RDA Corporation

Blog

2013 SharePoint Conference – May 2

By David Rathert on April 23rd, 2013 // No Comments

Join RDA at the 2013 SharePoint Conference!

Please join RDA at the 2013 GR8 SharePoint Conference in Philadelphia on May 2, 2013! The conference tracks are designed for IT Executives, Project Managers / Managers, IT Professionals, Developers and Business Leaders and are delivered by Microsoft’s top national and local partners. We are sponsoring the event and RDA Senior Consultant Greg Robinson will present on "Manage, Search, and Socialize Institutional Knowledge." Register to attend. GR8 SharePoint Conference Thursday, May...

Continue Reading

Social Engineering: Your Biggest Security Threat

By Pablo Gazmuri on April 16th, 2013 // 3 Comments

Social Engineering: Your Biggest Security Threat

In my last few blog posts, I’ve discussed common security challenges and the principles used to design secure applications.  While it’s important to enhance security using technical measures, such as encrypting sensitive data and establishing secure defaults (discussed previously), the most prevalent and effective attacks typically make use of some form of social engineering.   What is social engineering? A con man is a social engineer.  He makes use of his knowledge of human nat...

Continue Reading

Agile Requirements Documentation Using Enterprise Architect

By Walt Rolle on April 9th, 2013 // No Comments

Agile Requirements Documentation Using Enterprise Architect

No matter which agile framework you’re using to manage a custom application development project, the strategy for documenting requirements is consistent: keep it simple and fluid. This approach takes advantage of agile's ability to quickly respond and adapt to changing customer requirements. The Enterprise Architect (EA) software by Sparx Systems contains some tools that may help your team reduce the overhead of capturing design details in a myriad of Word documents, Visio diagrams, and Power ...

Continue Reading

RDA Partners with Nintex to Offer Advanced SharePoint Workflow Platform Solutions

By David Rathert on April 2nd, 2013 // No Comments

Nintex

RDA has formed a strategic partnership with Nintex to offer advanced SharePoint solutions for  workflows, forms, and analytics. This partnership allows RDA to continue to expand on the high impact, high value solutions it delivers to its clients by leveraging Nintex technologies. RDA President and CEO Tom Cole said, “The workflow and forms products Nintex has developed will enhance the SharePoint solutions we deliver to our customers. Nintex is a great fit for RDA and our clients. I'm loo...

Continue Reading

Leveraging SQL Server 2012’s AlwaysOn for ETLs Within Very Large Databases

By Cornell Emile on March 26th, 2013 // 2 Comments

always on!

Very Large Databases (VLDBs) have presented several major challenges for both Business Intelligence (BI) and database professionals that are responsible for designing and maintaining efficient mechanisms for extracting data from Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) systems.  These challenges (in particular database contention) result in less than desirable performance within the OLTP that negatively impacts the businesses’ operations and increases the data latency within the BI solution.  ...

Continue Reading