Sean Fitts is the chief systems architect for AmberPoint, Inc., the leading provider of SOA management software. Prior to AmberPoint, Sean held positions as lead architect and engineer at Forte Software, where he guided the overall architecture of the SynerJ product suite. Sean also held positions as senior software engineer at Sybase and Management Dynamics. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from Princeton University. He has been awarded a patent, and has another pending.
Every now and then, an IT glitch makes national news. Just a few weeks ago, I
read in the paper about an airline that mistakenly sold thousands of
roundtrip tickets online at a fare of just a few dollars each. The airline
lost hundreds of thousands of dollars from the mistake, though that's really
just the tip of the iceberg. The National Institute of Software Technology
(NIST) estimates that application errors cost the U.S. economy $59.5 billion
per year. Because nearly 80 percent of such errors are discovered after
applications have been put into production, exceptions also have a
significant impact on the productivity and effectiveness of your IT staff and
production support teams. And that's to say nothing of foregone revenue due
to poor customer service.
We call t... (more)
Sean Fitts is the chief systems architect for AmberPoint, Inc., the leading provider of SOA management software. Prior to AmberPoint, Sean held positions as lead architect and engineer at Forte Software, where he guided the overall architecture of the SynerJ product suite. Sean also held positions as senior software engineer at Sybase and Management Dynamics. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from Princeton University. He has been awarded a patent, and has another pending.
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