Extending your VMware Cloud Infrastructure with a Private Platform-as-a-Service [ Source: Active State ]
November 2011- If you already use VMware's Cloud Infrastructure as a virtualization platform, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today's competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure.

ActiveState Stackato extends your private cloud infrastructure and your VMware investment by creating a private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide on-demand availability, flexibility, control, and ultimately, faster time-to-market ...

SOA Alignment in eForms Architecture [ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
July 2008- IBM Lotus Forms provides high performance with intelligent document and business process rules in enterprise. Web services and XML schemas enhance the process automation. This places IBM Lotus Forms in alignment to SOA. Implementation of SOA and increasing the ROI creates a vital impact on business, IBM Lotus Forms position in this.

SOA and Web Services Lead to Smooth BPM [ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
May 2008- SOA and web services combination gives more adaptability and agile roll-out of a successful BPM system with the robustness to build, maintain and manage variety composite applications.

Software Configuration Management Best Practices [ Source: AccuRev ]
February 2012- Software configuration management (SCM) comprises of factors such as compliance, workflow, security, process management, code review, build management and team work. An important piece of any software development process, SCM practices define for development teams how software will be developed and eventually released. Teams can maximize their effectiveness by applying best practices that enable rapid delivery.

This white paper introduces the five SCM best practices that are essential for software development success.

Microsoft Access 2010 Cost Benefit Analysis for Developers [ Source: Alpha Software ]
June 2010- Although Microsoft Access can be used to create desktop applications, its Web development features are lacking. If an organization wants to port an existing Access application to the Web, typically its done in one of two ways:

* The organization can create a brand new Web-based application in Visual Studio. The server-side code would then use the .NET framework to read and write to and from the Access database. Note, however, that the Access ...

Git for the Enterprise - Promises and Pitfalls [ Source: CollabNet ]
December 2012- Git is the world's leading DVCS (distributed version control system). Enterprise adoption for Git however has been slow. Concerned with security breaches, compliance violations and lack of governance, many chose to 'wait and see'.

Deployment Automation Basics: Implementing Consistent Deployments Across Environments [ Source: UrbanCode ]
December 2012- IT organizations are finding it difficult to release applications to production servers (physical, virtual, or cloud) more quickly without adding more people and incurring additional risk. In a poll sponsored by UrbanCode, over 75% of respondents identified their software deployment process as "Entirely Manual," "Mostly Manual," or "Mostly Scripted."

This paper details the limitations of manual deployments and how to overcome them. Topics covered include:

• Why manual deployments are inherently slow and ...

Your Next Java Web App: Less XML No Long Restarts, Fewer Hassles [ Source: ZeroTurnaround ]
November 2012- Did you realize that Hibernate has been around for more than 10 years? And Spring will begin its second decade next year? There was a time when Spring+Hibernate was widely considered an unofficial industry standard, but today is portrayed as an ancient beast whose XML appetite kills little rainbow scroll wheels. That assessment is not true, however. Both technologies have seen continuous development and are still competitive today.

Sybase PowerBuilder IS .Net...and so much MORE! [ Source: SAP ]
October 2012- Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5 is the second full-fledged .NET release of the market's favorite application development tool, bringing true power and ease of use to .NET. In the box, you'll find two Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that give you options.

You can build and deploy applications in a traditional Client/Server architecture, deploy to WebForms, WindowForms, or Smart Client applications. Or, you can leverage the power of the new IDE, built on top of Visual ...

Moving your PowerBuilder Application to the Web [ Source: SAP ]
October 2012- Today's Internet-connected world virtually requires that all companies leverage the power of the Internet. There is a wide and sometimes bewildering array of techniques available to PowerBuilder programmers to move all or part of their PowerBuilder logic to the Internet. A process-based approach to examining which aspects of the application should be moved to the Internet, combined with an intelligent refactoring of the application and an understanding of your company's technology stack will maximize your ...