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White Papers
Visual Programming in BioBike, a Web-Based Biocomputing Environment
Jul 2008
Within BioBike, a web-based biocomputing environment, the BBL language enables biologists to program novel genomic algorithms. To engage users without prior programming experience, the paper has...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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White Papers
A Demonstration of Pervasive Device Integration With SEAP-Based Middleware
Dec 2008
This paper describes a demonstration of the SEAP middleware architecture applied to pervasive computing applications. SEAP, or Sensor Enablement for the Average Programmer, is an architectural...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Gredia Middleware Architecture
Nov 2007
This paper presents RDLS (Rich Data Location Services), a grid middleware for data management designed to meet the requirements posed by the GREDIA project. The main purpose of the described...
Provided by National Technical University of Athens
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White Papers
A Middleware Transparent Framework for Applying MDA to SOA
Aug 2008
Although Model Driven Architecture has taken successful steps toward model-based software development, this approach still faces complex situations and ambiguous questions while applying to real...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Characterizing the SPEC JVM98 Benchmarks on the Java Virtual Machine
Jan 2009
This paper presents the results of a characterization analysis performed on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) using the SPEC JVM98 benchmarks. An instrument is developed that runs inside the JVM that...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
Distributed, Multi-Threaded Verification of Java Programs
Jan 2008
Extended Static Checking (ESC) is a fully automated formal verification technique and is generally quite efficient, as far as verification tools go, but it is still orders of magnitude slower than...
Provided by Concordia University
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Whitepapers
The Agile Advantage
Jan 2009
This white paper discusses the significance of Agile Testing, principles underlying Agile Approaches and the various processes involved in Agile Testing. It also draws a comparison between the...
Provided by Sonata Software
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Case Studies
Ensuring Justice Remains Available - and Accessible - 24 Hours a Day
Nov 2007
Justice Technology Services (JTS) was established to provide a variety of shared technologies to assist major agencies within South Australia's justice system. Making information readily and...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
How Can I Proactively Identify and Resolve Performance Issues in an Increasingly Complex 24x7 Web Application Production Environment?
Aug 2008
One's web application services environment is not only growing rapidly, it is increasingly complex. Business transactions travel over diverse and interconnected infrastructures; through networks,...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Developing and Debugging Algebraic Specifications for Java Classes
Dec 2007
Modern programs make extensive use of reusable software libraries. For example, a study of a number of large Java applications shows that between 17% and 30% of the classes in those applications...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Technique for Dynamic Updating of Java Software
Jan 2008
During maintenance, systems are updated to correct faults, improve functionality, and adapt the software to changes in its execution environment. The typical software update process consists of...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Maximizing Your Process Improvement ROI Through Harmonization
Mar 2008
This white paper by SEI is an executive overview of the business value in harmonizing process improvement efforts when multiple improvement technologies, models and standards are in use. It...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology for the 21st Century
Apr 2008
The paper explores the consequences of their collective inattention to methodology on innovation, makes recommendations for addressing this problem in one domain, and provides guidelines for other...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Complexity Evaluation of Web Service Interfaces for End Users
Jan 2008
Providing simple interfaces which can be easily handled by people who have neither programming skills nor deep understanding about Web service is a key factor in releasing Web services to end...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Oracle Forms and SOA: Software Development Approach for Advanced Flexibility
Apr 2008
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is currently one of the hottest topics in the world of IT. It would appear that this acclaimed concept for IT architecture will lead to new and revolutionary...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
e-Science Application Development: Analyst and User Perspectives
Jun 2008
Potential users of e-science software often have strong technical skills, ranging from the use of scripting languages to the development of substantial pieces of software used by other members of...
Provided by University of Manchester
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White Papers
Construction Engineering Management Document Control Rapid Application Development Tools - An Objective Study
May 2008
This paper examines the issues which arise when a business is considering in-house development of a mission critical software application when an off the shelf package is available. The conditions...
