tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19021013418342551932024-02-08T05:52:28.001-08:00billionaire dreamsqila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-2625134581442391192012-02-28T22:29:00.000-08:002012-02-28T22:29:40.770-08:00INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
<!--[endif]--></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MGT 300</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Information Technology in Management<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Individual Assignment<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapter 17<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Building Software to Support an Agile Organization<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 29px; line-height: 33px;"><b><br />
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</u></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Systems development is the process of defining, designing, testing, and implementing a new software application or program. It could include the internal development of customized systems, the creation of database systems, or the acquisition of third party developed software. Written standards and procedures must guide all information systems processing functions. The organization’s management must define and implement standards and adopt an appropriate system development life cycle methodology governing the process of developing, acquiring, implementing, and maintaining computerized information systems and related technology (<i>System Development, </i>2007).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are a few of characteristics of system development:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: 1.5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A system development project encompasses all the activities undertaken from the time at which a potential requirement is identified until the resulting system is fully implemented and accepted by the end user. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: 1.5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The process can involve many stages over a long period.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: 1.5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">System development is typically a high level management document. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: 1.5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It serves to identify corporate information needs, the information systems required to satisfy those needs, the skills and resources required to develop and implement them, and the development timetable.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 1.5in;"><u style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">DEVELOPING SOFTWARE – THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE (SLDC)</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The systems development life cycle (SDLC), or software development life cycle in systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, is a process of creating or altering information systems, and the models and methodologies that people use to develop these systems. In software engineering the SDLC concept underpins many kinds of software development methodologies. These methodologies form the framework for planning and controlling the creation of an information system: the software development process (<i>System development life-cycle</i>, 2012).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are a few stages in system development life cycle (SLDC). There are four main stages include systems analysis in stage 1, systems design in stage 2, systems implementation in stage 3 and the last stage is systems evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Each of the stages of the life cycle can be broken down into component activities, which are illustrated in detail in table 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Requirements specification </span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Describe the business requirements<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Describe the systems requirements<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Integrate and detail the systems requirements<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Physical design </span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Create and document technical design specifications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Model the technological design specifications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Model the ergonomic design specifications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Installation </span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Implement business system<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 2.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -2.5in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Implement technical system <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 2.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -2.5in;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This stage involves the following proces:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">1) STUDY THE SYSTEM PROBLEM- Should determine whether the proposed system is viable and workable on the grounds of legality, organizational structure, technical constraints and cost-constraints.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">2) INVESTIGATE THE SYSTEM- Involves fact-finding and look up at the system requirements and business requirements.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> -Also involves collecting and collating data and information from a range sources.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">3) GATHERING THE FACT- By using the tools of interviews, questionnaires, task observation and the analysis of existing systems documentation. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">4) OBTAINED THE RESULT-Normally be delivery of a list of systems requirements and priorities</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> -Will be laid out in what is commonly termed a feasibility report</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This stage involves designing an information system to overcome particular information-based problem and meet the user’s needs. In this stage we can see that the logical design and physical design are relating each other. This is because the physical design model follows from the logical design and describes the physical and technological characteristics that the information system should possess.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The physical aspects of the logical design involve the following elements:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hardware technology</span></b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- the input, processing and output devices and their respective performance characteristics.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Software technology </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- software applications and their integration, specifications and performance within the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Storage media </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- the type, structure and function of storage media, such as computer files, database, CD-ROMs and other data and information storage technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Telecommunications technology </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– the specifications, use and characteristics of the technology both internally and externally to the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">People and organization </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– the description and remit of human interaction, plus the procedures and control aspects of the organization that impact on the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">STAGE 3: SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This stage is concerned with building the components of an information system. It is involves all the running up programming in the computer and the software.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The implementation stage normally includes the following considerations:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 39.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hardware acquisition<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 39.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Software acquisition<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 39.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">User familiarization and training<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 39.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Environment preparation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 39.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Information and data preparation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 39.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">STAGE 4: SYSTEM EVALUATION</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This stage involves testing and appraisal to determine whether the system is achieving its requirements. If the system not meeting it requirements, then the SLDC process may begin again.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The following are some commonly used evaluation techniques:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">User evaluation </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– involves formal and informal feedback from the end users of the system to determine whether the system is efficient and effective.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– attempts to match the aggregate of the costs against the aggregate of the benefits of the system. Hopefully, the benefits will outweigh the costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Benchmark testing</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> – involves comparing the actual performance of the system to the ideal standard for the system. The performance of the system is judge by whether it is below or above the standard set. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>software development methodology<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>system development<b> </b>methodology<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering" title="Software engineering"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">software engineering</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is a framework that is used to structure, plan, and control the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process" title="Software development process"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">process of developing</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">an</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> information technology</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(<i>Software development methodology</i>, 2012).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There are various kinds of software life cycle models. These have evolved with time and human experience with various situations and various technologies involved in developing software.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the models used in real life is:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WATERFALL MODEL</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This model is the oldest for a software life cycle. This assumes that the development of software moves from step to step in sequential manner and through appears to be like a waterfall.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The advantage of this model is its simplicity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%;">2)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PROTOTYPE MODEL</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l21 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The prototype is a mock-up of the final product.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l21 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In software, a prototype could be in the form of the screens that need to be presented to the user linked in a way so as to stimulate the real software.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l21 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The benefits of a prototype are:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Helps the developer as well as the user to visualize how the software would look like in terms of its interface with the user.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Facilitates communication between the user and developer-once the user sees a prototype he is able to visualize his requirements better.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Reducing risk in many complex projects.</span></div><br clear="ALL" /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 3)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">V-SHAPED MODEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The V-shaped model is extension of the waterfall model.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It involves matching of an appropriate test phase for each of the stages in the waterfall model<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The elements of V-shapes model:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Requirements matched with system/functional testing<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">High-level design matched with integration testing<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Detailed design matched with unit testing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-indent: -0.25in;">4) SPIRAL MODEL</b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The spiral model combines the benefits of the waterfall, the prototyping methods and is evolutionary in nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The software is visualized in the initial prototype after carrying out a proper risk analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once this level of prototype is accepted, the spiral of functionality expands into another cycle with its own risk analysis phase, requirement analysis and design phases.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus, the software seems to evolve with each spiral<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><b> 5)</b></o:p></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">INCREMENTAL MODEL</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo11; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Incremental model to software development involves the breaking up of the overall software to delivery into smaller modules.