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. 

IT Problem: JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. Combining a clean interface for organising issues with customisable workflows, JIRA is the perfect fit for your team. 

When developing and deploying a database, organizations should never rely solely on their developers to provide security. This expert e-guide offers tips for writing secure SQL database code to ensure you build appropriate security controls for the specific features and functionality you need. 

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. 

In this white paper, you'll learn how organizations such as Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, and NASA have improved database reliability, performance and TCO using MySQL. You'll also see how these techniques can apply in your organization. 

Web application firewalls are becoming critical data protection and compliance tools that any security decision maker must understand. SearchSecurity.com presents a comprehensive guide to Web Application Firewalls in which experts examine evaluation criteria, deployment considerations and management issues. 

Proper master data management (MDM) is very valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics. However, master data projects are often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. This paper explains why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace. 

Organizations are carving out small slices of their DWs and databases where scientists and analysts can manipulate and analyze data sets. The intent of the data sandbox is to separate experimentation from the production database environment. Read this edition of BI Trends and Strategies to learn about the many benefits of using data sandboxes. 

This white paper discusses how realize the full benefits of continuous integration in agile development. 

Agile Software Development is one of the most effective methodologies to develop application software. This paper examines and compares RDBMS with several object persistence methods within the context of Agile Software Development by quantifying the impact of these methods on the velocity and success of an agile application development project. 

Independent software vendors (ISVs) developing transactional business applications must determine how to cost-effectively and efficiently connect functionality to underlying enterprise databases.  Check out this resource to learn how ISVs can embed drivers and data providers with their own offerings to ensure top-notch application performance. 

Many organizations would like to become more agile, but sometimes it is hard to see the way forward. There is an excellent approach to becoming more agile that any organization can implement: improve the speed and efficiency of the handoffs within the organization's existing development processes. Read this expert tip guide to learn more. 

This step-by-step guide shows a programmatic approach to working with LucidWorks Enterprise, the search solution from LucidWorks Enterprise built on Apache Solr. We’ll show how to add content, index it, create a web page (with example PHP code) to send search requests and display results, and more.