Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Neocleus presents end-point virtualization use cases
- I just read an interesting press release from Neocleus, in which they present the use cases that their product can address. It's a good start for a newcomer to the industry. The company appears to have looked at the issues everyone else is seeing and took a different approach to...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Information Technology, Environment, Use Case, Neocleus Use Case, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- White Paper: Tips for Writing Good Use Cases
- Writing good use cases is more of an art than a science. In this IBM Rational white paper "Tips for writing good use cases," IBM requirements evangelist Jim Heumann explores the history and function of the use case, then provides a set of tips to help teams incorporate best practices...
- Tags: Use Case, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Use Case Modeling
- Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends April 30, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsUse case modeling is a graphical approach to describing requirements for a system. As a fundamental component to identifying requirements for a new...
- Tags: Use Case
- Training 2008-04-01
- Veotag demonstrates video value
- The last six months has seen an explosion in the number of video startups looking to make their name. Most are in the consumer space with little idea of how to monetize. Veotag, which was founded in 2006, is different. I first came across the company...
- Tags: Use Case, Video, Veotag, Veotag Platform, JoVE Site, Corporate Communications, Podcasts, Marketing, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktop
- Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktopprism bookmarkletthis IS cool to see. I noticed that many people have tried prism+zimbra or gmail and other web email systems. I personally use gmail+grouphub inside of Prism everyday. I mostly leave the grouphub campfire...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRISM, prism, Zimbra, rich Internet application, desktop, Use Case
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktop
- Matt Asay loves the new Zimbra Desktop client. They're using Prism as the desktop client, the project from Mozilla labs that came out of Mozilla's WebRunner. It's great to see people like Matt get the need for desktop applications. More and more I think people are realizing that they just...
- Tags: Desktop Client, Use Case, Zimbra, Rich Internet Application, Web Browser, Matt Asay, Desktops, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- The Forrester Wave: Information-as-a-Service, Q1 2008
- Forrester evaluated leading enterprise Information-as-a-Service IaaS vendors across 94 criteria and found that BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat have established leadership positions, thanks to their IaaS capabilities, breadth of focus, and strong product and corporate strategy. BEA Systems and Oracle were the only vendors that topped all IaaS...
- Tags: Use Case, Forrester Research Inc., Leadership, Management
- White papers 2008-01-23
- QuickUML (exe)
- QuickUML is a software design application that tightly integrates a core set of UML models with code generation for several languages. An entire project is presented through a tabbed window that includes use cases, class models, object models, dictionary and code and saved as an XML file. Use cases document...
- Tags: Use Case, QuickUML, Code Manager, UML, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-12-12
- OpenID 2.0 specification released
- The OpenID 2.0 specification was finalized at IIW this week. OpenID 2.0 comprises two separate specifications: OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0. Getting 2.0 out the door has been a long process, but the additions will be a real boost to OpenID's usefulness. ...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Use Case, Blog, Specification, Wordpress, User, News, OpenID 2.0, OpenID 1.0, Relying Party, Blogging, Internet, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Help your analysis team draft an actionable detailed use case
- An analysis team writes detailed use cases to describe the steps and characteristics of business processes. While use cases are often a central feature of a software requirements specification, business analysts often employ use cases in a broader context. The bulk of this document is a use case example that...
- Tags: Team, Use Case, Analysis, Analysis Team
- Download resources 2007-12-04
- 10 reasons why use cases are indispensable to your software development project
- Well-written use case narratives (or simply "use cases") offer the analysis, development, and testing teams an invaluable guidebook. A use case is a formalized story that describes how someone procedurally interacts with an existing or proposed system. Here are ten reasons why they should be part of a project managers'...
- Tags: Software, Software Development, Use Case
- Download resources 2007-11-08
- Categorize high-level requirements into use case titles for better project management
- Many business analysts use Unified Modeling Language use case diagrams to identify the actors and their high-level actions in a system. These diagrams help an analysis team clarify and understand the project domain and high-level functions. Unfortunately, UML use cases fail to tell us much about the details of a...
- Tags: Project Management, Use Case, UML, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Download resources 2007-10-17
- EventStudio System Designer (msi)
- EventStudio System Designer, a use case and sequence diagram based systems engineering and architecture design tool that runs on Windows. EventStudio takes a different approach to modeling. Users model the system in a text based modeling language. EventStudio analyzes the model for design errors and automatically generates use case and...
- Tags: Use Case, Modeling, EventStudio System Designer, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Fault Tolerance in a Virtual World: How Common Use Cases Raise Your Criticality Quotient
- As server virtualization goes mainstream, the workloads of virtual machines are taking on mission-critical proportions. Uses range from application-dense server consolidation, to failover and disaster recovery, to managing the virtualized infrastructure. Downtime and data loss pose harsh consequences in scenarios like these. This paper looks at five use cases to...
- Tags: Stratus Technologies, Fault-tolerance, Use Case, Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-08-01
- VMware Infrastructure for SAP Enterprise Applications - Use Cases
- Virtualization allows the user to run multiple applications and operating systems independently on a single server. Administrators can quickly move workloads from one virtual workspace to another - easily prioritizing business needs while maximizing server resources. Flexibility in the allocation of computing capacity allows the consolidation of applications and servers....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Use Case, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Enterprise Application, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-05-16
- 'Fifty' may be the magic number for SOA governance
- 'Fifty' may be the magic number for SOA governancewow that's nuts!I'm pretty amazed by this "magic number" and am going to try to heap scorn on it without any scorn getting on my good friend Joe McKendrick who is just here to report the things people come up with to...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), magic number, SOA governance, SOA, Use Case
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- On Enriching Ajax With Semantics: The Web Personalization Use Case
- With the dawn of Ajax the capabilities of tracking user behavior multiplied. The same holds for the capabilities of adapting the user interface in a Web browser. To provide meaningful adaptation, the events, context and elements of an Ajaxified Portal must be given meaning. This paper shows the use of...
- Tags: Web, Use Case, Adaptation, Personalization, Ontology, AJAX, Portals, Strategy, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management
- White papers 2007-03-16
- Analyze Use Cases by Architectural Relevance: Using Architectural Mechanisms to Improve the Software Development Life Cycle
- The term architectural relevance refers to a system aspect, either functional or nonfunctional, that is central to determining the fundamental structure of that system. One of the core best practices for software development is to focus on the highest areas of system risk early in the development project. Typically, an...
- Tags: Software, Use Case, Video, Corporate Communications, Software Development, Video On Demand (VoD), Development Tools, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2007-01-23
- The "Very cool" moment: Making useful software
- After reading a few complaints about their open source product in a forum I monitor, a developer on the project replied:"Our current product is a well used and good product for the use cases it was originally created for. However, that is not what the majority of users want to...
- Tags: software, Use Case
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
- Prototyping a Novel Platform for the Free-Trade of Digital Content
- The widespread use of mobile, personal computing devices, together with recent advances in wireless communication technologies, poses a myriad of new opportunities for leveraging the commerce of digital goods. The paper envision a novel platform for the free-trade of digital content where ordinary users are allowed to market and resell...
- Tags: Wireless Communication, Use Case, Digital Content, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-09-26
White Papers and Webcasts
With key platform innovations built-in, the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series offers more headroom, reliability, and the highest expandability for large-scale server consolidation.