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo11; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are many advantages of this model:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo12; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Helps the user and developer priorities those features which are more urgent from the business standpoint.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo12; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Helps the user and developer limit the scope to a smaller increment which is easier to visualize thereby reducing the risk associated with requirements analysis.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo12; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Helps the user and developer to manage within lesser resources (people or cost) as compared to the big bang approach.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">6) </span></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS (RUP) METHOD</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo13; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This method is come up with the Rational Unified Process along with a set of tools to facilitate software life cycle management.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo13; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">RUP divides a project into four broad phases:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo14; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Inception Phase - represents the planning phase in the life cycle.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 2.0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> - take about 10% of the effort of the life cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo14; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Elaboration Phase - more about the specification of cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 3.0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- based on the understanding of the requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 3.0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- take about 20% of the effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo14; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Construction Phase - primary work involves developing and testing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 2.0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> - take about 70% of the effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo14; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Transition Phase - equivalent of implementation in other method.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> -take about 10% of the effort</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b>7)</b></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (RAD) METHOD</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo16; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This method is using<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo16; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In rapid application development, structured techniques and prototyping are especially used to define </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">users'<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements" title="Requirements"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">requirements</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and to design the final system.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">8)</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AGILE METHOD</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo17; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Agile method is therefore a step in direction of simplifying the process while at the same time improving communication between the user and the developer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo17; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This method also delivering quick results and improving the effectiveness of the developing process.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo17; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This method is to create developer-user pairs who work as a cohesive team.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo17; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The advantage of this approach is that it cuts away all the bureaucracy and documentation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">DEVELOPING SUCCESSFUL SOFTWARE<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In developing successful software, here we can identify many benefits and strengths of the system development life cycle. In this case, we also can get the tips how to developing successful software management.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First, let us know the benefits of the system development life cycle:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo19; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The SDLC is a tried and tested approach that is very suitable for the development of large-scale information systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo19; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The SLDC also relies on the production of systems documentation and standards of development that can be used to guide the development of an information system and can be used as reference and training material for users.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo19; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sequential and phased nature of the SLDC allows a complex systems development problem to be broken down into manageable and understandable tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo19; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The structured nature of the SLDC allows the incorporation of formal project management techniques and tools to guide the systems development process.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So how to develop successful software management? These are the tips:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo20; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Understand needs, write the specs before coding and keep them up to date.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo21; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once you understand the functionality to be built, you’ll need to do a detail level design, preferably in terms of use cases. Work out the design details before the start of coding.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo20; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Break projects into modules of 1 week or shorter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo21; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To get good visibility and predictability<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo20; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Implement risky modules early.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo21; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Try to understand what you don’t know as early as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo21; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you minimize the risks and the unknowns up front, when new things come up, you’ll be able to incorporate them into the project more easily simply because you left the easy stuff to the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo20; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Get developer buy-in for features, timelines and milestones.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l13 level1 lfo22; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the design specifications are done, whenever possible, have the developers establish the coding timelines, rather than dictate the timelines to the developers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo20; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Resist feature creep during implementation and testing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo20; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Use automated functional testing tools and do stress testing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l13 level1 lfo22; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Create a test plan while the code is being developed. It’s important to know what to test and how to test it, before starting the testing phase.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l13 level1 lfo22; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PROJECT MANAGING THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT EFFORT</span></u><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Project management</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is the discipline of planning; organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals (<i>Project management</i>, 2012).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In project management, there is a triple constraint.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 4.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The time constraint refers to the amount of time available to complete a project. The cost constraint refers to the budgeted amount available for the project. The scope constraint refers to what must be done to produce the project's end result. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 4.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">These three constraints are often competing constraints: increased scope typically means increased time and increased cost, a tight time constraint could mean increased costs and reduced scope, and a tight budget could mean increased time and reduced scope.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 4.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The discipline of project management is about providing the tools and techniques that enable the project team (not just the project manager) to organize their work to meet these constraints.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Below is the diagram project management interdependent variable which is related to the project management:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-41991657418363303462012-02-28T21:28:00.000-08:002012-02-28T21:28:04.290-08:00UMS chancellor announces partnership to double IT grads in 4 years UMS chancellor announces partnership to double IT grads in 4 years<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AUGUSTA, Maine — The chancellor of the University of Maine System announced Wednesday a new partnership with Maine businesses designed to double the number of graduates in computer and information sciences over the next four years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Maine business leaders are concerned about the number of computer science, information science and information management graduates coming out of our universities,” he told lawmakers. “These graduates are particularly critical because in this information age and in our changing economy, these skills are essential to all businesses — small and large, north and south, current and emerging.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chancellor said that some of the state’s large employers — including Wright Express, Hannaford, TD Bank, Unum, Idexx and Maine Medical Center — expect to see a significant shortfall of Maine graduates with degrees in computer science, information science and information management as their organizations grow and as employees retire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“A rough estimate is that we will have to double the number of graduates from the current 50 to 60 per year to meet the long-term needs,” Pattenaude said. “If we don’t, it will stifle business expansion and will negatively impact business location decisions. And it will constrain business activity statewide.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattenaude said the concern was raised by Mike Dubyak, president and CEO of Wright Express, a technology-intensive company with more than 500 Maine employees. Dubyak will co-chair the effort to implement a plan this fall to double the number of graduates in the field.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“UMS has computer science or information technology programs on five of our seven campuses,” the chancellor continued. “Much good work is being done. We are told that our graduates are of high quality, but there just aren’t enough of them.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattenaude said the system would be working with high schools to recruit students interested in computer technology into programs on campuses in Orono, Fort Kent, Augusta, Farmington and Portland. Campuses at Machias and Presque Isle do not have IT programs, the chancellor said after his speech.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We’re going to be looking at creating some specialized scholarships to attract more students into the programs, evaluating reallocating funds internally and asking for support from business,” he said in a telephone interview.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattenaude also told lawmakers that the system has made great strides in cutting back expensesto help offset a $43 million deficit brought on by the now-recovering economy. Although it has become more efficient, the seven-campus system still lacks sufficient funding, the chancellor said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than two years ago, in the midst of the recession, the university system came out with a financial projection showing that unless it changed how it did business, it would face a $43 million shortfall over four years, Pattenaude said. In response, the university trustees approved a strategy called New Challenges, New Directions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Like many businesses, we have trimmed our work force and now have 7 percent fewer employees. We finished last year with expenditures $5 million below the prior year,” Pattenaude told lawmakers. In addition, the system halved the unfunded liability for its retiree health care.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">University employees have gone two to three years without raises, and administration has been cut back. Even while becoming more efficient, the university system still lacks sufficient funding, Pattenaude said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“That, however, will not stop us from making progress, and that’s a promise,” the chancellor said. Pattenaude said the university system has tempered tuition increases, posting its smallest increase — 4.8 percent for resident undergraduates — in eight years. He said low tuition encourages student retention, leading to more graduations and economic development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Fitzsimmons, president of the Maine Community College System, and William Brennan, Maine Maritime Academy president, also addressed lawmakers. Like Pattenaude, Fitzsimmons expressed gratitude for Gov. Paul LePage’s budget proposal, which would continue current funding levels despite the state’s difficult fiscal challenges.