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whitepaper MASHUPS: Understanding Mashup Building Platforms for Business Applications2007-06-01 Proto Software
  This paper explores trends past, current, and future in the mashup space and surveys the types of tools used to build and distribute mashups. The goal is to develop a set of criteria for the reader to use when evaluating mashup platforms for the development of business applications. Where appropriate, analogies to existing technologies and methodologies are employed. However, the paper's intent is to introduce and clarify the various layers of technology in the mashup space, not to make relative value judgments or to advocate particular vendors' solutions.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Successful Implementation of Model Driven Architecture: A Case Study of How Borland Together MDA Technologies Were Successfully Implemented in a Large Commercial Bank2007-06-01 Borland Software
  One of the challenges faced by enterprise-scale software development is the effective design of systems to support ever-changing business capabilities in a timely manner. Enterprise-system design has evolved from merely writing high-level documentation and diagrams, to architecting complex frameworks. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) paradigm, managed by the Object Management Group (OMG), is an approach that seeks to address the increasing complexity in enterprise-system design. It is not a radical departure from performing system design, but an evolutionary step that combines various technologies for a more effective software development process.   
whitepaper Project and Portfolio Management: Optimizing IT Portfolio Management, Project Selection, Execution, and Visibility2007-06-01 Borland Software
  IT organizations play a larger role than ever in driving business success. The systems and solutions they create, manage, and maintain now serve as the engines of the enterprise. As a result, IT organizations are rapidly evolving from technology cost centers to strategic business units. This long-anticipated evolution reflects the fact that companies, on average, spend more than $9,000 per employee, per year on IT investments. Some companies are spending upwards of $22,000 per employee each year on technology. For a typical mid-to large-sized business, these figures can quickly add up to millions of dollars. But with this evolution has come unprecedented demands on IT departments. Executives today expect that their sizable IT investments rapidly translate into significant, measurable business benefits and competitive advantage.

Tags: Methodology, ITIL		   
whitepaper Integration of webAF and Table-Driven Methodology2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  This paper will provide a general overview of SAS webAF, targeting novice audiences. It is intended to provide information that is gathered from different resources. It will try to explain at a very high level what exactly webAF is and how SAS and Java technologies can be combined to gain momentum in a world where web-based technologies are increasingly becoming more popular. This paper will try to explain what webAF is. It will provide a basic explanation of the Java technology used in webAF to create server-side web applications such as Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP). This paper will also look into how Servlets and JSPs work together, their roles, and their functions.

Tags: Methodology, Application Development		   
whitepaper Web Projections: Learning From Contextual Subgraphs of the Web2007-05-12 Association for Computing Machinery
  Graphical relationships among web pages have been lever-aged as sources of information in methods for ranking search results. To date, specific graphical properties have been used in these analyses. This paper introduces web projections, a methodology that generalizes prior efforts on exploiting graphical relationships of the web in several ways. With the approach, it creates subgraphs by projecting sets of pages and domains onto the larger web graph, and then use machine learning to construct predictive models that consider graphical proper-ties as evidence. This paper describes the method and present experiments that illustrate the construction of predictive models of search result quality and user query reformulation.

Tags: Methodology		   
whitepaper Reducing Risk Through Requirements-driven Quality Management: An End-To-End Approach2007-05-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  When IT undertakes a development project, it contracts with the business which requirements will be fulfilled and when they will be delivered. No attorney would permit his client to sign a legal contract unless all the risks were known, yet IT departments often lack the ability to quantify and respond to the risks that arise during development and test. Requirements management helps IT quantify the risks associated with each requirement and make informed decisions about resource allocation and release. Get a better understanding of how to trace requirements from definition to release and, by giving IT and business managers real data to support decisions, fulfill your contract.

Tags: Software Project Management, Software Engineering, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Methodology, Application Development		   
whitepaper Load Testing 2.0 for Web 2.0: Simplifying performance validation for Rich Internet Applications2007-05-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Today, rich internet application (RIA) technologies are making dramatic inroads in corporate environments. One of the big reasons for the growth of RIA technologies is a better user experience. But while these rich next-generation applications promise a radically different customer experience, they also have the potential to overwhelm the servers and networks that deliver the content to client browsers. Before Ajax or other RIA technologies can be ready for prime time in your business, you need to verify that they can deliver enterprise-scale performance. This white paper helps uncover the many unknowns around stress testing Web 2.0 applications.

Tags: Web Development and Design, Software Project Management, Software Engineering, Methodology, Application Development		   
whitepaper Capturing Project Development Success2007-05-01 Microsoft
  With ever-increasing market pressure to deliver more business value in shorter timelines, IT departments and software development organizations are always seeking ways to improve productivity, build applications that are aligned with customer needs, and improve the competitive advantage of their organizations. Today, many organizations are putting a focus on the front end of the application development lifecycle, starting with the gathering and documentation of effective requirements. The capture and communication of good business requirements is critical to the success of the final project. After all, effective requirements define what the application should do for its users. Capturing accurate, well-defined, and complete requirements also lays the foundation for a more productive and traceable development process.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper The Five Pitfalls of Implementing Project & Workflow Management Software2007-05-01 Interneer
  The benefits of implementing an end-to-end project and workflow management system may seem like a panacea to executives and senior managers. Operational efficiencies and increased collaboration among employees may result, along with improved compliance and a comprehensive real-time view of operations for rapid executive decision-making. However, what happens when the software goes live and the ROI cannot be presented to the CEO or CFO? Presented here are 5 pitfalls one should keep in mind before implementing process management software. This paper present high-level method to avoid the pitfalls described. Invariably, cultural factors can be as important as technical factors in a smooth implementation.

Tags: Methodology		   
whitepaper Achieving Business Value and Gaining ROI With CA's EITM Software for Optimizing IT Infrastructures2007-04-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  This paper presents the results of an IDC study, sponsored by CA, to quantify the benefits, cost savings, and Return On Investment (ROI) that customers can achieve using CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) software products to help manage their IT infrastructure and operations. The study is based on standard IDC ROI methodology, which is used to calculate the costs of performing common IT administrative, operational, and support functions (both before and after implementing management software); determine the cost savings resulting from implementing the software; and calculate a return on investment based on cost savings, gains in IT efficiency, and gains in user productivity.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Methodology