This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. 

This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products. 

In this economic downturn, organizations are looking to cut costs. Agile teams produce higher quality work, are quick to deliver and provide greater ROI. What can these teams do now to cut costs? Join us as Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, provides his expertise and guidance on this pressing topic for today. 

Sun's GlassFish Portfolio is a leading Web application platform for enterprises seeking a more open and cost-effective way to develop and deploy their Web application infrastructures. 

As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice. 

The combination of Sun Open Storage and the commercial open-source Infobright data warehousing and Pentaho business intelligence and ETL software packages dramatically lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure. 

This whitepaper details the challenges and solutions available for organizations wishing to improve their software development process, reduce costs, improve quality and increase reliability of planning. 

This paper addresses the benefits and challenges driving increased adoption of testing automation along with coordination of requirements and security. It also analyzes the adoption of complex sourcing approaches to development and the need for effective quality management in that context. 

An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts. 

With Microsoft no longer providing support for the VB development environment, now is the time to migrate to VB.NET, C# or Java. Migration requires deep understanding of the legacy as well as extensive knowledge of the target environment. Read this paper to learn how Transoft can help your organization migrate your VB applications. 

This session is designed to help you capture the best architecture/technical solutions and ensure that they are repeated by all developers. 

BI capabilities are becoming a must-have for independent software vendors. But customers and prospects are no longer satisfied with basic home-built solutions and offerings from legacy vendors. 

This white paper examines how Microsoft customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure, IT processes, and save money.