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Dana Gardner Discusses Developer Productivity with Greg Burnell, CEO of 6th Sense Analytics

Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst with Interarbor Solutions, discusses the limited insight into developer productivity with Greg Burnell, Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics.

Getting More from Your Content with Single Source Publishing

The ability to offer customers business content in multiple formats, such as Web pages, email messages, Word documents, PDF documents, etc., is vital for meeting customers' needs and expectations in today's hyper-competitive Internet economy.

Web Enabled Customer Support - Self-Service Business Processes

The benefits of moving manual processes to the web are well understood. But very few organizations have web-enabled product returns, bill disputes or other complex business processes. This paper discusses requirements for web-enabling complex processes.

CMM and CMMI: Show Me the Value!

Is there any value in the CMM® and CMMI® Absolutely! Find out how CMM and CMMI can be used to improve your organization's processes and achieve project success.

Build .NET Applications Without Hand-Coding

See how Iron Speed Designer builds database, forms, and reporting applications for .NET without hand-coding. Quickly create feature-complete custom applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security.

How Modern Code Generation Works

This white paper explains how to quickly create feature-complete custom database applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security.

All You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the iSeries

SOA is a set of architectural and design principles that are probably new to most iSeries people. SOA considers an enterprise as consisting of many processes and services. SOA comes with the expected set of acronyms and jargon, such as "loose coupling" and "granularity" and is typically implemented with Web Services.

Accelerating Your Object-Oriented Development

This paper is an overview of the issues that arise from implementing object persistence with a relational database. The basis for this paper is our recent experience with Object-Oriented projects that used relational database technology.

Choosing a Higher Performance Database

There is often a great deal of confusion in determining whether an object database management system (ODBMS) is right for you. Most of this confusion can be resolved by focusing on your application's requirements. In those situations where the application requires the very clear advantages of an ODBMS, choosing which ODBMS becomes a continuation of the exercise of analyzing those application requirements.

Hitting The Relational Wall

As business users expand to newer types of applications, and grow older ones, their attempts to use RDBMS encounter the "Relational Wall," where RDBMS technology no longer provides the performance and functionality needed. This paper measures the wall, explains what model and architectural differences cause it, how to foresee it, and how to avoid it.

Enabling Software as a Service

End users are demanding it and competitors are already providing it, but how do software companies overcome the model, code, and operational issues preventing them from bringing SaaS to market? Read this paper to learn more about the hows and whys of SaaS.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Up SaaS Operations

Building a scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS infrastructure can be a daunting undertaking for a software company. This step-by-step guide lets you know what you need to consider.

Transforming Your Software Product Into a Service

SaaS is vastly different from traditional client-server software. Learn how to adapt a single instance, multi instance, or multi tenant application for effective SaaS delivery.

Appliances vs. Agents for XML Web Services Security

Security is one of the main issues when deploying Web services in the enterprise. This white paper discusses the advantages of an appliance over an agent-oriented architecture for Web services security, how cross platform interoperation is immediate with a hardened appliance, and why web services security is different from web server security.

Tips to Deploy Web Services Security

This white paper discusses the three critical Web services deployment issues-security, provisioning connections, and operations. As each is owned by different factions within an enterprise, each can become a 'show stopper' to Web services deployment initially, and every time a change must be made.

Architecting the Infrastructure for SOA and XML

This white paper introduces the requirements for an XML infrastructure that is designed to ensure the opportunities and benefits of SOAs and Web Services can be realized.

Service Virtualization: Key to Managing Change in SOA

Load balancers, name servers (e.g. DNS), even stock brokerage services are existing examples of virtual services in the worlds of networking and financial services. This paper will introduce the concept of virtual services for SOAs and provide details of the characteristics of virtual services that enable SOA success.

Service-Oriented Architecture: Revolutionizing IT Systems Development

SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture is an approach to building IT systems out of common parts. SOA represents a breakthrough in the way we build IT systems. webMethods customers report overwhelmingly that SOA is providing real value to them.

