The document discusses modern challenges in managing the application lifecycle and delivering high quality applications on time and on budget. It argues that restoring core delivery fundamentals like requirements management, testing, and traceability across integrated teams can help address issues like low productivity and defects found by customers. The document presents a maturity model for improving application lifecycle management and achieving a more integrated view of the complete lifecycle from planning to retirement. It promotes HP's software suite as providing lifecycle management and automation, technology agnosticism, and scalability to help organizations achieve a more mature level of application delivery.
QAT Global is a global information technology (IT) services company providing Agile-based software development, IT consulting, technology and distributed development services. We pride ourselves in being a leader in the delivery of enterprise business solutions through the innovative use of technologies such as Enterprise Java and .NET as well as Open Source components.
QAT Global focuses on delivering business results by helping clients find ways to capitalize on change, leverage emerging technologies effectively, and out innovate competitors through collaborative engagements. The company leverages an enhanced global delivery model, innovative enterprise development framework for distributed environments, repeatable process methodology based in Agile and Scrum, multimedia communication tools, and deep industry expertise to provide high-value IT services. This approach enables its clients to improve their end user’s experience, expand market reach, improve time to market, and reduce operating costs and risks.
QAT Global serves government agencies, companies ranging from early stage startups to Global 2000 companies, and leading software vendors in Banking & Financial Services, Transportation, Insurance, Manufacturing, Utilities, Telecommunications, Information & Entertainment industries, Human Resource Management, Benefits Administration, Government, E-Commerce, and Communications & Technology.
QAT Global has extensive experience and in-depth expertise in application modernization, Business Process Management, rich internet applications, and distributed software development. The company’s service offerings include technology consulting, custom software application development and maintenance, software product engineering, systems integration, application modernization, web and mobile application development, big data and analytics, and testing services.
Founded in 1995, and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, QAT Global has operations in the United States and Brazil.
Verticals - Banking & Financial Services, Transportation, Insurance, Manufacturing, Utilities, Telecommunications, Software Publishing, Information & Entertainment industries, Human Resource Management, Benefits Administration, Government, E-Commerce & Ebusiness, and Communications & Technology
Clients - QAT Global serves companies ranging from early stage startups to Global 2000 companies and leading software vendors.
Offices - QAT Global is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The QAT Global offshore development center is located in Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Modern Databases for Modern Application Architectures: The Next Wave of Desig...MongoDB
Learn about all the changes in application architecture that have taken place over the last decade and the effect these changes have when designing applications today.
In this session, Chris Haddad will describe where your Cloud application strategy may encounter challenges, when to migrate applications to the Cloud, and how to scale cloud strategy and cloud tactics across the organization.
Learn how leveraging machine learning-driven observability can improve developer and SRE productivity by 50% or more
Modern applications based on microservices often run in a distributed environment across thousands of servers, VMs, containers, and serverless functions in data centers, public clouds, and at the edge. Operations and development teams have to process massive amounts of data to solve issues and determine root cause before they impact customer experience and revenue.
Observability is the key to solving these business and operational challenges and is fast becoming one of the strategic imperatives for organizations.
QAT Global is a global information technology (IT) services company providing Agile-based software development, IT consulting, technology and distributed development services. We pride ourselves in being a leader in the delivery of enterprise business solutions through the innovative use of technologies such as Enterprise Java and .NET as well as Open Source components.
QAT Global focuses on delivering business results by helping clients find ways to capitalize on change, leverage emerging technologies effectively, and out innovate competitors through collaborative engagements. The company leverages an enhanced global delivery model, innovative enterprise development framework for distributed environments, repeatable process methodology based in Agile and Scrum, multimedia communication tools, and deep industry expertise to provide high-value IT services. This approach enables its clients to improve their end user’s experience, expand market reach, improve time to market, and reduce operating costs and risks.
QAT Global serves government agencies, companies ranging from early stage startups to Global 2000 companies, and leading software vendors in Banking & Financial Services, Transportation, Insurance, Manufacturing, Utilities, Telecommunications, Information & Entertainment industries, Human Resource Management, Benefits Administration, Government, E-Commerce, and Communications & Technology.
QAT Global has extensive experience and in-depth expertise in application modernization, Business Process Management, rich internet applications, and distributed software development. The company’s service offerings include technology consulting, custom software application development and maintenance, software product engineering, systems integration, application modernization, web and mobile application development, big data and analytics, and testing services.
Founded in 1995, and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, QAT Global has operations in the United States and Brazil.
Verticals - Banking & Financial Services, Transportation, Insurance, Manufacturing, Utilities, Telecommunications, Software Publishing, Information & Entertainment industries, Human Resource Management, Benefits Administration, Government, E-Commerce & Ebusiness, and Communications & Technology
Clients - QAT Global serves companies ranging from early stage startups to Global 2000 companies and leading software vendors.
Offices - QAT Global is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The QAT Global offshore development center is located in Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Modern Databases for Modern Application Architectures: The Next Wave of Desig...MongoDB
Learn about all the changes in application architecture that have taken place over the last decade and the effect these changes have when designing applications today.
In this session, Chris Haddad will describe where your Cloud application strategy may encounter challenges, when to migrate applications to the Cloud, and how to scale cloud strategy and cloud tactics across the organization.
