All Research Sponsored By:IBM
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IBM Optim Database Administrator
Learn how IBM information management software can assist you in managing change in dynamic application and database environments.
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Getting your Requirements Right: Collaborate with Stakeholders to Work Smarter
This white paper considers the changing focus of the requirements space and how requirements definition differs from requirements management. A business analyst's struggles with defining requirements using common office software and tools are related. Finally, a requirements definition solution is introduced and discussed.
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Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development
Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.
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Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios - Improving product portfolio management to optimize your products, services and projects
The best products to offer are those that provide a high level of value for both you and your customer. Companies with successful product portfolios often utilize a systematic process to effectively guide which projects are selected. This whitepaper explains how you can take advantage of a value-driven approach to product portfolio management.
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Seven Steps to Achieving Better Requirements Engineering in Your Organization
Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing documenting requirements. It is an important and multifaceted part of systems engineering that broadens the product development process. Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process don't just change their process and technology; they change their thinking.
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Requirements Engineering for the Automotive Industry
This white paper explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.
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Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint
This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?
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Ten Steps to Better Requirements Management
Requirements definition and management is an activity that has the potential to deliver a high, fast ROI. This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. Read on to learn how better requirements translate into easier, higher quality projects.
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Reversing the Requirement for Storage Growth -- IBM Consolidates and Simplifies Tier-2 Storage
With the acquisition of Diligent Corporation, IBM has put itself in the rather unique position as the only vendor that can offer to the enterprise a complete backup/recovery solution with servers, disk, tape, software, and data deduplication technology, all rolled into one.
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IBM System Storage TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance
Deploying an IBM System Storage TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance can help organizations more efficiently protect their corporate data on disk-based storage while helping them manage the exponential growth of new data through reduction or elimination of duplicate data in their backups.
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Guidelines for the Evaluation of Enterprise De-Duplication Solutions: How to Navigate the Pitfalls and Hyperbole
This document is not intended to judge what is good or bad, right or wrong. The primary focus is educational, providing a background on the principles of de-duplication and recommendations to consider in planning an evaluation of de-duplication solutions.
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Value-driven product management: Six keys to product success
This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products.
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Requirements Definition as the Foundation for Effective Software Delivery
This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas.
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IBM Rational Asset Manager e-Kit
Explore the benefits of Rational Asset Manager with this IBM e-Kit. The e-Kit includes demos, white papers and a webcast. Discover how to track and audit your assets to utilize them for reuse, especially within a service-oriented architecture.
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Minimizing Code Defects to Improve Software Quality and Lower Development Costs
This paper talks about why it's important to take a proactive approach to improving overall code quality using static and dynamic analysis. It then shows how IBM Rational Software Analyzer and IBM Rational PurifyPlus software can be used together to reduce the number of defects in your company's code.
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EZ Insight Report: IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (Full report)
Analyst report which includes new or expanded discussion of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, Rational Requirements Manager, Quality Manager, Insight, and IBM Software Delivery Services for Cloud and Rational Asset Manager.
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Nutra-Flo Drives Global Business with Robust Collaboration Platform
Read this case study to see how Nutra-Flo Company adopted Lotus Notes and Domino 8 to collect collaborative applications in a single customizable interface and conveniently group communications, helping to improve staff productivity.
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IBM Lotus Sametime Software Integration with Microsoft Applications: Connecting, Conversing and Collaborating More Conveniently
Check out this paper to learn about the many benefits of IBM Lotus Sametime software integration and how it can enhance the collaboration and unified communications capabilities of all your Microsoft Office applications.
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IBM Lotus Complete Collaboration Express Starter Pack
Check out this software demo to see how the IBM Lotus Complete Collaboration Express Starter Pack works in conjunction with Lotus Domino and other applications to provide excellent collaboration capabilities and numerous other benefits.
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Celina Insurance Group Streamlines Collaborative Processes with Agents to Stay ahead of the Competition
Read this case study to see how Celina Insurance Group implemented a collaborative extranet based on IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino to enhance their competitive edge.
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Demo: Tivoli Identity Manager Express - Highlighting Security and Identity Management
This multi-part demonstration highlights the security and identity management functions, features, and value of IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Express, including how it can benefit your organization's endpoint security.
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Profiting from PCI Compliance
This paper explores the efficiency gains of building a strategy designed around PCI compliance and discusses the value of obtaining outside support in your compliance efforts; it also examines potential vendor qualifications.
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IBM solidDB Universal Cache: Accelerating a Database Near You
View this Webcast to explore the industry's first relational, in-memory caching software platform that accelerates a broad range of databases up to ten times.
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Proven strategies for archiving complex relational data
Maintaining only current active data in production environments improves service levels, increases availability and improves disaster recovery initiatives. Read this paper to learn how archiving allows organizations to reclaim valuable capacity, reduce risk and lower costs.
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Aligning Business and IT through Connected Requirements: Unifying the Development Process
Check out this white paper to learn how the connected-requirements approach serves as the framework for the use of products and technologies that are designed to allow you to optimize team performance, align the development process with your organization's business goals and meet auditing and regulatory compliance requirements.