The Corporate Benefits of a Distributed Component Architecture

by J. Bradford Kain, William Provost

Although the concept of components is not new, technology has finally enabled the pragmatic use of components for enterprise systems. Components, which represent a fundamental change in how development teams build software, allow developers to build software from robust, well-defined elements. Component technology has shown tangible benefits to organizations that have made the transition, and industry experience shows a dramatic improvement to the development process and to the resulting product. This Executive Report examines components and demonstrates the benefits in a series of case studies.

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The Corporate Benefits of a Distributed Component Architecture November 1999