Rapid Application Development

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The paper notes that information technology (IT) has become a common presence within most domains of life. In addition the paper comments that the business sector uses IT for various purposes, such as increasing shareholder value, increasing the customer satisfaction, consolidating the market position or registering higher profits. The paper highlights that a relevant strategy used to meet these desiderates is the rapid application development RAD, mostly used within web based applications destined to online commerce. This paper discusses the methodology, the concepts involved, the e-commerce application, and the overall advantages and limitations of RAD.

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Abstract
Introduction - RAD Definitions
Rapid Application Development vs. Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method
Basic Concepts of RAD
RAD in e-commerce
Advantages and Disadvantages of Rapid Application Develop
Conclusions

From the Paper:

"Just like with any other business strategies, the successful implementation of the rapid application development depends directly on the skills and capabilities of the corporate leaders. Foremost, it depends directly upon their abilities to perfectly adapt and adjust the software project to the unique requirements of the company and the clients. A relevant example in the sense of methodology applied to unique tasks is given by CoRAD, customer-oriented rapid application development".

Sample of Sources Used:

• Maner, W., 1997, Rapid Application Development, Bowling Green State University, http://csweb.cs.bgsu.edu/maner/domains/RAD.htm Last accessed on June 16, 2008
• Hamilton, M., Kern, H., November 16, 2001, Customer-Oriented Rapid Application Development (CoRAD), Inform IT, http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=24111, last accessed on June 18, 2008
• McFarlane, N., November 2003, Rapid Application Development with Mozilla (Bruce Peren's Open Source Series), Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
• Sommerville, I., June 2006, Software Engineering 7.5, International Computer Science Series, Addison Wesley, 8th Edition
• 1998-2008, RAD Methodology, 21st Century Technologies, http://www.21stsoft.com/services-methodologies-rad.asp last accessed on June 18, 2008

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