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fitzsimmons also told lawmakers that the community college system is making progress accommodating the thousands of Maine students who have been turned away even though they were qualified to enroll. For example, it is securing space for a campus at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station and negotiating for use of buildings at the Goodwill-Hinckley School in Hinckley, whose core operations as a residential school for at-risk youths ended last year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maine Maritime’s Brennan said the Castine school is “in a strong and vibrant position” with enrollment at maximum capacity, a record, and 90 percent of its graduates finding jobs — some in the six-figure range — within a half-year of getting their diplomas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the first time a president of MMA has addressed the Legislature. The heads of the university and community college systems are required by statute to address the Legislature every two years.</span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-39290878950890032542012-02-28T21:24:00.002-08:002012-02-28T21:24:43.121-08:00NATIONAL BIZVID CHALLENGE 2011 / 2012 WORKSHOP 06 DECEMBER 2011<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Putrajaya, 6 December, 2011 - UCSI University’s Faculty of Management and Information Technology (FMIT) with the support of MOSTI (Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation) and MDeC (Multimedia Development Corporation) had successfully organised and conducted a 2-day workshop for its first ever Canon-sponsored National Competition: The National BizVid Challenge 2011 / 2012. Enriched with crafty and sophisticated ideas, techniques and know-hows on commercialising a product / service, the Workshop was hosted to some 84 students from 9 different Institutions of Higher Learning (IHLs), namely University Tunku Abdul Rahman; University Kebangsaan Malaysia; Taylor’s University; Management and Science University, and of course, our very own UCSI University, to name a few. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides enlightening the 2-day Workshop participants on invaluable competition topics such as Intellectual Property and Techniques on Understanding Customer Needs, there was also the exciting opportunity to brainstorm and develop innovative ideas using innovative mind mapping tools, as well as to equip themselves with basic shooting and video editing skills. In thanking the organisers for the benefits derived from the Workshop, participants also expressed their interest to participate in future similar competition workshops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Themed Lively Creative Commercial Ideas, the Competition was open to all full-time students in the public and private IHLs throughout Malaysia inviting them to explore their highest and deepest levels of creativity in commercialising businesses on video graphics using technology and the social media. In producing and distributing a 2 to 3 minute viral video to commercialise a business product or service, each participating team would have the opportunity to work closely with a company of their choice to understand its business values and requirements. Subsequently, the five-best participating teams will progress to the final round to create a viral video with Canon Legria Camcorder, to showcase their commercial ideas before a panel of prominent and reputable judges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For details and registration, visit the National BizVid Challenge 2011 / 2012 official website atwww.ucsi.edu.my/bizvid or find them on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/groups/nationalbizvidchallenge/ or email nbvc@ucsi.edu.my. </span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-44735536305014687432012-02-28T21:14:00.000-08:002012-02-28T21:14:16.181-08:00UCSI UNIVERSITY AND MAXIS TEAM UP TO BRING HIGH-SPEED INTERNET TO STUDENTS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kuala Lumpur, 22 Apr, 2011 - UCSI University and Maxis Berhad are teaming up to offer University students high-speed Internet access. The two entities established a smart partnership today as part of the Maxis Integrated Partner in Education (MIPE) programme that launched last week. Under the agreement, Maxis will provide high-speed Internet to the University and become one of the University’s industrial partners. UCSI University Vice Chancellor, Dr Robert Bong and Senior Vice President for the Maxis Business Division, Mr. M Fitri B. Abdullah, signed a certificate of partnership in front of a crowd of nearly 200 students during a ceremony at the University. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his speech, Dr Bong said the partnership is part of UCSI University’s commitment to bring in modern technology to augment its teaching and learning environment. He said the University is currently pursuing software that will allow lecturers to create virtual “classrooms” with lectures, materials and forums online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Our goal is to provide our students with the skills and knowledge to succeed in life in the most effective way possible,” he said. “With blended learning, we will be able to use a variety of tools to make both teaching and learning more efficient, more relevant and more accessible through modern technology.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the agreement, Maxis will provide high-speed WiFi services of up to 50mbps that can be subscribed to directly using mobile phones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Maxis WiFi service will enable students to interact with their lecturers outside the normal classroom setting, combining the usual face-to-face learning with online delivery methods as part of the University’s blended-learning teaching philosophy, championed by its Faculty of Education and Centre for Learning Excellence. The high internet speed will also enable students to quickly download podcasts of their lectures, access online resources, conduct research and join online group discussions, enhancing their learning experience. The availability of high-speed internet access across campus grounds also increases student connectivity and mobility, creating a conducive environment for one to learn on the go. The WiFi service is currently on a free three-month trial basis, after which it will be available at a low daily, weekly or monthly rate for students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The partnership with Maxis will enable UCSI University to enrich the university experience for its students, with the introduction of the University Hot Ticket, a supersaver prepaid card from Maxis, customised to suit the University’s academic, community and social events. Maxis will be contributing part of the sales for the prepaid cards to social causes and events championed by the students, heightening student awareness of and participation in, community and social issues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maxis and the University’s Faculty of Management and Information Technology are also working together to fulfill the MIPE commitment to developing student entrepreneurship. UCSI University is the first out of Maxis’ tertiary education partners, to deploy Hotlink dealership kiosk businesses on-campus. Currently, there are two kiosks in operation, offering students preferential incentives as well as further blended learning opportunity to put into practice lessons from business courses and to take away new experience from a current communications business model. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. M Fitri B. Abdullah in his speech said, “On 5 April, Maxis launched its Maxis Integrated Partner in Education programme, a unique offering of an end-to-end array of integrated services to the university sector. Today, we are pleased to see the promise of education enabled by communications technology and partnership commitment, bearing its first fruit at UCSI University.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“At Maxis we certainly believe in the power of integration of strengths from different areas to create a synergistic service ecosystem and unique customer experience which is greater than the sum of its parts. We can see that the committed and innovative staff and students of UCSI University also believe in the spirit of combining capabilities and of reaching across borders, to arrive at a form of knowledge and preparedness which will truly mark them out as the next digital native generation.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New international students at the University will also benefit from the partnership, with a special bundled package made available by Maxis and UCSI University. They will receive both prepaid mobile services and broadband internet worth RM200 for free upon their arrival at the University. This ensures better integration for the international student community on campus with the local community while easing their transition to their new life in the country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through this smart partnership, Maxis will also be part of the University’s Co-Operative Industrial Placement Programme, which currently has close to 900 industrial partners. This allows internship opportunities for UCSI University’s students, who need to complete at least two months of industrial training in each academic year. This format, unique to the University, ensures students are constantly in touch with industrial practices, while applying what they have learnt in the classroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In conjunction with the University’s 25th Anniversary, UCSI University and Maxis also recently worked together on a major charity project worth more than RM40,000, which involved more than 200 students. The students and staff of Maxis visited 25 charity homes in a day to paint and clean up the homes, and also to interact with the residents in fun games and activities. </span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-81791273784481351532012-02-28T21:10:00.003-08:002012-02-28T21:11:35.377-08:00Sunway University College chooses SAS® for IT skills training and research support<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When business executives in Malaysia and the Asia Pacific region seek to hire IT leaders with the latest skills in analytics and information systems, they often find them at Sunway University College, where SAS technology is used in the classroom to prepare students for careers in IT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunway is a world-class higher education institution and leader in private education in Malaysia and the Asia Pacific region. Established in 1987, Sunway provides tertiary education to a total of 10,000 students – with 30 percent coming from 90 foreign countries – enrolled in various academic programs at the diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The School of Computer Technology (SCT) at Sunway has developed a reputation for excellence, offering a high standard of education in information technology, information systems, computer science and networking. SCT advocates unique specializations that not only stress the importance of the academic curriculum, but also promote students' exposure to the IT industry, enabling them to discover their potential and achieve their goals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Associate Professor Dr. Lim Tong Ming, Head of SCT, said, "To achieve excellence in IT instruction, Sunway is extremely sensitive to the need to expose and educate its technology students with IT skill sets that are relevant and highly sought-after in the real world. This is to ensure that all of our graduates are at the forefront of industry demand, making successful careers in the competitive market."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the rapid changes in the world of technology, Dr. Lim deemed it essential for Sunway academics to equip themselves with knowledge of the latest enterprise IT solutions, especially in the area of statistical analysis, data mining and analysis technologies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunway is continuously seeking to explore and research these areas to better tutor its students in the know-how of innovative technologies and advanced IT solutions. For this reason, the university college opted to further develop its teaching and research methods with SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SAS analysis and data mining skills are highly in demand, as many Malaysian corporate organizations and enterprises are using similar, if not identical, SAS technology. SAS solutions are renowned for handling large amounts of data, comprehensive data analysis, business intelligence and analytics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We believe that SAS' well-known reputation for its widely applied solutions in the business world will give Sunway University College students the training they need to be truly relevant in the workplace," explained Dr. Lim. "We trust SAS as a partner that Sunway University College will benefit from."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another factor for SCT choosing SAS for its research and training support is the unlimited licensing model of the software. "As an education institution, partnering with SAS also makes budgetary sense, as its adaptable licensing module eliminates the possibility of raking up a massive cost to be incurred due to the multiple use of such programs and solutions for the purpose of teaching, learning and research," said Dr. Lim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SCT currently offers a number of courses covering data analysis and data mining using SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner and Base SAS, which attract 70 percent of SCT students. "SAS' comprehensive and practical solutions have garnered a lot of interest amongst our lecturers and students," said Dr. Lim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SCT's courses already prepared students to enter a highly competitive labour market. But Dr. Lim notes that within a year of working with SAS, Sunway has improved on its standards of educational excellence and the marketability of its highly practical technology courses.</span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-62660856401547306642012-02-28T21:08:00.000-08:002012-02-28T21:08:33.627-08:00AIMST University signs cooperative MoU with MMU<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melaka, Malaysia: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 ― AIMST University, Kedah-based University dedicated to high-quality value-based education, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Multimedia University (MMU) in Bukit Beruang, Melaka to promote cooperation between both educational institutions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the accord of the MoU, the two universities will engage in joint research activities, organizing training programs and workshops, exchange visits by academic staff, researchers and students, exchange relevant information, and developing and implementing R&D projects of mutual interest. The research activities plan and their implementation will be mutually developed on a 'project by project' basis. AIMST University Chief Executive & Vice-Chancellor Prof Frederick Charles Smales and MMU President Prof. Dr. Zaharin b. Yusoff signed the MoU on December 1, 2010.