Provided by TDOC
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White Papers
Design, Construction, and Testing of a Novel Robotic Workstation
Nov 2007
This paper describes the development of a novel robotic workstation which users configure to a variety of spatial forms. These configurations allow users to define their physical workspace as well...
Provided by Clemson University
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White Papers
N-Way Fail-Over Infrastructure for Reliable Servers and Routers
Jan 2008
Maintaining the availability of critical servers and routers is an important concern for many organizations. At the lowest level, IP addresses represent the global namespace by which services are...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
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White Papers
Aspects of Software Quality Assurance in Open Source Software Projects: Two Case Studies From Apache Project
Jun 2007
Open Source Software (OSS) solutions provide mission critical services to industry and government organizations. This paper provides a preliminary exploration to improve ones understanding of...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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Case Studies
Development of Device Management for an Equipment Vendor
Jan 2008
The client is a leading provider of unified edge networking solutions. A key marketing requirement was always-on remote management capability of the device. The device had to provide both...
Provided by Calsoft Labs
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Case Studies
Offshore Development of USB Device Firmware and Driver for an Equipment Vendor
Jan 2008
The client develops technology and products for measuring color and other optical properties of a wide variety of materials. It develops low-cost color measurement solutions for consumer products,...
Provided by Calsoft Labs
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Case Studies
BIOS Development for Phoenix Award BIOS
Jan 2008
The company was consolidating and upgrading several older products from National Semiconductor-based platforms to a new Intel-based platform. They were looking for a cost effective BIOS solution...
Provided by Calsoft Labs
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Case Studies
BIOS Development for Server Platform
Jan 2008
The client wanted to implement ACPI compliance in a fault tolerant server system. The ACPI feature needed to satisfy Microsoft's WHQL certification requirement. They also required Microsoft...
Provided by Calsoft Labs
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Case Studies
Offshore Business Process Re-Engineering & Application Development for a Leading European Hotel Reservation Company
Jan 2008
The client had a legacy system, which had a number of inadequacies including gaps in functionality poor integration between internal modules as well as with external 3rd party systems. Customers...
Provided by Calsoft Labs
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Case Studies
Offshore Product Re-Engineering for a Healthcare ISV
Jan 2008
A mid sized health care software vendor needed to take its product offering to the next level by re-engineering from Unix based systems to .NET technology, adding a number of features to enable...
Provided by Calsoft Labs
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White Papers
CRM Media - Best Practices: Software-as-a-Service
Dec 2008
As companies get used to outsourcing at least some of their IT infrastructure to SaaS vendors, the number of SaaS offerings will expand even further. Even vendors of traditional on-premises...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Using Emulators & Simulators for Control Software Maintenance
Jan 2009
This White Paper describes the methodology followed to develop a software-based Emulator and Simulator System for engineering and maintenance of mechanical equipments required for the upkeep of...
Provided by Sonata Software
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White Papers
A Test Process for All Lifecycles
Apr 2008
This paper demonstrates that having a clearly defined testing process, which is engaged early in the project lifecycle, with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, is essential to the...
Provided by AppLabs
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White Papers
Test Statements: Structured Exploratory Testing
Feb 2008
Despite increased maturity of test processes, the discipline of testing still suffers from traditional "Project squeeze" in many engagements. Additionally, as new project development methodologies...
Provided by AppLabs
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White Papers
Testing Securitization
Jul 2008
Securitization is a means of raising finance secured on the back of identifiable and predictable cash flows derived from a particular set of assets. Almost any asset that generates a predictable...
