October 20, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper discusses a five-step best practices approach to implementing a cost-effective and timely data privacy solution. It also details a brief case study illustrating how Compuware’s combination of tools, technology, best practices and customized services can save time and money.
November 01, 2008 - (Free Research) To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency..
March 17, 2010 - (Free Research) This guide will assist individuals who have been assigned the task or have identified the need to establish a patch management strategy. It details methods and approaches to effectively implement a sound patch management process.
February 16, 2010 - (Free Research) In this IT briefing, security expert Ed Moyle answers PCI DSS questions that pose the greatest challenge to enterprises, outlines recent and upcoming clarifications from the PCI Security Standards Council regarding often misinterpreted requirements, and discusses strategies used in the field to help reduce the complexity.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper describes the HP approach and highlights the key opportunities to reduce the risks, costs, and time required to develop, deliver, and maintain high quality applications.
August 2008 - (Free Research) This paper explores the challenges and rewards of test management and provides practical ways to help you implement an organized and structured testing process. It also discusses the benefits of HP Quality Center software.
April 2007 - (Free Research) By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.
February 2010 - (Free Research) In this video, David Sherry explains the cloud's many uses, its current advantages and disadvantages, and most importantly, the security risks and compliance issues that must be considered with any cloud computing implementation.
December 2008 - (Free Research) In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development.
December 2009 - (Free Research) With XP support sunsetting, customers are concerned about data migration, hardware limitations, compatibility and integration of existing applications and licensing issues associated with upgrading to Windows 7.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Join us for a one-hour Web seminar where members of our security research team will discuss whitebox and blackbox application security testing techniques, highlight how their approaches to vulnerability detection compliment one another and share best practices for embedding application security testing across the software development lifecycle.
February 2010 - (Free Research) In this webinar, RightScale and HyperStratus, a cloud computing consulting group, showed the significant advantages of using the cloud for development and testing. Discover how businesses are leveraging cloud computing to transform their dev and test processes.
February 2010 - (Free Research) The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). This application note explores the means by which existing data center assets can be repurposed to increase utilization, and improved application agility.
February 2010 - (Free Research) IT companies often struggle to handle explosive data growth. To successfully deploy new applications, they must be tested using real-world data sets. Many companies struggle with cycle times and infrastructure costs. This demo explains how Informatica’s Data Subset enterprise data growth solution can help untangle complex transactional systems.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Read this E-Guide to learn how to maintain test consistency throughout the agile process, the benefits and common obstacles of agile test automation, and how to accelerate agile software testing throughout the entire process.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Agile software development is quickly becoming the preferred way to build mission-critical software systems. However, if it is not implemented properly customers can run the risk of increasing costs and loss of quality instead of making teams more effective. Read this paper on the proper implementation of agile software development.
February 2010 - (Free Research) This paper will help you gain a closer understanding of how you can integrate performance testing into your Agile processes. It summarizes key concepts and best practices involved in performance testing, highlights software tools that enable performance validation in Agile environments, and provides practical tips that you can put to work today.
January 2010 - (Free Research) The Endpoint Assessment Test is a free tool that scans a computer and assesses whether it is a security risk to your organization. Download it and discover the risks that your company's endpoints are hiding.
August 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Ensuring a consistent software build throughout an organization is one of the most expensive and time-consuming tasks facing any IT organization. Challenges include not only managing multiple client images for a range of hardware platforms and functional groups, but also meeting licensing and compliance requirements. ImageDirect can help.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Using full-size copies of the production database for testing and development has an exponential effect on data growth. Managing all these full-size copies quickly becomes unwieldy. This webcast from Informatica will show you how to maintain your data relationships, ensure data security and optimize testing and development environment.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs.
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