seat as the business defines the type of applications it uses. That approach is all well and good in theory, but what about practice? While...

Tags: applications