Provided by AppLabs
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White Papers
Blueprint for Collaborative Application Architecture
Oct 2008
Industry trends are converging on the next generation of applications. Users both inside and outside the enterprise are demanding more empowerment. Business decision makers require more and better...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
Assessing the Cost and Effectiveness of Reusing, or Adopting, Existing Assets
Feb 2009
For several reasons, businesses naturally want to reuse code or software artifacts. Reuse can save development time and money, lower risks, and provide better quality control. It can be difficult,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Automatically Deploy Software With a Simple Framework Based on STAF and Lotus Notes
Jan 2009
Deployment is an important process within the overall software life cycle. In this paper, learn about requirements for automatic software deployment, and about a cross platform auto-deployment...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Software as a Service: Build a Web-Delivered SaaS Framework for Forms and Workflow-Driven Applications
Dec 2008
Software as a Service (SaaS), largely enabled by the Internet and corporate intranets, has become an innovative way for enterprises to do business. In the past, software had to be installed in an...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Adding Business Events to Business Services: Achieve the Next Level in Business Agility
Jan 2008
In the current business environment in which companies are under increasing pressure not only to increase revenues but also to respond more quickly to changing market conditions, business...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Prelude to a Software Profiler: Work You Should Do Before the Tool Works for You
Dec 2008
Today's software profilers do a great job of identifying the resource-intensive code in one's application. It takes a lot more work on one's part, however, to determine which components need the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 7: High-Performance Computing Off the Shelf
Dec 2008
Continuing the Infrastructure architecture essentials series, this paper provides an overview of methods for building HPC systems with OTS components and open source software. Architectures that...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Modernize Your Enterprise to Stay Competitive: Transform Legacy Applications and Unlock Valuable Assets
Dec 2008
Many large enterprises have a lot of assets locked inside legacy applications that have served them well for years. However, these legacy applications are now a stumbling block, considering the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 6: Automated Testing - Examine Your Hosting Infrastructure
Dec 2008
Discover some of the common threats facing Web servers as well as the tools and techniques one can use to identify and mitigate them. With increasingly complex and large infrastructures, finding...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Integration With PACS Using DICOM
Nov 2008
The client is a pioneer in the development of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) software used by medical imaging community to aid in earlier detection of diseases. The client wanted to provide DICOM...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
MRI Image Processing & Visualization
Nov 2008
The client needed to develop a MRI console application supported by various 2D and 3D post-processing tasks such as Image Filters, Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP), Multi Planar Reformat (MPR),...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
SPECT Imaging
Nov 2008
The client had aggressive timelines and was looking for a vendor with the right set of skills to help it meet DICOM and Interfile compliance standards. Blue Star Infotech (BSI) with its prior...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
Product Development for a Mobile Content Provider
Nov 2007
Because of the rapid growth the client was facing following challenges: standardization of media upload and streaming facility and integration of its multiple sites that it has acquired from...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
Winstar Streamlines Product Development Processes and Improves Customer Satisfaction
Jan 2009
Winstar Display Co. wanted to ensure initial product designs meet customer specifications and gain real-time control over design changes and ensure staff are using the latest version of design...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
What is Application Lifecycle Management?