Learn how leveraging machine learning-driven observability can improve developer and SRE productivity by 50% or more
Modern applications based on microservices often run in a distributed environment across thousands of servers, VMs, containers, and serverless functions in data centers, public clouds, and at the edge. Operations and development teams have to process massive amounts of data to solve issues and determine root cause before they impact customer experience and revenue.
Observability is the key to solving these business and operational challenges and is fast becoming one of the strategic imperatives for organizations.
Enterprise^2 going agile - Siemens Manufacturing Software Case Study - Yael B...AgileSparks
Siemens PLM, an enterprise organization with enterprise customers made a decision to go agile.
Lessons we learnt and changes that we made two years into our agile journey.
DevDay Copenhagen - Micro Focus overview and introductionMicro Focus
Tom Tralvik's introduction to #DevDay Copenhagen slides and Micro Focus overview.
Micro Focus is a global software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions that help customers innovate faster with lower risk.
By applying proven expertise in software and security, we enable customers to utilize new technology solutions while maximizing the value of their investments in critical IT infrastructure and business applications. As a result, they can build, operate, and secure the IT systems that bring together existing business logic and applications with emerging technologies—in essence, bridging the old and the new—to meet their increasingly complex business demands.
HP Software Performance Tour 2014 - Enterprise Agility in the age of Applicat...HP Enterprise Italia
Toby Marsden - Director Application Development Management Solutions, EMEA HP Software - takes part to the HP EMEA Software Performance tour 2014 to talk about enterprise agility in the age of applications.
Accelerate DevOps Transformation with App Migration to the CloudXebiaLabs
Migrating enterprise apps to the cloud may sound like a daunting leap, but it doesn’t have to be! Hear how Lincoln Financial Group, a 113-year old insurance institution is moving from a traditional development infrastructure organization to functional DevOps teams deploying applications to the cloud.
Keys to continuous testing for faster delivery euro star webinar TEST Huddle
Your business needs to deliver faster. To accommodate, Development needs to introduce fewer changes but in a much more frequent cadence. This creates a challenge for test teams to keep up with the rapid pace of change without compromising on quality. Automation is paramount to the success or failure of Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Testing enables early and frequent quality feedback throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
In this webinar, Eran & Ayal will explore how to implement Continuous Testing to ensure high quality releases in a Continuous Delivery environment; including what to test and when to automate new functionality in order to optimize your efforts.
The Reality of Managing Microservices in Your CD PipelineDevOps.com
As we shift from monolithic software development practices to microservices, our well-designed CD pipeline will need to change. Microservices are small functions, deployed independently and linked via APIs at run-time. While these differences seem minor, they actually have a large impact on your overall CD structure. Think hundreds of workflows, small of any builds and the loss of a monolithic 'application.'
Join Tracy Ragan, CEO of DeployHub and Brendan O'Leary, Developer Evangelist at GitLab, to learn more.
It's never too early to start the conversation.
A proposed framework for Agile Roadmap Design and MaintenanceJérôme Kehrli
Maintaining a relevant and meaningful roadmap while adopting a state of the art Agile methodology is challenging and somewhat antonymous.
This presentation proposes a framework for designing and maintaining an Agile Roadmap.
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations – two most important teams within any organization. For implementing DevOps successfully its important to understand the building blocks that make up this agile methodology.
Micro Focus at a glance - #MFSummit2017Micro Focus
What a remarkable journey it’s been so far. It’s a fast-moving world where, as they say, change is the only constant. Regardless of how they came to be part of the Micro Focus family, all our people and technologies have seen, driven, and lived four decades of change. While on paper our company is about providing innovative technology solutions, it’s actually about people.
Interest in DevOps has never been higher. According to a recent global survey conducted by Freeform Dynamics (commissioned by CA Technologies) of some 1,442 respondents from 16 countries, representing 9 vertical industries, 72% of companies have implemented some aspect of DevOps.
But are companies doing as well with implementing DevOps as they think they are? The respondents agree on the important elements necessary for DevOps success, but many haven’t actually done them.
Download the report, “Assembling the DevOps Jigsaw” here: http://cainc.to/CFMg4L
Getting Fancy: Creating A Partnership With Your CEO for the Digital EraVMware Tanzu
Jeffrey Hammond at Executive Experience
SpringOne Platform 2019
Session Title: Getting Fancy: Creating A Partnership With Your CEO for the Digital Era
Speaker: Jeffrey Hammond
Enterprise Management Associates’ much-anticipated “Radar Report for Workload Automation: Q4 2021” provides an in-depth look at the latest technological advancements expanding the category from traditional scheduling to application and data workflow orchestration. It also explores four important market trends driving vendor innovation: cloud adoption, containerization, integrations, and SaaS.
These slides based on the webinar provide insights from executives at EMA and BMC as they break down these four market trends.
Why Agile?
What is Agile?
