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Learn how small and midsized businesses (SMBs) can benefit from BI tools. Wednesday, 2nd July 2008 Determining the Best Keyword Strategies for Your SEO and SEM Campaigns Keywords are not just single word phrases anymore; they are growing and live lists full of robust combinations of core keywords plus many qualifiers. Monday, 30th June 2008 Do's and Don'ts of Search Engine Optimization Examine the proper techniques of Search Engine Optimization as well as which ones to avoid. Monday, 30th June 2008 Website Redesign and Search Engine Optimization – Keys For Success Discover how a well executed strategy will ensure a smooth transition with new & optimized content, providing increased value for users & search engines. Monday, 30th June 2008 Best Practices for Implementing HP Quality Center Software This white paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center software, an integrated, web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing. Tuesday, 24th June 2008 Blind SQL injection: are your web applications vulnerable? Learn the techniques that can be used to take advantage of a Web application that is vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection, and to make clear the correct mechanisms that should be put in place to protect against Blind SQL Injection and similar input validation problems. Tuesday, 24th June 2008 Business Activity Monitoring: Smart Decisions with Real-time Visibility Discover how BAM can provide real-time, role based information to common business challenges. Monday, 9th June 2008 Smart SOA: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization SOA is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports agile business innovation and optimization. Monday, 9th June 2008 SOA Governance: Necessary Protection for a Strategic Business Investment Explore examples and learn from business and IT Executives who managed SOA projects that cite a lack of effective rules of engagement, technology and management practices, or strategic executive involvement as roadblocks to achieving desired value. Monday, 9th June 2008 Build the Business Case in Your Organization: You Get It, but Does Everybody Else Get It? Business Mashups drive business productivity by automating and coordinating collaboration across people and systems. But how do you justify the investment? How do you explain the power of Business Mashups to others in your organization? Thursday, 5th June 2008 Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Plat Innovations from the leading vendors of SCCM solutions are helping enterprises address the challenges of modern applications development. Thursday, 5th June 2008 The Business Case for Business Mashups: Help Your Organization Automate, Coordinate & Collaborate Business Mashups drive business productivity by automating and coordinating collaboration across people and systems. But how do you justify the investment? How do you explain the power of Business Mashups to others in your organization? Thursday, 5th June 2008 InfoWorld's Java IDE Comparison Strategy Guide Find out why CodeGear was named Best Java IDE. Tuesday, 13th May 2008 A Comparative Study of Commercial Eclipse-based IDEs Learn how an Eclipse-based IDE can be used to improve the productivity and quality of various Java projects when compared with using baseline Eclipse distribution. Monday, 12th May 2008 Transforming a Generic Java IDE to Your Application Specific IDE Improve software development by passing along shared knowledge and best practices. Monday, 12th May 2008 Prospecting Guide: What Every VAR Should Expect From a Software Vendor Download this guide today to understand where your expectations of a solution provider should be. Thursday, 24th April 2008 Electronic Gaming Monthly Brings you world-exclusive cover stories on the hottest upcoming games, unbiased 3 person game reviews & heavy-hitting interviews with gaming's most influential creators. Wednesday, 16th April 2008 The Top 3 Right Ways to Go Green Going green isn't just about saving the planet or hopping on the latest bandwagon, it's about the bottom line: save the environment and save money. Wednesday, 16th April 2008 5 Phases of OEM Report Development This white paper shares knowledge and insight gathered by Actuate over a decade of helping software, hardware and SaaS OEMs integrate reporting in to their application. Tuesday, 15th April 2008 Making Software Development Metrics Work Discuss the problems with first-generation programs and discover a new framework for an effective and lightweight metrics model. Monday, 31st March 2008 Managing Success in Outsourced or Offshored Software Development Use this framework to restore visibility and empowered decision making within your globally distributed software development projects. Monday, 31st March 2008 The 5 Essentials of Effective Software Development Metrics Discover the difference between brilliant insights and blind alleys on the path to metrics-driven software development. Monday, 31st March 2008 BEA WebLogic® Operations