Dec 2008
Defining application lifecycle management (ALM) isn't easy. Different people (and different vendors) take quite different perspectives. Still, ALM is an important topic, and so understanding what...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Tools for Team Development: Why Vendors are Finally Getting It Right
Dec 2008
Most software development is done by teams of people. Yet even though tools to support team-based development have been available for some time, they weren't always as useful as they might have...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Application Lifecycle Management as a Business Process
Dec 2008
As business processes become more dependent on software, getting that software right gets ever more important. And because the most important software in an organization is typically developed...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Application Lifecycle Management and Business Strategy
Dec 2008
Is building custom software a necessary evil, a process that's divorced from the really important parts of a business? In many organizations, how well a firm executes its business strategies is...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Adopting Agile Development, Part 6: The Buyer's Viewpoint
Aug 2008
This paper focuses on those who buy software development services. Learn about their points of view and what they need while planning a project (or when planning their own processes for...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Building a Simple Yet Powerful MMO Game Architecture, Part 1: Introduction
Sep 2008
There is growing excitement among business, education, and government institutions in Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) virtual-world games and how they can be applied to business and educational...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Business Analyst in Model-Driven Architecture: Separating Design From Architecture
Sep 2008
From a software development viewpoint, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) encourages efficient use of system models. It also encourages reusing best practices as families of systems are produced. One...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Look at the Future of Software Development and Application Building
Sep 2008
This paper, explores the future of software development. Learn how today's trends might shape or split the industry. Before predicting the future, though, let's first take a glance at the life of...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Road to Success When Simulations Fail: A Thoughtful Look at Finding the Good in Simulation Failure
Oct 2008
Planning for failure goes against probably every business-related brain cell one has, right? But think about the most successful business people and corporations in the world. Soichiro Honda,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 2: Find, Avoid, and Eliminate System Bottlenecks
Oct 2008
Systems will always have resource limits that define performance bounds. The term bottleneck implies that a system has a resource imbalance and therefore a rate-limiting stage in processing that...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 3: System Design Methods for Scaling
Oct 2008
In an ideal world, all systems would have linear scaling of all resources with linear cost, but this is rarely the case. Cost may include not only capital expenditures but operational costs for...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Influences That Can Shape Architectural Decision Making: Do You Know Your Principles From Your Best Practices? - Your Policies From Your Patterns?
Oct 2008
Architects routinely make complex decisions as they define solutions to complex problems. The results very often depend upon the strength of inputs, or influences, from a number of authoritative...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Building a Simple Yet Powerful MMO Game Architecture, Part 2: Gaming and Web Integration
Oct 2008
Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) virtual-world games offer tantalizing new ways to learn, entertain, collaborate, socialize, visualize information, and do business. In this series, learn about an...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 4: Scalable Enterprise Systems Management
Oct 2008
Discover the methods used to manage enterprise resources, including storage, compute nodes, switches, and the data and services that this infrastructure provides. In a perfect world, all systems...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Adopting Agile Development, Part 7: Methods for Estimating Work Effort in Agile Development
Nov 2008
This paper explores how to estimate work efforts in agile development. Learn about work effort estimation in general, and why people do it. Then dive into the world of agile estimation and find...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 5: Content Delivery and Distribution Network Design
Nov 2008
Discover the methods for content delivery and distribution of Web-based media in the Web 2.0 world. The concept of Web caches has existed as long as the Web and evolved from storage of frequently...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adapting the Scrum Project Management Method for Geographically Separated Teams
Nov 2008
Scrum, an iterative, incremental process of software development that's commonly used with agile development, was originally developed by Ken Schwaber. It combines an iterative approach to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 15: Exploring REST Services Capabilities in IBM WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1
Nov 2008
In this series, learn about the dramatic changes in IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 - a major release that extends capability and simplifies how one monitors and manage the performance of...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adopting Agile Development, Part 8: Model Your Way to a Better Agile Process
Dec 2008