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Malaysia, MMU is the first private university; MMU developed the pioneer model for the successful establishment of private universities in the nation. As the university at the heart of the Multimedia Super Coridor (MSC), MMU also serves as a catalyst in the development of the high tech ICT industry of the nation, parallel to the Silicon Valley-Stanford model in the United States. Currently, MMU have altogether approximately 20,000 students in Melaka and Cyberjaya campus. MMU is known for wonderful achievements in a relatively short period of time. The university runs in two campuses, its original campus in the historical city of Melaka, and the campus in Cyberjaya that was opened by the former Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed. A recent survey indicates that 93% students of the MMU secure employment within 6 months of the completion of their studies. MMU have more than 4,200 international students from 75 countries. In short time MMU has established itself as a major player in research and development, and maintaining excellent ties with the strategic partners through smart collaborations and research partnerships.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The AIMST University commenced operations in year 2001 as the first private university in northern part of peninsular Malaysia and has emerged as one of the top private educational institutions. Currently, the AIMST University offers four (4) diploma courses, nine (9) degree programs, and six (6) postgraduate programs under 7 faculties namely, Applied Sciences, Medicine, Dentistry,</span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-31126000375352734042012-02-28T20:59:00.001-08:002012-02-28T21:35:28.026-08:00GROUP ASSIGNMENT<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">MGT 300<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">GROUP ASSIGNMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">THE USAGE OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN FELDA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">STUDENT’S NAMES: AUFA NAJWA BT. MOHD BANURI 2010848742<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> : NUR AMALINA BT. A. SAMAD 2010810658<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> : NUR AQILAH BT. IBRAHIM 2010803494<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> : NUR NAJWA ASYIKIN BT. AHMAD FAUZY 2010440316<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> : ZAYANAHUSNA BT. IDRIS 2010265224<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">GROUP : J3BM1114B<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">LECTURER’S NAME: TN. SYED MAZLAN B. SYED MAT DOM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">DATE OF SUBMISSION: 7<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><u style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">1.0 INTRODUCTION</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">For the introduction, we are given a group assignment which needed us to search a selected company and one of the business process implemented there. The business process that selected must involved technologies whether in making decision or even in the business process itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We had decided to choose Felda Holdings Bhd in this assignment and the business process is Human Resources department. In 1 July 1956 under Land Development Ordinance 1956, Federal Land Development Authorities was established. Felda Holdings is a family-oriented company that prides itself on having built a strong professional and technical workforce.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Now a day, information technologies are very important to help the company growth. Information technologies are a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information. The information of technology umbrella can be quiet large, covering many fields that deal with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, transmit, process and retrieve information securely. It is most useful when it leverages the talent of people include computer programming, network administration, computer engineering, Web development, technical support, and many other related occupations. Since we live in the "information age," information technology has become a part of our everyday lives. That means the term "IT," already highly overused, is here to stay. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><u style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">2.1 BACKGROUND OF COMPANY (FELDA)</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Felda Holdings Bhd (Felda Holdings) is one of Malaysia'slargest, and most diversified agro-based enterprises which run the commercial business related to the Federal Land and Development Authority (FELDA), and the vast 880,000-hectare plantation landbank associated with it. Formed under the Land Ordinance Act 1956 but incorporated on 6 September 1995, Felda Holdings became a public company on 3 October, 2003. Today, their total capitalization exceeds RM 5 billion with RM 220 million in paid up capital. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Felda Holdings enjoys a sizeable business amounting to some RM 11.8 billion in revenue and reported profit before tax of RM 804.3 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">They employ a dedicated workforce of almost 19,000 employees, complemented by a labour force of 46,795 workers at some 300 estates, 70 palm oil mills, seven refineries, four kernel crushing plants, 13 rubber factories, manufacturing plants and several logistic and bulking installations spread throughout Malaysia and several locations overseas.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Through more than 50 active subsidiaries, associated companies and joint venture companies we provide technical advice and support to the Felda Group. Felda develop and manage a major portion of its plantation landbank and undertake oil-palm based downstream activities. They also process rubber and cocoa products, manufacture fertilizers as well as operate several successful auxiliary businesses. Among these are IT, engineering, security, storage and logistic services.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">On the international front, Felda Holdings is among the world leaders, producing almost 8% of world palm oil in 2009. They enjoy long-standing joint-venture partnerships with large multinationals such as Procter & Gamble and Iffco. We also have growing interests in businesses in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">2.2 BACKGROUND OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMEN IN FELDA<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Felda Holdings is a family-oriented company that prides itself on having built a strong professional and technical workforce. Their 18,908 employees are experienced in diverse disciplines. They invest heavily in our human capital through many technical, leadership development and capacity-building programmes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Chief among these are their leadership institutes to aid talent management and our Six Sigma programme in collaboration with Motorola University. This year, they also introduced an innovative, first-in-Malaysia, study-at-work ACCA/CIMA certification programme to develop accounting professionals for the Group's future needs. Meanwhile, their Felda Holdings Scholarship enables the country's young talents to pursue higher education at top universities abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><u style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2.3 THE USING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ADMINISTRATION OF FELDA</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In this project, we focus to the Human Resources department in the using of information technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><img alt="*" height="13" src="file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" width="13" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Below is the detail information about the usage of IT in this company<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">1)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The starting time of IT has been used in HR department of <i>Yayasan Felda</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Since year of 1998. Not just the HR department, but in the entire department use IT in making business transactions.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: whitesmoke; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">2)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The example of IT that has been used in this department in making their business transactions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In this case, the big example of IT that has been used in FELDA is the official page of FELDA.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This webpage got the recognition of ‘5 Star Webpage and Overall Top 10 Websites’ from Malaysian Government and Portals Website Assessments 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This webpage also makes a link between the customers with the HR department without make a ‘face to face’ to make the transactions or any management.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In this web page, there is complete with the applications to make the customers easy to communicate with this department such as:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">e-Complaint<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">e-Review<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">e-Rating<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; 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font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">e-Statements<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">e-Payments<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">e-Jobs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 51.75pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Besides that, the customers also can communicate with this company through Facebook and Twitter with the trademark of 1felda community.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 51.75pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">There is also an application for the cell phones user which are they can serve the web page of FELDA by the cell phone in the version of cell phone and PDA known as mobile web.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; 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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">3)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The important of Information Technology in HR department of FELDA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Strengthen and facilitate administrative work, whether in or outside the company. With IT, this company can communicate with the customer who is away no matter wherever they are</span>.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">To manage time more efficiently<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The management of administration more efficient and faster<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Reduce cost and improve productivity<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Increase loyalty and increase customer satisfaction<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Create competitive advantage<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">4)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The way FELDA communicate with the customers through the Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The customers can search the official page of FELDA: </span><a href="http://www.felda.net.my/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">www.felda.net.my</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> to ask any questions without make a ‘face to face’ process and can save time between the both parties.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">5)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Planning of HR department of FELDA to expands the activities through IT so easy the customers to find out them<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Department will maintain update all applications in homepage and update all the news that should be presented to the customer on the achievement of the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The announcement also will maintain at the homepage to show the all important news for the customers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Other than that the FELDA diary will always be updating to inform the customers about the latest event of FELDA which is sometimes related with the customers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">6)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The way FELDA rise when the use of Information Technology is failure<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 55.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">FELDA has established a backup monitoring team to backup all the business transactions which is subsidiary of FELDA known as PRODATA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 55.5pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -19.5pt;">3.0<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><u style="text-indent: -19.