IT is challenged to meet rising business expectations while managing increasing infrastructure complexity at the lowest cost possible, and generic IT processes are no longer effective. 

The Open Group IT Specialist Certification Program (the Program) is designed to validate the existence of those qualities and skills in a professional that enable the effective development, implementation, and operation of IT solutions. 

This expert e-guide features insight from quality assurance expert Lisa Crispin on the risks and benefits of outsourcing performance testing. Crispin also offers tips on different performance testing measures and discusses performance testing specialists within agile software development. 

Learn twelve criteria to help you identify and select an ERP solution that fits your business needs. Find the right ERP provider that will help you implement quickly and achieve business objectives. 

A common characteristic of people-certification programs in the marketplace is that most test or validate the existence of relevant knowledge. Few reach beyond this. 

As current mainframe specialists approach retirement age, companies must take steps to ensure that their specialized knowledge is not lost. This video examines a recommended mainframe management tactic and its key benefits, including cost savings, greater collaboration, and more. 

In spirit, both traditional and agile project delivery embody similar principles and practices that aim to deliver measurable results 

See the integrated reporting, analysis and planning capabilities that can help your midsize business to drive greater efficiencies, manage costs and identify growth opportunities. 

Put your PC in your pocket with Pocket ACE. Watch this informative session to learn how you can deploy your PC to a variety of devices like USB memory sticks, laptops or even iPods. 

Oracle's Tom Atwood, Senior Principal Product Director and Gary Combs, SPARC Specialist discuss how you can refresh legacy systems onto the latest server technology and take advantage of virtualization techniques to help you build an efficient, agile datacenter. 

Watch this demo, 'Exalytics-Powered App Demo: Analyze Almost a Billion of Records Instantly,' for an in-depth video demonstration of how this tool works from the users perspective and just how easy it is to have the right BI and analysis at your fingertips. 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

This exclusive report for Computer Weekly readers by Juniper Research, offers a comprehensive briefing for senior IT professionals on the opportunities for NFC mobile payment technology, markets and trends.