This series has explored the benefits of agile processes and the requirements placed on the organizations that use them. One has learned how organizations adapt to agile development, about the...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 6: Automated Testing - Examine Your Hosting Infrastructure
Dec 2008
Discover some of the common threats facing Web servers as well as the tools and techniques one can use to identify and mitigate them. With increasingly complex and large infrastructures, finding...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Modernize Your Enterprise to Stay Competitive: Transform Legacy Applications and Unlock Valuable Assets
Dec 2008
Many large enterprises have a lot of assets locked inside legacy applications that have served them well for years. However, these legacy applications are now a stumbling block, considering the...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 7: High-Performance Computing Off the Shelf
Dec 2008
Continuing the Infrastructure architecture essentials series, this paper provides an overview of methods for building HPC systems with OTS components and open source software. Architectures that...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Prelude to a Software Profiler: Work You Should Do Before the Tool Works for You
Dec 2008
Today's software profilers do a great job of identifying the resource-intensive code in one's application. It takes a lot more work on one's part, however, to determine which components need the...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adding Business Events to Business Services: Achieve the Next Level in Business Agility
Jan 2008
In the current business environment in which companies are under increasing pressure not only to increase revenues but also to respond more quickly to changing market conditions, business...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Software as a Service: Build a Web-Delivered SaaS Framework for Forms and Workflow-Driven Applications
Dec 2008
Software as a Service (SaaS), largely enabled by the Internet and corporate intranets, has become an innovative way for enterprises to do business. In the past, software had to be installed in an...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Automatically Deploy Software With a Simple Framework Based on STAF and Lotus Notes
Jan 2009
Deployment is an important process within the overall software life cycle. In this paper, learn about requirements for automatic software deployment, and about a cross platform auto-deployment...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Assessing the Cost and Effectiveness of Reusing, or Adopting, Existing Assets
Feb 2009
For several reasons, businesses naturally want to reuse code or software artifacts. Reuse can save development time and money, lower risks, and provide better quality control. It can be difficult,...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Blueprint for Collaborative Application Architecture
Oct 2008
Industry trends are converging on the next generation of applications. Users both inside and outside the enterprise are demanding more empowerment. Business decision makers require more and better...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
White Papers
Testing Securitization
Jul 2008
Securitization is a means of raising finance secured on the back of identifiable and predictable cash flows derived from a particular set of assets. Almost any asset that generates a predictable...
Provided by AppLabs
-
White Papers
Test Statements: Structured Exploratory Testing
Feb 2008
Despite increased maturity of test processes, the discipline of testing still suffers from traditional "Project squeeze" in many engagements. Additionally, as new project development methodologies...
Provided by AppLabs
-
White Papers
A Test Process for All Lifecycles
Apr 2008
This paper demonstrates that having a clearly defined testing process, which is engaged early in the project lifecycle, with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, is essential to the...
Provided by AppLabs
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Whitepapers
Future of Software Testing
Jul 2008
Change is a given and one can be sure that it will come in larger amounts and at increasing pace. No industry, least of all software engineering, is immune from change and therefore none is immune...
Provided by AppLabs
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White Papers
Testing in an Agile Environment
Jan 2009
The principal indicators of a growing business are a widening customer base and rising Return On Investment (ROI). Various parameters steer these indicators in a positive direction, chiefly cost,...
Provided by AppLabs
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White Papers
Using Emulators & Simulators for Control Software Maintenance
Jan 2009
This White Paper describes the methodology followed to develop a software-based Emulator and Simulator System for engineering and maintenance of mechanical equipments required for the upkeep of...
Provided by Sonata Software
-
White Papers
CRM Media - Best Practices: Software-as-a-Service
Dec 2008
As companies get used to outsourcing at least some of their IT infrastructure to SaaS vendors, the number of SaaS offerings will expand even further. Even vendors of traditional on-premises...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
A Test Process for All Lifecycles
Apr 2008
This paper demonstrates that having a clearly defined testing process, which is engaged early in the project lifecycle, with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, is essential to the...
Provided by AppLabs
-
White Papers
Test Statements: Structured Exploratory Testing
Feb 2008
Despite increased maturity of test processes, the discipline of testing still suffers from traditional "Project squeeze" in many engagements. Additionally, as new project development methodologies...
Provided by AppLabs
-
White Papers
Testing Securitization
Jul 2008
Securitization is a means of raising finance secured on the back of identifiable and predictable cash flows derived from a particular set of assets. Almost any asset that generates a predictable...