Agile is a mindset
5 key characteristics
Agility can not be planned
Modern Agile
Agile with Scrum
Incremental development
Convincing Senior Executives
Final word
Provides a high level overview of the software development and application lifecycle management features that are available in SpiraTeam, and how you the system when first starting a project
Your applications drive everyday business, but what’s driving your applications? Here are some tricks of the trade to help you keep your applications in working order, so you can ratchet up their value to the business. Visit our site to learn more: http://ow.ly/F8oz301iyxa
Enterprise^2 going agile - Siemens Manufacturing Software Case Study - Yael B...AgileSparks
Siemens PLM, an enterprise organization with enterprise customers made a decision to go agile.
Lessons we learnt and changes that we made two years into our agile journey.
DevDay Copenhagen - Micro Focus overview and introductionMicro Focus
Tom Tralvik's introduction to #DevDay Copenhagen slides and Micro Focus overview.
Micro Focus is a global software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions that help customers innovate faster with lower risk.
By applying proven expertise in software and security, we enable customers to utilize new technology solutions while maximizing the value of their investments in critical IT infrastructure and business applications. As a result, they can build, operate, and secure the IT systems that bring together existing business logic and applications with emerging technologies—in essence, bridging the old and the new—to meet their increasingly complex business demands.
HP Software Performance Tour 2014 - Enterprise Agility in the age of Applicat...HP Enterprise Italia
Toby Marsden - Director Application Development Management Solutions, EMEA HP Software - takes part to the HP EMEA Software Performance tour 2014 to talk about enterprise agility in the age of applications.
Accelerate DevOps Transformation with App Migration to the CloudXebiaLabs
Migrating enterprise apps to the cloud may sound like a daunting leap, but it doesn’t have to be! Hear how Lincoln Financial Group, a 113-year old insurance institution is moving from a traditional development infrastructure organization to functional DevOps teams deploying applications to the cloud.
Keys to continuous testing for faster delivery euro star webinar TEST Huddle
Your business needs to deliver faster. To accommodate, Development needs to introduce fewer changes but in a much more frequent cadence. This creates a challenge for test teams to keep up with the rapid pace of change without compromising on quality. Automation is paramount to the success or failure of Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Testing enables early and frequent quality feedback throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
In this webinar, Eran & Ayal will explore how to implement Continuous Testing to ensure high quality releases in a Continuous Delivery environment; including what to test and when to automate new functionality in order to optimize your efforts.
The Reality of Managing Microservices in Your CD PipelineDevOps.com
As we shift from monolithic software development practices to microservices, our well-designed CD pipeline will need to change. Microservices are small functions, deployed independently and linked via APIs at run-time. While these differences seem minor, they actually have a large impact on your overall CD structure. Think hundreds of workflows, small of any builds and the loss of a monolithic 'application.'
Join Tracy Ragan, CEO of DeployHub and Brendan O'Leary, Developer Evangelist at GitLab, to learn more.
It's never too early to start the conversation.
A proposed framework for Agile Roadmap Design and MaintenanceJérôme Kehrli
Maintaining a relevant and meaningful roadmap while adopting a state of the art Agile methodology is challenging and somewhat antonymous.
This presentation proposes a framework for designing and maintaining an Agile Roadmap.
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations – two most important teams within any organization. For implementing DevOps successfully its important to understand the building blocks that make up this agile methodology.
Micro Focus at a glance - #MFSummit2017Micro Focus
What a remarkable journey it’s been so far. It’s a fast-moving world where, as they say, change is the only constant. Regardless of how they came to be part of the Micro Focus family, all our people and technologies have seen, driven, and lived four decades of change. While on paper our company is about providing innovative technology solutions, it’s actually about people.
Interest in DevOps has never been higher. According to a recent global survey conducted by Freeform Dynamics (commissioned by CA Technologies) of some 1,442 respondents from 16 countries, representing 9 vertical industries, 72% of companies have implemented some aspect of DevOps.
But are companies doing as well with implementing DevOps as they think they are? The respondents agree on the important elements necessary for DevOps success, but many haven’t actually done them.
Download the report, “Assembling the DevOps Jigsaw” here: http://cainc.to/CFMg4L
Getting Fancy: Creating A Partnership With Your CEO for the Digital EraVMware Tanzu
Jeffrey Hammond at Executive Experience
SpringOne Platform 2019
Session Title: Getting Fancy: Creating A Partnership With Your CEO for the Digital Era
Speaker: Jeffrey Hammond
Enterprise Management Associates’ much-anticipated “Radar Report for Workload Automation: Q4 2021” provides an in-depth look at the latest technological advancements expanding the category from traditional scheduling to application and data workflow orchestration. It also explores four important market trends driving vendor innovation: cloud adoption, containerization, integrations, and SaaS.
These slides based on the webinar provide insights from executives at EMA and BMC as they break down these four market trends.
Why Agile?
What is Agile?