Control: Application Virtualization for Enterprise Java Learn how to take the next step in Java virtualization: achieving flexibility through policy-based, next-generation application virtualization technology. Tuesday, 25th March 2008 Enterprise Java Virtualization—Understanding the TCO Implications Cut ownership costs by letting enterprise Java applications run directly inside a virtual machine—without overhead from a traditional OS. Tuesday, 25th March 2008 The Java Virtual Appliance—No OS Required Learn how a new approach to Java virtualization can make your data center's hardware go farther—and run faster. Tuesday, 25th March 2008 First Data Accelerates .NET Developer Learning with InnerWorkings Explore how you can turn your .NET developer training program from a commonly ignored budget line-item into a strategic weapon in today's competitive software environment. Monday, 17th March 2008 On-Demand Contact Center Solutions: The Six Myths Learn how on-demand contact centers offer clear advantages over on-premise solutions. Tuesday, 11th March 2008 Making The Move - What to Do When You've Outgrown QuickBooks Before you spend a lot of your valuable time shopping, learn the 37 Essential Tips for Evaluating and Purchasing New Accounting Software... Monday, 3rd March 2008 The Business Benefits of Software-as-a-Service: Making the Most of the On-Demand Advantage Explore the business advantages and considerations in moving to "on-demand" and running your business via Software-as-a-Service. Monday, 25th February 2008 The Green Data Center - More than Social Responsibility: A Foundation for Growth, Economic Gain and Explore how environmental concern and business success can go hand in hand—and that a green, or environmentally friendly, data center may actually be one of the best ways to both accommodate growth and make a positive impact on their business' bottom line. Thursday, 14th February 2008 Open Source CMS Isn't Free (It's Not Even Cheap) Read this "apples to apples" comparison of the real costs that organizations should consider when acquiring a solution to manage their web site. Tuesday, 29th January 2008 IBM Rational Systems Development Solution eKit Learn about important topics that can affect the success of any software project. Wednesday, 23rd January 2008 Move from Microsoft® Outlook® 2003 to Lotus Notes® 8 Today A collaboration solution that can help people effectively share and manage information, make business decisions quickly, and streamline the way they work. Move from Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Lotus Notes 8 today. Wednesday, 23rd January 2008 Smart SOA Tutorial Learn how organizations need the agility to adapt rapidly and the adoption of SOA can help provide this agility and enable change. Wednesday, 23rd January 2008 Smart SOA White Paper: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization Learn how SOA enables you to integrate your business as linked, repeatable business tasks or services. Wednesday, 23rd January 2008 SD Times Is The Industry Newspaper for Software Development Managers. Wednesday, 2nd January 2008 Empowering your SOA with an Advanced Enterprise Bus WebSphere Message Broker software provides your business with an advanced ESB that enables you to implement an enterprise-wide SOA in stages, to meet your evolving business needs. Monday, 17th December 2007 Redbook: Connecting Enterprise Applications to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus This paper presents six questions IT operations should ask the enterprise architecture team before making the leap to a more dynamic, SOA-based environment. Monday, 17th December 2007 Robust Infrastructure for SOA: A Technical Introduction to IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Learn how WebSphere Extended Deployment can provide, increased throughput, reduced response times and linear scaling for existing applications, improved responsiveness in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment and the ability to support new, innovative applications and workload types. Monday, 17th December 2007 Software Strategies Analysts Report: Enterprise Integration Challenge Learn how vendor middleware-based Integration Solutions offer major advantages over custom in-house solutions. Monday, 17th December 2007 WebSphere MQ This SupportPac provides a demonstration tool which shows the main features of WebSphere MQ Queue Manager Clustering. Monday, 17th December 2007 Best Practices for Building and Deploying Employee Self-Service Solutions Learn about some of the challenges organizations face with self-service deployments and tips on how you can be successful. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 How to Take Advantage of Web 2.0 using Portal and Electronic Forms In this webcast you will learn how Cardiff University with the help of IBM Business Partner, Open Logic, is developing a solution that is helping the university to attain their goal of the "Modern Working Environment". Tuesday, 11th December 2007 IBM WebSphere Portal White Paper Learn how IBM Websphere Portal product not only generated savings in development and support costs, but also enhanced in-house productivity, improved customer access to business processes, and enabled Enterprise-wide collaboration numbering in the thousands of users at one time. