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. 

In August 2011, Forrester Consulting surveyed over 200 leading IT firms in North America and Europe to answer the question, “What are the implications of expanding testing in development, and what does it mean to development quality?”. Read this report to see the results. 

While unit testing your JavaScript can be challenging, developers agree that it is becoming an increasingly important task. This white paper reviews three popular tools that you can leverage to ease the testing process and mitigate common challenges. 

The objective of this paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, is to provide insight into what issues are unique to data migration projects and to offer advice on how to best approach them. 

<p>Read this paper to learn how SAP Rapid Deployment solutions offers companies a new model for their on-premise software, with an emphasis on time to value and low cost, with the flexibility to scale for future growth</p> 

Download this trial software to help you better develop and maintain your Java applications using AgitarOne. AgitarOne makes it easier to improve your code and reduces the development resources required to maintain it. 

This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices. 

Your company’s success relies heavily on the quality of its core  business applications. Watch this webcast to see how Levi Strauss & Company cut costs and improved their operational efficiency with SAP’s application life cycle management solution (ALM). <br /><br /> 

This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3. 

<p>Gaining visibility into your applications is essential to overcoming the challenge of aligning business with IT. Watch this webcast featuring Manger of Global Applications and Architecture from The Hersey Company, Philip Buckley, to learn how Hersey improved their accessible information for manufacturing.</p> 

SAPinsider PROFILES magazine recently talked with Davis Bennett, Vice President of the Solution Delivery Center at SAP Consulting North America, about how SAP’s Rapid Deployment Solutions are creating a whole new way of driving value for SAP customers.