IT Job Interview

Are you making these software development blunders? Here’s the top 10 list compiled by Borland.

1. building Infrequently

The solution to painful dentist visits isn’t going less often, it’s going more often! The same is true of painful software integration events. Building frequently – preferably continuously – allows you to discover problems early on and nip them in the bud before they grow into big expensive disasters. Plus, building software is a critical validation step – you don’t know if something’s broken until you try putting it together. Build frequently gives you greater confidence that you know what the state of your software development project really is. (more…)

CASE Tools

Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools are used by system analysts, designers, and developers to capture information about business requirements, create a design for the data structures to fulfill those requirements, and generate front-end and server program code. CASE tools can automate much of the manual, repetitive, and error-prone work needed for system development, and can greatly increase the productivity, accuracy of the design, and robustness of the implementation. (more…)

In IT, CRM (customer relationship management) skills and Siebel skills are almost interchangeable. Siebel as the #1 CRM commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) package is now under the flag of Oracle. If you’ve mastered Siebel, you are well positioned around CRM, ERP, and COTS in general.

Siebel skills could be built on one of the following major Siebel applications: (more…)

Look at the business facts:

Database is the heart of today’s enterprise.

The whole IT business works around databases.

Oracle is the leading enterprise database server.

That makes an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) so special. As you can see, Oracle DBAs play critical roles in IT, no doubt that experienced DBAs are in high demand and get paid well. (more…)

Programming is the essential skill for every IT professional. Programming skills are categorized by the computer languages. Therefore, the value of programming skills depends on the use and popularity of programming languages.

The most wanted programming skills come with the languages that are widely used in today’s business solution developments. These language-based skills are Java/J2EE skill, SQL skill, C/C++ skill, Visual Basic (VB) skill, JSP skill, ASP skill, XML skill, C# skill, Perl skill, and PHP skill. (more…)

Several years ago, it was unrealistically easy to get an IT job because that was a time when HTML was called a new programming language and knowing it was considered a hot skill. But having an IT job doesn’t mean you are an IT professional, nor have you secured a career. You have to fundamentally boost you knowledge and skills to extend your root deeply into IT soil. (more…)

IT is changing the way of doing business, so as the demands and expectations on It workers. To survive from tomorrow’s IT jobs, IT workers must emerge from deep-seated technical territories and face the business world. Here is a picture of tomorrow’s IT: (more…)

The most popular software tools for enterprise data integration, data warehousing, and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) are listed below.  You will be asked about skills and experience in using these tools in interviews for database development and systems integration positions. (more…)

Asset Management software capabilities maximize the lifetime value of complex assets and closely align them with the overall business strategy, allowing businesses to:

* Increase return on assets
* Decrease costs
* Increase productivity
* Improve asset-related decision-making
* Improve asset service delivery
* Improve regulatory compliance
* Increase business responsiveness
* Lower total cost of ownership

The following list shows the most popular asset management software tools: (more…)

IT professionals constantly acquire and enhance technical skills to achieve career success in information technology. How much you worth and how much you make are dependent on the value of your skills in the industry. One of proven strategies for IT career success is to develop top level skills. (more…)