WHITE PAPER - To address the growing demand for smarter products, many manufacturers are incorporating embedded systems into their products. While this approach offers exciting opportunities for innovation, it also adds a level of complexity to products that have zero tolerance for bugs and that must beat the competition to market. Read more to find out!
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 17, 2009


Topics:  Code Management | Customer Satisfaction | Economic Environment | Embedded Systems Hardware | Embedded Systems Software | Integrated Development Environments | Management Change | Manufacturing | Real Time Operating Systems

PRESENTATION - This presentation offers a brief overview of the newest Rational ClearQuest release, offering features that help your teams to stay in concert, no matter what process you are following, or what source code management tools you're using.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 17, 2010


Topics:  Agile Manufacturing | Change Management | Code Management | Integration Server Hardware | Integration Server Software | Integration Testing

WHITE PAPER - Organizations are often turning to Master Data Management as a key enabler in improving the timeliness, quality and reliability of BI with the ultimate goal of improving business performance. This survey report presents recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM as well as some findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Code Management | Data Management | Data Management Software | Information Management | Information Management Software | Master Data Management | Open Source | Open Source Software | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Surveys | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - Outsourcing can be a cost effective and efficient solution to the demand for new and specialized applications in today’s Internet-based marketplace. It is absolutely critical, however, that the team responsible for evaluating the outsourced application makes security one of its principal criteria prior to acceptance of each release.
Posted: March 8, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Outsourcing | Application Security | Applications Management | Code Management | Outsourcing | Secure Application Development

WHITE PAPER - Embedded software development teams in the medical device sector are striving to meet growing market demands while dealing with increased software complexity across global teams, business and engineering challenges with limited engineering resources and increased code complexity. Read this paper to learn how to optimize productivity challenges.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Code Management | FDA Compliance | Medical Devices | Quality Control | Quality Control Standards | Regulatory Compliance | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Source Code Control

WHITE PAPER - As Agile is embraced by development organizations everywhere, the need to produce clean, maintainable software quickly is great. To achieve development agility, developers must maintain velocity, eliminate bug debt, and focus on peer interaction. Read this paper to learn how to automate time consuming development activities to boost productivity.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: November 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | C | C++ | Code Management | Debugging | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Engineers | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Source Code Control

WHITE PAPER - Software development teams aiming to achieve DO-178B certification can streamline their efforts with source code analysis tools. In this white paper, learn how the defect, architecture, and metrics analysis capabilities of Klocwork source code analysis can be used to automate time consuming tasks and achieve key objectives of the DO-178B guidance.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Code Management | Debugging | Memory Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Metrics | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Source Code Control | Source Code Control Software | Vulnerability Assessments | Vulnerability Management

PODCAST - This podcast discusses the top five approaches that enterprises can take to improve application vulnerabilities.
Posted: February 12, 2010 | Premiered: February 12, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Security | Code Management | Security | Security Threats | Vulnerability Management

VIDEO - This video explains how to achieve full application security. Learn how to overcome the "Application Security Divide" and how to prevent exploitation of application-layer vulnerabilities.
Posted: February 12, 2010 | Premiered: February 12, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Security | Code Management | Security | Security Threats | Vulnerability Management

WEBCAST - The SANS/CWE list of the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is already becoming the "standard" for developing secure applications in many large enterprises. In this webcast, review the prevalence of attacks that use vulnerabilities listed in the Top 25 and learn how to safeguard your code to avoid the most dangerous programming errors.
Posted: February 1, 2010 | Premiered: February 1, 2010


Topics:  Application Security | Code Management | Cross-Site Scripting | Programming | Security | Security Threats | Vulnerability Management | Web Application Security

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses how and why to design SQL that will reduce the number of times calls are made to DB2. We'll look at how to write SMART applications rather than writing applications that act like generic I/O modules to DB2, properly tune SMART SQL, and how to exploit SQL and application features in DB2 on z/OS version 8 and 9.
Posted: November 30, 2009 | Published: November 30, 2009


Topics:  Code Management | Data Centers | Database Design | Database Performance Management | DB2 | Network Performance | SQL | SQL Server | z/OS

WHITE PAPER - When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  COBOL | Code Management | IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Governance | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Services | IT Systems | IT Workforce | Programming | Programming Languages

WHITE PAPER - The more you know about built-in functionality in the .NET framework and ASP.NET, the less code you have to write, which ultimately makes your applications more maintainable. This white paper outlines several different tips to enhance developer productivity and reduce the amount of code that needs to be written in many cases.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  .NET | ASP.NET | ASP.NET AJAX | Assembler Language | Code Management | Developer 2000 | Web Applications Architectures | Web Applications Management | Web Applications Software | Web Authoring | Web Authoring Tools

WHITE PAPER - This white paper is an excerpt from the book "Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises", and describes the iteration pattern and activities that a team engages in to create tested, value-delivered code in a short time box.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  Code Management | Project Management | Project Management Software | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools