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More and more business applications are being created by “citizen developers”—end users who are not IT developers but who create solutions for themselves and groups. This paper explores 6 reasons to embrace citizen development to minimise risks and maximise the return on your SharePoint investment. VIEW SUMMARY

The growth of the cloud is encouraging inadequate passwords for various cloud applications, which adds to security risks. In addition, multiple sign-ons reduce productivity and increase need for help desk support. Single sign-on is necessary, but read this paper to uncover why it is rarely enough. VIEW SUMMARY

Virgin Money Giving wanted to produce a service that allowed ordinary people to donate online to charities without running up large admin and roll-out costs so that as much as possible of donor money goes to the actual charity. Find out how they did it using open source technology. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper, Why NoSQL Databases? provides an overview of how application requirements have changed fundamentally and examines attempts to mitigate those shortcomings. Finally, the paper makes the case for NoSQL by explaining the core characteristics that make a NoSQL database the appropriate. VIEW SUMMARY

Google Apps is budget friendly and easy to manage, but it has an inherently open structure. This makes it difficult to control who accesses what data from where; data could end up on any mobile device. This paper considers the risks of this openness and lack of visibility into user activity. VIEW SUMMARY

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

If the load time of a web page is increased by only 2 seconds, abandonment rates increase by 8%. This is a scary prospect and so highlights the need to mitigate the risks of third-party web components. Read this paper for a five step guide on how to do so. VIEW SUMMARY

Websites and web applications are crucial to the success of a business. Hence, web load testing is critical. With this guide for dummies, learn how web load testing results in better performance, when it is necessary to load test and how and why web performance directly affects your business. 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

Lotus Notes are expensive and require significant maintenance. The solution is the Salesforce Platform in the cloud, an application development programme that minimises concerns over expense and infrastructure. This paper considers the advantages of the Salesforce Platform for your business. VIEW SUMMARY