Building smart products: best practices for multicore software development
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2011-
The planet is becoming more interconnected, instrumented and intelligent. All kinds of devices—from medical devices to the global positioning system (GPS) in your car to large-scale defense systems—rely on embedded software to interact with other systems and deliver an exceptional, differentiated user experience.
But as the marketplace increasingly demands embedded systems that deliver greater functionality, a smaller form factor, greater reliability, lower power and a lower cost of operation, the pressure ...
Building smarter products with IBM Integrated Product Management
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2011-
Building smarter prodcuts with Integrated Product Management. Turning product development into competitive advantage. Whether you operate in the automotive, aerospace, telecommunications or electronics marketplace, business trends dicatate that you need to deliver innovative products that incorporate advances in software, electronics and hardware to deliver a customizable experience to users.
The key to creating this new class of offerings is to elevate software development to a strategic business process while leveraging advanced modeling capabilities ...
Four keys to improving quality across the systems engineering
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2011-
A balanced approach to complex systems quality in aerospace and defense projects - Thought leadership white paper. This white paper examines the systems engineering life cycle and discusses four keys for improving quality across the systems engineering "V" to help A&D companies deliver quality on time while containing costs more effectively.
Ten Ways to Establish a Strategic Advantage in Managing Change
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2011-
To compete in the global economy, products are expanding in scope to deliver more value and function. Products are becoming smarter: they are more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent than ever before.
This paper offers ways that your company can establish a strategic advantage in managing change. It offers a structured approach to managing change in a rapidly evolving software development environment, helping you manage complex smarter product development processes — and more.
OTRS Helps Alaskan School District
[ Source: OTRS Inc. ]
November 2010-
OTRS, a leading provider of open source Help Desk and ITIL-compatible IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, announced publication of a major case study detailing how the OTRS help desk was used to leverage an Alaskan school district’s one-person IT staff, to the benefit of teachers, parents, students, and staff.
Magnolia CMS: Spurring Innovation in the Finance Industry
[ Source: Magnolia Americas, Inc. ]
July 2010-
A Web content management system (CMS) provides companies in the financial sector with the tools they need to build an engaging and persuasive Web experience to customers, prospects, employees and management. The benefits of using a CMS to create Web-based services are many: faster time-to-market and competitive advantage due to on-the-fly content creation; increased customer satisfaction through consistent presentation of services and data across channels; improved internal efficiency via "create once, use many" paradigm; faster ...
API Considerations in CRM Vendor Selection
[ Source: OSF Global Services ]
September 2010-
APIs should be one of the key determining factors in deciding what CRM your company will use, according to OSF.
APIs are critical in determining how easily, or how hard, it is to interface your CRM with your other company software apps. They say that you save time and money by having a CRM with a good API readiness, and that the time and manpower you save with your IT people alone makes it a ...
Managing a growing threat: an executive's guide to Web application security
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2010-
More and more companies are relying on Web-based applications to provide online services to their employees, to support e-commerce sales and to leverage portals. All of these applications are designed to help staff better communicate with customers, partners and suppliers. However, as the number and complexity of Web applications have grown, so have the associated security risks. With increasing frequency, incidents of Web application breaches resulting in data theft are popping up as front-page news. ...
Spurring Innovation and Increasing Customer Satisfaction in the Finance Industry
[ Source: Magnolia Americas, Inc. ]
July 2010-
Internet banking continues to grow, spurred by competitive pressures and rising customer expectations. In support of their online banking businesses, financial institutions must build and manage rich consumer and business Web sites. Further, industry deregulation and the financial meltdown of 2008 have led to a complex and somewhat unique set of challenges at financial institutions. In essence, it is especially critical to have the right CMS tools for the job that comply with industry standards.
Magnolia's ...
Extending Open Source Tools for More Effective Software Delivery
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2010-
IBM Rational® software provides an integrated and modular software development ecosystem that supports a broad range of open source tools. The ecosystem helps enable timely and efficient software delivery through automation of processes for consistency, efficiency, quality and insight. Rational software enables process automation and traceability to improve visibility and control of the software and systems development lifecycle. Developers can leverage the open source tools that allow them to focus on building software rather than ...