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Expanding the Value of IBM Rational Team Concert Software with IBM Business Partners Expanding the Value of IBM Rational Team Concert Software with IBM Business Partners
a Development Solutions white paper
Rational SoftwareThe evolution of software development is all about globalization, open environments, seamless collaboration and agile methods. This white paper discusses challenges to adopting such techniques and how Jazz technology, Rational Team Concert and IBM Business Partner Plug-ins can help drive software innovation through collaboration.
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Oracle Database 11g High Availability Oracle Database 11g High Availability
This paper reviews the common causes of application downtime. It discusses how technologies available in the Oracle Database can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unavoidable failures.
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Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source
This IDC white paper presents a pre-emptive approach to information protection and control (IPC). It discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to protect sensitive customer data or company information.
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Oracle Database Vault Oracle Database Vault
This white paper discusses how Oracle Database Vault, the industry's leading solution for protecting business data, addresses regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. It provides the flexible, transparent and highly adaptable security controls required in today's global economy. Learn more today.
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Microsoft Empower for ISVs Microsoft Empower for ISVs
What can you buy your developers for $375? What about development tools, software licenses and technical support? Join Microsoft Empower for ISVs for just U.S.$375 and your business will benefit from a wealth of resources including Microsoft Software Licenses and a MSDN Premium Subscription.
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Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
This white paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g’s capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse system can integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.
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Testing Tools to Support Agile Software Delivery Testing Tools to Support Agile Software Delivery
The Critical Role of Automated Functional Testing in Enterprise Environments
If not correctly managed, using Agile methods to deliver software can lower productivity and increase costs. This white paper demonstrates how Borland SilkTest can help you avoid these pitfalls. If you're going Agile, Borland can help you do it right.
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Oracle Database 11g Architecture on Windows Oracle Database 11g Architecture on Windows
An Oracle Technical White Paper
This paper details the architecture of Oracle Database 11g for Windows and how it differs from its counterparts on UNIX and LINUX. It also describes how Oracle database tightly integrates with the advanced features of Windows operating system and underlying hardware.
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Innovate Faster with  Oracle Database 11g Innovate Faster with Oracle Database 11g
Organizations are under increased pressure to lower costs and increase quality of service, often entailing bringing on technologies to aid in this process. Oracle Database 11g extends Oracle's unique ability to lower the cost of computing while improving quality of service with grid computing; and allows companies to innovate faster with Oracle Real Application Testing.
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Getting Started with Advantage Database Server Webcast Getting Started with Advantage Database Server Webcast
This presentation is a guided tour of the uniqueness, features and functionality that set Advantage Database Server apart from other RDBMS and make it so popular among developers.
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Best Practices for Peer Code   Review Best Practices for Peer Code Review
This white paper describes 11 best practices for peer code review, substantiated by the world's largest peer code review case study at Cisco Systems®.  Use these techniques to ensure your code reviews improve your code -- without wasting your developers' time.
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How Service Providers Can Harvest Value from SOA Investments with BPM How Service Providers Can Harvest Value from SOA Investments with BPM
Read this paper to see how to capture the ROI from your SOA investments by using advanced Business Process Management (BPM) concepts such as collaborative process deployment, exception management and process governance. Vitria's M3O Suite provides the capabilities necessary to deliver on this vision.
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Real Time Data Integration Real Time Data Integration
Using Change Data Capture Technology with Microsoft SSIS
Yesterday's data is no longer sufficient to run a business. Real-time data integration keeps your business responsive and agile in a world where the demand for information immediacy is growing. Getting the most out of the data you already have, and being able to deliver it in a timely manner can be tough. Change data capture (CDC) provides a solution.
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Offshoring Risks: How Will You Stay in Control? Offshoring Risks: How Will You Stay in Control?
If you're a software executive thinking about offshoring .NET development work, it’s essential to know how to minimize your project risk. Download this white paper to read about the personal experiences of executives on the frontline of offshoring and explore the learning systems available to help you reduce risk, improve quality and get the best return from your offshoring investment.
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Automating Secure Report Delivery Automating Secure Report Delivery
A free on-demand webcast.
This webcast shows you how to provide your users with the reports they want, when they want them, using the built-in security, scheduling and report management features of the iServer Express report server.
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iServer Express Report Server for Windows, 90-day Trial Download iServer Express Report Server for Windows, 90-day Trial Download
iServer Express Report Server for Windows, 90-day Trial Download
Adding Reporting Power to Applications and Online Services
iServer Express is a report server that eliminates the burden of manually fulfilling user requests for reports. It automates the delivery of reports designed with open source BIRT, the most popular Eclipse-based reporting tool.
