The downside to modern software delivery strategies such as cloud computing, mobile apps, and agile and composite development methods, is the often overlapping complexities that these innovations introduce to application lifecycles. View this webcast to learn strategies for application lifecycle management (ALM) that reconcile this new complexity. 

This white paper introduces strategies for the successful automation of QA testing in agile software development. Inside, discover the innovative strategies which make it possible to achieve automated testing without sacrificing speed or quality. 

Supply chains are the blood of your business - incredibly complex, yet vital to your success. This paper explores the relationship between partners and processes and the need to enable electronic data exchange with all your suppliers. Read this to learn about the limitations of traditional integration methods and new options that enable e-commerce. 

This white paper discusses strategic workforce planning for a changing business environment and methods for improving your business strategy. 

This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available. 

Choosing sourcing and procurement software can be overwhelming. Should you go with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) or best-of-breed vendor? Is the cloud or on-premise the best place to run your app? What functionality should the software provide? Read this expert e-guide to learn how to select a useful, cost-effective procurement system. 

Read this white paper to learn how ALM tools designed specifically for today's modern application development can bring order, visibility, and efficiency to the complexity introduced to application lifecycles by modern delivery methods like cloud computing, distributed development, composite applications, and more. 

The globalization of all industries, the need to decrease application lifecycles and the adoption of agile tools and methods are building momentum and taking on a life of their own. Enterprises of all kinds are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver end-to-end ALM for business agility. 

This expert e-guide will help you formulate an application performance management strategy. Read this now and learn about certain techniques that can help your agile development team prevent potential problems before deploying apps. Discover why communication is an essential component to preventing problems, as well as three testing models. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

<p>To enjoy the flexibility and resource savings of a private cloud, you need to know where to begin with building one. In this issue of <em>Cloud Development Digest, </em>find best practices and expert recommendations for implementing a private cloud.</p> 

<p>The sheer complexity of new Web 2.0 technologies, the ever-growing and changing number of toolkits, and the absence of industry standards make it nearly impossible to find an accurate functional testing method for Web 2.0 applications. Read this white paper to discover the answer to this problem.</p>