Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Whether it's public cloud, private cloud or a hybrid of the two, IT can be delivered as a service to today’s businesses faster, cheaper and more efficiently than ever before. Read this E-Book to learn more.

Today, nearly every company is considering at least some form of “as-a-service” deployment of software tools, and there is no question that there can be significant benefits. But any project that proposes to change the software tools that support worker activity will have some risks and costs. The mantra of adopting as-a-service technology for your own company must maximize your benefits and manage your risks.

There are four primary benefit drivers of technology as a service:

• The need to contain or reduce IT support.
• The need to contain or reduce system/hardware costs.
• The desire to substitute annualized expense for capital investment and depreciation.
• The desire to “dip your toe” into a radically different computing paradigm.

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is what keeps the latest software tools working, and Agile ALM provides transparency and improved communications between teams and stakeholders. This exclusive e-zine discusses the latest collaboration tools for ALM and software configuration management (SCM).

Thanks to recent trends like cloud computing, mobile devices and features adopted from social media, collaboration can happen anywhere. Connecting with customers is easier and getting teams in touch with business, projects and operations management is less complicated. In all, these trends have brought on an increase in agility.

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is what keeps these new tools working, and Agile ALM provides transparency and improved communications between teams and stakeholders. This exclusive e-zine discusses the latest collaboration tools for ALM and software configuration management (SCM). Read on to learn:

• Valuable insight on customer customization from SearchSoftwareQuality editor, Yvette Francino
• Tools and tips for overcoming SCM challenges from award-winning tech writer, Crystal Bedell
• Insider-information on the latest ALM communication tools from author and Agile coach, Steffan Surdek
• Plus exclusive content from other industry experts!

Sponsored by: Coverity, HP Software, Micro Focus and SAP

This transcript of a presentation on SharePoint focuses on application lifecycle management (ALM) and developing features. Coding, platform capabilities, enhancements, application development, automation of builds and more are discussed in this comprehensive resource.

SharePoint has a very diverse toolset. Fortunately this transcript from a presentation on SharePoint, focuses on one specific aspect-- application lifecycle management (ALM). This comprehensive resource explores the development side of SharePoint. Some of the topics discussed include:

• Coding
• Platform capabilities
• Enhancements
• Application development
• Automation of builds
• And more.

If you are interested in learning more about developing with SharePoint then this transcript is a must read!

This video covers highlights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in 2009, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote address. This video covers highlights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in 2009, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote address.

This training course was designed for professional developers interested in using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to rapidly develop and deploy solutions. The course contains a series of videos and presentations that will help guide you along the way. SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools while leveraging a rich set of out of the box features. Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 make developers more productive and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server delivers support for application lifecycle management. Developers can integrate Line of Business data in SharePoint 2010 with read/write capability delivered by Business Connectivity Services. Sandboxed Solutions can be deployed to a shared hosting environment to limit the impact of unpredictable code to the other applications in use.

Join Paul Andrew, Technical Product Manager for Microsoft's SharePoint Team, as he discusses the new features of SharePoint 2010 for developers. Join Paul Andrew, Technical Product Manager for Microsoft's SharePoint Team, as he discusses the new features of SharePoint 2010 for developers.

This Red Hat reference guide will show step by step how to properly deploy IBM® Lotus® Domino® on an Enterprise Linux server. This Red Hat reference guide will show step by step how to properly deploy IBM® Lotus® Domino® on an Enterprise Linux server.

The cost of downtime can be enormous, even catastrophic. IBM and Red Hat have a single, security-rich collaboration and messaging platform that makes it simple, easy, and affordable to improve organizational productivity and effectiveness. The cost of downtime can be enormous, even catastrophic. IBM and Red Hat have a single, security-rich collaboration and messaging platform that makes it simple, easy, and affordable to improve organizational productivity and effectiveness. It is much more than a Microsoft Exchange/desktop alternative.

Read this white paper to find out the high value benefits of the IBM Lotus Collaboration Suite, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy. A gradual increase in the adoption of cloud platforms and cloud services by the enterprises of today points to a paradigm shift in the way the IT services are procured and managed. This shift is creating an Industry Mutation - impacting both businesses and IT Service providers. The old way of delivering and managing IT is being replaced by a new way, which is why we view this change as a Creative Destruction of sorts.

Gartner estimates that by the year 2012, 20% of the enterprise market e-mail seats will be delivered via the cloud and at least one-third of business application software spending will be as service subscription instead of as product license.

The imperative for an organization is to align to the cloud paradigm. The bigger question is since a majority of organizations are at a turning point, where do they start in defining the right cloud strategy for their organization? This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy.