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">RECOMMENDATION</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 19.5pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">1)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We think FELDA need to promote more about their homepage because not all of their customer know about their official web page<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">2)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Create more backup team, in case they are failure in using information technology<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">3)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Encourage their customer to using IT so they can reduce time in communicating and also can settle their problem as soon as possible<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 19.5pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">4.0 APPENDIX</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Below are the links for customer to communicate or send their feedback<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://e-aduan.felda.net.my/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://e-aduan.felda.net.my/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://felda.net.my/feldav3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125&Itemid=115"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://felda.net.my/feldav3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125&Itemid=115</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=127&Itemid=118"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=127&Itemid=118</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/pkkf.php"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/pkkf.php</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://erating.felda.net.my/kiosk/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://erating.felda.net.my/kiosk/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://e-jobs.felda.net.my/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://e-jobs.felda.net.my/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.malaysia.gov.my/BM/Pages/myBayarAdvSearches.aspx"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://www.malaysia.gov.my/BM/Pages/myBayarAdvSearches.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://mx.felda.net.my/CookieAuth.dll?GetLogonWrapper?url=%2Fexchange&reason=0"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://mx.felda.net.my/CookieAuth.dll?GetLogonWrapper?url=%2Fexchange&reason=0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://epenyata.felda.net.my/SitePages/laman_utama.aspx"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://epenyata.felda.net.my/SitePages/laman_utama.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 19.5pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5.0 CONCLUSION</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, it shows that information technologies are very important in human resources department to help in strengthen their administration. It also makes communication between organizations and their customers faster where ever there are. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Customers can surf their companies website to know about company progress, information and negotiate each other. So, they no need face to face in making any decision and doing any activities. This will make the time management more efficiency and company can decreased man power. Besides that, we can see with information technologies the companies productivity increasing and the administration more efficient and faster.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Using the knowledge of information technologies, Felda Holdings Bhd had a service line for customer to make any inquiries. Currently, printer is important to utilize print materials that very necessary in managing a company. These companies also had a backup team like PRODATA subsidiary to make sure all their work had done had a backup for instance they facing virus because of excess downloaded.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The ending, information technology that used by human resources department in Felda Holdings Bhd is very efficiency to help the company growth and achieved their goals, as the leader of oil palm and high-income settlers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 19.5pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><u style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<u style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">6.0 REFFERENCES</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5in;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Baltzan, P., Philips, A., & Haag, S. (2009). <i>Business driven technology</i>. (3 ed.). New York: The McGraw Hill Companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5in;"><i><span lang="EN-MY" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Official Website of Federal Land Development Authority</span></i><span lang="EN-MY" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. (2011). Retrieved 2012, February 3 from </span><a href="http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/"><span lang="EN-MY" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http://www.felda.net.my/feldav3/</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span lang="EN-MY"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5in;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Raja Norziana Bt. Raja Abdul Rashid. (2012, February 3). Interview by Aufa Najwa Mohd Banuri [Personal Interview]. Company interview. , Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5in;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Tuan Syed Mazlan B. Syed Mat Don, Lecturer of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi Mara.</span><span lang="EN-MY" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-87062875964383485922012-02-15T18:48:00.000-08:002012-02-15T18:49:15.981-08:00UPNM First Local Varsity To Offer It Security Programme<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 (Bernama) -- Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) chalked a new milestone by becoming the first local public university to offer Information Technology Security (IT Security) certification for its computer science undergraduates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The programme is offered in collaboration with International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), a leading IT Security certification provider.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UPNM Vice-Chancellor Datuk Zulkifli Zainal Abidin said the programme was in line with the government's call to produce local professionals able to handle crimes in information technology (IT).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Security experts in IT are very important to the nation now, mainly to stop cyber crimes through computer chains that can be a threat to the security of the nation," he told reporters after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EC-Council at the university here, on Thursday.</span><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://web10.bernama.com/education/v2/index.php?sid=news_content&id=437926">http://web10.bernama.com/education/v2/index.php?sid=news_content&id=437926</a></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Bernama</span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-5473597854457106222012-01-26T09:04:00.000-08:002012-01-26T09:04:19.090-08:00Universiti Pahang Malaysia Moves Forward with Oracle Solutions<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="http://www.hardwarezone.com.my/files/images/ORACLE_PHOTO.jpg" /> </div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kuantan, Pahang – Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) has just announced that it has deployed Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) as part of its growth in technology infrastructure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From L-R: Roslan Bin Awang Abd Rahman, Deputy Director, PTMK UMP; Saiful Lizam Mohd Khamis, Director of Technology Sales Public Sector and MRD, Oracle Corporation Malaysia; Prof Dato’ Dr Daing Mohd Nasir Daing Ibrahim, Vice Chancellor UMP; and Prof Dr Badhrulhisham Bin Abdul Aziz, Assistant Vice Chancellor (Academic & International), UMP</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The implementation of these Oracle solutions helps to provide UMP with fault tolerance to maximize the availability of the Main Academic Portal, Time Attendance system, Student Management system, Online Examination system and Financial and Human Resource (HR) Management system, which in turn will result in a better service level for students and staff alike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to this new system, efficiency of the university's workforce is also improved as it offers automated management capabilities that frees up staff time that were previously spent on manual administrative work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“To improve its service level, UMP undertook the project to ensure prompt and reliable delivery of critical campus services, while stabilizing and easing workload and as a result, we are able to increase efficiencies that bring benefit to our students and staff so they can focus more on their core competencies,” said Professor Dato’ Dr. Daing Mohd Nasir Daing Ibrahim, Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Pahang.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.hardwarezone.com.my/tech-news-universiti-malaysia-pahang-moves-forward-oracle-solutions">http://www.hardwarezone.com.my/tech-news-universiti-malaysia-pahang-moves-forward-oracle-solutions</a></blockquote>By Daniel Goh <br />
18 Apr 2011qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-4358755106972549392012-01-26T08:25:00.000-08:002012-01-26T08:25:58.446-08:00UiTM Student and Junior Lecture Win Top Awards at British Invention Show<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UiTM student and junior lecture have won top awards at the British Invention Show in London, which just ended. The medals won were a Diamond, the Best Invention by Salon Archimedes (Russia), a gold and 6 silver medals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The British Invention Show, which was held between 12 and 17 Oct 2009, is the largest innovation and technology expo in Britain. Uitm submitted 8 entries of which all won medals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Diamond was won by junior lecturer Amalina Amir, 26, of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, who contested her product, MIM Route, a device to produce complex metal metalwork. Other than diamond, Amalina also won a gold and the best Invention by Salon Archimedes (Russia). MIM Route is a metal injecting moulding process which can boost mass manufacturing of complex metalwork. Products that need high precision moulding are jewelry, sporting goods, eyeglasses, wristwatches or medical equipment. Other than the mass production this new procedure is environment friendly as it uses a recyclable biopolymer binder. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gold winning student was Ahmad Zainizan bin Sahdan, 25, who is pursuing his PhD at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He participated his project on nanowire synthesis using low cost gas blocker in catalyic thermal CVD. His idea was having a semi-conductor nonowire for solar cells where a gas blocker was invented to obstruct the gas flow in a 2-furnace CVD system. The gas blocker produced a better control of gas flow that enables stronger UV emission. Upon winning, Ahmad Zainizan said his invention is suitable to be used as light emitting device such as laser diodes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other 6 silver medals were won by Azizah Hanom Ahmad who contested her invention on Silicon and Dammar as Coating Materials, Khudzir Haji Ismail for his Water-Tetralin Co-solvent System for Coal Liqefaction, Zukifli Abdul Rashid a software for Waste Management, Nor Hayati Avdul Hamid Pre-Cast Hollow Core Wall which can endure earthquake shocks, Ahmad Faizar Jaafar Self-Charging Machine in Libraries, and Mohd Haris Kamarudin Egg Shell Thermal Insulation Board.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.rdmag.com/News/Feeds/2009/10/environment-uitm-student-and-junior-lecture-win-top-awards-at-/">http://www.rdmag.com/News/Feeds/2009/10/environment-uitm-student-and-junior-lecture-win-top-awards-at-/</a> </blockquote> By ResearchSEA<br />
Thursday, October 22, 2009qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-39994565846525615912012-01-26T08:10:00.000-08:002012-01-26T08:10:02.401-08:00Good News: University of Malaya is 39 out of 200 Asian Universities<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://dinmerican.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/um21.jpg" /> </div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Six out of seven Malaysian universities improved their ranking on the QS Asian University Rankings this year, with Universiti Malaya (UM) climbing three spots to 39th.Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) also jumped 20 slots to 57th out of 200 Asian universities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No Malaysian university entered the top 10 ranks while the National University of Singapore (NUS) retained its third place.QS also said in a statement the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) knocked the University of Hong Kong down to the second spot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The global higher education information specialist noted that Malaysia had seven universities in the top 200 Asian universities compared to Thailand’s nine and Indonesia’s eight. Japan was the best-represented nation with five universities in the top 10 ranks and 57 in the top 200.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In contrast, China had 40, South Korea 35, Taiwan 16, India 11, and Hong Kong had seven universities in the top 200 Asian institutions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The QS Asian University Rankings last year showed that the top Malaysian university was UM at the 42nd spot while Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) was the second best university here at 58th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rankings were based on the following factors: academic peer review (30 per cent), recruiter review (10 per cent), student/ faculty ratio (20 per cent), papers per faculty (15 per cent), citations per paper (15 per cent), and 2.5 per cent each for international faculty review, international student review, and inbound and outbound student exchanges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UM Vice-Chancellor Dr Ghauth Jasmon had reportedly urged Malaysia’s oldest university last year to take world rankings seriously if it wanted to remain globally competitive.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/good-news-university-of-malaya-is-39-out-of-200-asian-universities/">http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/good-news-university-of-malaya-is-39-out-of-200-asian-universities/</a></blockquote>By Boo Su-Lyn@www.themalaysianinsider.com<br />
