IBM Rational To MyEclipse Blue Edition Migration [ Source: Genuitec, LLC ]
September 2009- The goal of this white paper is to explore and resolve common concerns and issues surrounding a migration of your development environment from IBM’s Rational Application Developer (RAD) to MyEclipse Blue Edition from Genuitec. Why might a company choose to migrate their development tools? If the migration is decided upon, how would this be done easily and effectively? This paper will answer these common types of questions, as well as explore any intangibles that ...

Agile Architecture [ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
November 2008- Traditionally, an attempt is made to make the right architectural decisions early, due to the significant anticipated cost associated with making incorrect decisions. But this contradicts with Agile practices, which encourages welcoming change. Conceptually, the goal of Agile architecture should be to minimize the architectural change by crafting software so that it can easily adapt to change. In practice, developing Agile architecture is far more difficult. The architectural goals change dramatically during the development of ...

Reduce Operating Expenses by Modernizing the Messaging Infrastructure [ Source: Sendmail ]
March 2009- Now more than ever, information technology executives are reevaluating the messaging infrastructure to determine more strategic methods for increasing efficiencies and cost reductions to positively impact the bottom line. Sendmail's "Reducing Operating Expenses through Modernization of the Messaging Infrastructure" online video featuring Gartner drives home the importance of strategic IT planning for CIOs today and provides companies with an overview of the messaging infrastructure and strategies for modernization. Following an introduction to the overall strategic ...

Test Automation: Delivering Business Value [ Source: AppLabs ]
October 2008- As organizations look to reduce costs across a wide range of operational disciplines, IT will become under the radar more and more. The impact of project slippage, poor quality delivery, and inadequate solutions will not be tolerated. This may prove a pain-point for many organizations who have traditionally failed in these critical areas. Testing, like all project disciplines, has areas that can be quickly improved within an organization. One of the key areas where cost-savings ...

Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization [ Source: Nexaweb ]
March 2008- Legacy applications built with technologies like PowerBuilder, ColdFusion (v5 and older) Oracle Forms, COBOL and Visual Basic are costing enterprises millions to maintain, and more to upgrade. Modernizing these systems to fully functional Web applications, however, is not as simple as adding flashy UIs and deploying them in a browser. It requires well-designed procedures to transform the legacy code to a common language, and utilize that data and business logic to deploy highly-functional, interactive applications ...

Survey: The State of Flash in Financial Services [ Source: LSI ]
November 2012- A variety of competitive, regulatory, and technology challenges continue to keep IT professionals awake at night. While new types of software systems address such challenges, flash-based storage and flash-based application acceleration technologies are vital to maximizing the benefits from such applications.

Download “Bullish on Data Center Flash“ to learn details of the state of flash-based technology deployments survey, such as:

•  More than three quarters (77 percent) of all financial services firms report ...

Building profitable cross-channel. Using analytics and personalized marketing to increase revenue and customer loyalty [ Source: IBM ]
October 2012- This white paper explores the fast-changing customer relationship landscape in financial services. It outlines strategies and technologies that financial services marketers can use to better understand customers and market effectively across traditional and digital channels, with sections on:

• Inbound marketing
• Event-based marketing
• Digital marketing and personalized retargeting
• Web analytics
• Mobile and social channels
• Customer lifecycle management

By combining analytics and cross-channel marketing automation, financial services providers ...

Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms [ Source: Antenna Software ]
October 2012- Mobile application development is a very important and strategic IT topic. In 2012, Gartner is making major updates to this research to reflect market convergence. We analyze platforms that allow enterprises to build, support and manage mobile applications for both customers and employees.

Estimating the Cost of a GIS in the Amazon Cloud [ Source: ESRI ]
October 2012- Geographic information system (GIS) and information technology (IT) managers see the cloud as a compelling argument for leveraging off-premises hardware resources and reducing local infrastructure costs. But how does one go about calculating the cost of using cloud resources in lieu of using on-site infrastructure? The purpose of this paper is to help the reader understand how costs are calculated for cloud services - using Amazon™ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as an example - and ...

IBM's State of Marketing Survey 2012: Marketers' Biggest Challenges and Opportunities Reveal the Rise of the Empowered Customer [ Source: IBM ]
September 2012- Marketing technology is enabling profound changes in an organization's relationship with customers, creating new challenges and new opportunities. Getting an in-depth look at how marketers from across the globe are responding to this empowered consumer provides important insights into the underlying characteristics of successful marketing organizations. The third annual IBM State of Marketing Survey 2012 provides precisely this kind of insight. The 2012 survey results deepen our understanding of marketing practitioners' level of technology adoption and maturity ...