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whitepaper Borland Software Case Study: Hewlett-Packard Company2007-06-28 Borland Software
  Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses, and institutions around the world. HP OpenView R&D unit wanted to be sure its development activities delivered results that were consistent across interface, functionality, and quality. HP OpenView team wanted to move beyond the point where each product team defined product features in isolation. HP OpenView deployed the Borland CaliberRM solution to replace its informal requirements management processes with an automated solution that improves software quality. HP adopted a component-based approach that provides its products a common user interface and allows software assets to be managed so as to maximize reuse.

Tags: Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Borland Software Case Study: Trane2007-06-28 Borland Software
  Trane, the air conditioning systems and services business of American Standard Companies, is a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and comprehensive facility solutions. Trane wanted to eliminate inefficiencies related to manual processes and eliminate rework due to missed requirements. The challenge was to accommodate growth. The team selected the Borland Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution, including Borland CaliberRM and Borland StarTeam.

Tags: Software Engineering, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Performing Use-Case Realizations: The Case for High Cohesion and Low Coupling2007-06-15 IBM
  In recent years, software engineering processes, in combination with object-oriented programming and improved development environments, have given software projects a greater level of control and therefore better probabilities for success. However, the processes are still not granular enough to enforce adherence to the principles of high cohesion and low coupling. It is still up to individual developers to apply these basic principles of good object-oriented design; compliance cannot be measured or automated by a software tool. This paper describes best practices that have worked well in targeting this issue for several projects. However, the main intent is to expose a problem that may be affecting many current software projects and encourage readers to work on it.

Tags: Best Practices		   
whitepaper Projects, Programs and Links - Oh My!2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  As new desktop tools are introduced in the work environment it is common to assume that users inherently know how to use them because they are built on currently used technologies. Sometimes basic concepts are not clearly understood. Sometimes these concepts need to be restated in a way that relates them to their work. The past year, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota deployed SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) v3. It was done with little user training. For many of the users, submitting programs was done via batch processing or an X-windows environment. It was easy to see where the programs needed to perform these tasks could be stored and then retrieved for further use or passing code onto others.

Tags: Programming Languages		   
whitepaper A Lifecycle Approach to Software Quality - Venturing Beyond the QA Imperative2007-05-07 BMC Software
  This paper outlines a holistic approach to optimizing software quality across the application lifecycle with BMC AppSight. Several case study examples are included to demonstrate how innovative companies have leveraged problem resolution technologies to reduce development & testing costs significantly, and promote quality throughout the application lifecycle.

Tags: Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Managing SOA application service levels, performance and availability2007-05-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables IT to increase agility and to lower costs. However, because of the added complexity, you need to manage SOA services and applications built with SOA to ensure their performance and availability meets the needs of the business. This white paper provides an overview of the specific challenges involved - including service discovery, monitoring, root cause analysis and service level management - and offers potential solutions to address them.

Tags: Service Level Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development		   
whitepaper AppLabs Case Study: Friends Provident2007-04-24 AppLabs Technologies
  Friends Provident is one of the leading financial services groups in the UK and a member of the FTSE100 Index of leading UK companies. The FRIENDS strategy is to build on its position as one of the leading Life and Pensions and Asset Management groups in the UK. Central to this is the application of technology and ecommerce to enhance distribution, improve service and reduce costs. The IT department has a mission to make IT a differentiator for FRIENDS. AppLabs has worked with FRIENDS since 2001, initially providing consultancy around the newly acquired MERCURY toolset, and ensuring that the TestDirector implementation was customized to match with the FRIENDS DSDM project lifecycle.

Tags: Software Engineering, Application Development		   
whitepaper AppLabs Case Study: Intelligent Finance2007-04-24 AppLabs Technologies
  Intelligent Finance was launched in 2001 as a division of Halifax plc (now HBOS). AppLabs was initially engaged prior to the launch by Vision Consulting, to provide Test Team Leaders to support the testing phases of this new direct bank, Intelligent Finance. The small team proved extremely valuable to both Intelligent Finance and Vision, as the program was under extreme pressure to deliver a fully integrated banking solution to a very challenging time-scale - less than 12 months. Within a very short period of time, AppLabs' involvement was extended to supporting all aspects of testing, whereby they provided the testing structure, expertise and leadership that was required.

Tags: Service Level Management		   
whitepaper AppLabs Case Study: Reed2007-04-24 AppLabs Technologies
  Reed Professional Services provides business and IT consulting services to the top tier of UK industry and can point to the success of their IT consulting operation within a number of household names in finance, manufacturing and Government organizations. The bank wished to consolidate its entire London estate in a single new headquarters building whilst performing a complete platform and desktop migration and preserving Business As Usual (BAU). AppLabs provided a lead consultant who was quickly appointed Test Manager for the whole group and subsequently invited to join the senior design team of technical architects responsible for all technology change within the bank.

Tags: Software Engineering		   
whitepaper Testing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Applications and Services2007-03-30 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Those organizations without a strategy for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) risk being outperformed by competitors that are better equipped to serve customers, seize opportunities, and respond to changes. The successful deployment of services requires the ability to manage the quality of these services so organizations can optimize the use of IT resources and reuse services across multiple applications to enhance business agility. This white paper explains the need for SOA, the implications of SOA in testing and how HP's solutions address the entire lifecycle of SOA services and composite applications.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Methodology, Application Development, Service-Oriented Architecture