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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization

Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:API Management For Security Pros

Security professionals increasingly must respond to the needs of business owners exploring web application programming interfaces (APIs) as a new channel for recognizing business value. APIs can...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: API Management Platforms, Q1 2013

Layer 7 And WSO2 Lead This Emerging Field

In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of application programming interface (API) management platform vendors, Layer 7 and WSO2 — and their solutions — rose to the top, followed by Intel,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Mobile Application Development

Vision: The Mobile App Development Playbook

With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Build Five-Star Mobile Apps

Processes: The Mobile App Development Playbook

There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps out there, and they're all competing for the same mobile users. If you want to reach your customers with a custom mobile app, then you want to make sure...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:KonyOne Offers A Flexible, Low-Code Platform

Going Hands On With KonyOne Shows How Middleware Is Evolving

In the latest installment in our "hands-on mobile" series, we rebuild and deploy the simple mobile application we built last fall with the KonyOne mobile middleware platform. The KonyOne platform...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Microsoft .NET: New Options, New Choices, New Risks

The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework

One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Mobile Technologies That Drive Sales

Tools And Technology: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

New phone features and capabilities are cropping up seemingly by the day. At the same time, this fast-paced change is dramatically affecting how eBusiness professionals interact with their teams and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Build Great Mobile Apps That Drive Engagement

Executive Overview: The Mobile App Development Playbook

The mobile shift is driving your business peers and customers to expect (and demand) support across a wide variety of smartphones and tablets. But building mobile apps is different from building...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Charter A Mobility Council With Seven Tasks

Stakeholder Needs: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

Smartphones, tablets, and the rise of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs have put tremendous pressure on IT to revamp and rethink its mobile strategy: everything from procurement and development...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Embracing The Open Web: Web Technologies You Need To Engage Your Customers, And Much More

The open Web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open Web also includes...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Here Comes The Open Web — Embrace It

The New Web Platform For Customer Engagement And Much More (Part 1)

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Building Mobile Apps? Start With Web; Move To Hybrid

Strategic Plan: The Mobile App Development Playbook

In the past year, we've handled more than 200 client inquiries regarding what technology approach best suits mobile app development needs. The most common question we field is: "Should we go with a...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:jQuery Mobile: The App Internet, Without The App

Going Hands-On With jQuery Mobile Shows The Growing Power Of The Web

In the first installment of our new "hands-on" mobile series, we build and deploy a simple mobile application with jQuery Mobile. jQuery Mobile is easy to install and set up and allows developers to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Build An Operations Stairway To The Mobile Future

Take Seven Steps Now Under The Charter Of A Mobility Council

Smartphones, tablets, and the rise of bring-your-own (BYO) devices have put tremendous pressure on IT to revamp and rethink its mobile strategy: everything from procurement and development to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Hiring Creative Developers

10 Questions You Should Ask Prospective Developers

High-performance software development organizations get that way because of their culture. One of the most important ways that frontline managers can help evolve a culture toward high performance is...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: HCL Technologies Puts Employees First, Customers Second

Empowering High-Performance Teams Re-Ignites Growth And Prosperity

HCL Technologies (HCL) was growing at 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2000 to 2005. Sounds good, right? Well, not so — its competitors were growing faster, and HCL was falling...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Hudson's Move To Eclipse Will Bring Continuous Integration To A Wider Corporate Audience

Oracle's proposed contribution of the Hudson continuous integration project to the Eclipse Foundation bears further scrutiny, as Forrester expects that the reconstituted Eclipse Hudson project will...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The State Of Application Development In Enterprises And SMBs

Forrsights North America And Europe

Forrester surveyed 933 technology decision-makers and approximately 2,500 developers at North American and European enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to understand the state of...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Sabre — A Culture Of Engagement

Sabre's Strategic Adoption Of Open Source Brings Unexpected Cultural Benefits

Sabre Holdings is an early adopter of Agile processes and open source technologies. The company was originally motivated to use open source as a tactic to avoid software capital costs, but along the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Ci&T — High Performance, Brazilian Style

Ci&T Mixes Engagement And Entrepreneurship Into Application Outsourcing

Ci&T is a midtier Brazilian systems integrator that stands out in a highly competitive business by attracting and developing creative application development professionals. The firm's corporate...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Five Ways To Streamline Release Management

"Next Practices" That Will Improve Release Visibility And Speed

Our first release management survey confirms that IT leaders are frustrated with slow software delivery, including dissatisfaction with the release management process. While Agile speeds software...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Java

Java Will Be Constrained By The Bounds Of Oracle's Business Model

Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release, set out a road map for...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Atlassian Creates An Innovation Culture That Produces Results

Atlassian is a company with big ambitions. It uses its innovation culture to drive change and corporate growth in markets where the commoditizing powers of open source software are causing...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Mobile Development Goes Multiplatform

iPhone And Android Top The List Of Devices Developers Target

The year 2010 was when mobile application development began crossing the chasm from early adopters to mainstream application development shops. But what started as "We need an iPhone app!" has now...

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