Agile is a mindset
5 key characteristics
Agility can not be planned
Modern Agile
Agile with Scrum
Incremental development
Convincing Senior Executives
Final word
Provides a high level overview of the software development and application lifecycle management features that are available in SpiraTeam, and how you the system when first starting a project
Your applications drive everyday business, but what’s driving your applications? Here are some tricks of the trade to help you keep your applications in working order, so you can ratchet up their value to the business. Visit our site to learn more: http://ow.ly/F8oz301iyxa
IBM i Application Lifecycle Management with Remain SoftwareRemain Software
Integrated Toolset for IBM i Application Lifecycle Management. Seamlessly integrated modules for total control over application lifecycle
- Code quality assurance
- Real-time overview of business critical software assets
- Support for regulatory, certification and audit requirements towards IT department and software modernization projects
- Methodology independent process automation
- Streamlined collaboration and communication
- Increased productivity among team members
- Support for projects’ management
- Improved work quality
SymEx 2015 - Delivering Transformation in Infrastructure Portfolio/Business t...PMI Indonesia Chapter
Indonesia’s GDP is estimated to grow by 5.5% per annum between 2015-2018 and the country is expected to become the 5th largest economy in the world (Source: Standard Chartered, the Super-Cycle Report, 2010). To achieve such growth and be aligned with the exponential population growth, Indonesia requires to work around its limitation to accelerate development of its infrastructure. Basic change management model is reviewed to be inadequate and it is required a strategic and effective change management approach to achieve the target.
The presentation by Rainier Haryanto describes background of thoughts and the methodology for strategic change management adopted to present to achieve the required transformation as mentioned on the above overview. Moreover, some transformations, which are already implemented by the Government of Indonesia for the infrastructure delivery, are also presented.
Summit 16: Programmable Infrastructure Key to Business TransformationOPNFV
Automation of the various infrastructure management processes is critical in delivering the business vision of cost transformation, customer experience improvement and growth. This presentation will describe how this automation is being achieved in BT.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise View on Going Big with API Management - Applicatio...CA Technologies
Companies of every size have been disrupted by new business models, new digital devices and new forms of connectivity. But it is the largest enterprises that face the greatest challenges when it comes to integrating their vast legacy architectures with new systems of engagement and innovation that consumers now demand. In this session, Terry White, Fellow and Chief Technologist, Enterprise Services Applications and Business Services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will bring more than 30 years of perspective to a discussion on how critical APIs are as a catalyst for legacy application transformation and migration to the cloud. Terry will also cover the importance of being able to manage and secure those APIs to avoid massive service disruptions and security breaches.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
DevOps - The Future of Application Lifecycle Automation Gunnar Menzel
Development to Operations (DevOps) will have a profound impact on the global IT sector in the near future. Realizing DevOps’ full potential, IT vendors have been agile enough in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside”, at an ever- increasing pace. However, with the growth in product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, customers often encounter confusion, while making complex purchase decisions. They often seem to be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solution.
While not trying to delve deep into DevOps, the Whitepaper tries to answer the following key questions:
What is DevOps?
What is DevOps trying to achieve?
How will DevOps achieve this?
How best to make use of the new developments?
Its aim is to help the reader:
Understand the DevOps concepts
Understand its current value and restrictions
Getting ready for Infrastructure Transformation with hyper-convergedSynapse360
Digital Transformation is an imperative for local government, but siloed legacy infrastructure can make analytics, data sharing and security difficult. Synapse360 illustrate how hyper-converged technology can address these issues cost effectively.
Data Center 3.0 Infrastructure Transformationdigitallibrary
The data center is the center of the IT universe. It is the primary source for computing cycles, storage capacity, business applications, and information of all forms. This central positioning also causes the data center to be a target - for budget overruns, user blame, power shortages, security breaches, and worst of all, business shortfalls. Learn how to ensure your data center delivers on its business promise and makes the most cost-effective and efficient use of data center resources - from networks to servers to storage to power.
Core Banking Transformation: Solutions to Standardize Processes and Cut CostsIBM Banking
IBM Banking Industry Framework for Core Banking Transformation (CBTF) has many assets, tools, methods and accelerators to help banks standardize and link core processes seamlessly and reduce point-to-point interfaces to cut cost and complexity.
Digital Transformation And Enterprise ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
Digital transformation - extending and exposing business processes outside the organisation - by implementing a digital strategy – a statement about the organisation’s digital positioning, operating model, competitors and customer and collaborator needs and behaviour through the delivery of digital solutions defined in a digital architecture – a future state application, data and technology view to achieve digital operating status - is potentially (very) complex.
Digital architecture does not exist in isolation entirely separate from an organisation’s overall enterprise architecture. Digital architecture must exist within the within the wider enterprise architecture context.
Enterprise architecture provides the tools and the approaches to manage the complexity of digital transformation.
The management function that drives digital transformation needs to involve the enterprise architecture function in the design and implementation of digital strategy and organisation, process and policies and the creation of a digital architecture. Management must appreciate the technology focus and the benefits of an enterprise architecture approach.
The early involvement of enterprise architecture increases successes and reduces failures. Management must trust and involve enterprise architecture. The enterprise architecture function must accept and rise to the challenge and deliver. The enterprise architecture function must allow its value to be measured.
People are the Media (DDB Edmonton Edition)Eric Weaver
EDMONTON, AB, CANADA - April 28, 2010 - This is a revised edition of the keynote I gave at the Microsoft Social Media 201 Conference, with updates for DDB Edmonton clients.
AUDIENCE: Marketers, advertisers, brand managers
OPPORTUNITY: To rethink traditional approaches to marketing to leverage both traditional AND social means, to create engagement, influence and activation, rather than mere "awareness" or conversation.
