In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

Your company’s success relies heavily on the quality of its core  business applications. Watch this webcast to see how Levi Strauss & Company cut costs and improved their operational efficiency with SAP’s application life cycle management solution (ALM). <br /><br /> 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

The IBM Rational ALM value estimator illustrates how your organization can be positively impacted by the use of Rational software solutions as you manage your software development and delivery from definition to deployment. 

As today’s applications become more complex, QA organizations need an updated approach that preserves the benefits of manual testing while significantly improving its efficiency, accuracy and speed. Read this paper to learn how to modernize your manual testing approach and reduce test cycles, streamline dev/test communication, and lower costs. 

This white paper will help you better understand the Project Management Life Cycle by introducing the Project Management Network Diagram (PM Network Diagram) from Global Knowledge. This diagram provides a visual illustration of the life cycle and can help you prepare for the PMP exam. 

There are substantial security benefits to developers and security personnel working together, yet they are often viewed as being like oil and water. In this paper, discover how to integrate software development and security effectively and pain-free by using the right tools and techniques. 

This paper examines the relationship between business and IT groups within the typical enterprise and explores how the implementation of a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) allows both groups to find common ground. 

This white paper describes how combining your front-end business strategy to downstream technical execution helps you overcome rapid technological changes, shortens product lifecycles and turns innovative ideas into profitable business opportunities. 

This resource demonstrates how a buy-and-hold strategy can add data center costs that many of today’s enterprises simply can’t afford. Read on to learn more about server replacement cycles and the ongoing operational costs of holding on to legacy hardware platforms long past their recommended life-cycle. 

Private cloud database-as-a-service enables IT organizations to control database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how to build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.