Provided by AppLabs
-
White Papers
Blueprint for Collaborative Application Architecture
Oct 2008
Industry trends are converging on the next generation of applications. Users both inside and outside the enterprise are demanding more empowerment. Business decision makers require more and better...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
Whitepapers
Assessing the Cost and Effectiveness of Reusing, or Adopting, Existing Assets
Feb 2009
For several reasons, businesses naturally want to reuse code or software artifacts. Reuse can save development time and money, lower risks, and provide better quality control. It can be difficult,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Automatically Deploy Software With a Simple Framework Based on STAF and Lotus Notes
Jan 2009
Deployment is an important process within the overall software life cycle. In this paper, learn about requirements for automatic software deployment, and about a cross platform auto-deployment...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Software as a Service: Build a Web-Delivered SaaS Framework for Forms and Workflow-Driven Applications
Dec 2008
Software as a Service (SaaS), largely enabled by the Internet and corporate intranets, has become an innovative way for enterprises to do business. In the past, software had to be installed in an...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adding Business Events to Business Services: Achieve the Next Level in Business Agility
Jan 2008
In the current business environment in which companies are under increasing pressure not only to increase revenues but also to respond more quickly to changing market conditions, business...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Prelude to a Software Profiler: Work You Should Do Before the Tool Works for You
Dec 2008
Today's software profilers do a great job of identifying the resource-intensive code in one's application. It takes a lot more work on one's part, however, to determine which components need the...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 7: High-Performance Computing Off the Shelf
Dec 2008
Continuing the Infrastructure architecture essentials series, this paper provides an overview of methods for building HPC systems with OTS components and open source software. Architectures that...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Modernize Your Enterprise to Stay Competitive: Transform Legacy Applications and Unlock Valuable Assets
Dec 2008
Many large enterprises have a lot of assets locked inside legacy applications that have served them well for years. However, these legacy applications are now a stumbling block, considering the...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 6: Automated Testing - Examine Your Hosting Infrastructure
Dec 2008
Discover some of the common threats facing Web servers as well as the tools and techniques one can use to identify and mitigate them. With increasingly complex and large infrastructures, finding...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adopting Agile Development, Part 8: Model Your Way to a Better Agile Process
Dec 2008
This series has explored the benefits of agile processes and the requirements placed on the organizations that use them. One has learned how organizations adapt to agile development, about the...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 15: Exploring REST Services Capabilities in IBM WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1
Nov 2008
In this series, learn about the dramatic changes in IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 - a major release that extends capability and simplifies how one monitors and manage the performance of...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adapting the Scrum Project Management Method for Geographically Separated Teams
Nov 2008
Scrum, an iterative, incremental process of software development that's commonly used with agile development, was originally developed by Ken Schwaber. It combines an iterative approach to...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 5: Content Delivery and Distribution Network Design
Nov 2008
Discover the methods for content delivery and distribution of Web-based media in the Web 2.0 world. The concept of Web caches has existed as long as the Web and evolved from storage of frequently...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adopting Agile Development, Part 7: Methods for Estimating Work Effort in Agile Development
Nov 2008
This paper explores how to estimate work efforts in agile development. Learn about work effort estimation in general, and why people do it. Then dive into the world of agile estimation and find...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 4: Scalable Enterprise Systems Management
Oct 2008
Discover the methods used to manage enterprise resources, including storage, compute nodes, switches, and the data and services that this infrastructure provides. In a perfect world, all systems...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Building a Simple Yet Powerful MMO Game Architecture, Part 2: Gaming and Web Integration
Oct 2008
Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) virtual-world games offer tantalizing new ways to learn, entertain, collaborate, socialize, visualize information, and do business. In this series, learn about an...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Influences That Can Shape Architectural Decision Making: Do You Know Your Principles From Your Best Practices? - Your Policies From Your Patterns?
