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“Smart” Software Compiles for Fast Continuous Integration
So you’ve decided to pursue a more agile approach to software development and are now faced with the challenge of retrofitting your old procedures into a new leaner methodology. One of the biggest challenges: compressing processes that might have taken days into hours. This technical paper focus on the compile-and-link step. A compile that runs for hours cannot support a frequent build process. You learn how to get your software builds to run in less than one hour – maybe even in just a few minutes. Read the paper today!
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Enterprise Continuous Integration Maturity Model
Five levels, from Introductory to Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Insane – it sounds like a maturity model! The Enterprise Continuous Integration Maturity Model is an important model that can help you assess – and improve – how fast your dev organization can deliver software changes, with higher quality and with more control for less effort. This 14-page technical paper explains the ECIMM, and shows you how to use it to measure and improve your team’s capabilities and maturity. Read it today!
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Lower Development Costs Without Staff Reductions or Outsourcing
This white paper describes typical reactions to falling budgets and common problems they cause. It then recommends an alternative for achieving cost-savings and improved prioritization using an Agile framework for effective portfolio management. The answer is to adopt Lean thinking and Agile software development practices in order to run IT as an Agile portfolio. Industry studies of the ROI of Agile projects are now widespread and prove Agile practices deliver a tremendously positive impact on time-to-market, productivity, customer satisfaction, and the quality of products delivered. With a systematic focus on delivering value and removing waste, Agile is especially compelling in tough financial times. The question becomes: “Can we afford NOT to implement Agile now?” Download this white paper now.
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Enterprise ALM: Take the Pain Out of Compliance
Compliance is the bane of your existence. You need an audit trail for almost everything. You must enforce regulatory best practices. You have to be ready to prove it to auditors anytime. Learn how you can simplify compliance and automate the transition from development to production with complete traceability. You benefit from process definition and enforcement, and automatic generation of audit trails. Add in consolidation to single, global repository allowing you to move code into a single software change and configuration management instance that works globally, but performs as if everything were local -- and you've got savings and productivity gains.
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InstallShield 2010 is What Developers Have Been Asking For
Chances are you’ve tried InstallShield before. Most developers have. It’s been the world’s #1 Windows installation solution for over 20 years.
But if you haven’t tried the new InstallShield 2010, you haven’t seen anything yet.
It includes over 400 new and improved features that customers have been asking for, including a revamped IDE that long-time InstallShield users will love. And of course it supports all the latest Microsoft technologies like Windows7.
Want to create virtual applications? It’s the future of installations, and InstallShield 2010 is the only installation tool that supports Microsoft App-V.
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Systems and Software Product Lines: The New Frontier for Business Innovation
The key to business success depends on the infusion of new ideas about how products are brought to market. To achieve this goal, today’s development organizations must deliver a product line – a portfolio of similar products with variations in features and functions – rather than just an individual product. This whitepaper spotlights an innovative systems and software product line engineering approach that enables organizations to deliver a product line portfolio with much greater efficiency and profitability.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
BigLever Software is the industry's leading provider of software product line (SPL) framework, tools and services. BigLever's Gears SPL Engineering Tool and Lifecycle Framework enables companies to develop and evolve a product line portfolio, smoothly and efficiently, through each stage of the lifecycle. BigLever and IBM have joined forces to provide an innovative SPL solution, including integrations of Rational tools – DOORS, Rhapsody, Synergy, ClearCase, Quality Manager and Team Concert – into the BigLever SPL framework.
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The Product Development Executive’s Guide to Open Source Software Policy Implementation
Product development managers can most efficiently increase developer productivity while managing costs—and aggressively developing high-impact software applications—by efficiently leveraging open source software according to policies defined by the organization. Yet successfully implementing OSS raises questions that development managers must be able to answer. This informative guide will show you how to implement corporate policies for managing OSS and reduce costs—without disrupting software development efforts.
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The Curious Case of Build Release Management
What if someone told you that you could deploy your releases without a single glitch? That the first try is also the last? And while that’s happening, your compliance challenges could be erased and Sarbanes-Oxley reports generated on-demand? Better yet, you could enforce compliance process and policy controls without impacting your developers? This technical paper describes how to use build release management to achieve that goal – and more. Learn more, read today!
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Empower OEM Applications with Excel Reporting
Although Excel drives business processes world-wide, applications that offer Excel output regularly fall short of user expectations. OEMs can gain the competitive edge by leveraging Actuate e.Spreadsheet technology to empower their applications with the full functionality of Microsoft Excel. This white paper discusses how e.Spreadsheet allows software vendors to enable their users with the ability to access and analyze business data from their applications which results in increased application adoption and success.
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Embed BIRT to Enable Business Users to Interact with and Build Their Own Reports
This white paper explains how Actuate BIRT enables IT, business users and consumers to work together to continuously evolve reports by sharing report designs and engaging in iterative report development, as well as how to empower users to easily create and modify their own interactive reports. By creating highly usable and scalable reports, OEMs can drive the market’s adoption of their application, while reducing the burden on IT staff and OEM professional service organizations.
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