Inspiration and Innovation Through Technology
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to every athlete in the world."
Systems Integrator, UPP Business Systems, working with select partners, is supporting the Nike mission with cooperative Web applications development in connection with the Nike PDM, or Product Data Management program. The PDM supports the company's product line management process, comprising the design, production, merchandising, marketing and distribution of Nike footwear and apparel. Business applications support for the PDM includes Java/J2EE, Windchill Web applications development of a Footwear Materials system in replacement of a client-server system, built using C++ and Oracle.
The Footwear Materials system was designed to manage the lifecycle footwear manufacture and distribution process, beginning with shoe requirements specification to sample submission for scientific testing, results evaluation and decision-making. Windchill from Parametric Technology Corp. is a suite of collaboration and control solutions designed to support complex distributed product development, streamline processes and ultimately deliver better products. It includes such tools as Rational Rose for Rapid Application Development, JSP Processor and XML Processor.
Working with a team, UPP Business Systems is assisting with n-tier Web applications development, including continuing development, modification/ enhancement, implementation, testing, debugging for performance optimization of an existing application. The application uses a gateway for data synchronization and features heavy XML, abstraction layers and a flexible object-oriented data model. Related initial development tasks included creation of the data model using Windchill Rational Rose tools, extensive XML coding, managing data objects using the XML Processor, placing XML tags into JSPs (like Java Struts), etc.
Continuing development duties entail working with Nike management and stakeholders to understand requirements, evaluate options, estimate development efforts, and design and develop solutions for application performance improvement. Optimization efforts have included the development of additional functionality, modification of existing XML and abstraction layers, simplifying data and objects models, synchronizing or reducing the number of threads, reducing tiers, and modifying resource-intensive code for faster, more efficient processing.
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