Software Best Practices Reports

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM subscription and support services can help you handle the increased complexity of today's environment and take advantage of new opportunities. Find out how you can extend the value of your software investments, simplify the renewal process, reduce upgrade costs, and keep users productive.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the top 10 reasons why most software vendors and high-tech manufacturers choose to buy a COTS software licensing and entitlement management solution.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

RESOURCE CENTER: When budgets, customers and reputations are at stake, software developers need every available tool to ensure that applications and code are as secure as possible. Going a step above and beyond, this interactive online learning center provides detailed lessons for securing C/C++ code.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Inside this presentation transcript, find five key imperatives for using ALM to achieve successful global software development. Learn how to leverage this information to help reduce or eliminate endless project re-plans which are slowing down your business.

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 | Published: 08 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover how leveraging business process management (BPM), powered by smart service-oriented architecture (SOA), can make critical information available in a fast, consistent way which improves the quality of health care organizations.

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 | Published: 10 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper makes the case for using value realization practices in conjunction with traditional project management.

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: CloudTest Lite provides rapid test creation and real-time analytics for frequent, lower-scale performance testing for Web and mobile applications. Download CloudTest Lite Beta Version today to start experiencing these benefits in your own organization.

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 | Premiered: 21 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of a rapid deployment strategy designed to take the guesswork out of implementing CRM. Inside, learn how this approach can let you pick and choose features which matter the most to your organization while avoiding playing for ones you don't to provide an accurate, upfront price.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how to tranform software development to increase productivity using application lifecycle management (ALM).

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 | Published: 14 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Centralization Checklist: Lower costs and improve productivity and quality for your software development processes. Here's how to start, by centralizing you assets.

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 | Published: 14 Jul 2011

WEBCAST: View this webcast to how Novartis, a global health care company, improved requirements management in their SAP environment to provide more complete traceability, ensuring that they developed against their requirements and successfully tested them.

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 | Premiered: Jul 19, 2011, 13:00 EDT (17:00 GMT)

TRIAL SOFTWARE: IBM Mashup Center is an enterprise mashup platform enabling the rapid creation, sharing, and discovery of reusable application building blocks (widgets, feeds, mashups). Discover how these tools can use these components to easily assemble new applications or improve existing ones by downloading this free software trial.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Premiered: 09 Jun 2011

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Download the latest version of IBM Rational Software Architect V8 to experience the latest in design and modeling technologies, comprehensive support for emerging technologies around SOA and Java Enterprise Edition 5, and best of breed tools that integrate with IBM's product lifecycle management solutions.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Premiered: 09 Jun 2011

EZINE: This BPM Quarterly e-zine explores ways you can accurately gauge the progress of your BPM effort. Inside, find not only best practices and expert advice, but access to additional resources about reducing the complexity of BPM integrations and successfully combining BPM and customer relationship management (CRM).

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Small and midsize businesses that are using software as a service (SaaS) to automate their IT help desk(s) and IT infrastructure are reporting significant savings. Check out this white paper to learn more about the benefits of SaaS.

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 | Published: 05 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows you how a combined IBM and Wind River quality management solution can help you deliver higher-quality products to the marketplace faster.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: Software development teams are often faced with requirements to add new features to an existing code base. For many reasons, this sort of work can entail a lot of risk. This Expert Tip examines mistakes in managing the requirements process and how by looking at requirements from the perspective of all team members, these mistakes can be avoided.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

EBOOK: Facing increasing pressures from globalization and a sagging economy, manufacturers are between a rock and a hard spot. And many of them see Business Intelligence as an escape route. But does BI hold the answers for every manufacturer? How does BI differ from manufacturing intelligence? This eBook will answer these questions and more.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: FlexNet Manager for SAP Business Suite optimizes the SAP system measurement and checks for potential license savings. By checking the usage of each individual license, it determines whether the correct license type was purchased for a given user and whether enough licenses are available. This removes the guess work and optimizes license allocation.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Are you considering updating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 but are not sure of the best way to do so? In this presentation transcript, review recommended processes for upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange Server 2010. Discover common pitfalls you may experience during the upgrade process.

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the top ten best practices to help fulfill the SSLP’s mission of building hack-resilient software.

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: This e-guide discusses the benefits and drawbacks of consistency in ALM and the challenges associated with building and managing quality into the SDLC. This e-guide also provides a thorough overview of roles and responsibilities in an ALM-focused organization and more. Read on to gain a deeper insight into ALM.

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This white paper offers best practices and consideration for an enterprise migration to Windows 7. Learn what questions need to be answered before migrating and 5 crucial steps to a smooth and efficient migration. Also learn about Novell’s migration, maintenance, security and service management tool, ZENworks 11.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

EBOOK: SAP upgrades are a perennial challenge - especially for organizations with many instances or customizations. The struggling economy has also made it all the more difficult to make a case for a technical SAP ERP upgrade. But maintaining upgrade best practices and avoiding mistakes can help avoid costly downtime and issues during upgrade projects.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Automated testing will shorten your development cycles, avoid cumbersome repetitive tasks and help improve software quality but how do you get started? The best practices discussed in this white paper help ensure results and a successful foundation for improving your software quality.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010