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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Rules Platforms, Q2 2008

ILOG, Fair Isaac, Pegasystems, Corticon, And Haley Lead, But Innovations Software Technology Is Also Very Strong

Forrester evaluated 13 platforms from 11 vendors using 175 criteria and found ILOG JRules, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor, and Pegasystems PegaRULES to be resounding Leaders as general-purpose business...

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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: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: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:The Forrester Wave™: Functional Testing Solutions, Q3 2008

HP Leads, While IBM, Borland, And Compuware Offer Competitive Alternatives

Forrester conducted an evaluation of six functional testing solutions vendors across 96 criteria. Our findings? HP's leadership of the functional testing market continues unabated since its 2006...

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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: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: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:Best Practices: Attaining And Maintaining Blazing Fast Web Site Performance

A Multidisciplinary Approach Is Key

Customers have great expectations when they visit your Web site. They increasingly want a rich, interactive experience, and their tolerance for latency is approaching zero. If you cannot achieve...

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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:Enterprise Mashups: Lead, Don't Follow

Be Prepared, Because Mashups Will Enchant And Empower Business Users

If your business users aren't demanding mashups now, they will in the near future. Why? Because mashup tools enable your business users to quickly create ad hoc Web applications that "mash" together...

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Report:Best Practices In Implementing Business Rules

Empower Your Business Users To Author And Maintain Business Rules

Business rules platforms are a key enabler of today's architectural imperative to build for constant change. Why? In large part because business rules platforms give business analysts the authoring...

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Report:Best Practices: Blazing Fast Web Site Infrastructure

Measure Often, Cache Smart, And Collaborate With App Dev On Performance Tuning

With most enterprises now conducting business on the Web, it has become more crucial than ever that the experience is rich and responsive. Often these two goals conflict. How do you ensure a robust,...

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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: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: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: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:Must You Choose Between Business Rules And Complex Event Processing Platforms?

Understand The Sweet Spots Of Each To Make An Informed Decision

How can you choose between investing in a business rules platform and a complex event processing (CEP) platform? The answer is not as easy as saying "a business rules platform is for rules" and "CEP...

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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:JAVA Under Oracle: Seven Things You Need To Know

Java Standards Will Narrow; MySQL, ADF, And JDeveloper Will Expand

Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun Microsystems (ticker symbol: JAVA) will give it control over two of the most widely used application development technologies in the industry: the Java platform 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: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: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: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: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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