This article will discuss what Enterprise Architecture is, why you need it and how you can achieve it. The term Enterprise Architecture (EA) can mean different things to different people. For the confines of this article, we will use a definition from Paul Weill, Director of MIT Center...

I just wanted to acknowledge the tremendous increase in the amount of Blog activity that I have received over the past year. I think (and hope) that this is because many Sybase professionals out there have come to visit my site for latest information on the Sybase scene. Since I starte...

What do your applications do? They bring data flows in, send them out, store them somewhere or display them in various forms, and so on. There are many issues around data. Have you also found that a large part of your application's code manages or is driven by data? Aggregate, transfor...

Groundbreaking nuclear-geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller said, 'Life is a whole ceaseless change. There is no sign of physical limit yet.' Bearing that in mind, it occurred to me that I should begin to test the limits of PowerBuilder 8, and see if I could disprove Muller. It seem...

Business and e-business development is becoming more complex. New modeling techniques are starting to converge with traditional techniques to keep up with the new demands IT departments must meet.

I was having a nice, sane conversation with some of the folks at Sybase who are responsible for the www.sybase.com portal, until we started talking about all the different elements that went into making this e-business endeavor possible.

Though PowerDesigner 7 was released a few months ago, not many people are aware that it's much more feature-rich than past versions. Sybase has been pushing hard to get the word out that PD7 is a great product, but it's getting only mediocre media coverage. We haven't even mentioned it...