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What does DOORS stand for?DOORS is an acronym that stands for Rational Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System.What is DOORS?IBM DOORS, formerly known as Telelogic DOORS, is a legacy requirements management tool originally created in 1991 and is part of the IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Family.Why was IBM DOORS originally built?Requirements management tools started to evolve more than 30 years ago when it became clear that document-based tools such as Microsoft Office did not offer the capabilities able to manage and analyze requirements traceability.There was initially a limited choice of requirements tools including QSS DOORS (now IBM), Rational Requisite Pro (end of life), Borland Calibre RM (now Microfocus), as well as a few others.Legacy requirements solutions may have been sufficient to handle managing requirements in the past but are failing to keep pace over time due to increasing engineering complexity and the need for modern software to be far easier to use.Why did teams originally invest in IBM DOORS?Requirements management has long been accepted by the engineering industry as an essential discipline, no matter which process is used, or which type of system is being produced. IBM DOORS was typically selected as choices were limited. Organizations originally invested in a requirements tool to establish a standard requirements management practice and process that allowed teams to align on a single source of truth for requirements.They invested in DOORS software with the goal of:Encouraging and motivating teams to follow common requirements practices. Establishing a single source of truth for requirements to ensure teams were working off the same information. Creating minimal disruption to the business with an off-the-shelf solution that allowed teams to focus on their core business. Integrating requirements into core workflows and business without impacting how people work. Tracking the life of a requirement through development, test, and release.Related: Buyer’s Guide: Selecting a Requirements Management and Traceability SolutionWhy does IBM DOORS fall short for requirements management?The past few decades have ushered in a new way of working — now teams are expected to work more efficiently and collaboratively across the organization and supply chain. Companies building highly regulated and complex products often rely on legacy tools such as IBM DOORS, yet as product development methodologies evolve, legacy requirements management tools have not kept pace.Misalignment between what teams need vs. what legacy solutions provide can introduce increased risk in the product development process, leading to inefficiencies and lack of visibility that

I’m helping to put together three separate classes, Basic data management and analysis with R [SAS / SPSS]. As part of these classes, I need to discuss the history of these programs, because understanding that history will help you better understand the strengths and weaknesses of each statistical package. Here’s a brief history of SAS.SAS, an acronym for Statistical Analysis System, was developed by in the 1960′s by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, Jane Helwig, and John Sall at North Carolina State University. The original program development was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. In 1976, a privately held software company, SAS Institute was formed to further develop the SAS program. Today, SAS Institute is the largest privately held software corporation. It employs over 13,000 people across six continents and has revenues of 3 billion U.S. dollars. SAS spends a huge fraction of its revenues (25% in 2013) on research and development. SAS Institute is noted for having a family friendly workplace and is frequently cited as one of the best places to work.SAS was originally available only on IBM mainframe computers. In 1985, the millions of lines of SAS code (mostly Pl/1, FORTRAN, and IBM Assembler) were translated into C so that SAS could be ported to other computers, but especially to personal computers running Microsoft Windows.SAS Institute also sells several other products. JMP, an acronym for John’s Macintosh Product, was developed by John Sall in 1989 for the Macintosh platform, and was eventually ported to the Windows operating system as well. JMP is noted for its extensive use of dynamic graphics. SAS also sells several products for data mining and analysis of genetic data.SAS uses a programming language oriented around the DATA step and various procedures (PROCs) for data analysis. A menu driven version (SAS Enterprise Manager) is also available.SAS has a licensing model where you pay a set fee every year for the ability to use SAS software. It is priced aggressively for large organizations to encourage its use by many employees, but for individual independent consultants, the price of SAS is often prohibitive. SAS also offers a free product on the cloud, SAS OnDemand for Academics. This product is restricted to teaching uses in an academic environment.SAS has an extensive set of users manuals which are freely available on the Internet, and many lavishly supported SAS User Groups and SAS conferences. SAS also has a publishing arm, SAS Books, with hundreds of high quality books available. SAS also has a certification program, described at aren’t that many good resources on the history of the SAS programming language. Here are a few.Anonymous. SAS corporate timeline. WRAL television, posted March 3, 2011. Available at: SAS (software). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2014. Available at: Institute. About SAS. Available at:

ACCES engaged Newcomp for development assistance and AI support. With the requirements in hand, the ACCES and Newcomp team used an agile, iterative process to develop the virtual agent—ACCES staff contributed business knowledge and Newcomp provided technology expertise. Iterative development served the project well when the pandemic hit, since it necessitated considerable changes to workflows and AI dialogues to account for fully remote operations. “During the pandemic, we had to suspend in-person service delivery,” explains Dhiman. “As a result, we also had to make many adjustments to the AI development process.”The solution is powered by IBM watsonx Assistant software, which provides the AI-powered conversational interface, and the IBM Watson® Discovery solution, an intelligent search and text analytics engine that retrieves unstructured content in response to user queries. Both AI services run on IBM Cloud®, which gives the development team a consolidated view of the services that power the agent—the current state of services along with a retrospective view of service utilization. This fosters discussions on how to improve and optimize the solution through AI innovation.The developers also integrated the assistant with Salesforce. The integration automatically onboards user profiles into the CRM tool as leads for follow-up by ACCES’s staff.After development was complete, ACCES named the agent VERA, an acronym for Virtual Employment and Resource Attendant. It is one of the first AI assistants to be deployed in the Canadian nonprofit employment services sector.VERA addresses multiple areas of service, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without human intervention, including the following:Answering FAQs for jobseekers, employers and volunteersReferring users to specific ACCES programs and servicesFacilitating registration of users into workshops and events that match their interestsSurfacing direct links to job-search resources such as resume templates, articles, videos and web contentAutomating email flows to jobseekersSupporting registered clientsPopulating Salesforce CRM with user profiles for staff to pursue as leadsResiding on various web pages, VERA features seven conversation branches, understands more than 100 user intents and has more than 2,000 documents in the Watson Discovery repository. Custom versions of the solution pop up on each program page with quick links for information session registration or requesting a call-back from the program team. In this way, the solution aims to convert the virtual conversation around programs to a dialogue with a human agent.“If users want to learn more about a particular program, and they go down that branch, they may be asked relevant questions