System Stability & Performance - A Roadmap to Proactive Management
July 2010
The reliability and performance of our companies’ systems and applications is often taken for granted. High reliability and performance does not happen by accident but rather by careful planning, monitoring, and continuous improvement. This article presents a set of stages from the most reactive to the most proactive approach to system stability and performance. Each of these stages is discussed in detail leaving the reader with enough information to start asking the right questions.
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Concurrency: How multi-core systems will change the way you develop software
April 2010
The shift to multi-core technology is happening before our eyes. It lures us with promises of greater computing power - but only if your applications are designed to take advantage of it. If your current applications do not take advantage of this power they may in fact run slower than they do today on a single-core machine. However, if we take some time to understand the impact of this multi-core world and prepare for it, we will continue to see the productivity gains that have driven our industry since early days of Moore's Law.
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Turn on a Dime: Leveraging Agile Development with Virtual Teams
November 2009
Your business must be able to react quickly to the changing needs of its customers, which requires you to be agile and flexible enough to change course midstream when needed. Agile software development methodology combined with a virtual team approach can enable this flexibility while reducing project risk and costs. While this combination can pose some challenges, we’ll discuss some ways to mitigate them and achieve a truly high performance development organization.
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance: Critical Success Factors
May 2009
SOA's goals are to build business applications by reusing existing software services, to increase consistency and to reduce errors. The goal of SOA governance is to manage changes to consistently support business objectives and to deliver return on investment. Successful governance immunizes the organization against the symptoms of an uncontrolled environment. So what makes a SOA governance effort successful? And when do you move beyond people and process to implement a tool to manage the SOA governance activities?
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PHP - Worth a Second Look
May 2009
When was the last time you considered using PHP for your business solutions? PHP, an open source tool, has grown into an enterprise level application delivery toolset and is currently being used by some very popular social web sites that you may be using today. An experienced developer can quickly get up to speed with PHP, positioning you to increase your speed to market and reduce your delivery cost.
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Keys to Successfully Integrating the Enterprise
August 2008
Today's requirements for quicker, higher-quality decision making and the need to adapt to a changing business environment has been coined as "agility" in the business press. A strategic approach to application integration can be a key enabler of business agility. Integrating a company's internal applications with each other, their customers, and their suppliers is not a new challenge, but the recent explosion of proprietary and open solutions has added many choices. This article will take a look at the current integration landscape, providing some practical guidelines for some of the key decisions as you choose the best approach to integrate your portfolio of applications.
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Oracle 10g – Upgrading, Now What?
November 2007
In this article we will explore four technical approaches for executing your migration, support offerings to leverage, and a collection of our lessons learned and best practices from past migrations.
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Oracle 10g – What You Should Know Before You Upgrade
August 2007
Looking for new functionality? How about improved performance tuning and monitoring tools? Or do you prefer the stability of your already fine-tuned environment but merely want to stay current on a supported version? With support of 9iR2 already ending and the recent release of 11g, should you consider the direct jump to 11g? These are only a few of the questions to be considered when planning your Oracle 10g upgrade. There are some well-advised tasks to consider and risks to evaluate prior to launching your upgrade project. In this article, our Oracle database experts explore inputs to timing and strategy decisions like training of your technical staff, evaluation of related infrastructure upgrades, and coordination across application owners and end users.
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SOA – Creating the Intelligent Enterprise
November 2006
SOA represents a fundamental change in the way technology is implemented within the enterprise. In an SOA, business is the key driver and technology is secondary. BPM and Workflow drive business processes which interact with services as required. The result is a dramatic increase in business agility and flexibility. Our SOA experts analyze the role SOA fulfills within an organization including the benefits and advantages of transitioning to a SOA.
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