If you're involved in the planning and development of products, software applications or systems, this report is for you. Learn the results of a recent industry survey - get insight on the latest trends, challenges and solutions and learn what development teams are doing to successfully plan and develop new products in a customer-driven economy. 

Companies with mature requirements management and traceability processes achieve 75% higher success rates. Change, if managed poorly, will wreak havoc on even the most talented and experienced development teams. Learn how traceability can benefit your team by helping you stay connected, manage change, improve quality, and more. 

An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts. 

This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. 

Learn how the IT department of C&D Technologies used PowerTech's Authority Broker to meet their compliance, security and reporting requirements. With Authority Broker installed, you'll be able to meet audit requirements by managing and monitoring IT staff’s access to production systems, and protect critical corporate assets. 

SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software is the business intelligence (BI) choice of midsize companies hoping to improve business processes, discover new opportunities and edge out the competition. It includes affordable solutions addressing just about any BI requirement, like operational reporting and analysis, dashboards and visualization. 

HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams. 

This paper addresses the benefits and challenges driving increased adoption of testing automation along with coordination of requirements and security. It also analyzes the adoption of complex sourcing approaches to development and the need for effective quality management in that context. 

This whitepaper will provide insight into: a- the communications requirements of three specific industry segments (transportation, energy and the public sector), b- best practices to deliver the services and manage the projects efficiently, and c- innovative solutions and strategies deployed by these industry segments. 

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents. 

Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing documenting requirements. It is an important and multifaceted part of systems engineering that broadens the product development process. Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process don't just change their process and technology; they change their thinking.