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Software implementation technology and tool vendors have a long tradition of introducing technology churn - new features, interfaces, languages - that do not provide end users with tangible benefits, but which provide plenty of opportunities to sell new hardware and to “upgrade” application software. What can be done to avoid technology churn, or at least to minimise its impact?

It is not often that you get the opportunity to attend a conference that offers a platform for knowledge transfer from North American and European experts to the Indian Enterprise IT community, besides presenting extensive networking opportunities to delegates, sponsors, and partners. JAX India 2007, held in Bangalore from 28-31 May this year, was a fi rst of its kind conference on Java, Eclipse, Enterprise Architectures, SOA, Web Services, Software Testing, Project Management, and many of the new and emerging technologies that are shaping the world of Enterprise IT.

As the explosion in digital information continues, businesses must cope with the increasing cost of managing storage, regulations that dictate data retention requirements, the need for information to be instantly accessible to the business, and increasingly costly, complex and error-prone manual business and IT processes. Information Lifecycle Management is the process of managing information – from creation to disposal – in a manner that aligns costs with the changing value of information. This article talks about how Information Lifecycle Management enables a business to catalog, search, archive, retrieve, and destroy both digital and non-digital information assets in a manner consistent with commercial, regulatory, and legal requirements.

Model Driven Architecture is a technique for deriving a platform-independent modeling solution, which approaches the ideal of iterative, dynamically evolving, scalable and interoperable enterprise domain abstraction. Static mapping between models is not diffi cult, but in the real world, within an agile iterative environment, defining models for concerns and domains, maintaining the traceability matrix of all modifi ed models and synchronising them in actual applications is the most fundamental problem with Model Driven Architecture. This article discusses how the modularisation and weaving concepts of Aspect-Oriented Design can encourage the evolution of Model Driven Architecture -based enterprise architecture.

In the world of IT, XML began as a universal format for structured documents and semi-structured data, and has now grown into a term that encompasses a family of exciting new technologies. Initially, it helped separate the presentation aspects from the actual content and provided a way for storing Web content. It quickly became the lingua franca for businesses exchanging information electronically. Its simplicity, broad support, and low cost of implementation drove the rapid adoption of XML. Today, many technologies built on XML are becoming pervasive in the industry. The challenge to leveraging the power of XML is fi nding the best solution for transparent, inexpensive generation and management of business-critical XML data without writing a lot of custom code. This article highlights the importance of managing XML data (storage, index, query, and transformation) at the database level.

Wireless Local Area Networks offer great potential to businesses, providing users with increased effi ciency and productivity. The goal of WLANs is to enable sers to connect to a network without having to be physically attached to it, speeding up mobility and workstation deployment. Unfortunately, because WLANs were designed with access in mind, not security, the implementation of WLANs can open up a network to risks. In the case of Small and Mediumsized Businesses looking to leverage the benefi ts of WLAN deployment, there are many issues to consider in weighing the trade-off between access and security.

Basel II prescribes three approaches to credit risk – the standardised, the foundation IRB, and the advanced IRB. While agency ratings are used in the standardised approach, banks are allowed to use ‘internal’ ratings of obligors in the IRB approaches. Interestingly, all discussions about Basel II implementations have focused on areas of data management, analytics and reporting. While there is no denying that these areas call for maximum work, a good number of banks can set the implementation process in motion by taking a complete re-look at their internal rating systems and, specifi cally, at IT applications for rating. Basel II sets many important expectations from internal rating systems. It is a well-known fact that internal rating systems in most banks, including the design of the IT applications currently in use, do not fully measure up to these expectations. A few key expectations of Basel II in this regard are examined in this article.