Maeda Consulting LLC

Schema Extensibility in Commercial Enterprise Software

info — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:47:23 +0000

This document describes how schema extensibility is typically achieved in commercial enterprise software applications; in particular, in customer relationship management (CRM) applications. A future update will discuss newer extensibility mechanisms such as native XML column types in databases.

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Web-Based Lead Generation Startup

info — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:06:27 +0000

A pre-venture startup needed a product prototype in order to validate its market and secure venture funding. The prototype was completed in under a month (including integration time with the call center vendor) with a software license and deployment cost of zero. The company was able to validate their market and raise a seed round of funding.

Despite being a prototype, the project had aggressive requirements. The product was intended to collect leads from an outsourced call center and distribute them to a sales force based on configurable criteria.

We developed a LAMP-based prototype that provided

An integration point allowing leads to be collected from an outsourced call center,
An administrative UI that allowed company personal to make lead distribution decisions,
An end-user UI that allowed sales reps to log in and work their leads.

The prototype was completed in under a month (including integration time with the call center vendor) with a software license and deployment cost of zero. The company was able to validate their market and raise a seed round of funding.

Porting Large J2EE App to .NET

info — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 02:54:19 +0000

KANA wanted to port its KANA iCARE enterprise customer relationship management application from J2EE to the Microsoft .NET Framework. There were two major business goals to this porting effort: to expand its sales base to customers running the Microsoft .NET Framework rather than Java 2 Enterprise Edition, and to reuse much of their Java-language source code when building the .NET application.

We developed a platform-independent layer that allows the same Java-language code base to be compiled and executed on both .NET and J2EE. The platform independent layer consists of wrappers for the core services in J2EE and .NET: database access, messaging middleware, and web presentation frameworks.

This project is described in more detail in a Microsoft customer case study. It is representative of the kinds of projects that we can execute for you.

Microsoft Customer Case Study