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Visual Studio Magazine 2008 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide Visual Studio Magazine 2008 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide
This special annual issue lists an astounding number of third-party products available to developers who use Visual Studio. This year's list includes more than 400 products and services from nearly 250 vendors, across 22 categories, plus our 2008 Readers Choice Award and Editors Choice Award winners.
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Mastering the Iteration: An Agile White Paper Mastering the Iteration: An Agile White Paper
The heartbeat of Agile software development is the iteration -- the ability to create working, tested, value-delivered code in a short time box. This paper describes the iteration pattern and the activities that a team engages in to meet this key challenge.
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End SQL Server Sprawl: Get In The Groove with SQL Server Consolidation End SQL Server Sprawl: Get In The Groove with SQL Server Consolidation
Is your business a victim of SQL Server sprawl? In Quest's white paper, "Get in the Groove With SQL Server Consolidation," learn how consolidation is key for multiple SQL Server implementations, and how to prepare and plan for your consolidation.
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Addressing Microsoft Interoperability Addressing Microsoft Interoperability
A more flexible, cost-effective solution for Microsoft connectivity
This paper describes three common approaches to solving the challenge of integrating Microsoft applications into heterogeneous IT environments. Learn about the pros and cons of each approach and the best solution for your applications.
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Advantage Database Server or Microsoft SQL Server Which One is Right for You? Advantage Database Server or Microsoft SQL Server Which One is Right for You?
Using a complex enterprise database management system for embedded or distributed database applications results in unnecessary licensing, training, development, deployment, administration and support costs. Designed for use in embedded and distributed systems, Advantage requires no routine maintenance or support.
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Embedding Success With Advantage Database Server Embedding Success With Advantage Database Server
This white paper describes reasons why developers have not only embraced the use of embedded databases in their applications, but why they have specifically embraced the Advantage Database Server (ADS).
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Many .NET Teams Are Underperforming … Is Yours? Many .NET Teams Are Underperforming … Is Yours?
An InnerWorkings Case Study: First Data
Application development is still a "dark art" and software projects continue to fail as often as they succeed. Why? This case study explores how First Data Corp invested in the success of their software teams by adopting a hands-on approach to .NET developer training.
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Storm: The First Comprehensive Solution for Internet Fraud Storm: The First Comprehensive Solution for Internet Fraud
The Storm worm, launched January 2007, was the first comprehensive solution for Internet fraud and attacks. Studying Storm helps us understand the current state-of-the-art hacking techniques and provides valuable lessons for the future.
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About

Web 2.0 opens us up to many kinds of new attacks. IT Administrators have been forced to adjust their thinking in order to deal with these new attacks and keep systems and data secured. How can you ensure that your systems are safe in this new world of IT Threats?
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Beyond the Data Model: Designing the Data Warehouse Beyond the Data Model: Designing the Data Warehouse
Part 3 of a 3-part series on database modeling and design.
Database modeling goes beyond on-line transactional processing (OLTP) models for traditional relational databases and extends in the world of data warehousing. Developers need to go beyond schema design and understand that data warehouses have several other components that are equally important.
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention
Drawing on customer experience, Forrester Consulting, and data gathered from TrustedSource™ (the Secure Computing® global Web and messaging reputation system), as well as third-party sources, this paper outlines the new Web 2.0 threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are not adequate to protect against these threats. The paper then goes on to propose a set of Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention, and reviews Secure Computing’s relevant product and technology offerings.
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention
Drawing on customer experience, Forrester Consulting, and data gathered from TrustedSource™ (the Secure Computing® global Web and messaging reputation system), as well as third-party sources, this paper outlines the new Web 2.0 threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are not adequate to protect against these threats. The paper then goes on to propose a set of Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention, and reviews Secure Computing’s relevant product and technology offerings.
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Did you GET the memo? Getting you from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 Security Did you GET the memo? Getting you from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 Security
The Web is becoming more dangerous. Read about the inherent security threats and design considerations for implementation of Web 2.0 application services and how to protect users within the enterprise network from the new security threats.
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Internet Risk Management In The Web 2.0 World Internet Risk Management In The Web 2.0 World
An Internet risk study by Forrester Consulting
This FREE report details the prevalence of Web 2.0 in the enterprise and why the need for more effective Web protection has never been greater! Learn how to thwart the new malware that uses the Web to propagate a plethora of new threats undeterred by traditional security means.
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