ANALYST REPORT - Due to its ability to closely coordinate efforts across all disciplines, requirements management has emerged as a primary driver for quality improvement across product development. This collection of case studies discusses the challenges and payoffs involved in implementing a requirements management solution.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: May 26, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Automotive Industry | Functional Requirements | Project Management | Software | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Source Code Control

WHITE PAPER - Research and experience have shown that the cost of finding and removing defects grows exponentially with the quality of the code. That is, as each defect is removed, the cost of finding and removing the next defect increases. At what point does the increased cost of debugging grow too great? Read on to learn more.
Posted: June 24, 2009 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Debugging | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Software installation failures frustrate customers and increase a software company's support costs. But the more complex your application's installation requirements, the more difficult it is to build a reliable, professional installer. Try out InstallShield 2010 free for 3 weeks.
Posted: June 18, 2009 | Published: June 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Install Programs | Software | Software Development Tools | Software Installation

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Generating reports from Java applications has traditionally been a difficult task with heavy coding effort in development and maintenance. Even where graphical tools are provided, users must learn how to use a new and sometimes cumbersome tool.
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Document Production | Java | Reporting Software | Software | SQL | Web Development | Web Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - Research and experience have shown that the cost of finding and removing defects grows exponentially with the quality of the code. That is, as each defect is removed, the cost of finding and removing the next defect increases. At what point does the increased cost of debugging grow too great? Read on to learn more.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Debugging | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - Information technology is undergoing constant innovation. To keep pace, software development organizations need to release business-critical software in less time, but this increases risk and often results in compromised quality. So the question becomes: How can you save time and reduce costs without sacrificing quality? Read on to learn more.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Published: March 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

VIDEO - In this video, IT professionals from the Symantec ManageFusion Conference 2009, talk about the security benefits of Intel vPro technology - which include the ability to deploy software patches faster into the installed PC base, and the ability to quarantine infected PCs and remotely remediate them.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Premiered: May 27, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | CIOs | IT Departments | IT Infrastructure | Security Best Practices | Security Management | Security Software | Security Systems | Security Threats | Software | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - Dell EqualLogic&trade PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: May 14, 2009


Topics:  iSCSI SAN | Network Best Practices | SAN | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Decision Support Systems | Model Driven Architecture | Program Management | Project Management | Software | Systems Design and Development

CASE STUDY - Check out this case study to see how Dell teamed up with Mc Allen Independent School District to simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Blade Servers | Business Intelligence | Cost Benefit Analysis | Email | Email Archiving | Infrastructure Management | Software | Software Best Practices

ANALYST REPORT - The CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) is in the process of updating their standards and suggested practices. They are going to be more strict with medical device developers. The purpose of this paper is to present the medical device developer guidelines for complying with the "suggestions" of the CDRH.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: March 31, 2009


Topics:  FDA | FDA Compliance | Medical Software | Software | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Standards

WHITE PAPER - HP QuickTest Professional software is a useful tool for regression test and function test automation. This paper will briefly review the challenges or testing Windows Forms applications and review the functionality of HP QuickTest Processional and its .NET add-in capabilities.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Software | Software as a Service | Software Best Practices | Software Testing | Testing | Wireless Application Development

WHITE PAPER - This paper will answer questions about what a Center of Excellence (CoE) is and how it could benefit your organization. It will provide answers to questions such as; where is the most effective starting point? and, how do you build your quality management processes, architecture, and governance policies to grow along with your organization?
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CIOs | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Software | Software as a Service | Software Best Practices

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Service Management | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Composite Applications Software | Software | Software as a Service | Software Best Practices

WHITE PAPER - Modularity is an established technique for organizing and simplifying a complex system. In data centers, modular design has already taken root in new fault-tolerant architectures for servers and storage systems. The mission of this paper is to illustrate how modularity delivers a profound reliability benefit: fault tolerance
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2005


Topics:  Backups | Disk Drives | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | Load Balancing | Network Management | RAID | Reliability | Software