Application Development White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Application testing is a critical step in the software development lifecycle, especially as application complexity and demand for faster delivery increases. In this resource, discover how end-to-end testing services can provide you with the tools that you need to more efficiently and effectively test your applications.

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, discover how you can achieve large-scale test automation throughout the application lifecycle by leveraging a test automation platform. Read on to discover the features, benefits, and components of this technology.

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: To ensure top-notch user experience on mobile apps, you need to conduct thorough testing - but mobile app testing isn't easy. How do you overcome the challenges such as unavailable testing components and unpredictable network conditions? Access this resource to find out how service virtualization for mobile app testing may be the key.

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 | Published: 13 Sep 2013

WHITE PAPER: This resource provides a comprehensive checklist to help you ensure high usability for each and every application you develop. Check it out now for 11 simple questions that allow you to track knowledge of your users, optimization of common tasks, simplicity of use, and much more.

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 | Published: 06 Sep 2013

WHITE PAPER: This helpful resource offers a vision guide for delivering any application with top-notch user experience throughout the lifecycle. Inside, you'll get a step-by-step outline (with tips) of what you need to consider during application development, from defining usage scenarios to prioritizing tasks to outlining navigation.

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 | Published: 05 Sep 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, learn how to take usability into consideration from the start of an app development project, and discover 11 usability rules particular for IT developers, to help you better understand and cater to your users.

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 | Published: 04 Sep 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this asset, read about Apptio, the leading provider of TBM solutions. Their suite of applications and SaaS delivery model provide IT organizations an efficient and cost effective approach to quickly adopt and realize the ongoing benefits of TBM.

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 | Published: 03 Sep 2013

WHITE PAPER: U.S. Gas & Electric knew they needed to modernize their IT system to grow the business and enter new markets - so how did they do it? Check out this brief case study to learn how USG&E integrated a new application development and management platform with existing applications and legacy systems.

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 | Published: 23 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, discover how a DevOps approach to continuous software delivery enables you to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback, resulting in higher quality software for your business and stakeholders.

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Open source options are taking the pain out of business process management (BPM), and putting the value of BPM within reach of more companies and projects. But is open source BPM the right move for you? Read on now to find out.

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 | Published: 13 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this brief two page white paper, you will discover a new appliance exploiting in memory computing capabilities offered by HP and SAP. Find out how this innovative approach enables you to rapidly analyze greater volumes of data and accelerate access to the right information.

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 | Published: 09 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, discover how a software development process known as behavior-driven development, combined with a tool that integrates business rules management, business process management (BPM), and complex event processing (CEP), enables you to speed up and improve the application delivery lifecycle.

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2013

WHITE PAPER: Discover how Patagonia developed an analytics application to monitor and forecast global inventory.

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 | Published: 30 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: With Salesforce Platform Mobile Services, developers and business users can quickly build engaging mobile apps—and connect customers, employees, partners, and products in new ways. Sign up now and get your free copy of the Salesforce Platform Mobile Services developer guide.

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 | Published: 26 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Read on to learn about a solution that has been shown to provide a flexible, efficient, and reliable application deployment platform, optimized and integrated for a scalable virtualized environment and an open on-ramp to the cloud.

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 | Published: 25 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper helps you improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the mainframe development processes via simple-to-use, centrally-configurable graphical modeling.

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 | Published: 25 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn about the pitfalls of mainframe application development and delivery. You’ll also discover how to tackle these challenges head-on by improving productivity, flexibility, and collaboration in the mainframe development process.

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 | Published: 25 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn about an advanced platform for ITSM that can help you empower your end-users to build their own custom applications. Discover the key advantages this approach can offer to your IT shop, end-users, and business as a whole and explore various customer success stories from your peers.

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 | Published: 24 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: This exclusive paper examines a set of application security testing solutions that are designed to analyze and test applications for security vulnerabilities using static, dynamic and interactive testing techniques. Read on to find out how you can stay ahead of the market.

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 | Published: 23 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn about a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that massively reduces the cost and disruption of change in your IT environment. Read on to learn how this technology provides the link between business operations and IT, so that systems are completely under control and you experience minimal risk.

Posted: 19 Jul 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: If you're only thinking of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) as a platform for application delivery, you're missing out on a wealth of potential in this technology. In this in-depth resource, explore how PaaS is changing cloud computing and discover six best practices for deploying a PaaS technology.

Posted: 18 Jul 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: The exodus of enterprise applications that are being developed for mobile needs to be coupled with stringent security and cross-platform support. This whitepaper discusses a mobile enterprise application platform that places emphasis on security, and addresses development challenges.

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 | Published: 18 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: Few organizations have succeeded in moving beyond static, up-front development timelines to the more dynamic process of working with agile teams. In this case study, discover how Getty Images managed to become one of the few agile champions after struggling with the transition to lean and agile development.

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Smart organizations realize that in today's IT landscape, a more holistic view of application lifecycle management (ALM) is in order, which is why they turn to the center of excellence (CoE) model. In this resource, learn how creating a testing CoE can help you improve application performance and quality at your own pace, while also cutting costs.

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents a technology overview of IBM Worklight and further discusses the four main components: Development tools; Runtime server environment; Security and authentication mechanisms; System requirements.

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 | Published: 03 Aug 2012