Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) White Papers

This collection of articles focuses on a number of hot topics for 2013, including: complexity, web and mobile user experience, big data and the application lifestyle. Read to find out an insight into the key application performance issues and challenges organisations will face in 2013. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper acts as a comprehensive guide on how to optimise the performance of your applications. It contains sections on topics such as differentiating performance from scalability, collecting, calculating and visualising performance data and the theory behind performance, to name but a few. VIEW SUMMARY

APM improves performance and service quality for businesses, increasing the quality of IT operation service by allowing monitoring and analysis of systems failure, performance, availability and usage, enabling increased application performance and much more. Read for real applications of APM. VIEW SUMMARY

This case study highlights how an organisation needed to improve the performance of their applications by rapidly diagnosing problems throughout the life cycle. Performance issues were not being discovered until after they became costly problems. Read to find out how they overcame these problems. VIEW SUMMARY

ITIL Application Management Lifecycle is comprised of five main functions – from defining application requirements to design of the application, build, test and deployment to production. This guide will help you understand application support personnel in implementation of key ITIL processes. VIEW SUMMARY

The marketplace is interconnected, mobile and fluid. Enterprises are under pressure to re-architect and modernise applications to fit these fluid characteristics—to support mobile devices, advance business processes in real time and to harness the scale of the cloud to support the digital capability VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency and productivity. In addition, they can also reduce IT costs by simplifying integration and improving IT administration and maintenance by making ERP applications more flexible. VIEW SUMMARY

This technical paper states that sitting on IT assets to gain as much perceived lifetime out of them as possible is an ineffective method of asset management. Every IT asset has some intrinsic value and adopting an IT lifecycle management (ITLM) strategy optimises the lifecycle of IT assets. VIEW SUMMARY

There are many mobile BI tools on the market. Many of these products are marketed based on that they look great. But it’s important to consider the real value that can be unlocked through mobile BI for IT departments. Helping people solve problems requires more than just great looking reports. VIEW SUMMARY

Given the rapid growth in the number of virtual machines being deployed, it’s no surprise that scalability, performance, and the overall volume of storage capacity have been identified as key challenges. VIEW SUMMARY