In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

This seven-minute software demo explores how WebSphere Cast Iron Live Web API Services helps you create, socialize and manage stellar Web APIs foe better business control and insight. 

This white paper details the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which dramatically simplifies application integration today. As a purpose-built solution designed exclusively for application integration, it eliminates complexity from an integration problem and enables companies to implement projects in days, rather than weeks or months. 

Learn how to make your presentation stand out from the crowd and make 'death by slide presentation' a thing of the past with this book extract especially written for IT professionals. 

The upsurge in cloud computing presents development teams with challenges that may require them to rethink  established ways of building applications. Read this e-book, which discusses languages for cloud computing, distributed caching, scaling horizontally, and changing data architectures midcloud, for further discussion of these issues. 

This paper focuses on re-defining the job of project manager to better fit the self-managed team environment, one of the core Agile principles. Special emphasis is placed on the shift to servant leadership, with its focus on facilitation and collaboration 

This paper examines the primary data threats that currently concern chief security officers (CSOs) and IT security management within enterprises, and recommends best-practice techniques to minimize and overcome risks to data security. These best practices have been successfully implemented and deployed in organizations. 

The telecommunications industry was already in a redefining shift in consumer preferences, business models and infrastructure development prior to the  economic crisis. Faced with challenges in declining revenues, a maturing mobile industry and increased competition from new entrants, the industry finds itself in dire need of new models for growth. 

This white paper discusses the features of JBoss Enterprise Middleware and highlights technical and customer support as the key characteristic that sets this middleware apart from the competition. 

The arrival of BlackBerry 10 has also brought along a new evolution in technical support for BlackBerry products. Watch this BlackBerry 10 Ready Program presentation to learn what's new. 

SAP upgrades are a perennial challenge - especially for organizations with many instances or customizations. The struggling economy has also made it difficult to make a case for a technical SAP ERP upgrade. Read this paper to learn about six SAP upgrade tips and best practices for global environments which can help avoid costly downtime and issues.