Donald D. Clayton will be a featured speaker at Sybase's TechWave 2005 International User Conference in glorious Las Vegas, Nevada. Clayton will present Best Practices in Object-Oriented Modeling with PowerDesigner 11.
PowerDesigner 11 offers a rich object modeling experience, including the ability to forward and reverse engineer PowerBuilder, Java, .Net XML, and other languages. PowerDesigner 11 supports all UML model types, extending the use of the product throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle. Best practices for PowerDesigner include using the right models in the right context, appropriate architectural partitioning, layering, delegation of work to service oriented architectures. PowerBuilder 11 has become a .Net language and modeling hybrid PowerBuilder 11 applications with PowerDesginer 11 in the .Net system namespace and other .Net languages will increase in importance in the future.
Clayton's article Creating Model-Driven Applications for EAServer 5.2 Using PowerDesigner 11 was selected as cover article for the 2005 Q3 issue. That ISUG Technical Journal issue will be the largest journal printing this year. Download your copy of this featured article to see how Model-Driven Applications can benefit your organization today.
On March 22, 2005, Intertech
demonstrated to the Sybase Users' Group of Texas the latest release of the DataWindow .Net product from Sybase, version 1.5 beta 2. With the release of 1.5, Sybase will expand the DataWindow .Net feature set to provide developers with DataWindows & DataStores to use with .NET Web Forms, in addition to Windows Forms. In the exciting demo session the DataWindow .Net architecture was presented and the integration of the DataWindow into the Visual Studio 2003 environment was shown using C# for both Windows Forms and Web Forms applications. Demonstrations showed the fully integrated client-side event model available in the .Net environment.
Kathy Ridley is a certified Project Manager and Database Consultant. Kathy will manage Intertech's Data and Project Management practice. Kathy has served on the International Sybase User Group board for the past 7 years. As Enhancement Director, Kathy has been instrumental in influencing Sybase product direction. In fact ASE 12.6 & 15.0 will be filled with ISUG enhancement requests. Prior to Enhancements she was Treasurer and in that role she improved the financial security of the user group organization. As the ISUG SIG Director in 1997 she facilitated numerous SIG sessions and helped establish standard SIG procedures. She has also been active in the Houston local Sybase user group where she was Treasurer and President.
The Project Management Institute (PMI®) the world's leading not-for-profit professional association for project management, is proud to announce that Mrs. Kathy Ridley has earned the designation of Project Management Professional (PMP®) on 24 Aug 2004. Kathy has been managing Information Technology projects for 18 years. She has a proven track record working closely with business sponsors and the project teams for successful project completion. The PMP Certification is the project management profession's most recognized and respected global credential.
On November 11, Intertech delivered the Tip and Trick at the Houston .Net User Group on the Sybase .Net DataWindow. In the exciting demo session the DataWindow .Net architecture was presented and the integration of the DataWindow into the Visual Studio 2003 environment was shown using C# and VB.Net. Demonstrations showed the fully integrated client-side event model available in the .Net environment.
Donald D. Clayton presented his views on successful modeling in "The Power of Design: Data Modeling and Much More", a DM Review magazine WebCast held August 19, 2004. Clayton joined Stephen Hendrick, group Vice President of Application Development and Deployment for IDC, along with David Dichmann, Sybase PowerDesigner Product Manager, for presentations and practical advice on leveraging the power of design-driven development. Watch the DM Review Webcast now.
Donald D. Clayton was a featured speaker at Sybase's TechWave 2004 International User Conference in Orlando, Florida. Clayton presented a two-day class on design strategies for object-oriented systems development and object-oriented modeling with PowerDesigner 10.
Shell Oil Products US (SOPUS) needed to move the middle tier of an existing 3-tier application from the obsolete Entera Application Server platform to a commercially viable application server. The existing application server platform had to be restarted daily due to memory leaks and poor performance. The application was comprised of a PowerBuilder 6.5 client application communicating using RPC to C++ business objects running in the Entera server on UNIX which connected to an Oracle 8i database server. The Sybase EAServer Application Server was chosen as the replacement for Entera. The primary goal required a migration of the middle-tier C++ components to the EAServer platform without modifying any of the tried and true business logic in the middle-tier. Intertech moved this application into the 21st century in record time by using EAServer's "external component" functionality and writing a series of custom C++ wrappers and a client-side library,. The final solution was found to have notably better performance, and was 50% to 300% faster in the middle-tier running on EAServer. Furthermore, the final result is one step away from expanded functionality and access via web services. Intertech Consulting, a Sybase Partner, was selected due to its record of successful EAServer implementations and its long standing history with Sybase Professional Services (SPS).
Intertech was selected by Sybase, Inc. to revise its PowerDesigner curriculum for the version 10 of its highly recognized enterprise modeling tool. PowerDesigner is now the fastest growing design tool in the modeling space, and Intertech has worked heavily with Sybase, Inc. on the feature set and capabilities of this exciting tool. Intertech Consulting offers a Mastering PowerDesigner class and we invite you to view the course outlines.
Halliburton Company, a long-time Intertech client, required a web portal application that integrated seamlessly into the existing Halliburton HR web framework to deliver salary management support and processing to users all over the world. The portal was designed reduce or eliminate the deployment, support, and training costs associated with large client-server applications when only partial functionality was required. With the new portal, Halliburton HR was be able to expand reporting options and provide better salary management support to more HR administrators throughout the world with fewer costs and a smaller investment.
BearingPoint, Inc. is building an Internet-based system from a PowerBuilder PFC-based system that will handle the processing of all criminal court cases in the State of California. This system will eventually support literally thousands of users statewide. November of 2003 through April of 2004 Intertech provided programming staff and system architectural services to the firm during this mammoth project, aiding in the timely delivery of this system to the State of California. BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE) is one of the world's largest business consulting, systems integration and managed services firms serving Global 2000 companies, medium-sized businesses, government agencies and other organizations.
Based on our positive technology partnership with the firm (CBYLaw), and after several internal attempts, Intertech was asked to develop a data-driven web site for a major Houston-based law firm. The site went live on July 1, 2003 with both public and private web interfaces. All content on the site can be managed by the firm by simply filling out web forms.
A long-time Intertech client for the development, sales and support of its flagship salary management system product, SMS, Buck Consultants has delivered another set of widely sought-after advances to SMS. This version allows for the unique ability for salary planning (ratings, raises, bonuses, etc.) to be viewed by supervisors in a spreadsheet-style interface in either the client/server or the web version. Clients estimate that this feature alone will significantly reduce their salary adjustment cycles.
After an exhaustive search, Intertech has acquired office space in the former Houston offices of consulting competitor Sapient Corporation who vacated the space following the technology downturn in 2000 and 2001. Intertech appreciates the technological investments that were integrated into the offices and will use them to maximize the quality consulting services we provide and to further strengthen the partnerships we have cultivated over our many years.
A newly acquired Intertech client, Clark Consulting, needed an innovative reporting solution for a web-based system. The solution required a combination of Microsoft Office XP and back office technologies to permit a customized Microsoft Word document to be pre-populated with data and returned to the web site visitor on demand.
Intertech President Donald D. Clayton was invited to teach Business Process Reengineering The Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. This was Clayton's ninth year as an adjunct professor at the tier one business school.
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