Præsentation fra Jazz Roadshow 2011.
The value of integrated software delivery with
IBM Rational solution for
Collaborative Lifecycle Management.
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Next Gen ADM: The future of application services.IBM
Rapid technology advances are driving higher expectations around speed, efficiency and resilience. Expectations for how technology should help meet business goals are rising. To meet increasing expectations around agility, time to value and cost optimization, Businesses are seeking new ways to manage apps. Born-digital companies are setting new standards for speed, efficiency and resilience. We will discuss how companies can optimize the core, unlock legacy and unleash digital to thrive in the new normal.
HPE Agile Manager and Project and Portfolio Management PPM overview Jeffrey Nunn
Agile project management solution to plan, execute and track Agile projects. Available on-premise and in the cloud, Agile Manager helps remove latencies, bolster Agile practices, and foster continuous improvement
HPE | Agile Manager and Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) overview feb 2016Jeffrey Nunn
Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) provides critical information to help the business make the right decisions at the right time. PPM can do this through governing portfolios of projects, applications, opportunities with effective collaborative processes. Use PPM to standardize, manage, and capture the execution of operational activities.
PPT Presented at Morton's Steak House in San Francisco. It covers the Monitoring Redefined message as well as how Dynatrace transformed to maintain market share in the new world.
Mindtree leverages its performance engineering services to develop software products and applications that perform optimally in normal as well as extreme load conditions. This reduces the number of failures related to performance and availability. We offer performance engineering services across a wide range of verticals and applications based on client server, Web technologies, Web services and ERP.
A new approach to delivering applications with speed, quality, and scale to accelerate business success
Experience the next generation of Application Lifecycle Management – with support for waterfall projects, agile, and everything in between.
Deliver Differentiating Apps – that Leverage the Mainframe – Faster with CA A...CA Technologies
As you strive to deliver market-leading features to applications that exist on distributed, mobile or mainframe platforms, time-to-market and quality are key measurements of success back to management. CA Application Lifecycle Conductor (CA ALC) helps to achieve success in a “bi-modal” world with Orchestration, Automation and Integration of products into a single view of activities with seamless workflow – throughout the entire application lifecycle. Come check out this session to learn more!
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Using Lean Thinking to Identify and Address Delivery Pipeline BottlenecksIBM UrbanCode Products
Inefficient software delivery impacts the entire business, from line of business units, to operations, to development and test, and the variety of suppliers.
Wastes in your processes are causing bottlenecks.
Join Eric Minick, IBM DevOps Evangelist (and UrbanCode guy), as he explores how ‘Lean Thinking’ techniques can be leveraged to help identify ‘bottlenecks’ in your delivery pipeline that can be addressed by adopting DevOps.
SAP Active Global Support - Support for Innovation - Quality Assurance at Cus...Bernhard Luecke
For enterprises , Time to Value is what most counts in the more and more rapidly changing world. As a software provider, SAP needs to ensure the quality of the configured and extended product, integrated as part of the solution landscape of the customer. This is achieved through the SAP Control Center Concept delivered within the SAP MaxAttention or Active Embedded engagement by SAP Active Global Support.
Presentation held at "II Jornadas de Calidad del Producto" in Madrid ( http://calidaddelproductosoftware.com/2014/programa/ )
Strong technology manager who excels at understanding customer requirements and who utilizes technology and best practices to achieve company goals; utilizing existing applications to streamline and improve performance transparency. Extremely passionate with respect to process improvement, implementing best practices and accurate reporting resulting in actively being sought after by clients. International and domestic expertise in process improvement and application deployment. Repeatedly reduced costs increased productivity and expanded marketability using a technological approach to implementing software solutions across multicultural environments.
Assure TotalView - Analytics for Application DeliveryAssure
Assure TotalView is an analytics solution for Application Delivery process. The solution enables end-to-end governance over your Application Lifecycle initiatives. Assure TotalView automatically collects relevant data from all of the operational tools that teams use in the Application Delivery process, and turns this data into meaningful metrics and dashboards for decision makers and stakeholders.
Adopting DevOps @ Scale: Lessons learned at Hertz, Kaiser Permanente and lBMJules Pierre-Louis
DevOps has become a major enabler of business innovation that can drive digital transformation at an enterprise level if done well. Challenges remain, however. Crossing the chasm from successful DevOps pilots with "two-pizza" teams to full enterprise adoption, including cultural transformation, best practices and tools remains a challenge.
Join Alan Shimel as he hosts a panel discussion with Hertz' John LaFreniere, Kaiser Permanente's Raghunath Raman and IBM's Sanjeev Sharma on how traditional enterprises are accelerating innovation by adopting DevOps practices at scale across their organizations.
Find out how:
- Hertz is accelerating transformation of their platforms, business process and operating models with Cloud, DevOps and Agile.
- Kaiser Permanente is managing the cultural, process and integration challenges of multi-speed IT.
- IBM has embarked on a DevOps transformation that has engaged over 10,000 developers already -- including becoming one of the world's largest users of GitHub Enterprise.
Watch to learn how to assess your organization’s readiness for scaling DevOps, and to identify next steps.
