Realising your Potential through Upcoming Information Technology Developments

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Realising your Potential through Upcoming
Information Technology Developments

• Rafal Lukawiecki
• Strategic Consultant Director
• Project Botticelli Ltd
• rafal_at_projectbotticelli.co.uk

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Objectives

• Discuss a few important technologies that will
  shape 2005-2006
• Excite you about their potential for your
  personal and professional development
• Observe some of their competitive advantages due
  to their innovative nature

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Observation

• 2005 and 2006 will be two of the most exciting
  years in IT of the entire decade
• Microsoft releases a number of key technologies
• Healthy competition in many other environments
• New generation processors and hardware coming to
  mainstream
• Broadband connectivity becoming a reality

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Visual Studio 2005

• Its all about architectures and real-world team
  work amongst developers
• Language innovations
• C J Improvements
• Major C overhaul
• New .NET Framework 2.0

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Team System

• The secret of most successful software
  development company in the world
• Development Process
• MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework) 4.0
• Build Lab Its Tools
• VS Team Foundation Server
• Role-specific VS Team editions
• VS Team Test
• VS Team Architect
• VS Team Developer

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.NET Framework 2.0

• Evolution towards Longhorn
• Maturity
• Reliability
• Security
• Performance
• Language Improvements
• First time fully native support for VC
• Convergence with the Connected Systems vision and
  Service Oriented Architectures

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Domain Specific Languages

• Innovation in software design and modelling
• Continues legacy of UML into the new world of
  service orientation
• Direct support for design activities throughout
  development process, including debugging
• Add-on to Visual Studio 2005
• If you are currently testing VS Beta, please
  download the Tools for DSL Technology Preview

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Dynamic Systems Initiative

• Imagine parametrising all the -bilities in the
  software you build
• Scalability, load balancing, security,
  operational requirements
• Achieving a full separation of software from a
  policy-based management module
• So many benefits!
• Faster and simpler development
• Easier administration and management
• Dynamic and automatic adjustments
• Software that can manage itself

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SQL Server 2005

• A milestone in database systems development
  through full integration with Visual Studio 2005
• Enormous performance improvements
• New forms of caching
• Native XML support
• .NET Framework in its core
• Security based on PKI and cryptography

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Longhorn

• The next operating system platform from Microsoft
• Built on .NET Framework 2.0 giving rise to WinFx
• Avalon interfaces
• Metro document interoperability
• Information Bridge Framework
• Infocard for smartcard-based security
• Indigo for interoperability

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Connected Systems

• An approach to Service Orientated Architecture
  (SOA) to leverage value from softwares
• Connectivity
• Decomposition
• Business process awareness
• Resiliency to change
• Modular structure
• Reusable interfaces

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Exciting Architectures

• The most important innovation
• Good architecture as a primary influence on the
  software development process
• Service Orientation in several forms of
  abstraction
• Motion the overall conceptual value
• Indigo DSL developers perspectives
• DSI operational perspective

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Realise Your Potential

• With all the technologies and innovations there
  is plenty to build on
• Use what becomes available to build your unique,
  special product and solution
• Learn, study and enjoy the new paradigms
• Do not miss this historic moment in Pakistans
  economic development to realise your full
  potential