http://www.cmaeda.com Comprehensive Enterprise Software Consultancy Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:20:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.cmaeda.com/resources/8 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 ... http://www.cmaeda.com/case-studies/7 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 ... http://www.cmaeda.com/case-studies/6