Making the Transformation to SOA

This white paper explores why service-oriented architecture has emerged as one of the most significant developments in IT, and is followed by an overview of how businesses can make the transformation to service-orientation.

The Business Case for SOA: Rationalizing the Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture

One of the most significant IT initiatives underway is the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), where IT assets are aligned to business services in a standard, flexible and architected fashion. The concept is often discussed in conjunction with Web services, though the two are not synonymous.

Got The Enterprise Software Blues? Appliances to the Rescue

This paper explores how Appliance-based Software Delivery (AbSD) provides a better alternative to both software and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Application Software Testing: A Practical Guide to Improving Software Quality

This no-nonsense primer covers the benefits and basic principles of good testing, offers practical advice for getting the most out of your testing efforts, and pinpoints several areas where automation will help you achieve the most cost-effective results.

Software Development Survival Guide: 5 Steps from Chaos to Control

This white paper describes five practical steps that you can take to make your development process more predictable and reliable. By following his five steps, Paul maintains that you can build better software more quickly with less cost and less risk.

Making the Case for Software Management

This white paper is packed full of practical advice on how to win management's support for improving your software management infrastructure.

Software As A Service Overview (SaaS)

This white paper on Software as a Service (SaaS) highlights the application development shifts that software vendors must go through to accommodate SaaS.

Oracle's Application Server for DBA's Series

The goal of this series of articles is to help DBA's having a basic understanding of Oracle's Application Server.

Improve Your Application Development Requirements Management

This white paper will discuss current and future market dynamics and how you can improve both the quality and the delivery cycle of your applications.

Leveraging Lifecycle Management for Software and Business Adapt Ability

In this white paper, you'll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects.

Legacy to SOA: What You Need To Know

Learn the ‘bottom-up’ approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA.

Setup Factory 7.0 Product Brochure

Setup Factory 7.0 has everything you need to build rock-solid software installers that work on every version of Windows from 95 through Vista. Simply drag and drop your files onto the project window, choose a look and feel using the new visual theme system and click on the publish button. It's that easy!

Setup Factory 7.0 Overview

Setup Factory 7.0 is the result of over a decade of experience in creating software installation tools. Unlike other installer builders that require week-long training courses in order to get up to speed, Setup Factory was designed to be fast and easy to use.

TrueUpdate 2.0 Product Brochure

TrueUpdate 2.0 allows any software developer to integrate automated update capabilities into their final product, providing a robust client/server framework for determining required updates, and then retrieving and applying the necessary patch or installation files using Internet or LAN protocols.

TrueUpdate 2.0 Overview

TrueUpdate 2.0 is a comprehensive solution for software developers, network administrators and IT departments wanting to integrate automated update capabilities into their software applications and business processes. Read through a comprehensive list of features, and learn about the system requirements of TrueUpdate 2.0.

TrueUpdate 2.0 Customer Presentation

An introductory view of TrueUpdate 2.0 from the ground up. Learn all about TrueUpdate 2.0 and see everything it can do. Integrate automated update capabilities into software products easily.

Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite

Software Development is the ongoing process of getting software onto end-user's systems and keeping that software up to date. Learn how each Indigo Rose development product fits into the software development cycle.

Visual Patch 2.0 Product Brochure

There is simply no easier way to make compact, professional quality patches for your software and electronic content. Visual Patch 2.0's point-and-click design workflow takes the difficulty out of building even complex full-history patches.

Visual Patch 2.0 Overview

Visual Patch 2.0 is a fast and efficient solution for software developers and content distributors who need to create software patches. Read through a comprehensive list of features, and learn about the system requirements of Visual Patch 2.0.

Visual Patch 2.0 Customer Presentation

An introductory view of Visual Patch 2.0 from the ground up. Learn all about Visual Patch 2.0 and see everything it can do. Create secure full-history or binary patches quickly and easily!