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 Performance Dashboards Deliver Better Insight & More Informed Employees This webcast will provide an overview on IBM products and how businesses are leveraging these products to improve employee communication, insight and overall performance. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 Overcoming the Barriers of Stand-alone Business Applications Learn how the growing and mid-size businesses can benefit from operating with one integrated Business Management Software Suite. Tuesday, 27th November 2007 The Business Benefits of Software-as-a-Service: Making the Most of the On-Demand Advantage Explores the business advantages and considerations in moving to "on-demand" - and running your business via Software-as-a-Service. Tuesday, 27th November 2007 Oracle Coherence Software Downloads Learn how developers can easily take advantage of Oracle Coherence features using the standard Java collections API to access and modify data, and use the standard JavaBean event model to receive data change notifications. Functionality such as HTTP Session Management is available out-of-the-box for applications. Thursday, 25th October 2007 Oracle Coherence: Providing Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availabilit Organizations can gain significant advantage by managing and exploiting their information systems more effectively than their competitors. Thursday, 25th October 2007 A New Approach to Application Release Management Learn how to improve one of the most taken-for-granted responsibilities an IT organization has, the Release Management process. Monday, 8th October 2007 Adaptive Management to Drive .NET Application Service Levels Learn how to gain control of business critical .NET applications. Monday, 8th October 2007 Evolving Enterprise Applications Explore ERP from a lessons learned perspective and then look to the future for major transitions in ERP from a setting expectations approach. Monday, 8th October 2007 Realizing Continuous Performance Management Best Practices Documentation Learn step-by-step how to implement continuous performance management during application development. Monday, 8th October 2007 Queue Is a monthly magazine written specifically for the software development and IT practitioner community. Monday, 1st October 2007 CoDe Provides the Microsoft-oriented IT community with an advanced technology magazine that explains in-depth how to actually use Microsoft's development tools. Wednesday, 5th September 2007 IBM People Productivity with SOA Assessment Tool Improve the management of your IT infrastructure through an integrated set of IT services rather than managing it as groups of servers, software, databases and networks. Monday, 13th August 2007 The Future of Software Delivery This paper provides a brief description of past software delivery issues that have contributed to the current environment; identification of key trends that drive our industry today; and an outline of IBM Rational's future software delivery strategy. Monday, 13th August 2007 Software Test & Performance Is the magazine for software development managers, QA and test managers, developers and senior testers! Tuesday, 24th July 2007 An Introduction to Agile Software Development Learn about the key differences between agile and waterfall methodologies in this introductory overview. Monday, 23rd July 2007 The Business of Interactive Entertainment Appropriately sizing and hosting your online game project's infrastructure can improve your bottom line. Friday, 20th July 2007 Using Advanced Compiler Technology to Exploit the Performance of the Cell Broadband Engine™ Arc Exploit the true potential of next generation game consoles. Friday, 20th July 2007 ALM in Geographically Distributed Development Environments Learn about distributed development project challenges and how to ensure their success. Friday, 6th July 2007 Survival Guide: Issue and Defect Tracking - A Field Manual Don't get lost in the application development jungle with only your version management skills to protect you. Thursday, 5th July 2007 Process Efficiencies and Cost-Cutting Measures for Industrial and Commercial Machinery Manufacturers Transform processes to become more efficient or get swallowed up by the larger technological transformation already underway. Monday, 21st May 2007 The Impact of Microsoft.NET on the ERP Market .NET is based on recognition that the Internet is the application platform of the future. This statement can be viewed as the underlying goal of .NET, the root cause of all the commotion. Monday, 21st May 2007 Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture and Its Impact on Small - Midsize Manufacturers Learn how the potential of SOA to transform enterprise software applications has been well documented