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We have developed an IT solution to manage some business processes to be Reach compliance. These processes are related to: Substance Volume Tracking, for the calculation of the volumes to be registered by substance, Substance ID management, that allow the chemist guys to establish the % of substance for a raw material, Suppliers communications, that … Read more
Last was a pleasant week, why? the delivery happened. After one week of bug and fixing we deployed the application and the time response was very good in general. The customer had a lot of concerns with this point and the percentage of functionality we covered is going up. On other services there were some … Read more
I’m looking for an standard process for the management of the vendor complaints. I have found some documents in the internet, the more interesting one is this, that has helped me to understand what could be the scope of the process. But, is there somebody who know if there is a standard guide or best … Read more
We are finishing the build phase of a project, starting the test phase of the project and know the client has noticed that there is the need to add a functionality. We have need one week to let them recognize that this is a change request due to the requirement was out of scope. The … Read more
This is the excellent e-mail I have received today about a problem of a project: ——————————————–Hello, we’ve a big problem with the project XXXX. In module YYY the basis functionality isn’t covered. The users need the possibility to filter on every field. As John (joapen: John belong to my team no to customer’s team) explained … Read more
The idea I want to mention today is not something new. You can read tons of literature about it. The stuff is related to the continuous changes we live in our jobs. There’s a rule that google made popular that was the 80/20 rule, where you let 20% of an employee free to let him/her … Read more
Identifying the applications needs of the portfolio, I’m basically facing these situations: You have to reassess the current conditions of an application and decide if to enhance it or remove it. You decide to retire an application in order to minimize the cost. You need to renew an application for keeping it flexible or to … Read more
Master Service Agreements (MSA) are signed in a global account around the world and part of the moon. Nevertheless it’s necessary to have the Local Service Agreement (LSA) in order to detail how we are going to work from this area or country. Let’s define this overall framework with more details. No LSA = no … Read more
Somebody told me that try to compare both tools. I don’t know how to compare Pentaho with BusinessObjects, I think that is not an useful exercise, you can find tons of functional comparatives. From my modest knowledge, Pentaho is this type of open source tools that have an excellent growth and that reachs a level … Read more
It’s something that is essentially presented as a “service”: platform as service, solution as service, wine as service…. But it also should have some technical features that makes you able to identify as “cloud”. It’s offered in an independent platform. There is proven security in terms of data and is privacy compliant (this is the … Read more