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May 23, 2012
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ALSO CALLED:
Application Software,
End-User Applications,
Applications,
Software Applications
DEFINITION: 1) In information technology, an application is the use of a technology, system, or product. 2) The term application is a shorter form of application program. An application program is a program designed to perform a specific function directly for the user or, in some cases, for another application program. Examples of applications include word processors, database programs, Web browsers, development
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Applications Software Reports
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Top 5 concerns with mobile application monitoring
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
Managing the performance of mobile applications presents a new challenge for IT teams. Read this white paper to learn why mobile application performance monitoring is uniquely challenging and discover the tools you'll need for effective mobile management.
Posted: 21 May 2012 | Published: 21 May 2012
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Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
sponsored by Quest Software
WHITE PAPER:
Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012
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ABBYY CardHolder: Your Electronic Business Card Holder
sponsored by ABBYY
VIDEO:
Uncover how an electronic business card holder can help you store and use important data on your smartphone without cluttering your personal address book.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Premiered: 16 May 2012
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ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator Mobile App
sponsored by ABBYY
VIDEO:
This video details a text-grabbing and translator app that lets you save printed text from any magazine, book, document, etc. – in more than 60 languages – on your device. View now to learn how this app can immediately edit, translate, publish to social media, or forward by e-mail or SMS.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Premiered: 16 May 2012
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Business Card Reader for iPhone Demo
sponsored by ABBYY
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This brief video demonstrates a smartphone app that scans business cards and merges them into your rolodex. Discover how this easy application can help you save time and ease the process of adding contacts to your phone.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Premiered: 16 May 2012
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Data Access Middleware Security Simplifies Business Process Applications
sponsored by Progress DataDirect
WHITE PAPER:
Access this resource to discover how the right database middleware software enables your business to simplify app development, and automatically include data encryption and authentication in your apps. Uncover what new product is being commended for its solid security features, interoperable data access and documented high performance.
Posted: 19 Apr 2012 | Published: 19 Apr 2012
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Improve Business Accuracy With a Custom App
sponsored by BlackBerry
CASE STUDY:
This case study explores how a telecom and network infrastructure company paired with BlackBerry to create a custom app that would improve their inventory accuracy.
Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012
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Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Typical IT departments feature islands of isolated infrastructure, leading to inefficient use of servers. The "application grid" concept allows data centres to run more efficiently, using less hardware and less software. This paper explains.
Posted: 08 Mar 2012 | Published: 08 Mar 2012
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5 Ways IT Managers Can Leverage SOA to Deploy More Agile & Adaptable Business Applications
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER:
In this white paper, learn five of the most compelling reasons to consider implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA), particurally if your business id commited to increasing agility.
Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011
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Software testing: why it needs a new professionalism
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
WHITE PAPER:
We believe that Testing is at a key juncture in its development as a Profession. The demonstrable consequences of this approach are now very clear - hidden, often major, costs in the development lifecycle of code arising both from the costs of fixing defects, and from the costs of managing change late in the lifecycle.
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011
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How mature are companies' software quality management processes in 2010?
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
WHITE PAPER:
There is very little data that exists on the maturity of testing practices throughout the software quality life cycle in the Industry and lots of people refer to the maturity with a level of certainty not backed up by any real data. In 2009 Experimentus established a survey for this very purpose.
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011
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CW+: Developer Survey Report from Embarcadero Technologies
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
WHITE PAPER:
The Embarcadero Developer Survey was conducted throughout the months June and July 2010 and encompasses responses from a wide array of application developers worldwide. The purpose of the survey was to collect information about the top developer trends, challenges, key initiatives, and current tools being used.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011
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Gartner: A perspective on Android 2.2 for the enterprise
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
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With the announcement of Android 2.2, code named "Froyo," Google targets the enterprisemarket for the first time. This release has features to enable devices that can be grantedsupport under the "appliance level" of the Gartner Managed Diversity Framework.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011
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Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Typical IT departments feature islands of isolated infrastructure, leading to inefficient use of servers. The "application grid" concept allows data centres to run more efficiently, using less hardware and less software. This paper explains.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued): … 1) In information technology, an application is the use of a technology, system, or product. 2) The term application is a shorter form of application program. An application program is a program designed to perform a specific function directly for the user or, in some cases, for another application program. Examples of applications include word processors, database programs, Web browsers, development tools, drawing, paint, image editing programs, and communication programs. Applications use the services of the computer's operating system and other supporting applications. The formal requests and means of communicating with other programs that an application program uses is called the application program interface (API). Applications Software definition sponsored by SearchSoftwareQuality.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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