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How To Access The Strategy Briefings

Russell Abisla — Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:11 am

Author: Russell Abisla

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:11 am

How you manage your IT applications is a direct result of setting a strategy appropriate to your enterprise. An appropriate strategy can have a direct and positive impact on business outcomes.

This forum contains a series of Strategy Briefings covering a wide range of topics. It describes several approaches and highlights the key opportunities to reduce the risks, costs, and time required to develop and deliver IT applications.

In order to download the briefings, you must first register as a user of the forum. To register, simply click on the Register link at the top of the page. Once your account has been activated, you will then be able to download the briefings.

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As a registered member of the forum, we value your contributions. Your contribution which you may choose to post to the forum may be a methodology, approach or success story about a specific strategy briefing that you would like to share with other members. Each month we will select and highlight one contribution made by one of the members. If selected, we will run your contribution along with your contact information on our site's (visible.com) landing page for at least 10 business days.

There in no cost to you if your contribution is selected ... a great way for others in the industry to see your contribution and recognize your skills.

Passing a child list object

schang — Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:06 pm

Author: schang

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:06 pm

I have a question re: passing a list object from one form to another. I know how to pass as in the following code (from the form that is doing the passing). This works when you are passing from the parent grid. How do you get this to work if you need to pass a single record from a child grid? Thanks.

Public Sub ReturnEntity()

Dim objReturnModalParms As New AOCCommonObjects.TempModalParms

objReturnModalParms.ClearParms(TempModalParms.FormParmType.Output)

Dim objSelEntityList As New EntitySearch.EntitySearchList

objSelEntityList.EditStart()
objSelEntityList.Read(myEntitySearch)
objSelEntityList.EditEnd()

objReturnModalParms.SetParm("SelectedEntityList", objSelEntityList, TempModalParms.FormParmType.Output)

End Sub

Error message in v.4.2

Kim.Rainey — Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:05 pm

Author: Kim.Rainey

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:05 pm

I upgraded to 4.2, created a new project and new generated a new business object. When I go into the new object or try to build the project I get this error message: The value entered for Conversion from System.String to System.DateTime is not supported or is not valid. Can anyone help me with this?

Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 1:02 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:02 pm

Visible's relationship with John Zachman goes back to the early 70`s when John and Clive Finkelstein, our Chief Scientist, were with IBM. Clive's belief that data models should be "business event driven" and "model based" paralleled John's belief in the need for a business-driven Enterprise Information Architecture which would provide an organization with an organization-scale blueprint -- or architecture --for their information infrastructure. This strategy briefing describes how Visible tools, training and services help "populate" the cells of the framework.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.

Enterprise Portals Lifecycle Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 1:00 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:00 pm

The latest "silver bullet" for IT is the Enterprise Portal. It has many names: Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Information Portal, Corporate Portal, Web Portal, and just plain Portal. Whatever it's called, portals promise to provide necessary information from any source to anyone who needs it. This has the potential for significant productivity and competitive gains.

While Enterprise Portals may have this potential, it is not easy to deliver� even with new tools and technologies and single point access to heterogeneous information, in multiple formats, from multiple sources. In order to be truly effective, Enterprise Portals cannot just happen -- they must be "engineered." This strategy briefing provides a simple definition for Enterprise Portals, describes their benefits, and outlines a method and tools for easily and efficiently engineering them.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.

Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle Briefing

MCesino — Mon May 05, 2008 12:58 pm

Author: MCesino

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:58 pm

This strategy briefing describes the Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle and the Visible Enterprise Lifecycle "tool set." The Enterprise Lifecycle involves all the activities that organizations ("enterprises") perform to improve productivity, gain and maintain competitive advantage, optimize resources, deliver quality products and services, and meet customer expectations and demand.

The impact of change on the Enterprise requires that systems supporting lifecycle processes must also be changed. This paper details how Visible's Enterprise Lifecycle methodology and tools, not only make effective change management throughout the lifecycle possible, they make it easy.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.