ISAC-M & MIRC Partner to Help Technopreneurs Enhance Quality

The Independent Software Architect Council of Malaysia (ISAC-M) joined forces with the MCA ICT Resource Centre (MIRC), to facilitate the sharing of software architecture expertise and resources towards furthering the competitiveness of Malaysia’s technopreneur community. The formalizing of the partnership was witnessed by YB Dato’ Kong Cho Ha, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation at ISAC-M’s Architect Symposium 2006.

The partnership is in line with ISAC-M’s call for greater use of proper software architecture in Malaysia, and was initiated to lend over 2,000 of the nation’s technopreneurs a helping hand in becoming internationally acknowledged producers of ICT products and services.

Upon officiating the Symposium, YB Dato’ Kong Cho Ha, commended ISAC-M for their efforts in reaching out and educating software developers on the importance of software architecture. He identified proper software architecture as a vital element in establishing the Malaysian software developer community as an internationally acknowledged producer of quality software, as well as in the nation’s bid to move up the value chain to provide the global market with international quality products and solutions for outsourced services.

“The demand for more sophisticated and complex IT solutions is on the rise globally. To be competitive, our technopreneurs must move up the value chain. We cannot compete with the likes of India and China based on cost, so we must work towards being recognized for higher quality, skills and expertise. Proper software architecture, as well as the use of best-of-breed platforms and tools is crucial in this endeavour and towards the maturing of Malaysia’s software development industry,” said Aaron Tan Dani, co-founder of ISAC-M and architect & platform strategy advisor with Microsoft Malaysia.

“We are delighted to partner with ISAC-M to help more technopreneurs use proper methodology and design in their software development efforts. We are confident that they will benefit from our software architecture resource centre. More importantly, they will also benefit from ISAC-M’s involvement in our incubation programme and clinics, through which they will share industry expertise towards creating quality products based on sound architecture,” said Andrew Wong, chief executive officer of MIRC.

Software architecture is the blueprint that provides a holistic view of the composition and functionality of a software system. Like a structural architect, software architects need to have breadth and depth of experience of being able to analyze requirements, determine components, guide and solve problems during implementation in order to ensure an end product that is coherent, powerful and effective.