South Korea & Taiwan GMU Trip

Korea and Taiwan:

The Republic of Korea and Taiwan have transformed their economies over the past 50-60 years to become leaders in several industry sectors, and have obtained high levels of wealth and productivity on the world stage. The single-most significant factor has been the balance of international trade each has maintained. As each country has lacked the raw materials, and each has a current history of military conflict, each economy has essentially been built from scratch. It is impressive to see the progress the two nations have attained; much like Japan after being conquered in 1945. Then rising to become true global players.

The following chart compares the three countries along seven key factors for cross-border trading assessment for 2008-2010. The costs of import and export are inversely related to the time and number of documents required for processing. Korea has maintained an excellent balance of these two key factors to earn a ranking of 8th in the world. Taiwans’ time to import/export at two weeks seems to place them further in the global rankings. Costs of importing/exporting have declined in both Korea and Taiwan (comparing 2008 and 2010); time to import/export has shortened and the document load has decreased in Korea while remaining at the same levels for Taiwan. Even though the costs of import/export in the US have increased over the past three years; the importing costs lost two places in the global ranking, while Korea gained four places and Taiwan gained one place.

	Trading Across Borders data	Doing Business 2008	Doing Business 2009	Doing Business 2010
Republic of Korea	Rank	-	12	8
	Cost to export (US$ per container)	745	767	742
	Cost to import (US$ per container)	745	747	742
	Documents to export (number)	4	4	3
	Documents to import (number)	6	6	3
	Time to export (days)	11	8	8
	Time to import (days)	10	8	8
Taiwan	Rank	-	34	33
	Cost to export (US$ per container)	747	757	720
	Cost to import (US$ per container)	747	769	732
	Documents to export (number)	7	7	7
	Documents to import (number)	7	7	7
	Time to export (days)	13	13	13
	Time to import (days)	12	12	12
US	Rank	-	16	18
	Cost to export (US$ per container)	960	990	1050
	Cost to import (US$ per container)	1160	1245	1315
	Documents to export (number)	4	4	4
	Documents to import (number)	5	5	5
	Time to export (days)	6	6	6
	Time to import (days)	5	5	5
SOURCE: The International Bank for Reconstruction & Development / The World Bank

Federal Data Architecture Subcommittee (DAS)

The Federal Data Architecture Subcommittee (DAS) was established by the Federal CIO Council to provide agencies additional guidance on FEA DRM implementation and enterprise data management practices.


Voting membership is comprised of Agency CIO appointments. Non-voting members are government employees and contractors with government sponsors. Current total is 135.

Looks like Freddie mac has representation for DAS.
 
 
The Sparx Enterprise Architect is a good tool to createa BPEL diagrams. The EAP file is to be opened by Sparx Enterprise Architect. Download an eval copy to open the file:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/trial.html

WSDL Consists of the following 
<types> The data types used by the web service
<message> The messages used by the web service
<portType> The operations performed by the web service
<binding> The communication protocols used by the web service

SDO (Service Data Objects)

The Service Data Objects (SDO) are designed to simplify and unify the way in which applications handle data. Using SDO, application programmers can uniformly access and manipulate data from heterogeneous data sources, including relational databases, XML data sources, Web services, and enterprise information systems.

The Service Data Objects framework provides a unified framework for data application development. With SDO, you do not need to be familiar with a technology-specific API in order to access and utilize data. You need to know only one API, the SDO API, which lets you work with data from multiple data sources, including relational databases, entity EJB components, XML pages, Web services, the Java Connector Architecture, JavaServer Pages pages, and more.

BEA had a product called Aqualogic data services (ALDSP), currently Oracle renamed it as "Oracle Data Service Integrator". This provides a wide array of data services designed to improve data access from disparate data sources for a wide range of clients. Using such services, organizations can create virtual databases that can more quickly and accurately model their dynamic enterprise.


This Tool can pull the data from excel, text, email, different RDBMS etc and create 360 degree view !.

Other Products:
Informatica ?

According to IBM documentations, SDO is a framework for data application development, which includes an architecture and API.

SDO does the following:

•Simplifies the J2EE data programming model

•Abstracts data in a service oriented architecture (SOA)

•Unifies data application development

•Supports and integrates XML

•Incorporates J2EE patterns and best practices

Business

How to get fixed price contract? 

Being a consultant, it is easy to get a hourly/yearly consultant work with Federal government, but how to get a fixed price contract work? (Fixed price to deliver certain work) 

Solution: Find the work and find the partner to get in to the Federal contract work! Some of the companies won't do anything less than certain amount, but once you identify the work and contact, they are ready to partner with you. The key is contacts.You need to know the right person at the right time to get the work. Build references. Work on behalf of an established company. You need to know who is the decision maker. Always deal with decision maker and people who advice the decision makers. 

Publishing articles about the subject that you know makes you a subject matter expert!

Form an entity – (I have mine! Saras inc.)   

Corporation - Stock, public, people can sue corporation but not the person who own it. If you own the share then you can get payment via pay or distribution (other way is get the stock). The ownership is based on the stock. If you want a partner then don't make a 50 - 50 partnerships.

In S-Corporation - The people who owns will get everything. S-corporation never owns anything. At the end of the year the people who own the S-corporation will get a K-1 and need to file tax on that.

LLC - Limited liability Company. It is similar to S-Corporation. No article of incorporation. No annual report. You just pay $100, and pay $50 to keep it alive for every year. LLC will shield you from the liability as long as you don't mingle your personal finance with business income.  You can say your computer at home is used only for LLC purpose, if you want that computer back then you need to pay to your own LLC.