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Report:The Standalone Business Rules Platform Market Segment Should Be Growing Faster

Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms In 2013

The market for business rules technologies is healthy, but the standalone platform segment is growing more slowly than it should. Most enterprises should use standalone business rules platforms to...

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Report:The Future Of Customer Data Management

Vision: The Customer Data Management Playbook

Customer data is the lifeblood of the contemporary enterprise. It's used in virtually every function of the business, including product research, design, and development; advertising and marketing...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q1 2013

Predictive analytics enables firms to reduce risks, make intelligent decisions, and create differentiated, more personal customer experiences. But predictive analytics is hard to do without the right...

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Report:Design Mobile Apps From The Outside In

Policy And Procedures: The Mobile App Development Playbook

This report outlines best practices in mobile app design that application development & delivery professionals can use to design great mobile apps. Customer expectations for mobile apps have never...

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Report:Digital Experience Strategy: Follow These Three Mega Rules To Beat The Competition In 2012

Application Development Professionals Must Become Experience Creators

Ultimately, customers don't judge you based on how well you gather business requirements, choose development technologies, manage projects, or march through the development process — they judge...

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Report:CIO Perspectives On App Dev: We Need New Approaches To Deliver Applications Faster

Many CIOs are on the hot seat to innovate by delivering increasingly critical applications more quickly. To keep up with the accelerated pace of business, CIOs and application development and...

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Report:Embrace App Internet Architecture To Win In The Next Era Of Computing

The Multidevice World Demands A New Application Architecture

The rapid growth of smartphones and tablets is fueling a dramatic shift in the way people use software — a shift away from PC and web apps and toward smart-device apps. These new apps deliver...

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Report:The Future Of Business Rules Platforms

Customers Are Moving To Event And Decision Management

Business rules platforms are a mature technology for automating decision and policy logic and for managing fast changes to that logic to keep up with business changes. Now customers are seeking more:...

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Report:Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011

Which Are The Safe And Best Choices Now

After two years of vendor consolidation, which are the best business rules platforms for application development and delivery professionals to consider? In our judgment, based on growth rates, market...

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Report:Augment DevOps With NoOps

DevOps Is Good, But Cloud Computing Will Usher In NoOps

Development + operations = DevOps. DevOps denotes better communication and collaboration between application development professionals and infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. DevOps...

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Report:Cloud Computing Brings Demand For Elastic Application Platforms

EAPs Ease Delivery Of Elastic Apps, Smoothing A Path To Cloud's Benefits

Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down) oversimplify what it takes to develop application architectures to...

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Report:The Seven Qualities Of Wildly Desirable Software

To Deliver Extraordinary Software, Design To Balance These Seven Qualities

Great software applications seldom happen by accident: Wise design decisions are the key. Yet many application development teams only design for one, two, or three of these qualities, and others have...

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Report:Empowering The "Business Developer"

An Empowered Report: Accentuate The Positives And Eliminate The Negatives Of Businessperson-Developed Applications

The ranks of empowered businesspeople who want to develop applications are swelling due to the proliferation of easy-to-use development tools, the mushrooming demand for applications, the growth of...

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Report:Seven Pragmatic Practices To Improve Software Quality

Incremental Changes Can Have A Big Impact On Quality

All software has bugs. Application development teams do the best they can to avoid and fix them. But developing quality software is hard. Why? Virtually all application development teams are squeezed...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Elastic Caching Platforms, Q2 2010

GigaSpaces, IBM, Oracle, and Terracotta Lead; Alachisoft, GemStone, And ScaleOut Software Are Strong Performers

Forrester evaluated eight elastic caching platform vendors using 124 criteria and found GigaSpaces, IBM, Oracle, and Terracotta to be Leaders because of their strong elastic caching features and...

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Report:Business Analysts: Seize The Opportunity To Deliver Compelling User Experiences

Make A Big Difference To Your Organization By Focusing On Its Customers

Is anything more important than how users experience your Web sites and software applications? If your customers can't effectively and efficiently meet their goals by using your sites and apps, they...

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Report:The Testing Tools Landscape: 2010

Functional Testing Tools Are Not Enough

Gone are the days when application development and delivery teams could cavalierly ask the business to pick two: cost, time, or quality. The business wants and needs all three. Delivery teams have...

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Report:For iPhone Launch, Razorfish Uses An Elastic Application Platform

The breakneck adoption of the Apple iPhone posed big challenges for Razorfish, the firm that developed the iPhone activation application for the UK. To support the activation of 12,000 iPhones per...

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Report:For Blazing Fast Web Site Performance, Caching Is King

The Fastest Sites Optimize Three Levels Of Caches: Browser, Edge, And Server

The quickest way to a Web user's heart is through her eyeballs. That means providing your customers a rich, interactive, and blazing fast experience. The fastest sites on the Internet all have one...

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Report:The Top Five Changes For Application Development In 2010

After The Recession, The New Normal Will Remain "Lean And Mean"

Niccolò Machiavelli said it best: "Never waste the opportunities created by a good crisis." Over the past year, the Great Recession has forced everyone in IT to think differently about where to...

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Report:Best Practices In User Experience (UX) Design

Design Compelling User Experiences To Wow Your Customers

Users have great expectations when they visit your Web and mobile applications. They increasingly want an experience that's valuable, easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and emotionally satisfying....

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Report:A Surprising New Java Platform Option: VMware

Acquiring SpringSource, VMware Targets Java And Clouds

VMware's ambition is to expand up the stack from its franchise in systems virtualization software into application platforms. The company's decision to buy Java frameworks specialist SpringSource is...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009

The Fledgling CEP Platform Market Is Vibrant, Competitive, And Dynamic

Forrester evaluated nine complex event processing (CEP) platforms using 114 criteria and found Progress Software and Aleri to be standout Leaders because of their top scores in the event processing...

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Report:Perform Realistic Web Testing To Ensure Blazing Fast Web Site Performance

This workbook discusses the importance of realistic performance Web testing, what it is, and recommendations.

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Report:Microsoft's Web Platform Expands To PHP

Microsoft Aims To Simplify Adoption Of PHP Web Apps On Windows

Blasphemy might be the first word that comes to mind when you hear Microsoft, PHP, and open source mentioned in the same breath. But no more: The new Microsoft Web Platform will offer simplified...

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