Why the Cloud Is Advantageous for Agile, and for Accelerating its Enterprise-wide Adoption

How leading firms are winning with strategies for efficient application development, without relying on co-location.

In this ever-changing world of software development, it's critical to keep up with technologies, methodologies and trends. Discover five tested and proven software development practices your team should be utilizing to accelerate software delivery.

You're invited to access an exclusive offering called "Interactive Industry Solution Portal for Small and Midsize Businesses" available now. Contained within this portal are 15 separate, industry-specific videos, each with free, downloadable solution offerings.

While the rise of web-enabled applications and the zero latency customers expect from them has driven many enterprises to adopt performance management solutions, they are finding that basic understanding of how their overall user populations are being served is simply not enough.

You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Gain insights into the benefits of running your help desk in the cloud.

BMC software and salesforce.com have joined forces to deliver BMC ServiceDesk on Remedy Force, an ITIL help desk, self service, and inventory management solution on the Force platform. This paper explains the patented technology that makes the Force.com platform fast, scalable, and secure.

Small and midsize companies shouldn't have to use less efficient, limited-functionality service desk solutions. Today's cloud-based help desks pack the same punch as on-premise enterprise solutions, without a large up-front investment or long installation time. Read more to find out how to get started with a cloud-based help desk today.

Help Desk software as a service is attractive to many IT departments. It offers the same benefits of traditional IT help desk solutions, in addition to reducing capital expenses, accelerating implementation, and providing easier upgrades. This paper explores considerations for implementing IT service management in-house or as a service.

In economic times like these, leading companies are looking to cloud-computing applications and IT Help Desk is increasingly in demand. Subscribing to help desk software has many benefits over in-house installation, but cloud-computing requires an increase in responsibility to ensure outstanding service delivery. This paper outlines best practices for selecting cloud-computing solutions.

This report is the result of the largest public-private sector research project focused on open source software integrity, originally initiated between Coverity and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The results from the 2010 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report detail the findings of analyzing more than 61 million lines of open source code from 291 popular and widely-used open source projects such as Android, Linux, Apache, Samba and PHP, among others.

voke Names Coverity as a Transformational Company in the Testing Market Coverity has been rated as a Transformational company in the voke, inc. Market Mover Array Report for Testing Platforms. Coverity's rating is recognition of the impact that Coverity's software integrity strategy is making in shaping the future of the testing market.

This white paper describes an approach that provides these performance metrics for specific IT stakeholders, all drawn from data collection and analytics that support a holistic, integrated approach to optimizing IT service delivery.

Find out how Coverity has helped Frequentis ensure a high level of software integrity to support its product mission of freedom from failure, while continually improving the productivity of its developers.

How do your profit margins compare to other MSPs? Attend this free online webinar with legend, Gary Pica, President of TruMethods; 'Driving MSP Profit Margins'.

When it comes to words, less can be more. A little can say a lot. "Man overboard!" "You're hired." "I love you." Or in business, "The prospect is ready to sign, call him before he leaves for vacation!" With the explosion of Twitter over the past year - for personal as well as business, brand-building use - it seems that now, more than ever, is an appropriate time to investigate the benefits of internal microblogging for the enterprise. When correctly carried out, the benefits of launching an internal microblogging platform for your company can be substantial and wide-ranging. This NewsGator paper will provide you with initial information regarding microblogging in the enterprise.

In this whitepaper I argue that the person most affected by the introduction of agile or extreme programming techniques is not the software or quality assurance engineer, but the build manager. And the build manager can no longer make do with home grown tools; software production automation tools are required to make agile development a build reality.

Success stories from companies who didn't wait until it was too late. Learn how leading companies are following these truths to take the ambiguity out of managing their organizations and are now leading their businesses into the next business boom.

Marketing. Advertising. Research. The Web has become the center of many fundamental business activities. Not coincidentally, it has also become the main source of malware. However, many businesses have not recognized this fact. They continue to dedicate most of their security resources to email defenses. Yet, email only makes up about 15% of incoming malware. It's the other 85% that comes via the Web that needs your attention. A robust Software-as-a-Security perimeter solution, together with desktop protection, will effectively protect your enterprise against Web-based threats.

This paper describes the approaches in MDD, explains how CA Gen fits into the larger picture of application development, and relates customer experiences to underpin the quiet success. Access this White Paper now to learn how to CA Gen goes one step further!

Corporate IT teams are waging a significant security battle on two fronts these days: stopping attacks via the Web and through email. The more complex these threats become the more infrastructure companies have to bring in house, sending capital expenditures through the roof. In fact, companies are seeing drawbacks to owning and managing their own security infrastructure. Security SaaS solves this problem. This white paper discusses the top seven reasons why security SaaS makes sense.

IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA help software delivery and QA teams to improve the quality of SOA solutions, by automating the creation, execution and analysis of functional, regression and performance tests of non-GUI business processes and services. In this webcast, we will demonstrate the benefits of IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA.

Accurate communication is the key to the success of the bug tracking process. This communication takes the form of timely information flow between customers, QA and Development. Reducing the time spent on tasks that communicate bug information saves money.

Here’s a test: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on now? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria such as whether the issue is a bug, customer request, or product enhancement? Can you show the histories of all related comments and actions? Can you distribute this information easily to concerned individuals — showing only the information relevant to them?

Elementool, a leading provider of web-based project management tools for developers, including bug, defect, time-tracking and help desk tools, has announced the release of a bug tracking add-in tool for developers using the Visual Studio.NET 2005 platform. It is available free to Elementool’s community of project management solution subscribers.