Software maintenance process models

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The Economics of Embedded Development, Testing, Deployment and Support by IBM
a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. Economic considerations of embedded developments have been largely...
Automated Business Intelligence: Delivering Real Business Value, Quickly, Easily, and Affordably by Birst
with disparate tools from a number of different vendors, resulting in staggering services and software costs, long implementation times, and high failure rates. Some challenges companies face with...
IBM i can do it e-Kit: Stretch Every Dollar for Twice the Power by CresTech Software Systems
Check out this e-kit to learn how IBM Rational Software can help you cut your maintenance costs and offer you the flexibility to transform your...
GoldenGate Software for Zero-Downtime Upgrades, Migrations, & Maintenance by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
enabling uninterrupted business operations during necessary system upgrade, migration, and maintenance activities. It is necessary for the IT group to perform periodic upgrades and maintenance on...
HEALTHsuite® - Claims Processing Software by RAM Technologies, Inc.
HEALTHsuite® is a comprehensive benefit administration system and claims processing software solution designed for health plans and benefit administrators. HEALTHsuite is a rules-based...
High Availability and Replication for i5/OS (iSeries) and AIX by Vision Solutions
a fast, reliable and automated switchover/failover. If switchover is a difficult or risky process, it won’t get tested, it won’t be used to prevent planned downtime – and worse – you won’t know if your HA...
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software solutions for green IT by IBM
how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) can help companies achieve green IT processes for software application management. Specifically, ALM solutions can help IT organizations reduce energy...
BPM Technology Taxonomy: A Guided Tour to the Application of BPM by SAP America Inc
This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise...
Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g by Oracle Corporation
things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process. Increasingly companies are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). A true...
Desktop Virtualization Offers Economic Stimulus Package: Where is the ROI of VDI? by Quest Software
in your enterprise such as reduced desktop hardware maintenance costs, streamlined software maintenance, self-service fault resolution, improved desktop and data security and more! This webcast...
Practices and Trends in Enterprise Application Management by Compuware Corporation
processes and technology. While best practice libraries provide extensive guidance on the process side, research highlights the technology requirements for managing business services as...
Assuring Successful Exchange Recoveries by AppAssure Software
Exchange adminisrators burdened by time consuming backup process will be interested in this white paper about Replay, a backup and restore solution eliminates...
Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development by IBM
headaches. Read on to learn more. Trade studies are an essential part of the systems engineering process. They help us fully explore the design space to ensure that a proposed solution best meets...
HP Reference Architecture for Oracle Grid on HP Integrity server blades: Oracle Grid Infrastructure configured for E-Business Suite R12 by Hewlett-Packard Company
yet another example of how you can use HP tools to maximize the return on your hardware and software investment. HP continues to work closely with partners such as Oracle, Red Hat, Microsoft and...
Competitive Analysis of Market Leaders in Data Modeling: PowerDesigner, ERwin and ER/Studio by Sybase, Inc.
ERwin (from CA) and PowerDesigner (from Sybase). All three will allow a modeler to create data models, reverse engineer databases, document database systems, create basic reports and create...
How to Respond Quickly to Changing Market Demands by Streamlining Processes by Oracle Corporation
This white paper will show that by improving process flexibility and transparency, not only can employees and systems adapt more easily to...
Oracle eAM's Best Friend - Automated Work Order Attachment Printing by STR Software
associated attachments that actually describe the work to be done. Not only is this multi-step process inefficient, but also increases the chances for users to make costly printing and collating...
Business Process Management (BPM) - Leveraging Competencies and Streamlining Processes to Achieve Operational Excellence by IBM
works, albeit for the better.

BPM is a business management practice that encompasses process automation, process modeling and simulation, process modularization and service...
Practical Steps to Simplifying Oracle Security Patch Management and Maintaining a Healthy Security Posture by Oracle Corporation
posture of their Oracle database and effectively manage the critical patch update (CPU) process, and explores the configuration management features of My Oracle Support. Securing databases...
Creating a Win-Win for Call Center Outsourcers and Their Customers by Cicero Inc.
are acutely focused on the need to improve service levels while substituting old business models with more cost effective performance-based models. Additionally, outsourcers are being...
HSN Case Study on Achieving a Zero-Downtime Oracle Siebel CRM Migration by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
from the website, automated Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and call center, as well as ongoing maintenance of all customer information. They needed to upgrade their Oracle Siebel application to the new...
Reliable Solution Guide for Agile Businesses by Oracle Corporation
Oracle delivers software to help organizations meet the complexities and challenges of operating in today's...
Next Generation ALM: Collaborative Software Development on Demand by CollabNet
CollabNet is the standard for on-demand collaborative software development networks. CollabNet software and services help distributed enterprises reduce...
Quest Software® Desktop Virtualization Group: vWorkspace Demos by Quest Software
An integrated solution with a central Command and Control Center for various deployment models across the enterprise.

We have categorized various brief demos below to give you a glimpse into...
Software Quality Resources
Software Requirements, Second Edition -- Chapter 7, Hearing the Voice of the Customer by Karl E. Wiegers, Ph.D.
SearchSoftwareQuality.com, you're entitled to a complimentary copy of Chapter 7 of Software Requirements, Second Edition written by Karl E. Wiegers, Ph.D. and published by Microsoft Press.

The heart of requirements engineering is elicitation, the... More...

Feb 15, 2007
Software requirements tool enables collaboration by SearchSoftwareQuality.com Staff
bridging the communication gap between customers, business and IT by improving the process of defining an application through Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration."

Blueprint Requirements Center 2008 provides the following:

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Sep 19, 2007
Addressing software quality issues with development models, methods

This study compares three of the most industrially relevant software development process models (Rational Unified Process (RUP), Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) and Extreme Programming (XP)) regarding their software quality support in terms of... More...
Mar 29, 2007
Techniques to help prevent software project failure by Mike Evans

In today's rapidly changing business environment, customized software applications are one of the primary vehicles for translating business needs into actionable business processes. However, this transformation can occur... More...

Aug 29, 2007
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