Streamline the Development and Test Cycle

This brief examines how application virtualization can compress the development and test cycle, accelerating time-to-market, while reducing risk and complexity. This brief highlights the impact of centralized command and control of application deployment and execution.

Technology That Matters: Introduction to Web Architected Asset Management

To all but the savviest technologists, today's typical Web-architected enterprise product diagram is a confusing jumble of acronyms and buzzwords and pledges of "true enterprise wide" deployments. Separating the hype from reality is critical for end-users to select enterprise products that deliver the full benefits of true enterprise Web deployment.

8 Ways Every Solution Provider Can Profit from Rollouts Now

“8 Ways Every Solution provider Can Profit from Rollouts Now” demonstrates how rollouts are creating strong sales opportunities for solution providers of all sizes. Importantly, it also addresses how solution providers have finally “cracked the code” of transforming this high-volume business, which is extremely service intensive, into a high-profit business via innovative on-site service delivery models that let them find the contract IT service professionals they need, right when they need them.

Reducing Risk Through Requirements-Driven Quality Management: An End-to-End Approach

Learn how to trace requirements from definition to release give IT and business managers real data to support decisions.

Mashups: Understanding Mashup Building Platforms for Business Applications

This paper explores trends past, current, and future in the mashup space and surveys the types of tools used to build and distribute mashups. The goal is to develop a set of criteria for the reader to use when evaluating mashup platforms for the development of business applications. Where appropriate, analogies to existing technologies and methodologies are employed.

The 5 Essentials of Effective Software Development Metrics

Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. In fact, 82% of projects today run late, while errors cost 80% of the average project budget to fix (The Standish Group). Certainly no other business process today is allowed to endure this sort of failure. But software development is often left to chance, despite the significant cost and importance of the process.

6th Sense Analytics Interviews Doug Gold, CFO of CoreObjects

Doug Gold, chief financial officer of CoreObjects, a Los Angeles-based product development company with multiple locations across India, talks about how his company is overcoming the challenges of visibility and control within distributed software development projects.

Making Software Development Metrics Work

Do you have a software development metrics program? Does it work? SD Times, 6th Sense Analytics and Rally Software Development Corp. participate in this recorded Roundtable Discussion focused on developing a metrics program that gives you the information you need to make informed decisions regarding your software development efforts.

The Next Generation of Software Development

This whitepaper asserts that moving to the next generation of software development and sourcing requires moving from art to science. Given how dependent we are on software as a foundation for every product and service, anything less creates a climate of risk, uncertainty, and unjustifiable costs that undermines our ability to compete in a global marketplace.

How To Make Your .NET Application Perform

This short white paper discusses the common pitfalls and performance problems .NET developers come across when creating applications. The paper also presents several ways of getting around these issues, so that developers can make their .NET applications perform the way they should.

Making the Most of On-Demand Software

Where should mid-market companies invest valuable resource? Two out of three businesses are either buying or considering buying software via the subscription model. This white paper will explain how Software-as-a-Service is revolutionizing the economics of growing businesses.

Domain Focused Independent Testing

This white paper acts as a tool, for CEO's and Business and IT heads, helps reduce application deployment risks and costs. This paper attempts to establish how outsourcing test services to an independent domain-focused specialist company can substantially mitigate deployment risks. Business users are assured of receiving reliably better quality application well within cost and time budgets.

Improving .NET Application Performance and Reliability with Managed Database Data Connectivity

In this paper, SQL Server MVP and SSWUG co-founder Stephen Wynkoop explores common misperceptions about data access technologies, describes the optimum architecture for ADO.NET data providers, and highlights key selection criteria for developers.

Save Hundreds of Hours a Month in Software Development Time

Accurate communication is the key to the success of the bug tracking process. This communication takes the form of timely information flow between customers, QA and Development. Reducing the time spent on tasks that communicate bug information saves money.

