Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software
It is a very exciting time to be in the software development industry. The governing concepts of developing software are changing and rapidly evolving before our eyes. Skills and frameworks that you may have used even just two years ago could very well be considered obsolete and replaced with somet...
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2013
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/34735 |
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| Tóm tắt: | It is a very exciting time to be in the software development industry. The governing concepts of developing software are changing and rapidly evolving before our eyes. Skills and frameworks that you may have used even just two years ago could very well be considered obsolete and replaced with
something more efficient. This is why software vendors and the developers of engineering products need to stay on top of emerging technology concepts in order to remain competitive. Two technologies that are experiencing exponential growth and are quickly becoming in demand are business intelligence (BI) and rich interactive applications (RIAs). Knowing how to use and
implement either of these technologies will be vital in order to develop modern-looking applications in the near future. More importantly, learning how to use BI concepts and bringing them to life with RIA
technology will allow you to deliver superior software that is a cut above the competition. The first core technology this book focuses on is BI. BI can be simply defined as delivering key insight quickly from large data repositories. This information can be presented in the form of reports, charts, analytical aggregates, data grids, and so on. Until recently, BI deployments have not been cheap and often required expensive hardware and enterprise-scale software to perform complex data calculations. Furthermore, the tools that presented BI information were geared for people with a background in number crunching (statistical analytics). This really limited the scope of BI because in
order to use BI tools, you had to have a good understanding of the numbers you were looking at in order to analyze them properly. BI technology’s steep learning curve limits its adoption to larger enterprise organizations. Just like any other technology, BI is maturing as a platform and adopting new concepts
from emerging software development methodologies. Business intelligence 2.0 (BI 2.0) is improving the way we design and implement BI applications. BI 2.0 is essentially all about bringing technical wisdom to the average user quickly without having to deploy a monolithic infrastructure and not requiring a deep understanding of analytical tools. Therefore, to accomplish this, the visual implementation needs to be simple and easy to understand. In addition, a
BI 2.0 application also needs to be lightweight and easy to deploy. A typical user will simply reject anything that takes serious time to download or is packaged in a complex installation. Simple software
design and making the analytical tools not feel like business tools broaden the scope of the BI audience beyond technical users.
The second core technology this book focuses on is the rich interactive application (RIA). RIAs are a class of web applications that bring a desktop-like experience to the end user. RIAs are generally superior web user interfaces (UIs) because they can bring additional animations, transitions, and
computational processing on the client workstation at much greater speeds than HTML or Ajax. Furthermore, RIA technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash/Flex are lightweight and can be fully tailored for ease of use. This makes RIAs ideal UI solutions for architecting applications that need to present complex analytics in BI 2.0 applications. |
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