Local government portals: £3m South Wales win for Compuware

Compuware has won a £3.4m contract to help develop and deploy a community portal for the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf. Part of a key regeneration project in a former mining area, the portal, Shape-it.org, will host community news, along with information and services to help re-skill citizens. A prototype is already up and running.

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How Model Driven Architecture transforms software development

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach allows software to be generated automatically from a logical model. This way, developers can focus on solving business problems instead of on writing code, which results in more effective software, sooner. A new paper from the University of Arizona explains the MDA concept, and shows how Compuware's OptimalJ can help to put theory into practice.

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QPass cuts J2EE development time by 80% with OptimalJ

Leading mobile commerce software and solutions provider QPass Europe needed to create a J2EE version of a business-critical application in just one year. A tall order, one might think, particularly as QPass lacked sufficient J2EE expertise. However, with OptimalJ the application was completed on time and in accordance with stringent requirements for security, scalability and reliability.

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