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Eric Aranow |
Business Architecture - Mr. Aranow is the creator of the Service-Oriented Business Architecture techniques. These techniques allow companies to define a flexible and adaptable architecture on which they can make strategic decisions, create dynamic organizational structure, and organize and develop flexibly-configurable information systems. For more information, contact .
Business Modeling - He has developed business models for clients in many industries, including insurance, health care management, publishing, financial services, utilities, software vendors, and government agencies. He has done extensive work with different enterprise modeling techniques, including object modeling, data modeling and service modeling, and has spoken at several conferences on the subject of business modeling. Mr. Aranow is the author of several courses in object and data modeling offered by Context Consulting.
Object Technology - Mr. Aranow is experienced with a number of object-oriented analysis and design techniques and tools that support them. As a member of the program committee for the Object World conferences, Mr. Aranow maintains a current knowledge of the state-of-the-practice of object-oriented software development.
Software Reuse - Eric Aranow has been conducting state-of-the-art research in the area of software reuse. He specializes in software reuse methodology, reuse management tools, reuse management process, and domain modeling. He is the author of a half-day tutorial, "Growing a Software Reuse Programme". Mr. Aranow is also the creator of Service-Oriented Domain Analysis, techniques for focusing business strategy for easy translation to business reengineering, systems planning, and reuse management.
Systems Development Methodologies - He has developed custom-tailored systems development methodologies and software reuse methodologies for multi-national clients, and has assisted clients in the application of these methodologies. He has dealt with such issues as technology transfer, information resource management, and organizational planning.
Software Project Management - Mr. Aranow has consulted in the management of software projects, ranging from 3 or 4 people to over 100. He is well-versed in Software Engineering methods and their impacts on systems development and maintenance.
Prior to starting Context Consulting in 1989, Eric Aranow was a consultant with Arthur D. Little's Information Systems and Telecommunications Consulting group, specializing in the areas listed above.
Before joining Arthur D. Little, Mr. Aranow worked as a Systems Engineering Consultant for WT Chen and Co., a Massachusetts-based management and technology consulting firm. His work there included Information Engineering (IE) methodology interpretation and CASE tools training and consulting, project-management consulting, software and application development, and communications/ system-software consulting.
Mr. Aranow has been an instructor for Learning Tree International, teaching courses in CASE, Software Maintenance, and Project Management.
Eric Aranow has also worked in the Telecommunications field as a Systems Engineer for GTE Communication Systems, working on network and network interface design and implementation.
Mr. Aranow received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University.
His publications include:
"Software Reuse: Because the Waters are Rising," The Object World Insider, November, 1995.
"Objects Can Set the Stage," Software Magazine's Client/Server Quarterly issue, May, 1992.
"Object Technology Presents a New Way of Thinking about Software," Software Magazine, March, 1992.
"Enterprise Modeling: Modeling Exercises Shape up Enterprises," Software Magazine, January, 1991.
"4GL vs. CASE: Competing or Complementary Tools?" Profiles Magazine from Progress Software, March, 1991.
"Is CASE Too Immature for Real Integration?" Software Magazine, May, 1990.
"Data-Oriented vs. Process-Oriented Development: What's All the Fighting About?" System Builder, February-March, 1990.
"Full-Life-Cycle CASE: Views from the Tower of Babel," System Builder, October-November, 1989.
"Developing Good Data Definitions," Database Programing and Design, August, 1989.
"Associative Data Modeling: A Powerful Alternative," Database Programming and Design, May, 1989.
"CASE for Existing Systems: Taking Yesterday's Systems into Tomorrow," Cover article in System Builder, October-November, 1988. Reprinted in Insurance Software Review, April-May, 1990.
"When is CASE the Right Choice?" Business Software Review, April, 1988.
Last modified 14 November 1997