eggPlant’s Use and Benefits in the Defense, Aerospace and Civil Aviation Sectors     pdf

This white paper describes the use and benefits of the eggPlant system in the defense, aerospace and civil aviation industries. eggPlant is a US patented automated testing tool that is deployed to test applications software throughout the systems and software lifecycles before it is released for deployment. This white paper is written to support an understanding of the solutions delivered by eggPlant in the minds of those individuals tasked with the heavy responsibility of ensuring sensitive software systems work as intended they should: without failure.

Creating a Blueprint for Software Success (Micro Focus)     pdf

The shocking reality in software development today is that project success rates are at their worst for ten years. In spite of the methodologies and tools thrown at the problem, 44% of projects are late, over budget, or missing required features and functions, according to the Standish Group’s CHAOS Summary 2009.  While the industry offers the methodologies and tools that we need to develop and deliver software effectively, the odds of project success are still not in your favor if you lack an effective, repeatable approach to build quality in from the start.  Micro Focus has developed a pragmatic approach to software process improvement to help organizations identify and remediate sources of waste and risk. It is the Applications Management Value Profile (AVP).

Test at the Speed of Business (Odin Technology)     pdf

To qualify into the select category of innovation you must deliver a product architecture that is much simpler than prior approaches and offers significant added value. The ultimate "disruptive technology" is not disruptive to customers at all but offers them productivity improvements heretofore unheard of in the market. Odin Technology Ltd. has introduced such a product into the market. Not only is Odin's Axe product able to improve efficiency in test automation but the broader effect for its customers has been improved software quality driven by being able to test more often, more completely and earlier in the software development lifecycle.

How to Use SharePoint Metadata to Improve Search and Control Content (MetaVis)     pdf

One of the main reasons for using a content management system like SharePoint is to efficiently find the right documents and to enforce well-defined processes that govern documents’ behavior during different stages of their life cycle. Both of these activities would greatly benefit from the use of metadata, especially if the metadata model is properly designed and the values are consistently applied to documents.

Components of Total Cost of Ownership (CloudOne)     pdf

In any computing project it’s important to perform a full analysis of all the costs and benefits before making decisions to begin a project, migrate a system or make a purchase. Since the emergence of the intersection between Cloud Computing and Software as a Service, many organizations are evaluating one or both of these models for reduction in cost and increase in simplicity of their environment. This whitepaper applies a model pioneered by The Yankee Group for making these calculations, and applies it to the decisions around tools in the software factory.

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Your Application Development and Database Tools Across Government Organizations  (Embarcadero)     pdf

One implication of shrinking resources is that it has never been more timely or critical to understand the Total Cost of Ownership (“TCO”) of software purchases.”  A thorough analysis considers not only direct costs, such as software licenses, maintenance, and required hardware, but also indirect costs, such as software asset management and compliance, desktop administration, software fixes, IT support, user training, and downtime.

The purpose of this paper is to help readers evaluate the TCO of the traditional software models versus the new model provided by Embarcadero® All-Access™. It will provide readers with a guideline for developing a TCO comparison that will help them determine which model is best for reducing both near-term and longer-term costs associated with their application development and database tools, as well as for making their IT operations more agile and efficient.

Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access (SonicWALL)     pdf

Modern business practices have extended users, endpoints, traffic and resources beyond the limits of the traditional network perimeter. To remain viable, therefore, today’s security solutions must enable and extend business beyond that perimeter. Status quo proprietary solution vendors recommend complex—and often expensive—retrofitting of perimeter defenses, even though the modern network perimeter has become inherently insecure. Alternatively, a “clean VPN” scenario integrates secure remote access and network security appliance technology to deliver layered defense-in-depth protection for the core elements of business communications: the endpoints and users; the data and application resources; and the traffic connecting them.

10 Trends and Technologies Driving Secure Teleworking (SonicWALL)     pdf

Once the key drivers for teleworking were productivity and flexibility—the so-called “work-life balance” that many workers strive for. Those “soft benefits” still exist, but increasingly financial considerations such as gas prices, the credit crisis and hard cost savings drive teleworking programs.  Teleworking programs help companies strengthen the loyalty of their workers.  Whether driven by hard or soft benefits, teleworking programs have one core requirement: Give telecommuters secure access to corporate networks, applications and data. For workers at remote sites, IT and corporate security managers must select secure remote access technologies to make teleworking not just viable but safe.  This white paper addresses today’s drivers of teleworking and the technologies that enable it.

Ensuring Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Security within U.S. Government Agencies (Embarcadero)     pdf

Using Data Management Tools to Ensure FISMA and Privacy Act Compliance - Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) and remaining in compliance with government regulations is a difficult challenge made easier with database tools from Embarcadero Technologies.

Reducing the Time and Costs Associated with Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance (Embarcadero)     pdf

Today, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has significantly impacted most US publicly-traded companies, as well as companies across the globe. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act mandates executive responsibility for establishing, evaluating and monitoring the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Although SOX doesn’t explicitly mention the impact on IT systems, the requirements spelled out in Section 404 are used to derive the IT plans used to ensure compliance.

This paper addresses two aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance as it relates to Embarcadero’s database tools: how the tools help with compliance and how the tools themselves are compliant.

Repository-Centric Enterprise Architecture  (Enterprise Elements)     pdf

Enterprise Architecture modeling tools are used to capture complex knowledge about organizations and technology. Recently, the focus of enterprise architecture has shifted to a more holistic view necessitating the use of a repository-centric approach to analyze and optimize the portfolio of business strategies, organizational structures, business processes / tasks and activities, information flows, applications, and technology infrastructures across disparate modeling tools. This paper discusses the business value realized from consolidating of enterprise architecture artifacts into a single repository to support enterprise analysis and optimization using the Elements Repository.