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Open Source License Rulebook and Reference Guide

Open-Source Safety & Compliance

Raising Developer Productivity - A Practical Guide

Application Portfolio Rationalization: A definitive guide to understand the business benefits and the process

This Microsoft-CAST joint paper, put together based on the learning from numerous successful PaaS migration experiences attempts to answer questions around: What are the top challenges and pitfalls when migrating to PaaS? What are the keys to avoid these pitfalls? How to conduct your migration the “leaders and doers” way?

Accelerating Application Refactoring - A Practical Guide

Turn Security & License Risks into Innovation Many Open Source licenses coexist in the software ecosystem. Before integrating a third-party piece of code, it is essential to ensure that your license complies with the intended distribution format. The risk here is essentially legal and financial;

Financial Services (FS) firms consistently have systems which are less reliable and of poorer quality than other industries[1]. Many of us as customers of banks and other FS providers have experienced the frustration of systems and processes that fall short of our expectations, sometime dramatically so. And there have been many examples of major banking and payment system failures in the news over the years which cause huge frustration and hardship for people and companies. Clearly this is not a great starting point for banks that are trying to digitally transform their operations and services. But why is this, and what does it tell us about how to prepare for a Digital Transformation?

Micro-service architectures allow systems to be broken down into independent services. They differ from service-oriented architectures (SOAs) Amazon such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) etc.)

Computer systems designers have for decades been arguing that a key principle of good systems design is to have modular which in turn improves reliability and maintainability. This holds true for systems as simple as individual apps on your phone all the way up to complex cloud- or mainframe-based distributed systems.

It’s no surprise that organizations are moving their business-critical systems to the cloud because of its availability security, and performance of those systems? In this Guide you'll get an insight on: Today’s Software Architecture Opportunities and Challenges 3 Simple Tips to Maintaining a Rock-Solid Software Architecture 4 Questions to Ask About Your Software Architecture Ways to automate architectural compliance

Demand for IT enabled capabilities is increasing and at the same time there is an expectation that IT becomes more of a strategic business partner. Budgeting to improve the application landscape sets the tone for how technology leadership is partnering with the rest of the organization and its perceived value to the company. In this document, we focused on helping our readers by presenting a framework on how to assess the needs for application landscape improvements. Those needs have to be assessed from the business imperatives perspective such as time to market and then tied to IT metrics.

Application maintenance costs can certainly add up over time many companies tend to believe that adding new people to the staff will bolster production and these approaches can be used as smaller parts of bigger application maintenance plans, but they cannot be the only steps taken.

Having trouble knowing when to retire an application? Want to rationalize but don’t know where to start? Thinking about moving to the Cloud? Answering “Yes” to any of those questions means that our free eBook download, will help you understand how application portfolio assessment helps you – and maybe revolutionizes your development. With so many changes in technology, our application portfolios are becoming larger and more complex than ever before – and you may need to make some changes in order to keep pushing forward.

One of the most difficult things IT leaders and CIOs do is plan for their IT development into the future. It is complex and changes aren’t always easy to anticipate. But what if things were just a little easier? 3 Ways Application Portfolio Analysis Can Revolutionize Your IT Planning, our free eBook download, will help you to better understand how Application Portfolio Analysis may make your job just a bit easier.

Inside this e-book, you will find out some of the most common Application Portfolio Health Mistakes, including: Having too many applications; Thinking maintenance is “Once and Done”; You aren’t investing in security; and Rushing the process

Having trouble adjusting to customer requirements? Have a short shelf-life for your software? Are your delivery schedules becoming unmanageable? If you answered even one of these questions in the affirmative can help you there.

Chances are and I would like to share three insights for your agile transformation. The following insights will help you make better decisions about where to begin your agile transformation, how to balance features and foundational coding habits, and how to increase speed and velocity.

This document outlines a new approach to fact-based analysis and identifies the top 3 critical insights to keep in mind when targeting software risk exposure across a set of software assets.

Sourcing managers must conduct an applications portfolio analysis as a prerequisite to formulating their applications services sourcing strategy for both internal teams and outsourcing. In this whitepaper, Gartner provides guidelines for the critical data required for an effective APA execution.

With new trends like Internet of Things (IoT) increase efficiency and better engage with customers. Software is everywhere indeed, but it's still incredibly complex (and getting more complex each day). Application Portfolio Analysis provides a fact-based assessment which is objective, repeatable and cost & time efficient to provide visibility on the products and their evolutions over time.

As companies grow through acquisitions and mergers many of which raise the cost of support. As these applications become more complex, the rate of change slows as a result. In a time when enterprises must be fast and flexible, IT becomes a barrier. The need to rationalize and reduce the duplicate business functionality continues to grow.

