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Can you remember what life was like 10 years ago? How were your personal life and professional life different than they are today? Here are a few reminders about life in 2001: ...

Three Cases Show The Path To App Delivery's High-Value Career Choices
How application development and delivery professionals serve the business is changing, calling for new delivery methods, organizational models, roles, and processes. The change: App delivery pros...
John Lennon's song "Beautiful Boy" contains a phrase apropos to the topic of applications retirement: "Life is just what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." In an applications...
Sorry folks but as a Murphy, I just can't resist the temptation - Irish rockers "The Dropkick Murphys" sing a song called "Shipping Up To Boston" - and that is exactly what I and my...
A Framework For Mainframe COBOL Migration And Rehosting Decisions
Business executives want to reduce the recurring costs of their application portfolios any way they can and use the savings to fund new business opportunities and counteract competitive threats....

This tool bases application assessments on customizable questions and weightings in four categories of metrics: business importance, application condition, EA condition, and vendor condition.
We've entered the empowered era: an age in which power has shifted from corporations and government institutions to people — people who have been empowered by software-fueled technology. The...
In his report on the top technology trends to watch in 2011 to 2013, my colleague Gene Leganza called out application portfolio management (APM) as one of a number of "planning and analysis tools to...
Customers Want Much Better Business-Level IT Transparency
The adage "If you build it, they will come" simply hasn't taken hold yet in the fragmented application portfolio management (APM) tools market. In the words of one frustrated customer, "If tools were...
What is the definition of an "application"? We are "applications development and delivery professionals" - surely we have this question nailed, don't we? The question keeps coming up in...
How The Top 10 Providers Stack Up In A Newly Divided Market
Demand for business agility fuels adoption of Agile development techniques that can deliver differentiating business technology (BT) solutions within accelerated time frames. Agile development...

Application Assessments Are Only A First Step Toward Rationalization
Application rationalization is a hot topic for many applications professionals and also draws the attention of enterprise architects and CIOs. Most organizations begin by compiling an inventory of...

Dell made two bold moves last week that bolster its apps modernization street cred. Since MAKE Technologies and Clerity Solutions may not be household names to you, here are our...
Business leaders demand that IT leaders "do more with less" to free resources for innovation and growth. Applications professionals are turning to application portfolio management (APM) to meet those...

Assessment Framework: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean transformation. This report is designed...
