ANALYST REPORT - The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the financial impact of Progress Actional on its organizations. Forrester Research, Inc.'s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better communicate a business case for investing in Progress Actional.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: November 24, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Billing Systems | CRM Analytics | CRM Software | Network Operations Centers | Order Management Systems | SOA | SOA Governance

EGUIDE - This comprehensive, 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. This guide covers the fundamentals of how applications work, how applications flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Best Practices | FTP | Network Best Practices | Network Management | Network Managers | Software Engineers | TCP | Troubleshooting

PODCAST - This podcast explains how Pivotal 6 increases user adoption and productivity by mirroring the familiar Microsoft interface and embedding Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint within the CRM system.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | CRM | CRM Analytics | CRM Analytics Software | CRM Software | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Outlook | Office Applications Software

PODCAST - Can't decide whether to build or buy a CRM system? This podcast presents a third solution that is an application development platform that provides the building blocks for faster, cost-effective application development that achieves a better fit for your business’ processes.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  .NET | Application Development | Application Development and Integration Services | Application Infrastructure | Application Infrastructure Providers | Business Process Management | CRM Software | Open Source | Open Source Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Backups | Disaster Recovery | Virtualization Security | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery

WEBCAST - Composed of Sun hardware systems and commercial open-source solutions Pentaho for BI and data integration, and Infobright, built on MySQL, for data warehousing, this solution comes in two customizable recommended configurations to fit your data requirements and budget -- and ease deployment.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Premiered: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Application Hosting | Application Infrastructure | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | CRM Analytics | Customer Data Integration | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Open Source | Open Source Software | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - Read the second chapter of the Cloud Computing E-Book and learn what developers should consider before moving applications to the cloud and to what extent they will have to re-think familiar go-to languages to make apps work in the cloud.
Posted: October 7, 2009 | Published: October 7, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Life-Cycle Management | Best Practices | Cloud Computing | High Performance Computing | Middleware | Software as a Service | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Applications Management | ERP | HP VSE | Memory | Memory Management | SAP (Product) | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Business Development | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This IBM white paper describes how Virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization and the IBM technology and benefits from each.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Life-Cycle Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Data Management | SOA | SQL | Test Results

WHITE PAPER - Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Data Management | Data Storage | Data Warehouse Architectures | Enterprise | Enterprise Systems | Microsoft Hyper-V | VMware

PODCAST - According to recent research conducted by IBM® ISS X-Force®, more than half of all disclosed vulnerabilities in 2008 were Web application flaws. Learn how IBM Web application security solutions can help you reduce costs, manage risk and improve service. Listen to the podcast.
Posted: September 21, 2009 | Premiered: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Application Security | ROI | Web Applications Management | Web Applications Software

WHITE PAPER - As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | C++ | C++ Compilers | Oracle (Product) | SOA | TCO

WHITE PAPER - More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Monitoring | Application Portfolio Management | Business Development | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Oracle (Product) | SOA