As every doctor will tell you and started new projects. It’s easy to lose track of those changes if you don’t have an objective view of the costs, risks and effort hiding inside your portfolio.Companies can run an internal audit through surveys and apply a complex correlation with IT service management activities in order to associate application health with the number of defects in production. Another option is to rely on third party advisors to execute a deep dive into part of the portfolio in order to collect findings and when applicable, set some recommendations.

The "Digital Era" is forcing us to engage with new methods to build while creating significant market differentiators. In both cases, the Cloud has become a key enabler to embrace this digital revolution.

No CIO is hired to maintain the status quo or just "keep the lights on"- It's about innovation and transformation not opinions to drive your strategic plan.Analysis provides a rapid portfolio assessment which is objective, repeatable and cost & time efficient. This document outlines the top 5 critical insights to keep in mind when starting a new CIO position.

The intrinsic benefits of cloud have been touted on countless occasions. The question is no longer Cloud or not Cloud, but more about how and when? This document aims at positioning Cloud in a "dual mode“ - meaning Cloud can be a trigger AND a result. This paradigm shift is meant to describe a balanced strategy where cloud benefits are maximized and created to achieve ambitious goals.

This document lists the key thoughts and steps that large organizations should implement across their application portfolio and teams, in order to establish a strong virtuous circle that will support their Cloud migration strategy that can scale globally. It's a Cloud adoption framework we could summarize in two words: Lift & Extend.

In this white paper, Atos analyzes how an industry leading solution for application code quality and functional size measurement such as CAST impacts application health and quality aspects. We illustrate how a Tier-1 systems integrator can leverage such a tool to deliver the premium quality mandatory for the global digital revolution organizations are going through.

When companies grow but it inevitably reaches a tipping point. It costs too much to support all the applications the process becomes a turf battle – influence and opinion becomes the driving factors in these decisions. By the time application quality/risk is taken into account, it’s often too late to change course. The document outlines the top 5 critical insights to keep in mind when starting a new rationalization or consolidation initiatives.

This practical guide helps IT sourcing executives in establishing an ADM vendor performance management program. The best practices and tools are based on real world experiences of practitioners. Forward-looking IT Sourcing VMO, IT Finance professionals are leveraging software analytics to greatly improve the maturity in vendor-client relationships.

This practical vendor management guide helps IT sourcing executives in establishing an ADM vendor performance management program. The best practices and tools in here are based on real world experiences of practitioner.

This guide describes a method for adjusting productivity with quality results to gain greater visibility into the impact that quality has on the productivity of future releases. It presents best practices that can be integrated into a productivity measurement and analysis process and provide recommendations for implementing an effective measurement-driven improvement program.

This paper presents frameworks for measuring outcome-based IT contracting relationships. Clearly defining deliverables is a worthwhile effort Vendor Management, VMO, IT Finance professionals looking to improve transparency and governance of IT outsourcing or offshoring.

Despite heavy investment in dynamic analysis tools and latency issues. This paper describes how automated structural quality analysis improves delivery and DevOps team’s ability to detect, diagnose, and eliminate performance and scalability issues. Read the six-step process to identify performance issues earlier.

Learn how advanced Software Analysis and Measurement (SAM) can help improve application security by analyzing source code to identify vulnerabilities and architectural patterns in the application, and enable development teams to prevent these vulnerabilities right at the development stage with sophisticated Threat Modeling that takes into account cross-tier and cross-technology interactions.

If you already have some knowledge of Technical Debt, this ebook provides a 7-step Technical Debt Management Cycle that provides a clear process that can over time reduce the risk of failure of critical applications---and ultimately pay down the interest of the overall liability inherent in your application portfolio.

In this just-released white paper, Dr. Bill Curtis – SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST– examines the Technical Debt metaphor to explain how it can be used to help executives think about software quality in business terms while governing software changeability and maintainability of their application portfolios.

This is a Gartner-CAST paper which shows the data-driven approach to balancing delivery agility with business risk. The paper features exclusive analysis from Andy Kyte, Gartner VP and Fellow who eloquently illustrates the systemic risk in the application portfolio caused by the accumulation of Technical Debt over the last decade.

Learn how the Lean practices pioneered in the Toyota Production System apply to Application Development, DevOps, and Agile practices to delivery software. Applying Lean decreases application total cost of ownership and improves business responsiveness and operational dependability.

Learn how Software Analysis evaluates the reliability maintainability software IT vendor deliverables. Forward-looking IT Sourcing VMO, IT Finance professionals are leveraging software analytics to greatly improve the maturity in vendor-client relationships. Learn how to take these 8 steps to improve sourcing governance.

When application fails, the loss of revenue can be large and swift. Applications causes highly-visible outages and lapses in business every day. Still, executives struggle to justify proactive investments in application quality. This paper presents a framework for measuring the immediate and positive revenue impact of improving application quality.

What You Will Learn: 7 examples of code smell How to smell your code The importance of smelling your code ...And Much More!

The 5 Insights You Should Consider In Order To Secure Your Bid And Facilitate A Seamless Post-Merger Transition.