Estructuras de datos avanzadas: Casos de uso realesSoftware Guru
La utilización de estructuras de datos adecuadas para cada problema hace que se simplifiquen en gran medida los tiempos de respuestas y la cantidad de cómputo realizada.
Por Nelson González
Onboarding new members into an engineering team is not easy on anyone. In a short period of time, the new team member is required to be able to bring professional
Por Victoriya Kalmanovich
El secreto para ser un desarrollador SeniorSoftware Guru
En esta charla platicaremos sobre el “secreto” y el camino para llegar a ser un desarrollador Senior, experiencia, consejos y recomendaciones que en estos 8 años
Por René Sandoval
Apache Airflow es una plataforma en la que podemos crear flujos de datos de manera programática, planificarlos y monitorear de manera centralizada.
Por Yesi Díaz
How thick data can improve big data analysis for business:Software Guru
En esta presentación hablaré sobre cómo el Análisis de Datos Gruesos, específicamente el análisis antropológico y semiótico, puede ayudar a mejorar los resultados del Big Data
Por Martin Cuitzeo
CoDi® es la nueva forma de realizar pagos digitales desarrollada por el Banco de México. Por medio de CoDi puedes realizar cobros y pagos desde tu celular, utilizando una cuenta bancaria o de alguna institución financiera, sin comisiones.
Por Cristian Jaramillo
Gestionando la felicidad de los equipos con Management 3.0Software Guru
En las metodologías agiles hablamos de equipos colaborativos, autogestionados y felices. hablamos de lideres serviciales. El management 3.0 nos ayuda a cultivar el mindset correcto, aquel que servirá como el terreno fértil para que la agilidad florezca.
Por Andrea Vélez Cárdenas
Taller: Creación de Componentes Web re-usables con StencilJSSoftware Guru
Hoy por hoy las experiences de usuario pueden ser enriquecidas mediante el uso de Web Components, que son un estándar de la W3C soportado por la mayoría de los navegadores web modernos.
Por Alex Arriaga
Así publicamos las apps de Spotify sin stressSoftware Guru
En Spotify tenemos 1600+ ingenieros, trabajando en 280+ squads. Aún a esta escala, hemos logrado adoptar prácticas que nos han permitido acelerar la forma en que desarrollamos nuestro producto. Presentado por Erick Camacho en SG Virtual Conference 2020
Achieving Your Goals: 5 Tips to successfully achieve your goalsSoftware Guru
he measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This involves having clarity on what are the right things as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, creativity, and knowledge may all be wasted if not put to work on the things that matter.
Presentado por Cristina Nistor en SG Virtual Conference 2020
Acciones de comunidades tech en tiempos del Covid19Software Guru
Acciones de Comunidades Tech en tiempo del COVID-19 es una platica para informar acerca de las acciones que están realizando algunas comunidades de tecnología en México para luchar contra la propagación del COVID-19. Desde análisis de datos, visualizaciones, simulaciones de contagio, etc.
Presentado por Juana Martínez, Adriana Vallejo y Eduardo Ramírez en SG Virtual Conference 2020
De lo operativo a lo estratégico: un modelo de management de diseñoSoftware Guru
La charla presenta un modelo claro, generado por la ponente, para atender los niveles desde lo operativo a lo estratégico.
Presentado por Gabriela Salinas en SG Virtual Conference
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
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At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
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Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
2. The Application Reality ERP inventory management Most enterprises run major software operations. wikis supply chain PoS mobile apps HR billing website payments order entry Embedded software CRM
4. Application Delivery: Yesterday & Today P people DISTRIBUTED TEAMS CO-LOCATED TEAMS P process FLEXIBLE METHODS SEQUENTIAL METHODS P tech. THIN CLIENT, SELF-CONTAINED COMPOSITE, CLOUD, RIA
6. MODERN PRESSURES ON DELIVERY FUNDAMENTALS TECH. POLICY CODE TESTS MILESTONES REQMTS. TESTS CODE REQMTS. High quality apps? Predictable outcome? Responsive to change? ~60% of IT leaders say distributed teams significantly impacts productivity. –Forrester On average, 25% of application defects are found by customers. –Capers Jones An enterprise raises 2,000-70,000 RFCs per month. –Gartner
14. Collaboration & asset reuse~60% of IT leaders say distributed teams significantly impacts productivity. –Forrester On average, 25% of application defects are found by customers. –Capers Jones An enterprise raises 2,000-70,000 RFCs per month. –Gartner PREDICTABILITY QUALITY CHANGE-READINESS
15. THE UNSEEN LIFECYCLE “For a business application that is used for 15 years, the cost to go live is, on average, 8% of the lifetime TCO.” RUN PLAN –Gartner DELIVER RETIRE
16. The Integrated Application Supply Chain Solve for the Complete Lifecycle Burn rate, go/no-go metrics Seamless RFC capture and prioritization RUN Architectural policies & compliance DevOps integration for performance SLAs PLAN Project planning & tracking Data archival, application end-of-life Requirements capture & mgmt. DELIVER Development mgmt. RETIRE Functional validation Performance validation Security validation
17. RUN SLA trends Break/fix volatility PLAN Cumulative spend Technical debt Age and usage DELIVER RETIRE A Complete View of Business Investment Solve for the complete lifecycle
18. IT PERFORMANCE SUITE FOR APPLICATIONS CORE LIFECYCLE EXCELLENCE COMPLETE LIFECYCLE COVERAGE PPMC RUN SOAC Lifecycle Management & Automation Project & Portfolio Management Requirements Application Governance SMC Development Integration Business Availability Quality & Performance Service Management PLAN ALM11 Security Archiving MSVS BAC QC IDE & SCM integration Eclipse PC DELIVER ASC Fortify RETIRE DBA CollabNet TRACEABILITY & INSIGHT UNIFIED PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY AGNOSTIC LEADERSHIP IN QUALITY BEST-IN-CLASS MODULAR HETEROGENEOUS
19. 90% resources freed for innovation Saved $3.9M per year Cut release cycles in half HP HELPS DELIVER WHAT THE BUSINESS WANTS
20. Why hp? Integrated management & automation: instead of loosely coupled point tools, HP provides a cohesive platform for lifecycle management and automation. Technology & methodology agnostic: broadest support for heterogeneous environments (.NET, Java, SAP, Oracle, etc.) – covers more than 70 environments. Covers traditional and Agile methods in single solution. Project ready, enterprise scale: whether for a team of ten, or an enterprise of tens of thousands, HP solutions offer proven configurability and scalability. Complete application lifecycle: no other company offers the integrated product coverage of HP to support applications from beginning to end.
