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Distributed Software Development with Perforce

Distributed Software Development with Perforce

Distributed software development has become pervasive in modern enterprise environments. To support collaboration, a software configuration management (SCM) system should feature a common, consistent repository, be tolerant to network outages, and support heterogeneous environments with minimal administrative overhead.

High-level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management

High-level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management

When deploying new software configuration management (SCM) tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor, large-scale practices from their previous jobs or previous tools.

Software Test Management Tools Defined

Testing software applications can be a daunting task that requires hundreds to thousands of unique test cases, the time to execute them, and the ability to efficiently manage the results. As software becomes increasingly complex and development schedules more aggressive, teams are frequently overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the testing effort.

Deliver secure, reliable applications faster

Deliver secure, reliable applications faster

In today’s shortened application development cycles, you face three critical challenges: reducing time-to-market, ensuring application reliability and security, and achieving maximum application performance. The best way to achieve these goals while improving overall staff productivity is by automation.

Measuring application performance in SOAs

Measuring application performance in SOAs

The growth of applications using the .NET platform has generated an increased emphasis on performance measurement and analysis. Distributed applications, while much more flexible and potentially more scalable than monolithic ones, have characteristics that make it more difficult to achieve the goals of high performance and scalability. In such applications, performance issues may not manifest themselves in the individual components, but rather in the integrated application.

Enterprise Data Management: 7 Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make

Enterprise Data Management: 7 Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make

Today's information technology professionals are faced with a variety of challenges including legislation, organizational change, and the rate of technological innovation..

Database Security Best Practices: Implementing the Missing Piece

Database Security Best Practices: Implementing the Missing Piece

Management and practitioners are consistently caught off guard with ever increasing security infringements. The fact that data privacy violations are increasing is due to three primary reasons. First, hackers are becoming more sophisticated and more resourceful. Second, management is not always aware of the factors that will govern and establish viable security policies ensuring data security.

Merge Verses Consolidation

Merge Verses Consolidation

Simulate two users working with the same model and modifying the objects and/or attributes of objects. This will be accomplished by using the same base model and then modifying that model following the steps outlined in the sections below. These users will make modifications to their models accordingly and then one user, User B in these examples, will perform the model management tasks of Merge and Consolidation.

Generating O/R Mapping for Thought Inc. CocoBase EnterPrise O/R 4.x with PowerDesigner

Generating O/R Mapping for Thought Inc. CocoBase EnterPrise O/R 4.x with PowerDesigner

Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) is a component model for Java. There are several types of EJBs: Entity Bean, Session Bean, and Message Driven Bean. Entity Bean is used for persistent objects. There are two types of persistence management: Container Managed Persistence (CMP) and Bean Managed Persistence (BMP). In CMP mode, the persistence is handled by the application server. An EJB deployer can define the O/R mapping information to allow the application server to know how to manage the persistence. In BMP mo

MODELING DATA HERITAGE WITH SYBASE POWERDESIGNER

MODELING DATA HERITAGE WITH SYBASE POWERDESIGNER

Knowing where our data came from and where it is going is one of the most challenging aspects of managing today's data center.

Business Process Management Visualization With ILOG JViews

Business users are experts in conducting their businesses. For BPM to be effective, they must actively participate in the creation, management, and optimization of the automated processes.

CGI Inc.

AppSight helps IT consulting firm improve application performance, meet service level agreement with top telecom company

Crutchfield Corporation

AppSight™ helps retailer maintain hundreds of customized enterprise applications

options Xpress

Online Brokerage Exercises Valuable Option: Using AppSight™ to Solve Problems Faster

Beyond Application Monitoring: Best Practices for Rapid Resolution of J2EE Application Problems

Whether you are in the process of building J2EE applications or have J2EE applications already running in production, you must ensure that they deliver the expected return on investment (ROI).

Best Practices for Accelerating Problem Resolution in .NET Applications and Web Services

Whether you are in the process of building Microsoft.NET applications or have .NET-based Web Services already running in production, you must ensure that these applications deliver the expected return on investment (ROI), and that means high levels of application availability and performance.

Best Practices for Resolving Business-Critical Application Problems

3 Case Studies from the IT Support Battlefield