May 23, 2011qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-83454142587914262522012-01-16T17:01:00.000-08:002012-01-16T17:02:15.640-08:00AirAsia Reaps Global Award for Excellence in Technology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="right" border="0" height="213" hspace="10" src="http://i.etbnews.com/etbasia/article/2010/68626.jpg" vspace="2" width="320" /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AirAsia, the world’s best low cost airline, reaped a prestigious global award for its outstanding use of information and communication technology (ICT) to advance business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“A very high majority of AirAsia’s passengers book online, partly because of AirAsia’s ICT-based business model, and partly because of the motivation of the population to secure free or very cheap seats through online booking. In this sense, AirAsia succeeded in creating a compelling reason to use e-commerce through this ICT business model,” WITSA added.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tony Fernandes, AirAsia Group CEO, said, “AirAsia has always believed in the power of technology and communication to drive business. Our services are technology-backed – from booking and payment to check in. This year, we’ll get even more aggressive in our use of technology to improve our guests’ experience with AirAsia.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tony also thanked Malaysia-based PIKOM for nominating AirAsia for the award. PIKOM, or the Association of the Computers and Multimedia Industry in Malaysia, counts among its members over 1,000 companies engaged in the whole range of ICT products and services. PIKOM’s member companies account for 80% of Malaysia’s ICT trade.</span><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article.asp?id=68626">http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article.asp?id=68626</a></blockquote>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-88688935486494823832012-01-16T16:43:00.000-08:002012-01-16T16:44:36.214-08:00Malaysia Airports Collaborates With NuSuara Technologies To Offer Flight Information Self-Service Interactive Voice Response<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="article_separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://www.malaysiaairports.com.my/images/stories/MAHB_images/news_12may2009_b.jpg" width="320" /> </span></div><span class="article_separator"></span><br />
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Y.Bhg. Dato' Azmi Murad, Senior General Manager Operations, Malaysia Airports said: "Apart from giving more value added service to customers, we are also always looking at ways to enhance our customer services, and we believe that KLIA 1 Touch will be a service which the public will find very helpful."<br />
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He added: "In today's competitive marketplace, businesses are looking for ways to more effectively improve the bottom line and keep pace with market demands. To achieve these objectives and remain competitive, companies are focusing on ways to enhance customer services. One of the most powerful means for achieving these goals is through the automation of repetitive or routine activities using IVR technology."<br />
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At the moment, KLIA 1 Touch is only available for KLIA and LCCT-KLIA users in obtaining flight information. "However, plans are in the pipeline to have this service extended to other airports in Malaysia, as we would like to ensure this service reaches our costumers nationwide, Dato' Azmi added.<br />
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Y.Bhg. Dato' Ramli Abbas, Chief Executive Officer of NuSuara Technologies said: "We are pleased to collaborate with Malaysia Airports in offering this service to travelers, and we are confident travelers will find KLIA 1 Touch handy in planning their travel, as it is a time-saving information retrieval system, at the convenience of the customers, a user-friendly enquiry service provided free and accessible 24 hours."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This agreement reportedly served as a procurement platform agreement, under which ZTE will supply communications products to Axiata and its subsidiary Opcos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The five-year global strategic cooperation framework agreement aims to enhance the links and cooperation between the two parties. Based on the procurement platform, ZTE will create value in products, solutions, and services to save time and improve efficiency, so as to raise Axiata's business penetration. In addition, the agreement will improve the two parties' information exchanges concerning technologies, products and services in the procurement field; enhance Axiata's understanding of ZTE's technology development; and realize faster cooperation between the two parties.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ZTE also announced that it will again cut its stake in Nationz by selling four million shares at the average price of CNY24.75 per share. After this transaction, ZTE will still hold a 13.55% stake in Nationz.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.chinatechnews.com/2011/06/30/15405-zte-axiata-sign-cooperation-agreement">http://www.chinatechnews.com/2011/06/30/15405-zte-axiata-sign-cooperation-agreement</a></blockquote>June, 30 2011qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-19895951363106684092011-12-24T22:39:00.000-08:002011-12-24T22:40:36.731-08:00Gadgets That Won't Make It for 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img height="216" src="http://techcentral.my/archives/2011/12/21/it_news/nokiaonline.jpg" width="320" /></div></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SHOCK RESISTANT: The flexible screen technology used in smartphones such as the Nokia Kinetic, a prototype which was previewed at Nokia World 2011, may help to make future smartphones 'smashproof.' - Relaxnews</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking forward to seeing smashproof smartphones, indoor location mapping, the launch of the Sony PlayStation4, and 3D taking over the world in 2012? It's not going to happen says market analyst ABI Research.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The technology industry may have high hopes for the arrival of cutting-edge technologies in 2012 but ABI believes that many of these innovations will take much longer to reach mass market penetration than others are predicting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years ago mobile phones used to be robust and could withstand falls from over two meters but that was before smartphones and their large glass displays replaced the polycarbonate plastics found in feature phones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While there have been significant improvements in glass technology since the first range of smartphones arrived on the market, ABI believes consumers won't find smashproof phones on the market in 2012 - mobile manufacturers beg to differ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a number of "life proof" shock-resistant smartphones available on the market today including the Motorola Defy+, the Motorola Titanium, the Samsung Galaxy Xcover, the Casio G'zOne Commando and the Sony Experia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Active and smartphone makers are experimenting with new technology too that will make these handheld devices even more indestructible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consumer electronics companies such as Nokia, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba have already shown off early prototypes of smartphones with flexible displays that can be twisted and bent without breaking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Samsung is bullish on the technology and says it will have Tablets and smartphones with flexible screens ready by 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smartphones and Tablets have been a closely watched point of interest throughout 2011 with many high-profile launches (and a number of high-profile failures).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people around the world have grown to love their Tablet devices but despite their increased importance within the computing market, Tablets are still not capable enough to become a mass-media solution, insists ABI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"With WiFi being the predominant form of Internet connectivity, media Tablets tend to stay at home during work and school hours along with the family pet. As an incremental device being used alongside laptops and smartphones, the use case to replace these existing devices has yet to materialise," comments Jeff Orr, group director, mobile devices, ABI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Likewise, people will not rely on their mobile phones for Internet access in 2012 - or ever, predicts Aapo Markkanen, senior analyst, consumer mobility at ABI. He believes an influx of cheaper laptops and Tablets will keep consumers connected to the Internet into the future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In November Google opened the front door to indoor maps, taking searchers inside shops, airports and malls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nokia, CSR, Ericsson, Mexens Technology and NextNav have also provided solutions for indoor mapping, but these technologies - along with relevant indoor location-based marketing - will not reach critical mass for a few more years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What we will likely see in 2012 are isolated mobile applications and services around individual high-traffic public areas like airports and malls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The benefits are two-fold, with a new way to engage with the end user and improve their experience, while also providing key analytics on user behavior within these buildings," forecasts Patrick Connolly, senior analyst, telematics and navigation at ABI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next year is building up to be a big year for the gaming market with a number of long-awaited game releases on the horizon but consumers who are hoping to get their hands on next-generation game consoles such as the Microsoft Kinect 2 or the Sony PS4 will probably have to hold on until at least 2013.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a big push to make 2011 the year of 3D but even with a notable list of 3D film releases, the arrival of 3D-only TV stations and lots of new 3D TVs making their way into the market, consumers were not overly enthusiastic about the trend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ABI says consumer attitudes towards 3D technology will be much the same in 2012. So what will be on the cards in 2012? A study by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) predicts that wireless and mobile devices will be the feature of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the study Tablets are hot and cloud computing is still popular. Chipmaker Intel says super-thin, ultra-light, high performance laptops called ultrabooks will be the star of 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The company has said it will focus on bringing a new range of touchscreen, Windows 8-based ultrabooks to market. - Relaxnews 2011</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://techcentral.my/news/story.aspx?file=/2011/12/21/it_news/20111221110203&sec=IT_News">http://techcentral.my/news/story.aspx?file=/2011/12/21/it_news/20111221110203&sec=IT_News</a></blockquote>by THE STAR, Wednesday, December 21, 2011qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-1387523572016267872011-12-24T22:32:00.000-08:002011-12-24T22:32:26.976-08:00Google Boasts 700,000 Android Activation Per Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://techcentral.my/archives/2011/12/22/it_news/ANDYONLINE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://techcentral.my/archives/2011/12/22/it_news/ANDYONLINE.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SPEEDY ANDROID GROWTH: Rubin (left) with Samsung president head of mobile communications business J.K. Shin unveiling the Galaxy Nexus that features the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in this Oct 19, 2011 filephoto. - Reuters</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google senior vice-president of mobile Andy Rubin announced via a post on his Google+ account that "[t]here are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He added, "for those wondering, we count each device only once (for example, we don't count re-sold devices), and activations means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The figure equates to 4.9 million Android activations per week or 255.5 million activations per year. In other words, if Google could sustain its current rate of 700,000 activations a day and the global population remained constant at 2010's 6.84 billion, it would take just under 27 years until everyone on the planet owned an Android device.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Android's speedy growth is a huge ego boost for Google - in November the company revealed that it had activated more than 200 million devices at a rate of 550,000 activations per day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple announced that it had sold 250 million iOS devices during the iPhone 4S announcement in October but did not reveal its daily activation rate. - Relaxnews 2011</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://techcentral.my/news/story.aspx?file=/2011/12/22/it_news/20111222131014&sec=IT_News">http://techcentral.my/news/story.aspx?file=/2011/12/22/it_news/20111222131014&sec=IT_News</a></blockquote>by THE STAR, Thursday December 22, 2011qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-63178804565691345612011-12-21T20:43:00.000-08:002011-12-24T22:52:23.743-08:00World Bank Global ICT Department Launches Series of Seminars on "ICT as Enabler for Growth and Public Sector Reform"<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_ArticleDetail" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/0,,menuPK:282828~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:282823,00.html" target="_self">World Bank's Global Information and Communication Technology Department (GICT)</a> is sponsoring a series on seminars on "ICT as Enabler for Growth and Public Sector Reform" in the context of the World Bank's Annual Conference on Poverty Reducation and Economic Management, PREM.<br />
The PREM Network is the Bank’s focal point on key issues such as Economic Policy and Debt, Gender, Poverty Reduction, Public Sector Governance and Trade. Its mission and overarching objective is to integrate the Bank’s poverty reduction efforts at the country level and provide policy advice to the Bank’s clients during the formulation and implementation of policies and programs<br />
The conference, to be held in Washington D.C. on April 15 & 16, 2008, will focus on issues related to inclusive and sustainable Growth. This year's conference also features 4 sessions on the use of ICTs for economic growth and public sector reform:<br />
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<li><a href="http://go.worldbank.org/BO7T7221X0" target="_self">Government Enterprise Architecture as Enabler of Public Sector Reform </a>(April 17, 2008) <br />
