Bill Reynolds presents A Manager's Guide to Client-Server Solutions at the Powersoft International User Conference on May 26, 1994, in Orlando, Fla.
Our Founder
ASF's founder, D. William Reynolds Jr. ("Bill"), has spent the past 20 years helping large and small businesses improve the way they develop technology solutions to business problems.
Prior to forming Austin Software Foundry, Bill spent almost 10 years in the financial services industry applying technology to problems in banking and insurance. During that time, he became frustrated with the traditional methods used to develop financial software.
In the late 1980s, during his graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, he identified the source of this frustration: A lack of technology solutions that were modular and adaptable, as well as rapidly created, deployed and modified. He identified the critical elements for supplying these kind of characteristics in line-of-business software as being business-driven, object-oriented software development processes and techniques, and component software technology.
The formation of Austin Software Foundry in 1989 and its growth throughout the 1990s were driven by Bill's vision of software development tools and techniques that would bridge the gap between business needs and technology solutions. Bill has been active as an evangelist, speaker and trainer at technology conferences throughout the United States and Europe. He has held advanced instructor certifications from Rational Software Corp., Sybase Corp., Powersoft Corp. and Enterprise Technology International.
About Us
Austin Software Foundry helps business organizations transform the way they develop line-of-business software applications into a core competency for competitive advantage. ASF's team helps clients take a "business-centric" view of software architecture, design and development. Together, we use that perspective to bridge the gap between the business management teams and the technology teams.
Company History : Publications and Presentations
Austin Software Foundry has built its information technology management consulting practice based on the following principles:
- The semantic gaps between the language of business strategies and objectives and the language of technology and software can be closed with a combination of architecture, process and knowledge transfer;
- All software systems should contain a unifying or coherent form or structure based upon a deliberately designed work of software architecture;
- Creating a work of software architecture is design, but not all software design produces architecture;
- The architectures, processes and methods used to develop software must fit the business organization, technology infrastructure, software development team and business problem to be solved.
Through a collaborative partnering process, Austin Software Foundry provides the people, process, technology and skills-transfer services to render innovative, quality business solutions for ASF's clients while transforming the client's own development organization.
ASF's team specializes in applying advanced technology to the client's business. Its rapid application development process uses a proven iterative method and leverages ASF's portfolio of application frameworks, advanced technology components and project management tools to ensure visible, timely and measurable results.
Austin Software Foundry's education curriculum blends co-sourced project development, training and mentoring services to achieve maximum knowledge transfer. Austin Software Foundry's professional services range from strategic consulting and interim Chief Information Office/Chief Technology Officer services to turn-key component, framework and application development projects. ASF's team focuses on the software development methodologies and the associated process, architecture and knowledge transfer.
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