software delivery
Business pressures are driving change in development processes. Our software delivery reports explore what's happening to the way that business software is designed, built, tested and deployed.
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business process management
business process management – Business Process Management (BPM) is a fast-maturing area which bridges both business and IT transformation. It is proving increasingly important as a strategic weapon to drive organisational change and differentiation.
collaboration
collaboration – Organisations are looking for ways to strengthen and rejuvenate their business, with new plans to increase flexibility and drive innovation. Enabling more effective collaboration between people is a key enabler to achieving this goal.
governance, architecture and planning
governance, architecture and planning – Smart IT governance, architecture and strategic planning are critical to IT-business alignment. Our governance, architecture and planning reports cover issues and trends in Enterprise and Business Architecture and related business alignment disciplines.
information management
information management – For a long time, information management discipline was considered as an isolated technology and practice silo. However as organisations look to improve their operational efficiency as well as drive strategy more accurately, information management has to be more tightly woven with other practices.
IT service management
IT service management – IT service management is about much more than ITIL. Our IT service management reports explain the critical role it plays in ensuring that IT operations are aligned with business priorities for service delivery. This involves a focus on both service efficiency and effectiveness.
security, identity management
security, identity management – Security and identity management siloes stifle business innovation. Our security and identity management reports explore the business value of an architectural approach to identity and access management.
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Published: 03 Feb 10
In Brief – Salesforce.com has announced the availability of a new element of the Force.com platform – Visual Process Manager. Although not a toolset fully comparable with the tools and platforms from the specialist BPM providers, the tool is an interesting development for users of the Force.com ...
Competencies: software delivery; business process management
Vendors: Salesforce.com
Tags: bpm, cloud_computing
Published: 28 Jan 10
In Brief – Far removed from the traditional marketing of parent company Compuware, the plan behind the "Badass Squares" viral marketing campaign from the Compuware Uniface team is to show a younger generation of developers that developing in Uniface can be cool and desirable. Whether it will work ...
Competencies: software delivery
Vendors: Compuware
Published: 27 Jan 10
2010 heralds a buoyant year for software development and delivery especially coming on the back of turbulent and economically stricken 2009. This report examines the reasons behind this, and looks at what we can expect from this market over the next 12 months.
Competencies: software delivery
Vendors: Microsoft, Magic Software, IBM, HP, Google, Compuware, Cisco, Borland Software, Adobe, Salesforce.com, Serena Software
Published: 20 Jan 10
Agile methodologies and techniques are starting to successfully become part of the overall development process inside companies and are offering solutions to problems that many software delivery teams have been struggling to manage with their existing methods. The pragmatism of accepting its place ...
Published: 14 Jan 10
This is an accompanying document to the MWD Software Delivery InFocus podcast on "Policing software security". It summarises the main guidelines and key messages highlighted in the discussion. Guests include John Colley, EMEA Managing Director for (ISC)2, and Alessandro Moretti, Executive Director ...
Published: 17 Dec 09
This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple "ten questions" format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and services. We use this format to focus on the capability and suitability of small, specialist vendors – to help you build the best ...
Competencies: software delivery
Vendors: Magic Software
Published: 07 Dec 09
In Brief – Following the acquisition of Borland and Compuware's Automated Software Quality business earlier this year, Micro Focus is doing a good job of integrating its various toolsets. Although the company was shaken in September by the departure of CEO Stephen Kelly, the company appears to ...
Published: 09 Nov 09
In September 2009, MWD worked in conjunction with our partners at the IASA to discover how IT architects view Cloud Computing – what the current challenges are, who is committed to using Cloud Computing – and to gain an insight into what is needed to make Cloud Computing compelling for ...
Competencies: software delivery
Published: 09 Nov 09
The benefits that an Agile approach brings is making all areas of the software development and engineering arena sit up and take note as they look to ways to improve the quality, value, costs and timescales of the software they produce. In this report we look at Agile development in the context of ...
Competencies: software delivery
Vendors: IBM, Salesforce.com
Published: 09 Nov 09
The emergence of Cloud Computing has enabled new ways in which software applications are developed and/or deployed. The benefits of using Cloud-based services are clear, but there are many practical issues that need to be considered. This report introduces four "models" for developing in and for ...
Competencies: software delivery
Vendors: HP, GoGrid, Elastic Hosts, Cisco, BrowserMob, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, VMware, Zend
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