How to keep your Quality Agenda up to date - Part 2 / Team and responsibilities

In this presentation you can preview how to organize your team and assign responsibilities to fulfill your quality management agenda and tasks.

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All the cloud marketing is forcing a public review of all computing concepts... now it's time of... databases. SQL.

SQL language rules the current generation of databases. Since its birth (1970), it became the most widely used language for relational databases. We can fairly say SQL is well structured and with a solid foundation, very matured. Today, it's omnipresent. We are talking about MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, etc. Everyone in the computing business has created at least some tables to model a system.

When I said SQL has a solid foundation, I mean the language is formally proved to be consistent (ACID properties), to guarantee transactions in order to preserve the information. The problem comes when we try to keep the consistency in a networked and distributed environment.

There's a lot of news about us lately. I'm going to briefly resume the main of them in this post.

Most of new information is about how to take advantage of an online document management system (SaaS delivered), specific for ISO 9001 Quality Management and small-medium companies.

We updated the image Tour, to get a grasp of what is a document management for quality. +More info

Following the excellent thread of articles from ArsTechnica, now they publish "Cloud platform choices: a developer's-eye view". In the overview, we can find the state of the art for a tech business development in the cloud. As bullet point we can have a tech business running on: A DIY model (buying servers, building a network, etc) Traditional hosting/dedicated services Cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) (e.g. Amazon or Rackspace) Platform as a Service (PaaS) (e.g. Google's App Engine or Saleforce.com's Force.com)

To add a note to the original article, thinking to begin small, in an entrepreneur or SMB context:

A "DIY model" is out of the question, too expensive and complex. There's no way to leverage in time the initial costs. It's better to relay on someone.