The BlackBerry Widget Packager v1.0 is a tool that allows web developers to package their web assets into BlackBerry Widgets.

The BlackBerry® Widget SDK v1.0 consists of the BlackBerry Widget Packager v1.0, a BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator, the BlackBerry Email Simulator (an HTTP Proxy needed to develop widgets), documentation and code samples. The BlackBerry Widget Packager v1.0 is a tool that allows web developers to package their web assets into BlackBerry Widgets.

BlackBerry Widgets are small, discrete, standalone web applications that use HTML, CSS and JavaScript®. They look, behave and have the same security mechanisms as a native BlackBerry smartphone application. BlackBerry Widgets can be installed on a BlackBerry smartphone like any native BlackBerry smartphone application and extended to use device-specific information and data with BlackBerry Widget APIs.

Check out this value analyzer to learn how you can achieve the five main goals of application lifecycle management (ALM) with an innovative collaborative lifecycle management software suite.  Input company-specific data into the analyzer and generate a personalized report of the value you stand to gain from this family of products

Effective application lifecycle management (ALM) integrates all processes in the software development lifecycle, providing tools that allow for real-time collaboration between teams working on a project.

Hopefully, effective ALM can help you:

• Improve product value through in-context collaboration
• Accelerate time to delivery
• Improve quality via lifecycle traceability
• Improve predictability with development intelligence
• Reduce costs with continuous improvement

Check out this value analyzer to learn how you can achieve these 5 goals of ALM with an innovative collaborative lifecycle management software suite.  Follow the steps in the analyzer, input the data specific to your company, and generate a personalized report of the value you stand to gain from this family of products.

Check out this case study to learn how Samsung SDS, one of the largest IT service providers in Korea, implemented collaborative application lifecycle management (ALM) software to quickly meet customer requirements and improve productivity and predictability.

As it expanded in the global marketplace, Samsung SDS, one of the largest IT service providers in Korea, was facing many challenges.  Increasing product complexity was causing longer delivery times and missed deadlines - they knew that in order to keep up with the competition, they needed to improve agility, visibility, and communication.

Check out this case study to learn how Samsung SDS implemented a collaborative application lifecycle management (ALM) software to quickly meet customer requirements and improve productivity and predictability.  Read on to discover the benefits Samsung is enjoying from this software, including 25% increase in team satisfaction with agile methods, zero delays in on-time delivery, and many more.

View this white paper to learn more about the range of emerging technologies and how they effect your business. It explores how technologies have transformed how companies interact with customers, business partners and suppliers. Find out more about how emerging technologies will impact your business performance and market success.

Today's methods for software development represent one significant opportunity to improve a company's bottom line. The wide range of emerging technologies and collaboration tools has resulted in an explosion of unstructured data and use of cloud solutions. 

Consult this white paper to learn more about a study that revealed that most organizations are underprepared to leverage today's technology trends. It explains why software development is crucial to giving your business the competitive advantage it needs. 

This white paper introduces a rapid application development and deployment (RADD) platform that allows IT organizations to dramatically improve the productivity of both end users and developers.

Access this white paper to learn about a rapid application development and deployment (RADD) platform that allows IT organizations to dramatically improve the productivity of both end users and developers. Read on to learn the 6 capabilities of this development platform that allow for faster time to ROI.

View this white paper to learn why converged systems have the potential to radically improve many aspects of the IT life-cycle and how it can add to your business value. It provides many examples on how customers are reinventing their strategies to IT life-cycle management.

With enterprise datacenters rapidly growing every day, businesses need to find a way to handle the rapid changes - fast. The placement and the management of individual workloads are becoming more and more dynamic, and application development teams are faced with making production releases faster than ever before. 

Consult this white paper to find out why converged systems have the potential to radically improve many aspects of the IT life-cycle and how it can add to your business value. It provides many examples on how customers are reinventing their strategies to IT life-cycle management.

View this white paper to learn how IBM PureSystems platforms can help you create a simpler IT life cycle.

This white paper discusses why converged systems, such as IBM PureSystems platforms, have the potential to radically simplify many aspects of the IT life cycle and how these changes can deliver business value by accelerating time to market, improving application performance, and reducing the staff time needed for manyroutine ongoing management and support activities.

Read this expert e-guide to discover 10 ways that social media allows team members in different locations to collaborate and communicate effectively with each other. Learn how to get started using these new development tools.

New application lifecycle management (ALM) development tools allow organizations like yours to take advantage of collaboration through social media. Why should you consider incorporating these new techniques into your next ALM project? Does your company employ workers in more than one office or part of the world?

