WHITE PAPER - In this paper, gain a better understanding of how branching and merging patterns work and how applying them to your projects can have a profound effect on how your development team handles change management and delivers software.
Posted: January 6, 2012 | Published: January 5, 2012


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Software | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines different considerations for separating decision support systems (DSS) from Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments and touches upon technical procedures for achieving the same, as well as examines data warehouse solutions, different storage topologies, storage interface optimizations and much more.
Posted: October 8, 2010 | Published: July 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Management | Decision Support Systems | OLTP | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Nucleus analyzed existing Force.com application deployments and found an average of 4.9 times faster development.  End customers, developers, and ISVs experience more rapid time to value, lower cost, and greater ongoing flexibility.
Posted: October 21, 2011 | Published: February 18, 2011


Topics:  Software | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Web Applications Architectures | Web Applications Management | Web Applications Software

WHITE PAPER - By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
Posted: April 25, 2011 | Published: November 30, 2010


Topics:  Data Modeling | Data Warehouses | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | OLTP | Oracle (Product)

WEBCAST - In this webcast, representatives from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia discuss how it has consolidated multiple database services, including OLTP applications such as PeopleSoft Financials, onto an Oracle Exadata platform for improved performance and resilience and faster time-to-market.
Posted: December 12, 2011 | Premiered: December 12, 2011


Topics:  Data Management | Data Quality | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Architectures | Database Management | OLTP | Query Tools

EZINE - In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now.
Posted: January 23, 2012 | Published: January 24, 2012


Topics:  Business Development | Operating Systems | Risk Management | Security | Server Management | Software | Web Development

WHITE PAPER - This Hurwitz and Associates whitepaper shares the successes, challenges and future plans of three companies - Sogeti Group, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and Scotiabank.
Posted: September 11, 2009 | Published: September 11, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Infrastructure | Software Quality Assurance | Software Selection

WHITE PAPER - In recent years C-level executives in many of the world's largest and most successful organizations have been forced to introduce a wide range of cost-cutting measures as macroeconomic forces continue to create a challenging and uncertain trading environment.
Posted: October 20, 2011 | Published: January 6, 2011


Topics:  Business Service Management | Business Service Management Software | Software | Software Asset Management | Software Maintenance

WHITE PAPER - Borrowed from the Japa nese term for “chatter,” pecha kuchahas been praised as the new way to communicate in business.
Posted: October 20, 2011 | Published: October 27, 2010


Topics:  Network Infrastructure | Software

ANALYST REPORT - This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a recommended deduplication approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Databases | Disk Backups | NAS | OLTP | Remote Backups | Storage Capacity | Storage Replication | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - While Agile development is designed to increase efficiency, it can also introduce risk as testing cycles get condensed and serious bugs can get overlooked. In this whitepaper, learn how Coverity can help you assure the quality, security and safety of your code in Agile or hybrid development environments.
Posted: November 28, 2011 | Published: November 28, 2011


Topics:  Software | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Maintenance | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - Access this white paper to learn how software escrow agreements can be a critical tool to help ensure application continuity within your business continuity plan.
Posted: January 4, 2012 | Published: January 4, 2012


Topics:  Application Security | Applications Management | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Software | Software Licensing

VIDEOCAST - This video explains how Oracle Exadata Storage Servers use a massively parallel architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage to overcome the limitations of conventional storage.
Posted: December 12, 2011 | Premiered: December 12, 2011


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Data Analytics | Data Center Management | Data Mining | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | OLTP

WHITE PAPER - Explore the results of a recent IDG survey gauging IT leaders’ perspectives on technology escrow agreements with software vendors, as well as the importance of including verification services within them.
Posted: January 4, 2012 | Published: January 4, 2012


Topics:  Application Security | Applications Management | Business Continuation Services | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Software | Vendors

WEBCAST - Business users can benefit from unified and simplified access to the data and actions they need to increase their productivity and make nimble business decisions.
Posted: January 4, 2012 | Premiered: January 24, 2012


Topics:  Business Communications | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Processes | Business Systems | Software