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<li><a href="http://go.worldbank.org/YLBJQROJZ0" target="_self">ICT Applications for the Public Sector </a>(April 23, 2008)</li>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="ctl00_ctl00_Content_Content_ArticleDetail" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.211.html</span></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by info Dev</span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-64895898735556632722011-12-21T20:22:00.000-08:002011-12-21T20:22:47.295-08:00New Gitex Global Leaders Summit Hosts World's Foremost ICT Business Minds<h2 class="summary" id="summary" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the world's most influential IT decisions makers and experts in communication technology are set to converge in Dubai for the first-ever Gitex Global Leaders Summit, one of the new highlights of the region's largest ICT event.</span></h2><div class="clear" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <div class="banner banner-middle"> </div><div class="story" id="story"><span style="font-size: small;"> As Gitex celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from October 17 to 21, 2010, many of the technology industry's most respected names will be available to give firsthand advice from an expert perspective.<br />
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Providing cutting edge insights into today's global ICT landscape, the Global Leaders Summit will host Rajeev Asija, Executive Vice President Enterprise Solution & Services Business, HCL Infosystems, a Gitex strategic sponsor; Ali Faramawy, Microsoft Corporation Vice President, Microsoft International and Area Vice President, Microsoft Middle East & Africa; Bhaskar Gorti, Senior Vice President and General Manager - Communications Global Business Unit, Oracle; and Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Market Development, Facebook. </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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The Gitex Global Leaders Summit celebrates the theme 'Inspiring Innovation and Collaboration' where speakers will cover topics that address emerging communications and technology trends, as well as the coordinated efforts needed from the region's stakeholders to bring about change. The Summit is an exclusive opportunity to network with the region's top decision makers and meet some of the world's foremost thinkers.<br />
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Rajeev Asija, Executive Vice President of HCL, India's $5bn global technology business begins the sessions on October 17. This HCL veteran of nearly 30 years heads Enterprise Solutions and Services Business and will be speaking on 'Transcending Boundaries'.<br />
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Ali Faramawy, Vice President of Microsoft International, is directly responsible for Microsoft's operations across the Middle East and Africa. He plays a leading role in the company's worldwide emerging markets community and will discuss the phenomenon of cloud computing in 'How to Thrive and Grow with the Cloud'.<br />
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Bhaskar Gorti, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Communications Global Business Unit for Oracle will share his expertise in telecom growth and developing markets. He is responsible for managing Oracle's strategic planning, product development, sales, service and support for Oracle's communication products. Gorti will be highlighting the issues on how to 'Thrive in the Age of Telecom Transformation'.<br />
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Returning to Gitex Technology Week for the second year in a row, Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Original Equipment Manufacturer Division will also present 'Innovation and How that Equals Opportunity for You' on October 18, at an exclusive, invitation-only keynote address.<br />
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Gitex is also hosting the Global Conferences programme featuring over 30 thought-provoking sessions led by ICT leaders.<br />
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Helal Saeed Almarri, CEO, Dubai World Trade Centre, organiser of Gitex Technology Week, said: </span><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"> "Gitex has established itself as an ICT event that provides opportunities for regional companies to attract global business. As the largest technology show in Africa and the Middle East, it acts as a driver for investments and knowledge sharing. We are committed to keep Gitex fresh, cutting edge and relevant, and along with the show's other new features, the new Global Leaders Summit aligns perfectly with that. The attendance of world-class speakers illustrates the impact Gitex has made on the international ICT stage."</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Running alongside the Global Leaders Summit, the Gitex Cloud Confex, with platinum sponsors HP, and Gitex Mobile Apps & Content World with Industry Partner MEF also make their debut to ensure the event reflects and drives the most relevant ICT issues of the day. The Gitex Global Conference will ensure the event is the most comprehensive knowledge platform in the region and will bring together business leaders, government departments and trade professionals to network, discuss critical industry issues and explore opportunities for growth.<br />
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The Global Conference includes 30 streams and more than 50 local and international industry expert speakers, giving advice on a full spectrum of information and communication technology issues. Small and medium businesses, GULFCOMMS, environmentally-friendly IT, the future of security and dozens more debates will ensure hundreds of delegates are kept up to date, informed and aware of the latest developments.<br />
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Contributors include Tareque Choudhury, Head of Business Continuity and Security at BT, Khaled Kefel, General Manager of RIM Middle East, and Edmund English, EMEA Senior Marketing Manager, Dell and Irfan Ali, Senior Operator Account Manager, Nokia.<br />
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The three days of streamed networking and knowledge sharing will be followed by a Developer Day on Thursday, October 21, where developers, programmers, engineers, analysts, technicians, network managers and many others will gain expert advice and top tips.<br />
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Gitex embodies the continuing momentum of growth in the Middle East ICT sector and draws global attention and mounting investment to the region. The show connects more than 133,000 industry professionals from 135 countries with over 3,500 suppliers and is one of the most influential and high-profile events in the global ICT sector today.<br />
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Gitex Technology Week runs from 17 - 21 October 2010, at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Admission is for trade and industry professionals only. To register or for more information please visit www.gitex.com. </span></div></div><div class="clear"> <div class="float-left"> <div class="article-image" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://media.ameinfo.com/interstitials/ad.html?oldURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ameinfo.com%2F244645-large.html&timer=60000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gitex Technology Week." src="http://static.amefiles.com/images/news/small/3/103943-gitex.jpg" /></a></span></div><div class="article-image-image"></div><div class="article-image-caption"> Gitex Technology Week.</div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">http://www.ameinfo.com/244645.html</blockquote></blockquote><div class="article-image-link"><a href="http://media.ameinfo.com/interstitials/ad.html?oldURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ameinfo.com%2F244645-large.html&timer=60000"> </a></div></div></div><div class="float-right"> <div class="padding-top-10px" style="padding-right: 10px;"> <br />
</div></div></div>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-78004389355386131272011-12-21T20:07:00.000-08:002011-12-21T20:08:55.472-08:00International ICT Policies and Strategies<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The World of Domain Name is fast changing. Whether it is the Policy decisions or the issues of securing Internet and Domain Names, lots of development is taking place these days. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (<a href="http://www.icann.org/" target="_blank">ICANN</a>) has been taking many pro active steps in this regard. For instance, recently ICANN and <a href="http://www.interpol.int/" target="_blank">INTERPOL</a> have <a href="http://ictps.blogspot.com/2011/05/icann-and-interpol-moots-internet.html" target="_blank">agreed</a> to work in the direction of securing Internet.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ICANN has also widely contributed for the World of Domain Names. ICANN has formulated the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) that has been in effect for over 10 years. It is widely recognised as one of ICANN’s defining accomplishments from its formative years. While not perfect, the UDRP has successfully offered parties a far less expensive alternative to costly litigation for resolving international disputes involving domain name cybersquatting. In the last decade, the Internet community has come to rely on the consistency, predictability, efficiency, and fairness generally associated with the present implementation of the UDRP.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The UDRP has not been reviewed by the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/" target="_blank">GNSO Council</a> since its inception. Now a <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/prelim-report-current-state-udrp-27may11-en.pdf" target="_blank">Preliminary Issue Report on the Current State of the UDRP</a> has been prepared at the request of the GNSO Council and it has been posted online for public comment. The <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201107-en.htm#prelim-report-udrp">Public Comment</a> period ends on 15 July 2011. Upon the publication of the Final Issue Report, the GNSO Council will determine whether to commence a Policy Development Process (PDP) on the UDRP.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In response to the GNSO Council’s request, Staff conducted preliminary research on the UDRP to identify issues for inclusion in this Report. Due to the tremendous volume of cases and materials available regarding the UDRP (including, over 300,000 hits on Google alone), it became clear that there was no effective way to evaluate these materials. Instead, at the suggestion of the GNSO Council, Staff conducted a Webinar on the Current State of the UDRP (UDRP Webinar), to solicit feedback and information from UDRP experts and representatives from a broad cross-section of stakeholders.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While periodic assessment of policies can be beneficial to guard against unexpected results or inefficient process, the GNSO Council should consider the perspective of the ICANN community with regard to whether such review is necessary or warranted. Although properly within the scope of the GNSO’s mandate, Staff recommends that a PDP on the UDRP not be initiated at this time. However, if the GNSO Council nevertheless believes that the UDRP should be reviewed, Staff suggests an alternative approach for addressing this issue. After carefully evaluating the issues and concerns expressed by the ICANN community regarding the UDRP, Staff has concluded that many issues relate to process issues associated with the implementation of the UDRP, rather than the language of the policy itself. The GNSO Council should consider in lieu of commencing a PDP, convening a small group of experts to produce recommendations to improve the process or implementation of the UDRP policy as an initial step. If after consideration of such expert recommendations, there continues to be a desire to conduct a more thorough review of the UDRP, the GNSO Council could subsequently initiate a more focused PDP at that time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This Report addresses the GNSO’s specific request for information on:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1) How the UDRP has addressed the problem of cybersquatting to date, and any insufficiencies/inequalities associated with the process.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(2) Whether the definition of cybersquatting inherent within the existing UDRP language needs to be reviewed or updated.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is an opportunity for the ICANN community to provide its views on the current state of the UDRP, and on whether a Policy Development process should be initiated to review the UDRP. This Report will be updated to reflect such feedback in the Final Issue Report to be presented to the GNSO Council after the closing of this public comment forum.</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">http://ictps.blogspot.com/2011/05/preliminary-issue-report-on-current.html</blockquote></blockquote>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-41046119059718930982011-12-17T11:20:00.000-08:002011-12-17T11:23:04.701-08:00Latest ICT Developments in Asia Pacific<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Today, the Internet is the primary instrument for communicating and sharing information around the world, and more so with each passing day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If previously, the key challenges included infrastructure, connectivity, and access, today the key issue is human capital development through education," said Shahid Akhtar, DirAP's Editor-in-Chief.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Akhtar was in Singapore this week for a three-day DirAP authors' meeting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With him were some 50 experts from government, academe, industry, and civil society from more than 30 countries. They were meeting to brainstorm as they review a draft of the DirAP 2009-2010.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The DirAP biennial is not only an ICT publication; it is about a network and Asian networking so that experiences are shared. It's an opportunity to learn from each other," added Mr Akhtar.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific project is coordinated by Dr Claude-Yves Charron, who is Secretary-General of ORBICOM (the Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications), and also Vice-Rector of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project is supported by the International Development Research Centre of Canada, which is represented on the DirAP Board by Ms Maria Ng Lee Hoon, an ICT specialist, based at IDRC's Southeast and East Asia Regional Office in Singapore.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Asia -Pacific.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their target audiences include policymakers, ICT professionals, and academics, not only in the Asia-Pacific region but around the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2009-2010 publication will be the fourth edition of the biennial DirAP series.