WHITE PAPER - This paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center, an integrated, web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing.
Posted: November 18, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Customer Service | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Implementation | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | UNIX

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: October 24, 2008 | 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 - While there are many "how to" options to extending agile beyond a few teams, this white paper focuses on critical recommendations for organizations moving to full-scale agile development. Avoiding these pitfalls can mean the difference between...
Posted: October 15, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Project Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, you will gain insight into five myths commonly associated with agile development. Explore what agile development is in reality, what it is not, and the true benefits of transitioning to agile methods in your organization.
Posted: October 15, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Productivity | Project Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Engineering Institute | Software Quality Assurance | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the current dilemma that security auditors face with the bottleneck for Web application deployment.
Posted: October 6, 2008 | Published: October 4, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Budgeting | Software Development Methodologies | Testing | Web Application Security | Web Development | Web Services

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 white paper presents the key characteristics of successful agile managers as they introduce and scale agile methods. Learn what agile managers can do to help their teams and organizations adopt agile development practices to deliver real...
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Productivity | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | Quality Control | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the significant impact of agile development techniques on the business analyst community. Gain insight into the skills required by analysts for effective agile development, as well as the steps for a transition to agile...
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Collaboration | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

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 white paper is an excerpt from the book "Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises", and describes the iteration pattern and activities that a team engages in to create tested, value-delivered code in a short time box.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  Code Management | Project Management | Project Management Software | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

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 - 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 - You made the decision to automate software testing. Now it is up to you to make sure it iss done right. That means you've got to get your team to accept it. To embrace it. To excel at it. To integrate it into their normal routine. Read how here.
Posted: April 29, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2005


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Quality Assurance | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Project Management | Software Testing

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:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Enterprise Resource Management | Policy-Based Network Management | SOA | Software Developers | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

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 - 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