If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008. 

This white paper will highlight solutions for application development in globally dispersed organizations. Insights and strategies for maximizing efficiencies in a distributed environment will be presented, along with best practices. 

Using modern-day Agile techniques such as automation and cloud hosting solutions, today’s IT leaders have opportunities to reap better returns on their ALM investments. In this issue, experts will share source code control system automation strategies, hosting options for code repositories and trends in requirements management tools. 

<p>Read this expert article to find best practices for keeping your iteration and release cycles in sync even as your Agile development projects becoming increasingly complex.</p> 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This resource showcases nine ways to help ensure HIPAA compliance and prepare for the inevitability of an audit. Moreover, learn key ways to stay compliant even as you manage disparate systems. 

The more you know about built-in functionality in the .NET framework and ASP.NET, the less code you have to write, which ultimately makes your applications more maintainable. This white paper outlines several different tips to enhance developer productivity and reduce the amount of code that needs to be written in many cases. 

This white paper takes an exclusive look at how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are overcoming their order processes challenges by making smart use of their technology, understanding the true cost of manual transactions, and automating their processes. 

Read this case study to learn about a medical software device development company that needed to meet the compliance standards and regulations put forth by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and did so through comprehensive software development lifecycle management that integrates risk management with principles for software validation. 

Although enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an important tool for boosting operational efficiency and cost savings, it also offers manufacturers a leg-up in their globalization efforts. Read this white paper to see how critical ERP can be to global business, and how to choose the best solution to support this imperative. 

Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance without sacrificing data consistency or integrity. View this webcast to learn best practices for modern data management. 

This webcast discusses global mobility and how to work effectively with global cultural differences.