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Five SCM Best Practices
Two-thirds of all software projects fail, according to the Standish Group’s CHAOS study. Improper usage of software configuration management is largely to blame. After project management, IT users cite configuration management as the process that most needs improvement, according to Anne Hass in “Configuration Management Principles and Practice.”
We are offering a short paper, “Software Configuration Management Best Practices,” which focuses on five simple techniques that can help your team scale and adapt a development process. These practices will promote a team-oriented process that will help produce better software. SCM best practices can help your engineers focus on the importance of the development process and not the rigid structure and day-to-day activities associated with an SCM system. Learn more, read the paper today!
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Best Practices for Branching and Merging Patterns
Development teams often create a branching pattern, usually drawn out on a white board or in a Visio document, that is used as a model to follow for the overall development process. As you'll read in this eight-page paper, often those well-laid plans have trouble accommodating real-world development.
As your teams and projects scale, the most common reason for a branch is to support parallel development. This means that many different teams working on different features or projects in the same codebase will have to fork a version of the software in order to keep working on the same code base while preserving their changes. Some branches are also created for maintenance release, some for customer specials, and others for developers to test code.
Read this paper to learn how best to branch – and then, how best to merge code back into the mainline. This is a detailed technical paper – read it today!
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Automated Error Reporting
We invite you to read a short e-zine that tells you all about automated error reporting for .NET applications. This 8-page e-zine is packed with information that showcases a dramatically different way to boost software quality, whilst keeping your development team working efficiently. You’ll read:
• The bottom-line rewards of finding and fixing bugs
• Why your best testers still come up short
• Five reasons to use Automated Error Reporting
• The power of combining Automated Error Reporting with obfuscation
• Importing bugs automatically into your issue tracking system
If your team develops .NET applications, and if you want to learn better ways to ferret out bugs and improve software quality, read this e-zine today!
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The End of Application Redeploys
Imagine that every time you wanted to write, send or receive an email, you needed to restart your computer. How much time would this take, and how annoying would that be?
As you’ll read in this 12-page technical paper, “The End of Application Redeploys,” this isn’t hypothetical for Java developers. Slow turnaround time due to application deployments (or restarts) is a time drain that, according to over 1100 developers recently surveyed, forces the average developer to forfeit code, testing or continuing education.
This paper presents a technology overview and business case for JRebel, a unique commercial solution that eliminates the need to redeploy Java applications in order to see changes to code, such as when adding new features or fixing bugs. Learn more about JRebel – read the paper today!
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Best Practices for Release Management
Business managers demand more software! Development teams are racing to create new and critical pieces of functionality, but they’re doing so faster than operations teams can release them for use. Organizations have to clear down this backlog of new and modified applications—and streamline release processes—so that they can promptly release application enhancements and immediately leverage their new functionality to enhance the success of the business.
Read this short paper, ”Best Practices for Application Release Management,” to learn how you can get rid of that ugly backlog – and take control of your software releases. Learn more, read the paper today!

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Automate to Thrive
As agile development becomes more the norm, release management has remained a major bottleneck, delaying key application deployments at a time when businesses rely on software for competitive advantage and innovation.
We invite you to read a short paper from IDC, a leading analyst firm. Called “Automate to Thrive: Driving Business Agility with Effective Release Management,” the paper explains how to improve efficiency and coordination across teams to streamline processes and to automate release management.
Learn more – read the paper today!
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From Load Testing to a Turnkey Performance-Tuning Process
To perform as intended, today’s mission-critical applications rely on highly available, stable and trusted software services. Load testing ensures that those criteria are met in both testing and staging environments.
As you’ll read in this short, seven-page paper, most load-testing solutions fail to support real root-cause analysis because the limited monitoring capabilities of most load testing tools treat applications essentially as a black box. In addition, most load testing does not provide an accurate picture of the end-user experience,
the most crucial measurement for the success of Web applications.
Read “Transforming Load Testing into a Turnkey Performance-Tuning Process” to see why applying traditional operational monitoring solutions or development tools such as code profilers to a load test does not provide the required remedy either, because the former does not provide the required level of detail and the latter is impractical for use under full production-like application load levels.
Learn more, read the paper today!
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Success with Software-as-a-Service
We invite you to watch an information-packed webinar series designed to help you succeed in the fast-changing Software-as-a-Service marketplace. The webinars are pre-recorded, so you can watch them at your convenience, or share them with your team. However, they will only be available for a short time.
You’ll hear from two SaaS industry experts Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies and Jim Geisman, Founder of Software Pricing Partners, as well as SaaS thought-leaders from Flexera Software.
Each 30-minute webinar provides strategies for optimizing the monetary potential of your SaaS offerings.
Webinar #1: Best Practices to Help You Succeed in the Rapidly Changing SaaS Marketplace
Speakers: Jeff Kaplan, THINKstrategies and Bashyam Anant, Flexera Software
• SaaS Market Overview and Trends – SaaS, Cloud and Virtualization
• New and Incumbent SaaS Providers – Achieving Operational Excellence
• Running a World Class SaaS Organization – Best Practices, Who’s Succeeded & Who’s Failed
• Let’s Dispel a few Myths...
Webinar #2: How Pricing and Licensing Can Help You Monetize a SaaS Offering
Speakers: Jim Geisman, Software Pricing Partners and Bashyam Anant, Flexera Software
• Software Licensing and Pricing Business Challenges for SaaS Providers
• Preventing Revenue Leakage and Credential Sharing Abuse of SaaS Offerings
• Defining Best-Fit Pricing Metrics for SaaS Revenue Growth
Webinar #3: Subscription and Entitlement Management Best Practices for Your SaaS Offerings
Speaker: Bashyam Anant, Flexera Software
• Back-Office Challenges and Opportunities for SaaS Providers
• Why Do Software and Subscription Entitlements Matter?
• Revenue Growth Strategies – Packaging Your SaaS Offerings the Way Customers Want to Buy
These webinars are only a click away – but they won’t be for long. Watch them today!
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Perform Better in a Hybrid Cloud World: Maintaining Quality
As IT organizations move to a Hybrid Cloud World, Application Development and Testing teams will be confronted with new challenges -- including the absence of real-time testing environments that span both local and cloud-based service environments. As a result, Hybrid applications are at risk of being developed and deployed without customary quality checks and balances - jeopardizing the company's reputation in the eyes of customers, partners and investors. In this Web Event, HP will present their quality control capabilities that span both company-owned and cloud-based worlds.
Speaker: HP Software's Kelly Emo
LIVE EVENT: June 21st at 1pm EST/ 10am PST
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Mobile Applications and Security
As IT organizations move to a Hybrid Cloud World, Application and Enterprise Security teams will be confronted with new challenges -- including the absence of real-time testing environments that span both local and cloud-based service environments. As a result, Hybrid applications are at risk of being developed and deployed without customary security checks and balances - jeopardizing the company's reputation in the eyes of customers, partners and investors. In this Web Event, HP will present their Application Development and Enterprise Security capabilities, including those offered by their Fortify and ArcSight products.
Speaker: HP Software's John Jeremiah
LIVE EVENT: May 22nd at 1pm EST/ 10am PST
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