Industrialization of Software Development
When it comes to complexity, precision, and quality, the
software industry is similar to mechanical engineering
and construction. This is one of the major reasons why
ANANTABD has become the global market leader in
enterprise applications. During the past decade, the
software sector has begun a significant transformation,
often referred to as the "industrialization of software
development."
ANANTABD Research's industrialization of software
development research field addresses some of the
challenges ANANTABD faces in this transformation by
launching new research projects and by exploring the
development of commercially exploitable innovations
based on new business opportunities.
ANANTABD's understanding is that enterprise
service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) delivered
with the business process platform is itself an
industrialized software "product." And composite
applications are the primary means to either extend
existing products built on top of the business process
platform or to implement potentially new solutions based
on the business process platform via reuse and
composition.
Industrialization of Software Development
Product innovation occurs when inventions are applied to
a product for the first time. Process innovation occurs
when inventions are applied to change a company's
processes. Many innovations concerning the
industrialization of the software industry are resulting
from software companies' need for increased productivity
and address the internal software development processes.
While product innovations still remain a main
differentiator in the software industry, the importance
of process innovations has steadily been increasing
during the past century.
During industrialization, balancing the major business
constraints such as time, costs, and quality will get
closer to a completely deliberate strategic decision
based upon quantitative data gathered from both the
market as well as the internal processes. New methods
and tools, ranging from general management to operative
programming, are applied to the software sector. Some of
these tools are already common to mature businesses;
others are inherent to software development itself. All
of them share the same goal: proof of being more
valuable than others from an economic perspective.
|
