Read this expert e-guide to explore collaborative practices that agile teams are using to minimize requirements churn and become familiar with some of the commercial and open source requirements management tools available today. 

This resource explains how you can lower costs and improve flexibility by migrating your mainframe to open system servers. Discover the three major factors driving organizations to consider migrating application workloads off mainframe environments to open systems solutions. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Watch this brief video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience  to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success. 

This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization. 

Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf documented their combined experience in the integration space and created the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" (EIP), which has since been adopted as the standard for describing messaging solutions. Check out this deck of flashcards to find definitions of integration design patterns based on EIP. 

Read this white paper to learn the appropriate metrics to use when analyzing workforce turnover and retention data, how to define them, and how to increase their value. 

Deploying open source projects safely and successfully in an enterprise environment requires thorough understanding and careful evaluation of each project. Read this paper to learn about the benefits, defining characteristics, and requirements for enterprise use of open source software technology. 

This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations.  

This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

<p>Read this white paper for an overview of JBoss Enterprise BRMS – an open source system that automates decisions by using simple rules development, access, and change management. Learn about the features and benefits of this system, as well as why BRMSs are important for the success of your business.</p> 

Juniper Research defines a mobile ticketing user as “someone who stores a ticket on their mobile phone for later redemption” at the point of travel, the music venue, the cinema etc. 

Although business rules management can mean different things to different people in the same organization, this white paper reminds us the important thing to remember is it is about business not technology. Read on to get a greater understanding of the benefits of business rules management software in an open source environment.