Enterprise solutions development intrinsically is different from shrink-wrapped software development in several ways. Typically, it supports system development, test and production server environments that allows to clearly separate phases of the lifecycle of a system. The development environment is where developers create new systems, fix existing systems, extend systems and tinker their own purposes.
Enterprise software development has its own challenges. Enterprises, in addressing the challenges introduced and customized change control systems to their unique requirements, maintain numerous environments for development, testing systems and production as well as staff dedicated to maintain and administer all this in a controlled manner. All the systems and staff provide vital services behind the scenes for Enterprise Information Technology departments, although seldom seen or appreciated by the users themselves.
2. Change Control: referred at times to change management or configuration management, ascertains that changes to software and hardware systems are implemented in a coordinated and controlled manner. By their very nature, change-control systems are big and cumbersome and often legacy systems wherein little is changed aside from minor tweaks to processes since any change could mean disruption to the maintenance and extension of the core systems which keep a business running.
3. Boosting efficiency and innovation: IT companies continuously work to boost productivity and drive faster and better innovation. Sifting through thousands of available open source projects for the right code could be daunting. Furthermore, getting code approved and determining a specific open source license obligations could expose companies to compliance problems as well as add delays. To fully capitalize on the inherent innovation and efficiency provided by open source technology, IT companies have to utilize open source project resources and databases to evaluate code properly before implementation. Developers should only use safe and tested code that meets organization policies through performing regular codebase scans.
4. Reducing IT development, maintenance and support expenses: IT departments constantly are under pressure to minimize costs. Open source software by its very nature is free, yet dedicating resources to implementation, support and maintenance could still be expensive. For organizations to get the most of it, they should support standardization and reuse, ascertain that projects include only approved, safe code that does not require costly fixes and support after release. Moreover, they should lessen the time to identify and fix issues and bugs by continuous comparison of the code bill of materials to national vulnerability databases.
5. Mitigating legal, operational and security risk: Since it is easy for developers to freely download open source code, proliferation within enterprise IT organizations could be hard to track. The uncontrolled use of open source code can introduce code that does not adhere to company policies, may have security vulnerabilities or not licensed properly and could introduce issues that could be time-consuming and expensive. Organizations should scan and track source code as well as binary files to identify origins of software, catalog where all the code is used so issues could be identified quickly and fixed whenever they happen.
Enterprise solutions development supports system development, testing and producing server environments that enable a clear separate phases of a system’s lifecycle. The environment is where developers build new systems, fix current ones and extend systems.
Enterprise software development has its own challenges. Enterprises, in addressing the challenges introduced and customized change control systems to their unique requirements, maintain numerous environments for development, testing systems and production as well as staff dedicated to maintain and administer all this in a controlled manner. All the systems and staff provide vital services behind the scenes for Enterprise Information Technology departments, although seldom seen or appreciated by the users themselves.
THE CHALLENGES OF ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT
1. Keeping track of where the code of a system is: This means which environment it has reached is the charge of a FVCS or File Version Control System and an enterprise’s change control team. The overall task is process driven by a clear set of situations that dictate the steps to be taken in order to promote code from development, to testing, and to production. Following the processes enables an enterprise staff to know the state of the system and which code, whether development, bug fixes, hot fixes or even an experimental code, exists where.2. Change Control: referred at times to change management or configuration management, ascertains that changes to software and hardware systems are implemented in a coordinated and controlled manner. By their very nature, change-control systems are big and cumbersome and often legacy systems wherein little is changed aside from minor tweaks to processes since any change could mean disruption to the maintenance and extension of the core systems which keep a business running.
3. Boosting efficiency and innovation: IT companies continuously work to boost productivity and drive faster and better innovation. Sifting through thousands of available open source projects for the right code could be daunting. Furthermore, getting code approved and determining a specific open source license obligations could expose companies to compliance problems as well as add delays. To fully capitalize on the inherent innovation and efficiency provided by open source technology, IT companies have to utilize open source project resources and databases to evaluate code properly before implementation. Developers should only use safe and tested code that meets organization policies through performing regular codebase scans.
4. Reducing IT development, maintenance and support expenses: IT departments constantly are under pressure to minimize costs. Open source software by its very nature is free, yet dedicating resources to implementation, support and maintenance could still be expensive. For organizations to get the most of it, they should support standardization and reuse, ascertain that projects include only approved, safe code that does not require costly fixes and support after release. Moreover, they should lessen the time to identify and fix issues and bugs by continuous comparison of the code bill of materials to national vulnerability databases.
5. Mitigating legal, operational and security risk: Since it is easy for developers to freely download open source code, proliferation within enterprise IT organizations could be hard to track. The uncontrolled use of open source code can introduce code that does not adhere to company policies, may have security vulnerabilities or not licensed properly and could introduce issues that could be time-consuming and expensive. Organizations should scan and track source code as well as binary files to identify origins of software, catalog where all the code is used so issues could be identified quickly and fixed whenever they happen.
Enterprise solutions development supports system development, testing and producing server environments that enable a clear separate phases of a system’s lifecycle. The environment is where developers build new systems, fix current ones and extend systems.
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