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Borland Agile Testing Survey Results 2009 - Update

The driver for this paper was to understand in greater detail the needs of Quality Assurance QA organizations in Agile software delivery projects. Borland is managing its own Agile transformation and has discovered challenges that appear to be consistent with other enterprises who have embarked on a company - wide...

Tags: Borland Software Corp., Survey, Agile Software, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2009-07-01

New version of Oracle PLM tool helps IT streamline product development

In this economy, IT and engineering departments are not only lean, but many of them naturally become more risk-averse. That's bad for business because successful companies and IT groups use technology as an innovative and competitive advantage and in order to do that you have to take some healthy risks....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Supplier, Agile Software, Tool, Product Development, Product Marketing, Channel Management, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Eight Steps to Implement Agile Software Product Testing Practices

The new economic reality puts spotlight on agile software product development. Agile provides the opportunities to reduce cost of development and achieve payback on the investment sooner than in the traditional approach by allowing decisions on the product future before making the full investment. Software Product Testing in an agile...

Tags: Software, Software Product, Agile Software, Proteans Software Solutions, Product Development, Product Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing

White papers 2009-05-14

Social Networking Solution for Wireless Communications Provider, Using Agile Methodologies

The client was looking to assemble a team, which working under the Agile Software Development concept, could easily adapt to its processes and work on the creation of social applications that interface its mobile devices with YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and the likes. At the beginning the challenge was getting...

Tags: Network, Wireless Communication, Agile Software, Wireless, Softtek, Team Management, Software Development, Social Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Management, Software/Web Development, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Case studies 2009-03-04

From Waterfall to Agile Software Development: 4 Critical Steps for a Smooth Transition

The transition from waterfall to agile software development requires careful planning, collaboration and change management. When implemented correctly, the agile model can result in project team accelerating production efforts and working more cohesively. Waterfall and agile are two unique development models used in interactive and software production. It's likely the...

Tags: Software, Waterfall, Agile Software, ExecutiveBrief, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Change Management, Web Site Development, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management, Internet

White papers 2009-01-01

New Tool Set Provides Improved Support for Agile Software Development

CC Intelligent Solutions CCIS used a mix of tools to support software development, which resulted in a drain on productivity, software quality issues, and suboptimal communication. The company addressed those issues with an application lifecycle management strategy enabled and supported by Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, which provides role-based tools...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Agile Software, Tool, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2007-11-01

Oracle to buy Agile Software

Oracle to buy Agile SoftwareWow, how many companies can Oracle buybefore they're the biggest, baddest, and least competed against company around?Nice Move; HonorCongrats to BMW Oracle for the win yesterday. Oracle is doing so much for the USA that it deserves recognition beyond just thanks. How about a Meddle of...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Agile Software

Discussion threads 2007-05-16

Agile Software and the Google Search Appliance

Agile Software Corporation delivers Product Lifecycle Management PLM solutions that global corporations use to connect employees, departments, and partners in order to facilitate collaboration on product design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. The systems holding information were being used independently, with no ability to run a unified search across them. Agile...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Google Search, Agile Software, Google Search Appliance, Product Marketing, Cloud Computing, Marketing

Case studies 2007-01-08

Agile Work Uses Lean Thinking

Lean and Agile are both methods of improving the effectiveness and performance of work processes. Lean comes primarily from manufacturing and in particular the Toyota Production System. Agile comes primarily from Agile Software Development and Project Management. Agile Work has borrowed heavily from Lean thinking and practices. There are three...

Tags: Team, Agile Software, Agile Work, Team Management, Software Development, Project Management, Management, Software/Web Development, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2006-02-22

Meeting Customer Demand for Agentless Technology: Using Agile Software Development Methodology

To meet customer demands, many software vendors embrace the concept of agile software development, an approach based on following adaptive principles and working with teams that are focused on accelerating the process for delivering high-quality software that is easy to implement and manage. This paper reviews how BMC Software used...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Monitoring, Agile Software, It Management, It service Management

White papers 2006-02-21

BEA Systems Case Study: Agile Software

Agile Software Corporation is a leading supplier of business-to-business collaborative manufacturing commerce solutions. Agile is deploying the BEA AquaLogic User Interaction for its 200 employees enterprise-wide. The BEA-powered Agile Corporate Portal features a Magic Help Desk portlet that empowers employees to perform event management and asset inventory from personalized portal...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Agile Software, Portals, Asset Management, Web Technology, Manufacturing, Internet, Operational Planning, Business Operations

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News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -  announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Advanced Time Reports Web Premier 8.18.200 (Windows)

Advanced Time Reports Web will help you increase your billable hours by better managing all your projects, clients and working hours. All of ATR functionality now available in pure 100% web-based application. Manage your projects, receive updates, create reports and view team schedules - all remotely from any place in...

Tags: Web, Team, Microsoft Windows, Xpress Software, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine

Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...

Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Performance Claim, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

Tags: SOA, Conference, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Yahoo pays its 'technical debt' with IT overhaul

Yahoo had a lot of "technical debt"---systems that most companies would call legacy infrastructure---and has it just about paid off. Sam Pullara, chief technologist at Yahoo, walked developers through its infrastructure changes over the last three years. The talk could have come from any enterprise that finds...

Tags: Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Pullara, HBase, YQL, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value

While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-06

The as-a-service business model

Insurance policyFor many small businesses, why would you want to invest into hardware and have to maintain that infrastructure?... The reality is that software companies must move this model down to the small business and show how a "monthly fee" pay as you go can save so much more money...

Tags: SaaS Model, business model

Discussion threads 2009-10-05