WHITE PAPER - This paper explores optimization strategies and demonstrated benefits being achieved today with IBM Software solutions. Utilization of these capabilities can help you meet the increasing challenges of energy efficiency, cost containment and compliance.
Posted: October 6, 2008 | Published: October 4, 2008


Topics:  Business Process Management | Business Processes | Cooling Capacity | Cost Benefit Analysis | Infrastructure Management | Power Supplies | Regulatory Compliance | Software Development Methodologies

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Business Analysts community, what new skills are required, and what BAs can do to ease the transition.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Collaboration | Leadership | Project Management | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies

WHITE PAPER - This 2008 SearchSoftwareQuality.com Agile Trends Survey provides insight into the challenges faced by agile developers, how they utilize test cases and the tools they prefer for optimal software development.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Functional Requirements | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines why Model Driven Design (MDD) is emerging as a preferred Best Practices for embedded software development. It presents MDD is the methodology that delivers the most developer productivity, upgrade capabilities and component reuse.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Embedded Systems Software | Model Driven Architecture | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Upgrades | UML

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper discusses how VLA is transforming the test and development lab, and provides best practices for automating the test and dev process to maintain or strengthen your competitive advantage by getting better products to market faster.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Quality Control | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | IT Best Practices | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the fundamental elements needed to successfully engineer your SaaS product. It consolidates the technology strategies to build on-demand products and is the result of helping several ISVs transition to an on-demand environment.
Posted: July 21, 2008 | Published: July 18, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | ISVs | OEMs | Programming | Project Management | Software Architectures | Software as a Service | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper and learn a better way to deliver applications and how to providing access to business data without losing control with new tactics for enhancing performance across the network.
Posted: May 5, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Blade Servers | Managed Security Services | Networking | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides an overview of the product along with practical advice for those who are considering Mercury Business Process Testing for optimizing their own manual processes or moving toward test automation.
Posted: April 29, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2006


Topics:  Business Processes | Customers | Functional Testing | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.
Posted: April 29, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Functional Testing | Quality Control | Quality Control Staff | Return On Investment | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the relationship between business and IT groups within the typical enterprise and explores how the implementation of a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) allows both groups find common ground.
Posted: April 10, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2006


Topics:  Key Performance Indicators | Personalization | Policy-Based Network Management | Software Developers | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores the nine essential stages of effective software testing during the development lifecycle, detailing tools and techniques which enhance productivity during each phase.
Posted: October 29, 2007 | Published: October 29, 2007


Topics:  Performance Testing | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - Software Asset Management (SAM) can deliver increased efficiency, better cost control, risk mitigation and patch management. This paper provides an overview of SAM benefits, and addresses the specific issues in getting SAM running in your company.
Posted: September 7, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Compliance Best Practices | Compliance Software | Corporate Governance | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | Security Management | Software Asset Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details methods for implementing concurrent computing to better meet the performance and scalability needs of increasingly complex business applications on multi-core systems.
Posted: August 27, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | CVS Software | Grid Computing | Multi-core Processors | Multithreading | Parallel Processing | SOA | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details a method to achieve maximum Service Orientated Architecture value, highlighting essential SOA value patterns and real-world case studies that attained measurable business benefits.
Posted: August 2, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2006


Topics:  Application Integration | Business Process Management | ESB | Partnerships | SOA | Software Development Methodologies | XML

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper illustrates the real impact of continuous integration on build managers and development teams, and describes practical "stepping stones" to make the transition to agile builds.
Posted: July 2, 2007 | Published: April 2, 2007


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Life-Cycle Management | Integration Server Software | Integration Testing | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management

WHITE PAPER - The task and directions of the model driven architecture solution are outlined in this paper.
Posted: July 3, 2002 | Published: November 27, 2000


Topics:  Application Integration | CORBA | Interoperability | Legacy Applications Software | Manufacturing Industry | Middleware | Model Driven Architecture | Object Management Group | Software Development Methodologies | UML

WHITE PAPER - This paper is a statement by the OMG Architecture Board (AB) of the expanded vision necessary to support interoperability with specifications that address integration through the entire systems life cycle.
Posted: July 3, 2002 | Published: July 9, 2001


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Life-Cycle Management | CORBA | DCOM | Interface Definition Language | Interoperability | Model Driven Architecture | Object Management Group | Software Development Methodologies

WHITE PAPER - Here we describe the application development process supported by the MDA - how information flows from one set of artifacts to the next, and how the MDA process ultimately yields an application running on virtually any target middleware platform.
Posted: July 3, 2002 | Published: November 1, 2001


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Banking Industry | Consulting Services Industry | CORBA | Interoperability | Manufacturing Industry | Middleware | Model Driven Architecture | Object Management Group | Software Development Methodologies | UML | Web Services