[This slide and the next can be presented in relatively quick succession together.] In the not-so-distant past, even large companies relied on asmall handful of “super apps” to power the major businessprocesses (payroll, accounts receivable, etc.).Not anymore.Most of us would have trouble naming a single business processthat doesn’t depend on an application or series of applications—from the tiniest wiki to the grandest enterprise resourceplanning system…
… what does this mean? Applications are now so integral to the modern enterprise that business nimbleness depends on application agility: You don’t get one without the other. The business moves, changes, and expands only as fast and efficiently as its applications do.
Recognizing this fact, IT organizations have fundamentally changed the ways their people, processes, and technologies deliver applications. We’re seeing projects with offshore or near-shore support structures; a process shift away from document-heavy methods like Waterfall to flexible ones like Agile; and new technologies such as richer clients (RIA), cloud computing, service-based architectures and composite applications. These initiatives characterize modern application delivery:STABILITY/AGILITY: Where once the primary goal was that the application not fall over in production – effectively, get the damn thing stood up, and back away – now the expectation is that the application will undergo regular (weekly, monthly) change and be accordingly responsive. Think of it as the Siebel vs. Facebook paradigm – the move to the always on / always available / constantly changing application. “Do as I ask” / “Bring me ideas”: IT is no longer an esoteric back-office function, there simply as order-takers for the business. The business and IT are attached at the hip, and the primacy of the application means that the biz now looks to IT to provide innovative ideas about what is possible – how customers can be better reached, with greater efficiency, etc.COST REDUCTION: Yesterday, IT was the engine for biz cost reduction. Now, IT itself is also a target for cost reduction.EXHAUSTIVE / JUST ENOUGH: Where once IT processes were characterized by heavy documentation and exhaustive checklists, increasingly we see a borrowing from manufacturing’s lean principles so that the new flexible processes (and applications) aim for “just enough” documentation/features.“Does it work”/”Does it impress”: This again reflects the application’s evolution to its primary spot in the business. Where in the Web 1.0 days the main concern was simple data-entry screens and the corresponding business validation, RIA/Web 2.0 is pushing for applications for richer, more impressive applications that truly advance the company’s brand, both inside and outside the company’s walls.
Despite having the right objectives and having adopted the principles of modern delivery, application teams continue to experience frustration in the results. Why?
The first challenge we see is that the fundamentals of good delivery are under pressure like never before. The best delivery organization operate with a high degree of predictability – they know the state of their programs, and time and again can forecast with confidence if they’re on track. But when we consider modern application delivery, we see a scattering of teams, which introduces unprecedented difficulties in getting a single view of overall progress. Moreover, project assets are distributed across a multitude of repositories and file servers, meaning that reuse often goes by the wayside and wheel reinvention becomes the norm. Finally it is difficult for these teams to collaborate and work in coordinated fashion – there is a loss of line of sight among project members. Spreadsheets and phone calls might have been workable when teams shared an office space, or at least an office campus, but these old methods are no match for the modern, distributed organization.Application quality has never been simple, but when we see the rise of RIA, Web 2.0, services, Agile, etc. we see complexity threatening quality. What does it mean to test a component that has no GUI? How do we account for the performance and security concerns of RIA? Are my quality folks integrated into Agile delivery, or are they standing on the sidelines watching developers crank out code? The volume of application change (“RFC” = request-for-change) is astounding. Gartner estimates that large enterprises may see upwards of 70,000 RFCs per month. Businesses move and change only as effectively as their applications. But when we consider the previous points – distributed teams, uncertain views of progress, a lack of sharing, complexity threatening quality – and add to this the sheer challenge of understanding what any given change will mean to an application that has hundreds of moving parts spread over multiple teams… the problem becomes clear. If I have requirements in Word documents spread across multiple file servers (and local hard drives), and perhaps tests in Excel spreadsheets in an equivalent state, to say nothing of the application code itself – how do I see the connections and dependencies among all these assets? It takes days (if not weeks) to determine change impact and to understand what must change and where.Because many of these modern trends are adopted piecemeal, we see that too often a delivery organization continues to rely on its legacy mechanisms to execute modern delivery. These organizations may not realize how different and complex their delivery world has become until the complexity has become overwhelming. In short: to achieve the intended outcomes, modern delivery requires modern solutions.
