.Net and CMG - Client Partnership. Allen Hovsepian, Consultant, BRS Tel

2 Contents Who is CMG?. Why such a fuss, Its just technology…. What are we actually doing?. Summary and Questions

3 CMG is an IT consultancy Europe to the Asia-Pacific region……………… ……………… IT to Mobile communications Everything from ideas to systems and support ……… ……………… So whats new?

4 High quality standards Imaginative use of technology Long term partnerships Not just another consultancy Consultancy best practice The best of so many worlds

5 Consultancy best practice? Admiral Now Logica too CMG We can provide The best of many worlds…

6 Technology: Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, SUN, BEA … Clients: RadioCommunications Agency, DTI – Fujitsu, Shell, ABN AMRO … Clients and Industry Methodologies: DSDM, PRAGMA, PRINCE, RUP … Partnership driven Nobody got fired for hiring CMG

7 Rigorous quality standards More on that later Long term commitment to quality Quality Assurance

8 Technology Leader Early adopter of Microsoft.Net Already 18 months of solid.Net experience Major player in the WDS world Marker leader in SMS Imaginative use of Technology

9 Why all the fuss Its just technolog y.Net is web services The future of the internet? What is it really?

10.Net can empower you Web Services Platform / Language Integratio n Connected World Future Proof Industry best practice

11.Net Primarily Supporting/Secondary Result XML Web Services.Net Framework ASP.Net Best practice Futureproof.Net Overview Architectures revisited

12 Best Practice Modern system architecture Distributed systems Designed from the ground up Web applications Full Object Orientation The new design means.Net does not suffer from the compromises made in older technologies.

13 Future Technology Extra language flavours More.Net components and controls Mature mobile technologies The Linux scandal!.Net based operating systems

14 Simple deployment & no registry required Reuse existing code Growing selection of third party components Single large class library Language independent, capitalise on existing resources Highly integrated development environment Fast development

15 Widely distributed systems Platform integration Technology integration Internet applications Distributed systems Empower the business

16 Consumers, Partners MobileEmployees Your business And your partners

17.Net is NOT just web services A new architecture and underpins.Net, and a wider design philosophy is provided for..Net takes industry best practice and adds to it in a number of key areas. CMG understands and exploits these improvements.

18 What are we doing now What of the future What of the present and future? Why are we doing it that way.Net and CMG

19 Increasingly required by today’s business and our clients: Well catered for in.Net Always System Integration Need integration from the start And security alongside it! Complex, inflexible and unreliable systems result Integration is often an afterthought The hooks for the future

20 Web applications Flexible Use over intranet or internet Easier to deploy and maintain Easier to build Increasingly ubiquitous Meet typical business requirements

21 Meet typical business requirements XML and Web Services B2B made simple Internal System interfaces via web services Simple and powerful Built into the framework Your flexible friends

22 Language retraining is comparatively simple Language independence But… Class library is very rich Like Java, knowledge of the classes paramount Gets developers productive faster Only useful in the early days Too successful?

23 The future is clear Faster developmen t Powerful framework Futureproof Recommende d for businesses with MS platforms Less rework Best practice Can we honestly recommend a new system in an obsolete technology?

24 Spoiler! -.Net AND Java What about Java? Development environment End user interface Stable server code Largely proven Proprietary tie in Web services exposed using open standards Technologies can interact at web service level Existing commitment to Java does not exclude.Net options Java.Net +

25 Questions?

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