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Today's fast-paced business environment has put pressure on organizations to develop and maintain applications at an unsurpassed rate to drive increased employee productivity, company revenue, and customer satisfaction. The ultimate goal is to improve operational efficiencies while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase return on investment. However, this effort poses its own risks and challenges that must be addressed, including how to maintain and manage applications as both end-user and business requirements change. These changes can quickly and decisively alter the competitive landscape, rendering certain applications obsolete. The complex tasks of maintaining and managing applications in production accounts for up to two-thirds of an application's TCO. This means that two dollars will be spent maintaining applications that only cost one dollar to ... (more)

AVIcode's Intercept Studio Enhancing Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative

As software development teams and solutions become more distributed, visibility into systems has given way to isolated pockets of component knowledge. This "silo" approach to application development, where different teams work in isolation from each other, means that developers may no longer have knowledge of, or access to, the code with which their component interacts. This results in duplication of efforts and incomplete solutions due to a lack of information sharing. Compounding the problem is the fact that the numerous distributed components and Web services that make up the... (more)