Keep Software Fixes On Course with Elementool Bug Tracking

Here’s a test: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on now? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria such as whether the issue is a bug, customer request, or product enhancement? Can you show the histories of all related comments and actions? Can you distribute this information easily to concerned individuals — showing only the information relevant to them?

Streamlining Your Software Development Processes within VS.NET 2005

Elementool, a leading provider of web-based project management tools for developers, including bug, defect, time-tracking and help desk tools, has announced the release of a bug tracking add-in tool for developers using the Visual Studio.NET 2005 platform. It is available free to Elementool’s community of project management solution subscribers.

Beginner Tips for Using Bug Tracking Software

Being the new person on a bug tracking team can be very intimidating. The other team members are likely very set in the process and know exactly what they are doing. They are used to working as a team and they understand what is expected of them. Being new, though, does not mean that a person can not fit in on the bug tracking team. All a person needs to do is learn a few beginner tips to using bug tracking software.

Speeding the Search for Offshore Developers

Companies exploring offshore software development often find an overwhelming array of options. For example, is India the best choice? What about China, Russia or Brazil? Time, distance and language barriers also make it difficult to assess the quality of offshore developers. How can businesses reduce the risks of offshoring?

3 Key Chapters from the Award-Winning Book 'Software without Borders'

Despite the fact that Software Executives are pressured to do more with less and cut costs to the bone, many see offshoring as a "threat." They know they need to go offshore - but where? And with who? What they want is an easier, better, more effective and safer way to use offshore programming resources.

The Business of Interactive Entertainment

Appropriately sizing and hosting your online game project’s infrastructure can improve your bottom line. In this white paper, IBM describes the current state and direction of key technological trends and how they impact the business of games, focusing on what online game companies need to know to more rapidly and efficiently build a better game.

Improve Operational Efficiencies and Speed Applications Into Production

Competitive pressures, increased marketplace demands and the constant need to reduce expenses have only intensified the demands put on companies to develop and deploy their software applications quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Read about the key barriers companies must cross as they attempt to streamline their software delivery processes and learn how to bridge the gap between development and operations in this paper.

Understanding the Potential of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

The objective of this paper is to provide executives, project managers, marketers and other visionaries with an introduction to Adobe Integrated Runtime, a breakthrough tool for companies looking to build new relationships with their clients. It will also provide information about how Adobe AIR can be leveraged to create next generation web experiences.

Getting SOA Right: SOA Healthchecks

Ready or not, here comes SOA. More and more organizations are turning to SOA to speed application development, increase reusability across and beyond the enterprise, integrate historically separate systems resulting from acquisitions and mergers, and drive costs down and service quality up.

SOA Governance with IBM Rational Asset Manager

For service-oriented architecture (SOA) to succeed, it needs to begin before run-time, with a strong SOA-based development and delivery environment. This paper discusses some of the challenges around SOA governance in the context of a lifecycle of services, and introduces IBM Rational Asset Manager software as a solution to those challenges.

Rich Internet Applications 101: a Primer for Marketing Agencies & Multimedia Developers

This new white paper by Integration New Media provides marketing agencies and multimedia developers with a strong foundation of information about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). From basic definitions through to technology explanations, this white paper is a must-read for those looking to embrace new technologies to satisfy their clients’ growing needs.

What's Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications

Industry debate about the relative merits of OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Ecma 376 Office Open XML (OOXML) highlights the significance of the productivity application market shift from binary and proprietary file formats to vendor- and product-independent Extensible Markup Language (XML) models. The competitive stakes are huge, and the related political posturing is sometimes perplexing.

Software Security Governance in the Development Lifecycle

There are many key drivers for application security, such as managing the high levels of complexity in rapidly changing IT environments as well as regulatory and compliance demands. With recent high profile breaches and their consequences in the headlines, the direct line between insecure software and data insecurity has never been more clear. As a result, organizations with a strong commitment to data integrity and privacy are taking concrete, measurable steps to ensure the software systems that control data are developed securely.