within leading industry trade publications. Monday, 21st May 2007 Why .NET Technology is important for ERP Learn the benefits derived from modern systems built with .NET managed code. Monday, 21st May 2007 Visualize It! Getting Requirements Right the First Time, with industry expert Karl Wiegers Find out the key to getting requirements right, before development starts! Friday, 20th April 2007 The Embedded Software Industry: Challenges and Successes Best practices to master approaches for success in integration, innovation, and industrialization to become a high performance business. Tuesday, 17th April 2007 Forrester Report: The Changing Face of Application Lifecycle Management IT organizations spend billions of dollars a year on development lifecycle tools that don't play well together. But tomorrow's ALM platforms will be easier to implement, maintain, and employ and they'll enable development organizations to build better software. Friday, 6th April 2007 Discover The Power of UNIX-to-Windows Try MKS Toolkit: A proven solution for Enterprise Developers-the ultimate in UNIX-to-Windows migration. Wednesday, 21st March 2007 Better Software Is the only magazine that provides insight and techniques to improve results throughout the application development lifecycle. Tuesday, 20th March 2007 Top Considerations for Ensuring .NET Application Manageability 8 strategies for managing and improving new or existing .NET applications. Thursday, 22nd February 2007 Application Integration for a Software as a Service (SaaS) World Highlights integration issues specific to SaaS and explores three integration approaches to solving these problems. Friday, 16th February 2007 MKS X/Server: A High Performance, Low Cost PC X Server - The POWER of UNIX on Windows MKS X/Server provides secure, seamless access to character and X-based UNIX applications from the Windows desktop. This allows you to leverage the benefits of new desktop platforms while connecting to UNIX applications throughout the enterprise. Monday, 29th January 2007 Software Magazine Is a 25-year-old historically print publication written for IT managers who specify, recommend and purchase software products and services. Wednesday, 10th January 2007 Enterprise Software: Benefits of Third-Party Support & Maintenance Hear about selection criteria and strategies for having third-party support and how TomorrowNow's enterprise software support model can benefit your organization. Sunday, 7th January 2007 How to Lower Costs of Enterprise Software Maintenance and Support Services and remove risk, ensure stability and enable innovation with TomorrowNow's enterprise software support model. Sunday, 7th January 2007 Taking the "Entitlement" Out of Enterprise Software Learn about lower cost models and new maintenance options to help reassess your IT budget for enterprise software. Sunday, 7th January 2007 Tropical Shipping Discovers Savings with TomorrowNow Support Services How TomorrowNow provided cost and time savings while improving enterprise software support, and reduced company strain. Sunday, 7th January 2007 A Strategic Platform for Enterprise Search and Text Analytics Powers Key Business Applications Explore SOA compliant enterprise search architecture that can improve business process and enable informed decision making. Monday, 18th December 2006 Achieving Balance with Business Process Governance Achieving Balance with Business Process Governance Monday, 18th December 2006 SOA Governance: Making it Effective Understand how SOA governance fits within the overall corporate governance framework and how to make it work effectively. Monday, 18th December 2006 Software Testing as a Strategic Business Advantage Discusses the importance of implementing a more proactive approach to testing that supports team communication and early detection of errors. Monday, 18th December 2006 Creating Robust Infrastructure for SOA Learn how to provide your IT department with the ability to achieve an extremely scalable, highly available and secure platform for SOA. Monday, 18th December 2006 SOA Middleware: A Solution for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments An overview of collaborative SOA environments and how one solution makes the benefits of an SOA achievable. Tuesday, 5th December 2006 Bulletproof .NET Code: A Practical Strategy for Developing Functional, Reliable, and Secure .NET Cod Is your development team among those who are turning to .NET languages to drive application logic for your business-critical SOA and Web applications? If so, you know that functional errors are not acceptable. Reliability, security, and performance problems can have serious repercussions! Friday, 17th November 2006 Bulletproof Java Code: A Practical Strategy for Developing Functional, Reliable, and Secure Java Cod Use Java? If you do, you know that Java software can be used to drive application logic of Web services or Web applications. Perhaps you use it for desktop applications? Or, embedded devices? Whatever your use of Java code, functional errors are the enemy! Friday, 17th