Microsoft patterns and practices provides .NET developers with guidance, tools, libraries, and frameworks to help them build better applications.  Development teams adopting patterns and practices achieved greater developer productivity and improved ongoing application management and application performance. 

The demand for greater ecommerce capabilities is growing leading CIOs and IT professionals concerned with choosing the perfect vendor. Through this in-depth vendor analysis by Gartner, uncover the top 6 questions you should ask and the strengths and weaknesses of the top 20 e-commerce vendors. 

This white paper outlines a case study on Harvard Business Publishing and how they improved their Web content management system with Alfresco. 

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. 

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. 

Constant product innovation has contributed to a thriving equipment-manufacturing industry, however, fewer time-saving tools are available to QA than developer groups. As a result, testing is becoming an innovation barrier. This paper examines the innovation barrier: its causes, effects, & what’s needed to restore the vigorous pace of innovation. 

This paper discusses the security challenges associated with web applications, the importance of a comprehensive web application security strategy, and how IBM Rational solutions use IBMs virtually unmatched insight and experience to help companies create security-rich web applications. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn about a mobile software development kit that can help you improve the text recognition and conversion capabilities of your mobile applications.</p> 

<p>For any business to stay competitive, they must get their products and services quickly and in a cost-effective manner. Luckily, a new, integrated system is helping organizations accomplish this goal. Read this white paper to learn more about this advanced platform and the beneficial features it offers your IT software development team.</p> 

This paper details how the cloud can help organizations accelerate their adoption to Agile software development, and more quickly and cost-effectively realize Agile’s numerous business benefits. 

Virtualization is changing the development, quality assurance (QA), and operations teams of many IT organizations. Read this white paper to learn how virtualization is helping organizations like yours achieve the ultimate goal of staying on schedule and budget while producing a high degree of quality. 

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.