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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Make Software Delivery More Responsive To The Business

Executive Overview: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Most firms are experiencing rapid and fundamental change in both business and technology. How do you cope? You must transform your software delivery approach — minor tweaks to traditional...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012

Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Stone Bond, And Red Hat Close Behind

In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of data virtualization — also known as information-as-a-service (IaaS) — vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, and Denodo...

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Report:Application Delivery Professionals Must Implement The Customer Experience Strategy

Which Customer Experience Strategy Is Right For Your Firm?

Do you know your firm's customer experience strategy? Application development and delivery professionals must clearly understand customer experience strategy to be able to deliver the right software...

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Report:Understand The Requirements Of The Customer Life Cycle For Applications And Data

Take A Strategic Approach To These Requirements For Greater Impact

The old concept of the marketing funnel has become passé, requiring firms to make a dramatic shift to focus on the full customer life cycle and customer relationship. To help enable the...

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Report:Application Delivery Must Enter The Age Of The Customer

A Roundtable Discussion With Forrester Analysts

Customers have more power today than ever before. They have tremendous influence and reach through social media, more options and choices for whom to buy from, and high expectations about how they...

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Report:Update Your Application Development Sourcing Strategy To Drive Innovation And Differentiation

In 2009, the technology industry entered a new cycle of technology innovation and growth, powering a multiyear period of technology investment predicted to last through 2016: the business technology...

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Report:It's Time To Tame The ERP Integration Beast

Meeting ERP Integration Needs Inside And Outside The Enterprise

Integration challenges are often the foremost obstacle to getting the full value from packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Strategies for overcoming this obstacle vary considerably...

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Report:The ESB Reference Architecture Model

Part One Of A Two-Part Series On Integration Solution Architecture Models

Although enterprise service buses (ESBs) have been around for a number of years, there is still a lot of confusion regarding the actual capabilities these products provide. Product enhancement...

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Report:The Arrival Of Smart Computing Reinforces The Need For Dynamic Business Applications

Smart Computing Drives The New Era Of IT Growth

Since the 1950s, the US has seen three cycles of technology investment growth and refinement. In 2008, the US entered its fourth such cycle, which Forrester is labeling "Smart Computing." Smart...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Information-As-A-Service, Q1 2010

IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With Microsoft And Red Hat Close Behind

In Forrester's 123-criteria evaluation of information-as-a-service (IaaS) — also known as data services — vendors, we found that IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, and Denodo...

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Report:How To Foster Software Innovation To Exploit The Economic Recovery

Best Practices In Software Innovation From Leading Software Developers

Software innovation plays an increasingly vital role in enterprise success as a key part of more and more products and services, whether on the Web, a phone, a desktop PC, a car, or in your home....

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Report:Software Innovation Assessment Workbook

Forrester’s Software Innovation Assessment Workbook helps you assess your current software innovation characteristics, capabilities, and opportunities for improvement. The tool calculates scores...

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Report:European Airline Aims To Delight Passengers Through RFID Bag Tracking

Event-Driven Solution Lowers Costs While Promoting Happy Travelers

Processing lost bags costs airlines a lot of money: more than $1,200 per thousand passengers, not to mention the inconvenience to passengers. Thus, airlines are highly motivated to apply new...

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Report:Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

If your SOA platform must span multiple diverse domains, then it should become a federation of interoperable SOA infrastructure elements that work together to ease and control service usage across...

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Report:Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient

Bloat kills. Whether it's excessive complexity in the application, its underlying platform or architecture, or the process used to deliver it, overloaded platform software and heavy processes impede...

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Report:Application Development Pros: Must-Read Research In Any Economic Downturn

Whether the economy slips into recession or not, many firms are starting to tighten their budgets. Although this means even more limited resources than usual, the business will continue to expect...

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Report:An Interoperable And Federated SOA Platform Strategy Matters To App Dev Pros, Too

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) silos are a thorn in the side of application development professionals, but new SOA strategies can alleviate some of that pain. Through federated SOA, a solution...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

As large and heterogeneous enterprises reach greater service-oriented architecture (SOA) maturity, enterprise architects often find that different business areas or domains need different things from...

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Report:Making Use Of A Simple Model For Project Prioritization

Application development organizations rarely have enough bandwidth to tackle every project that the business would like to see developed. But when trying to determine which project should come first,...

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Report:Preparing For The Business Technology Analyst

As traditional notions of the business analyst evolve, application development and program management professionals must prepare for a new, emerging type of business analyst: the business technology...

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Report:Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Apps Dev And Program Management Pros

For a single, isolated solution delivery project, it's OK to think of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as just Web services (WS) standards for better application integration: Your application...

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Report:Progress Software Snags IONA And Mindreef For SOA

How This New Combination Will Affect Application Development Professionals

Within one week, Progress Software announced its intention to acquire enterprise service bus (ESB) rival IONA Technologies and completed the acquisition of service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing...

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Report:Case Study: Financial Services Firm Designs For Reuse

Moving from legacy architecture to a second-generation architecture based on Java gave this large financial services firm the opportunity to design for reuse from the ground up. Standardization and...

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Report:Best Practices: A Pragmatic Approach To Software Reuse

Achieving Optimal Reuse Of A Broader Range Of Assets

Development leaders have looked for ways to increase reuse since the early days of software development in an effort to increase developer productivity. This drive for reuse has brought changes in...

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Report:Air France Flies High With Model-Driven Development

The experience of Air France shows that with a pragmatic approach, a company can introduce model-driven development (MDD) and achieve more rapid, predictable, and repeatable applications. The secret...

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