What should these modern solutions do? They should restore the fundamentals of core delivery:PREDICTABILITY: the solution must produce a single, central view – a single “pane of glass” – that shows the state of the overall program. This should be based on real-time metrics such as # requirements successfully tested, that is, the binary measures of progress. It should automate the hand-offs among project teams, so that team members know immediately when some task is ready for their involvement. Finally, it must provide a central repository of reusable assets so that any team, regardless of location, can see at a glance whether a test has already been created that they can reuse, or a requirement already elicited, or a defect already raised.QUALITY: Furthermore, the modern solution must put quality at the center. It must allow me to capture the business requirements – functional and non-functional – and ensure that these don’t become historical artifacts but remain living reflections of business need. These should then drive all our verification activities. The quality solution must be able to account for all the myriad new technologies my applications are built on, not only verifying functionality but also performance and security. And the solution should allow my teams to work in collaborative fashion regardless of methodology – I should not need a series of dedicated point tools to support each new method.CHANGE-READINESS: Finally, to achieve true change-readiness, the solution must provide an array of innovative automation to strip out manual activities and reduce latency wherever possible. This must be combined with a single end-to-end view of asset relationships and dependencies. I should be able to select the requirement under change, and see at a glance all dependent artifacts – tests, even down to line of code. In this way I ensure efficient and accurate impact analysis, and accelerated but thorough change execution.
Getting core delivery right is no small victory. But it’s the first battle, not the last. A second reason modern delivery fails to deliver the expected business value is that too many enterprises miss that there is a broader application lifecycle. An application doesn’t begin life as a set of requirements; it begins as a business idea. And it doesn’t end the day it goes live; in fact, go-live only marks the birth of something that’s bound to live a long life.Gartner has determined that the work to initially deliver an application represents a mere 8% of its total cost of ownership (TCO), assuming a 15-year life. The other 92% of TCO derives from the loops that must be made around the complete lifecycle – identifying change, prioritizing, implementing and re-deploying; accounting for new enhancements, etc.
This means companies must solve for what we call the complete lifecycle. Doing so delivers considerable tactical value, effectively creating an integrated application supply chain. This includes: Ongoing planning activities that reflect metrics from live projects, compare costs and burn-rates, and help to determine whether certain projects are in danger of having their costs outweigh their expected value. Establishing architectural and technical policy that must be true across the enterprise, and observed by all delivery teams. Sharing key pre-production assets such as performance tests with the production teams so that the latter do no have to recreate on their own, and reciprocally, harvesting real usage from production to augment and improve pre-production tests. Providing for seamless capture, prioritization, and implementation of change. And finally, seeing that applications will live a useful life and should not be maintained beyond it. This means providing for the archival of the application’s data, and being able to take the application offline and to re-provision its resources (maintenance spend, servers, etc).
Beyond the tactical advantages of solving for the complete lifecycle, there is a broaderstrategic advantage. The enterprise now has a wealth of data about the application at its fingertips. This allows for a historical picture of the application, one that captures the cumulative investment. How has the app performed against its service level objectives? What has been the rate of break/fix? Is it still an application with heavy access and use? Has it remained mostly in compliance with technical policy and standards, or has it reached a state of brittleness and spaghetti code such that any change is now a tremendous ordeal [this is what “technical debt” refers to – in essence, coding shortcuts taken for the sake of deadlines, but which create a cumulative impact on the simplicity and efficiency of the code].Think of it this way. Every enterprise understands that things like land, buildings, equipment and inventory are assets: things whose investment must be formally justified upfront, and which will diminish in value over time, ultimately to a point where the costs to keep the asset outweigh the benefit. Why should an application be any different? Solving for the complete lifecycle allows an organization to treat and track the application just as it would any other business asset.
So what can HP’s solutions do?It starts with providing comprehensive management and automation solutions for core delivery. This means a single platform for managing the core delivery lifecycle, including requirements and quality management, and robust integration to the developer’s environment. All of this issues from a single platform. Our operating principles for our core delivery solutions are at bottom-right (white).But we don’t stop there. We help customers solve for the complete application lifecycle. This means our core delivery solutions sit at the center of a fully integrated, complete lifecycle solution set. The operating principles for the broader portfolio are at bottom-left (blue).
In early 2010, we hired Forrester Research to confirm for us what our customers top objectives were as they adopted the initiatives of modern delivery. Here is the response of 206 global IT leaders. Increased agility topped the list, followed in priority by innovation, cost reduction (interesting that came in third, not first), and finally two that we might group together as a better application experience.We’re pleased that as we’ve worked with customers around the globe, we’ve been able to help them deliver against precisely these objectives.
Well the first step is to understand where you are….