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Breakthrough Analysis, by Seth Grimes
Seth Grimes is an analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation. He consults on data management and analysis systems. See More by Seth Grimes Jolt Awards Nominations Now Being Accepted
A quick notice to let everyone know that the nomination period for the 2008 Jolt Awards is now open. I'm a Jolt Awards judge, my second year, while this is the 18th go-around for the awards. The main sponsor is Dr. Dobb's, like Intelligent Enterprise a CMP computing magazine (or is IE a business magazine focusing on computing or is IE a portal rather than a magazine?) The Jolt Awards target various aspects of software development practice: development environments, management and coding tools and utilities, libraries, books, developer networks, and lots more. I'm no longer much of a software developer myself, but then software development isn't what it was when I was a programmer. Nowadays, coding is done within frameworks, preferably following a methodology (or methodologies), using collaborative environments, with strong ties to business goals, IT architectures, and enterprise integration. The official criterion for Jolt-Worthiness? Dr. Dobb's Journal invites all vendors to participate in the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards. We're looking for products, books, and Web sites that have "jolted" the software development industry in 2007.Myself, I'd like to see more entries in/around the analytics and enterprise-application spaces that I and Intelligent Enterprise specialize in. Last year's Productivity Award winners include a number of vendors in those spaces: Coral8 in the Database Engines and Data Tools category; Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio in Design and Modeling Tools; ILOG JViews in Libraries, Frameworks and Components; Wolfram Workbench in Development Environments; and Pentaho Open BI Suite in Enterprise Tools. Jolt nominations close December 3, 2007. The judges will take a first look, and DDJ will announce finalists in December. We judges do more of our thing — demos and hands-on trials and a lot of discussion — to come up with the winners. DDJ will present the awards at the SD Web conference, March 3-7, 2008. Seth Grimes is an analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation. He consults on data management and analysis systems.  E-MAIL | SLASHDOT | DIGG This is a public forum. CMP Technology and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. CMP Technology makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of CMP Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in CMP Technology's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business.
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