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is expected to cover themes such as ICTs, education and the Millennium Development Goals, distance education, ICTs and non-formal education, private-public partnership in ICTs for education, and knowledge and innovation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The review, to be released in the first quarter of 2009, will also include two overview chapters - one on emerging ICT4D technologies and their relationships to markets and communities, and the other, on regulatory approaches to ICTs and best practices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The author of one of the overview chapters, Mr Rajesh Sreenivasan - a lawyer from Singapore - said the public sector could encourage the development of ICTs with tax incentives, and studies into intellectual property legislation and enforcement. Also important, he stressed, was the need to train a special group of people to understand these issues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said this when asked about what the public and private sectors could do to enhance ICT development.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the private sector,, Mr Sreenivasan opined that they could support the government by giving feedback from the ground, and be more pro-active in creating new technologies.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.researchsea.com/html/article.php/aid/2849/cid/6">http://www.researchsea.com/html/article.php/aid/2849/cid/6</a></blockquote> by Vivian Chiam, International Development Research Centerqila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-57933994392618579612011-12-17T11:00:00.000-08:002011-12-17T11:03:23.113-08:00Fourth Issue of ICT World Today Now Available Online<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ICT World Today is a journal on Information and Communication Technology for Development developed by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) with support from APCICT. This fourth issue of ICT World Today entitled, "ICT and Innovation: Facing the Emerging Global Issues," focuses on ways to encourage ICT innovation and enhance efficiency to overcome the global financial crisis; and tackle climate change, natural disasters, price hikes in resources and food, and the spread of contagious diseases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This issue of ICT World Today covers articles contributed by experts from various sectors to promote a comprehensive understanding of policy response and international cooperation with regard to the aforementioned issues, through which it discusses ICT and innovations that address global challenges from various perspectives. Articles examine the role ICTs play in: sustainable development; poverty reduction; agriculture; low-carbon cities; security; ageing society; disaster response; empowering women entrepreneurs; capacity building; and more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The issue ends with some news briefings on the latest ICT tools and projects, and a calendar of events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contributors to this issue include experts from international and UN agencies such as InfoDev, International Telecommunication Union, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; government agencies such as the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; research and educational institutions such as the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and National University of Singapore; and private companies such as Korea Telecom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ICT World Today aims to contribute to developing economies, enhancing the quality of life in developing countries, and boosting ICT human capacity. Topics in the journal include: ICT access and the digital divide, digital convergence, cybersecurity, disability, gender, legal and regulatory issues; and the role ICT plays in agriculture, climate change, commerce, cultural development, disaster management, education, energy, environmental management, governance, health, small and medium enterprises, and trade. The journal welcomes pluralism in its approach, methods, and disciplines and includes the following type of articles: academic research articles, case studies, interviews, article digests and reviews.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.unapcict.org/news/fourth-issue-of-ict-world-today-now-available">http://www.unapcict.org/news/fourth-issue-of-ict-world-today-now-available</a></blockquote>by Asian Pacific Training Center for<i> </i>Information and Communication Technology for Developmentqila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-67938153463102192192011-12-17T10:48:00.000-08:002011-12-17T11:02:42.563-08:00Malaysian Granted With New ICT Security Accreditation<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysia has become the first country in Southeast Asia and developing countries to be accepted as a Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) Authorising Participant member. Having joined a group of only 15 countries worldwide, Cybersecurity Malaysia can now issue Common Criteria (ISO15408) certificates on ICT products.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Common Criteria evaluation provides an independent check and verification of ICT products security against a shared set of criteria. Products which satisfy this criteria and are awarded the ISO certification will be jointly recognised by the full 26 member countries of the CCRA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“With this recognition, Malaysia has proven its capabilities to the world in the field of information security.” Said Dag Ströman, Chairman of Common Criteria Management Committee, “This would further bolster Malaysia’s competitiveness in quality assurance of information security based on the Common Criteria standard and build end-user confidence towards Malaysian information security solutions,”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new Common Criteria authorising member status is expected to boost Malaysia’s already growing ICT security services industry, which is estimated to reach RM400 million (US$126 million) by the year 2014.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/oct/07/malaysia-granted-new-ict-security-accreditation/">http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/oct/07/malaysia-granted-new-ict-security-accreditation/</a></blockquote>by Richard Painqila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-82553356277081772562011-12-17T10:31:00.000-08:002011-12-17T10:33:13.189-08:00Malaysian ICT to Grow as Economy Recovers, says Minister<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysia’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector could grow by 7% if economic recovery and business confidence continues, says Malaysia’s Science, Technology and Information Minister Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili. ICT contributed as much as RM48 billion (US$15.8 billion) or 10% of Malaysia’s GDP in 2007, but only RM40 billion ($13.2 billion) last year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the financial crisis ICT in Malaysia had been projected to grow 10% per year, one of Asia’s fastest, he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ongkili made his comments at Mimos, a major R&D center for ‘frontier technologies’ and advisor to the Malaysian government, which focuses on technology that can be commercialized for growth. Mimos yesterday held a ceremony to transfer technology platforms to three local companies to be developed for market by the private sector: Jaring Communications Sdn Bhd, Mutiara.com and Smart Computing Sdn Bhd.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Six other Malaysian companies also signed deals to licence and develop Mimos’ technology: Disability Solutions Sdn Bhd, Alam Teknokrat Sdn Bhd, Innovision Business Solutions Sdn Bhd, Phytofolia Sdn Bhd, Quantum Beez Sdn Bhd and Fabtronic Sdn Bhd.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">131 ‘WiFi Villages’ for Sandakan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, in Malaysia’s far eastern city of Sandakan, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said it was halfway through a project to provide minimal-charge wireless internet access to 131 area villages, enabling urban and rural populations equal access to online services. MCMC has also distributed 49,800 netbooks to students in Sabah province on Borneo under the 1Malaysia project.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.newasianist.com/malaysian-ict-to-grow-as-economy-recovers-says-minister/">http://www.newasianist.com/malaysian-ict-to-grow-as-economy-recovers-says-minister/</a> </blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sources and articles:The Star Online, Mimos</span>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-89344349576869284642011-12-17T10:11:00.000-08:002011-12-17T10:35:58.298-08:00ICT in Education Toolkit Debuts in Malaysia<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week-long National Capacity Building Seminar Using the Online ICT in Education Toolkit for Policymakers, Planners and Practitioners assists in on-going national planning process for ICT use in education.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A group of 45 policymakers and planners from the Ministry of Education in Malaysia, together with representatives from the School of Educational Studies at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), recently gathered together at the Paradise Sandy Bay Resort in Penang to initiate use of the ICT in Education Toolkit as part of its on-going national planning process for ICT use in education.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The week-long National Capacity Building Seminar Using the Online ICT in Education Toolkit for Policymakers, Planners and Practitioners , co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education, USM and the UNESCO Regional Office for Education (Bangkok), opened with an address by Dato' Hon Choon Kim, Deputy Minister of Education, which stressed that the widespread use of ICT's in Malaysian schools is just a tool to achieve larger educational goals and objectives, designed to help the nation achieve developed country status by 2020.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ICT in Education Toolkit for Policymakers, Planners and Practitioners, jointly supported and developed by infoDev, UNESCO and other partners, is designed to assist education policy makers, planners and practitioners in the process of harnessing the potential of ICTs to meet educational goals and targets efficiently and effectively. It includes particular attention to the following key areas:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mapping the present situation in terms of national goals, educational context, ICTs in education, and the dynamics of change</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Identifying educational areas for ICT intervention and formulating corresponding ICT-in-education policies</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Planning for implementation of infrastructure, hardware, contentware, and personnel training</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Planning for electronic content</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consolidating implementation plans and their financial and managerial implications into one master plan</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assessing implementation, effectiveness and impact of ICT interventions and subsequent adjustments and follow-up actions</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysia is the third country to use version 2.0 of the Toolkit, following on recent launches in Indonesia (May) and Brunei (June). These workshops were coordinated by UNESCO's Regional Office for Education in Bangkok, which will be supporting additional country planning workshops in Asia using the Toolkit through the end of 2007. Version 2.0 of the Toolkit was jointly launched by infoDev and UNESCO in April 2007 as part of a larger partnership between the two organizations exploring the effective use of ICTs in education around the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysia has actively promoted the integration of ICTs into its education system to achieve a variety of educational objectives, and is considered a regional leader in the implementation of computers and the Internet in schools.</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.117.html">http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.117.html</a></blockquote>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1902101341834255193.post-36570087702109791152011-12-16T22:41:00.000-08:002011-12-16T22:45:27.421-08:00ICT Education For a “Creative Society”<div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysia Higher Education Ministry is studying how to develop a creative and innovative Malaysian society through human capital development.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the study to produce creative, innovative human capital was started last year by the Malaysian Invention and Design Society (<span class="caps" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MINDS</span>), Universiti Teknologi Mara and Malaysian Design Council. This study will be looking at programmes by government agencies that could contribute to the creation of “innovative human capital”.The ministry is planning to work with Microsoft in unearthing creative and innovative students of tertiary institutions in the area of <span class="caps" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ICT</span> and with Shell Malaysia in energy saving.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="dquo" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span>We hope when the study is completed, expected this year, we will be able to draw up a national blueprint in this context,” he said. “Malaysia wants to move away from a resource-based economy to one generated by innovations with the existence of an innovative society, which will indicate that the country has reached developed-nation status,” he said.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nordin said creativity and innovations were vital for a country and studies had shown that technological innovations contributed to higher productivity, Gross Domestic Product, economic growth and improved standard of living.</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2009/may/12/malaysia-banks-ict-education-creative-society/">http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2009/may/12/malaysia-banks-ict-education-creative-society/</a></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice Kok | 12 May 2009</span></span></span></div>qila beraemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01136928301013022745noreply@blogger.com0