November 2006 How to Replicate Reported Bugs in Web Applications the First Time, Every Time As Web applications become increasingly complex and distributed, do you find that communication among business analysts, quality assurance, and developers has become more complex? Friday, 17th November 2006 Trusting Reusable Business Components in SOA and Web Services As you likely know, a primary benefit to implementing SOA or utilizing Web Services is the ability to reuse business components. However, the same efficiencies that provide an avenue for application consolidation and reuse also introduce a distinct level of business risk. Friday, 17th November 2006 Enterprise Mashups Primer: An Introduction Learn how Enterprise Mashups are easy to create, and involve purely web-based assets that can be deployed faster and cheaper than traditional enterprise applications and integration technologies. Download a free whitepaper now. Wednesday, 8th November 2006 The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity Help ensure business continuity and survival with four essential steps—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right solution. Monday, 30th October 2006 Event Stream Processing and Event Driven Architectures Describes the motivation for EDA, introduces ESP, and describes how ESP technology fits neatly within the ESB/SOA model. Wednesday, 25th October 2006 Get Up to Speed on Event Stream Processing - Architectural Foundations Explores key criteria for deciding on a strategic event processing platform (ESP). Wednesday, 25th October 2006 SOA Business Breakout: An Insider's Guide to ESB Success Dave Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Progress Sonic, speaks to what he has learned from Sonic's customers. Wednesday, 25th October 2006 Survey Report: The Current State of SOA Governance As organizations begin to adopt SOA's, understand the practitioner's point of view and learn about current observations on this critical issue. Wednesday, 25th October 2006 Puzzled by SOA? Ensuring Resiliency for Your Service Oriented Architecture Tells you about the key technologies for ensuring the seamless sharing of IT resources, and delivering automated resiliency against both unexpected interruptions and planned system downtime. Thursday, 19th October 2006 Implementing a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Pilot Program Will present Actional's best practices for selecting and implementing a successful SOA pilot and then how to utilize the experience and lessons learned to migrate to an enterprise-class SOA. Monday, 16th October 2006 The Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition Provides a thorough definition of the ESB, including complete UML diagrams that provide a conceptual view of the ESB components. Monday, 16th October 2006 On demand Web Demo - Gain Control and Reduce Costs in Your Desktop Environment (replay April 12 Web Learn how to automate and enforce software provisioning of the entire IT stack, from operating systems to patches to applications. Tuesday, 10th October 2006 IDC ROI Report - Quantifying the Return on Investment from Deploying Configuration Management Soluti Learn how to automate and enforce software provisioning of the entire IT stack, from operating systems to patches to applications. Tuesday, 10th October 2006 Mastering the Complexity of Software Development In this paper you will gain valuable insight into how Configuration Management (CM) is the discipline that applies control to the lifecycle of digital assets. To ensure successful development, a configuration management solution should offer developers a proven, team-oriented workflow approach that scales to meet their needs - from small teams to large distributed teams. Friday, 22nd September 2006 Best Practices for Software Projects: An Introduction to Task-based Configuration Management In this paper you will learn about Task-Based Configuration Management, a best practice that increases developer productivity by automating the error-prone activities of traditional Configuration Management (CM). It enables project managers to control their builds, and provides a competitive edge by improving team communication and collaboration. Friday, 22nd September 2006 The Changing Face of Application Lifecycle Management IT organizations spend billions of dollars a year on development lifecycle tools that don't play well together. But tomorrow's ALM platforms will be easier to implement, maintain, and employ and they'll enable development organizations to build better software. Monday, 18th September 2006 IDC Executive Brief: Driving Enterprise Change Management for Business Responsiveness Lay out the factors supporting market growth, the benefits of coordination, and the need for process and organization strategies as a complement to automated tools. Thursday, 1st June 2006 Requirements Management: The Proven Way to Accelerate Development Renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case for requirements management as an integral part of any product lifecycle. Friday, 10th March 2006 |