Oct 2008
Architects routinely make complex decisions as they define solutions to complex problems. The results very often depend upon the strength of inputs, or influences, from a number of authoritative...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 3: System Design Methods for Scaling
Oct 2008
In an ideal world, all systems would have linear scaling of all resources with linear cost, but this is rarely the case. Cost may include not only capital expenditures but operational costs for...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 2: Find, Avoid, and Eliminate System Bottlenecks
Oct 2008
Systems will always have resource limits that define performance bounds. The term bottleneck implies that a system has a resource imbalance and therefore a rate-limiting stage in processing that...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
The Road to Success When Simulations Fail: A Thoughtful Look at Finding the Good in Simulation Failure
Oct 2008
Planning for failure goes against probably every business-related brain cell one has, right? But think about the most successful business people and corporations in the world. Soichiro Honda,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
A Look at the Future of Software Development and Application Building
Sep 2008
This paper, explores the future of software development. Learn how today's trends might shape or split the industry. Before predicting the future, though, let's first take a glance at the life of...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
The Business Analyst in Model-Driven Architecture: Separating Design From Architecture
Sep 2008
From a software development viewpoint, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) encourages efficient use of system models. It also encourages reusing best practices as families of systems are produced. One...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Building a Simple Yet Powerful MMO Game Architecture, Part 1: Introduction
Sep 2008
There is growing excitement among business, education, and government institutions in Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) virtual-world games and how they can be applied to business and educational...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Adopting Agile Development, Part 6: The Buyer's Viewpoint
Aug 2008
This paper focuses on those who buy software development services. Learn about their points of view and what they need while planning a project (or when planning their own processes for...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Application Lifecycle Management and Business Strategy
Dec 2008
Is building custom software a necessary evil, a process that's divorced from the really important parts of a business? In many organizations, how well a firm executes its business strategies is...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Application Lifecycle Management as a Business Process
Dec 2008
As business processes become more dependent on software, getting that software right gets ever more important. And because the most important software in an organization is typically developed...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Tools for Team Development: Why Vendors are Finally Getting It Right
Dec 2008
Most software development is done by teams of people. Yet even though tools to support team-based development have been available for some time, they weren't always as useful as they might have...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Winstar Streamlines Product Development Processes and Improves Customer Satisfaction
Jan 2009
Winstar Display Co. wanted to ensure initial product designs meet customer specifications and gain real-time control over design changes and ensure staff are using the latest version of design...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Product Development for a Mobile Content Provider
Nov 2007
Because of the rapid growth the client was facing following challenges: standardization of media upload and streaming facility and integration of its multiple sites that it has acquired from...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
SPECT Imaging
Nov 2008
The client had aggressive timelines and was looking for a vendor with the right set of skills to help it meet DICOM and Interfile compliance standards. Blue Star Infotech (BSI) with its prior...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
MRI Image Processing & Visualization
Nov 2008
The client needed to develop a MRI console application supported by various 2D and 3D post-processing tasks such as Image Filters, Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP), Multi Planar Reformat (MPR),...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
Integration With PACS Using DICOM
Nov 2008
The client is a pioneer in the development of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) software used by medical imaging community to aid in earlier detection of diseases. The client wanted to provide DICOM...
Provided by BLUE STAR INFOTECH
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Case Studies
Scalable Recruitment Software Solution Significantly Reduces IT and Capital Costs
Dec 2008
TriSys Business Software has been at the forefront of technology innovation in the recruitment industry since the early 1990s. The company designs and implements advanced recruitment software...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Web Agency Grows Revenue 30 Percent With Software-Plus-Services
Feb 2009
Since 2000, WebXY has been creating Web sites for small and medium-size businesses. Most of WebXY's customers want a low-cost Web site that does not require additional on-premises IT investments....
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Small to Medium Business Professionals Gain Efficiencies With New Management Solution
Nov 2008
Stasko Group is a Microsoft Certified Partner that specializes in software applications for professionals in the healthcare and legal fields. It wanted to address the challenges of many dental...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Insurance Company Determines Best Solution Through Technology Center Tests
Nov 2008
Western & Southern Financial Group wanted to upgrade its actuarial modeling solution to take advantage of high-performance computing capabilities on the Windows operating system, but it didn't...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Frozen-Food Leader Enhances Business Performance With Virtualized Software
Jan 2009
The leading frozen-food manufacturer in France, Picard Surgeles wanted to revolutionize how it manages its computer environment. To optimize software management, IT managers at Picard virtualized...
Provided by Microsoft
