Lean software development and deployment should figure prominently in every organization’s IT strategy. The growing pervasiveness of virtual and cloud environments makes the need even more urgent.  Read this paper to learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lean, lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. 

IT considerations are not given adequate attention or rigour in the due diligence prior to mergers and acquisitions, this report from Ernst & Young reveals. 

This E-Guide features two articles from our editorial team on advice for implementing lean manufacturing templates, and how to prepare your current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for a more efficient and less wasteful environment. 

This paper illustrates how IFS Applications support lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop floor execution. This hybrid approach lets you go lean step by step, as you are able, not because an inflexible system forces you to do so. 

Read this paper for a comprehensive look into inventory inside the manufacturing plant - everything from inventory, to receipt of material, to finished products. Learn how to  take control of your inventory and supply chain to achieve lean manufacturing and increased efficiency and profitability. 

Do you have a large, complex set of interconnected, multi-tier applications that need ongoing development and testing? Spending too much time and resources setting up physical machines and resetting them than actually doing development and testing? Do you lack sufficient machines to test your multi-tier applications the right way? You're not alone. 

Using examples from six healthcare organizations, this document presents a business case for replacing interface engines, with the advanced capabilities of the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform. 

This 5-part series offers key tips and tools that can help prepare your organization for a workload optimized, integrated hardware and software appliance. Discover how to quickly on-board your applications so you can get the most from this advanced system. 

This guide discusses three advances that can improve database server performance and when administrators in small to midsize businesses (SMBs) should consider them. 

This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

<p>Gaining visibility into your applications is essential to overcoming the challenge of aligning business with IT. Watch this webcast featuring Manger of Global Applications and Architecture from The Hersey Company, Philip Buckley, to learn how Hersey improved their accessible information for manufacturing.</p>