Read this expert e-guide to discover 10 ways that social media allows team members in different locations to collaborate and communicate effectively with each other. Learn how to get started using these new development tools.

Capitalise on application development and deployment software today and take advantage of its easy-to-use graphical tools to model apps and then deploy them across several platforms. Read this brief yet informative paper now and learn how this software can reduce development costs and improve productivity, modernise existing 4GL apps and more.

How quickly can you develop and deploy complex business applications?

Not as swiftly as you could using application development and deployment software.

Capitalise on this revolutionary environment today and take advantage of its easy-to-use graphical tools to model apps and then deploy them across several platforms, including desktops, mobile devices and even cloud-based environments.

Read this brief yet informative paper now and learn how this software can:

• Reduce development costs and improve productivity
• Modernise existing 4GL apps
• Create apps for today's service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• And more

Learn how easy it is to get started on DB2 application development. This e-book includes topics such as using DB2 Express-C, writing SQL statements, working with open-source tools and more. This is part of a full e-kit designed for fast, easy DB2 learning.

Learn how easy it is to get started on DB2 application development. This e-book includes topics such as using DB2 Express-C, writing SQL statements, working with open-source tools and more. This is part of a full e-kit designed for fast, easy DB2 learning.

IBM Mashup Center is an enterprise mashup platform enabling the rapid creation of reusable application building blocks (widgets, feeds, mashups) that can be easily assembled into new applications or leveraged within existing applications— with the governance and security IT requires—  to address daily business challenges.

IBM Mashup Center is an enterprise mashup platform enabling the rapid creation, sharing, and discovery of reusable application building blocks (widgets, feeds, mashups) that can be easily assembled into new applications or leveraged within existing applications - with the governance and security IT requires.

With this lightweight mashup environment, organizations can unlock and transform enterprise, Web, personal and departmental information into consumable or "mashable" assets, including information feeds and widgets. These assets can then be dynamically assembled, at-the-glass, into new applications that address daily business challenges. With IBM Mashup Center, organizations can lower development costs, achieve rapid ROI, deliver applications quickly, and realize greater productivity.

 Download the Windows-based trial for an evaluation period of 60 days.

Do you struggle with the business demands for fast delivery of innovative, high performing applications and services and the concurrent need to manage costs? Learn how a strong, flexible application foundation helps you quickly deliver on business needs while balancing key considerations such as security, scalability and manageability.

Do you struggle with the business demands for fast delivery of innovative, high performing applications and services and the concurrent need to manage costs? Learn how a strong, flexible application foundation, based on the new WebSphere Application Server v8, helps you quickly deliver on business needs while balancing key considerations such as security, scalability and manageability. Control costs and improve TCO in homogeneous and mixed infrastructures, from distributed to z/OS environments. Listen to the webcast to learn more about how IBM's market leading application server can promote the agility you need for business success today.

Companies developing complex product offerings need to make sure that all components work together to deliver the desired result. Download the paper to learn how IBM Rational solutions can help companies achieve these results.

Requirements must drive development decisions throughout the product development lifecycle, so that when changes are made to the product design during development, they can be checked against existing requirements to ensure that all requirements are still being met. And product testing must be done against specified requirements to make sure you’re not just delivering a system that works, but also the system that you set out to build.

According to Gartner, vendors must demonstrate both "completeness of vision" and an "ability to execute" to be evaluated as a leader. Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites evaluates IBM as a leader. Read the report to learn more.

According to Gartner, vendors must demonstrate both "completeness of vision" and an "ability to execute" to be evaluated as a leader. Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites evaluates IBM as a leader. Read the report to learn more.

In September 2010, the IBM Corporation commissioned the Forrester Consulting group to conduct a study whose aim was to better understand the critical role software innovation plays in product development. Download the report to see the results.

In September 2010, the IBM Corporation commissioned the Forrester Consulting group to conduct a study whose aim was to better understand the critical role software innovation plays in product development. Download the report to see the results.

IBM WebSphere Application Server for Developers is offering at no charge to satisfy the need of a no-cost WebSphere Application Server development runtime for projects that don't warrant the expense of a priced and supported runtime on the developer desktop.

IBM WebSphere Application Server for Developers is offering at no charge to satisfy the need of a no-cost WebSphere Application Server development runtime for projects that don't warrant the expense of a priced and supported runtime on the developer desktop.

By using a runtime environment identical to the production runtime environment your applications will eventually run on, IBM WebSphere Application Server for Developers is able to easily reduce testing effort while still providing confidence in the compatibility of the finished project.