Performance Management of Software Architecture

Performance management is a subset of Performance Engineering, an emerging computer science practice which strives to build performance into the design and architecture of a system, prior to the onset of actual coding effort. Any technology which is measured can be managed easily. Find out how in this paper.

On-Premise and On-Demand: SaaS Is Now Mainstream But Will Never Be Ubiquitous

The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model has matured to such an extent that there is now an on-demand component to most software applications, whether it is online help, automated updates or the main application engine. At the same time, many vendors are realizing that to provide a satisfactory end user experience, total reliance on a web browser is not always enough and a desktop component is often needed.

Shipping your Software Application as an Appliance

For independent software vendors (ISVs) that sell applications to enterprise customers, traditional methods of software delivery create operational challenges that can turn into significant business problems. The challenges come when customers are confronted with the complexity of managing enterprise-class applications on their general purpose servers throughout the lifecycles of those applications and devices.

HPC Management Software: Reducing the Complexity of HPC Cluster and Grid Resources

This white paper primarily focuses on the expanding role of HPC management software in the HPC marketplace. The paper emphasizes its historical development and considers its business case and future prospects while dispensing with more elaborate technical analysis and product comparisons.

How RouteOne Is Linking Thousands of Dealers Nationwide to Multiple Finance Sources

In highly competitive markets, technologies that save time and money earn top consideration. Until now, XML Web Services, often touted for their ability to create business value, has been left off the short list for implementation. In this case study you’ll see how RouteOne LLC redefined the credit application process for automobile dealers and their customers using XML Web Services technologies.

Software Quality Management for SOA

SOA is invariably viewed from different perspectives by different parts of the organization. Enterprise architects and the SOA Center of Excellence may see every effort as a step in developing an enterprise-wide SOA. 1Project teams may see SOA as simply a new development methodology. To plan an effective quality program for SOA, IT quality managers must look past generalities to determine what they are dealing with and how that affects the test program.

Benefits of a SaaS E-Commerce Solution

Software as a service (SaaS) is an application delivery model where a software vendor develops a web-native software application and hosts and operates the application for use by its customers over the Internet. One of the biggest distinctions about this business model is that customers do not pay for owning the software itself but rather for using it.

The Benefits of Model-Driven Development

This paper describes the approaches in MDD, explains how CA Gen fits into the larger picture of application development, and relates customer experiences to underpin the quiet success. Access this White Paper now to learn how to CA Gen goes one step further!

Buying and Using Marketing Automation Systems

Listen to this free podcast at your desk or on the road and learn the business challenges and problems causing B2B companies to look at marketing automation ... the near-term and longer-term ROI benefits to expect... what key features and capabilities you should look for in a B2B marketing automation system... and more. Find out what marketing automation can do for your organization—and how to choose the system that’s right for you. Download this free 15-minute podcast now.

Development of Web Services Using Rational Application Developer & WebSphere Application Server

The hotspot in the current IT world is optimized Web Services. Now the enterprises have started their vision towards next generation Web Services. This white paper gives information for the business managers and engineers in developing and deploying Web Services using Rational Application Developer (RAD) and WebSphere Application Server (WAS), respectively. This paper explains the process to:

* create a Web Service and Web Server client
* build security to that web service
* deploy the web service in WebSphere application server

Guide to Optimizing Software Test Automation by Incorporating Virtual Machine Technology

Suppose, you have a task - you have to test an application and its variations on several operating systems localized to 7 to 8 different languages. You have to provide your test results several times per week and you have less than 24 hours to complete all tests in each run. To make matters worse, your budget allows you to afford only 5 to 6 average desktop PCs and you have only 1 to 2 people on your team.

What to Look for in Mission-Critical Managed IT Services

The Choices from many reputable suppliers of IT managed services can appear very much alike. Yet when you have a mission-critical business process whose function must not be interrupted, you know your requirements call for something above and beyond. This paper serves as a field guide to help you identify key characteristics that set a critical managed IT service apart from even highly capable general-purpose offerings.