Tech Library

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Free Guides from the ADTmag.com Editors

A Guide to AJAX for Enterprise Application Development

Learn more about the techniques, toolkits and other developers’ experiences working with AJAX from widget-level enhancements to rewriting apps using client-side and server-side frameworks. Check it out now.

A Guide to Performance-driven Application Development

Learn how to move from a reactive approach to performance monitoring to a proactive model by reading ADT's Lunch Break Series: "A Guide to Performance-driven Application Development." Look at it today!

A Guide to SOA Foresight for Enterprises

The appeal of service-oriented architectures is obvious but successful enablement of SOA-based apps is not. This guide helps you maximize your visibility and map out a lucid plan of attack to enable SOA-based apps. Look it over now!
A Guide to Test-Driven Development

Find out why testing should be an integral part of your company's development process in this informative guide about test-driven development now. Download this informative resource now.

A Guide to IT Security Challenges

Take a look at "A Guide to IT Security Challenges" and see what's on the security horizon in terms of securing information and systems. Find out more now.

A Guide to Database Management

While open source and SOA are both hot technology movements and could pair nicely, many enterprises have concerns that are inhibiting the open source/SOA movement. Find out about their concerns. Get this guide now.

Staking a Claim with BRM

Government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley are fueling the business rules engine landscape. Learn how business rules engines can help your company navigate complex regulations while saving money. Find out more now.

A Guide to Software Quality Assurance

Developing and executing an effective QA strategy is complicated. Read this guide and gain valuable insights into successful quality assurance. Don't miss this informative guide.

A Guide to Improved IT Communication through Collaboration

Collaboration tools and business intelligence are crucial in these days of globally dispersed development teams. Learn how your company can increase software quality by building teamwork and overcome the challenges of distributed teamwork. Read this guide.
A Guide to Data Security Management

Security vulnerabilities are costing enterprises a bundle. Find out how to minimize risk to your company by getting "A Guide to Data Security Management." Download this resource now.

A Guide to Software Configuration Management

Choosing the best product for a company implementing advanced SCM tools can be challenging. Find out the keys to making the most of SCM in this guide. Download this guide today..

A Guide to Software Configuration Management

Learn more about the configuration management tools, design tools and project management tools which support iterative approches to SCM. Read this guide now.

A Guide to Implementing SOA

This ADT Lunch Break Series guide covers ways to extend legacy applications, the challenge of managing access to applications exposed as services, and the evolving standards for Web services. Find out more today.

A Guide to Automated Testing

"A Guide to Automated Testing" explores the latest alternatives to traditional testing and explores the importance of a formal QA process and the common failure to include testing in requirements management. Read more now!

A Guide to Performance Management

Like any new information technology, challenges abound with BPM. The keys to success are explained this guide. Download it now.

A Guide to Business Rules

This guide explores business rules management, featuring comments from IT pros who find the approach fraught with peril, as well as a success story. Learn more.

A Guide to Regulatory Compliance

Find out how new regulations impact businesses scrambling to comply, the advantages of taking compliance measures and the importance of content management. Get this info now.

A Guide to Enterprise Application Development

Get a list of best practices for building service-oriented architectures, expert analyses of model-driven architecture and more in this guide. Download it now.

A Guide to J2EE

"A Guide to J2EE" highlights new products for Java developers and IT departments supporting enterprise Java applications. Check it out!

A Guide to Business Intelligence

This LBS features an overview of business intelligence as well as in-depth coverage of related issues. Get the details now.

A Guide to SOA

This LBS guide covers developments in SOA, Web services, and location-based services, as well as recommendations from a developer. Read what's happening now.

A Guide to Requirements Management

Get a treasure trove of information, tips and ideas from requirements management experts in this guide. Learn more!

A Guide to Agile Build & Release Processes

This LBS features tips on applying process effectively and getting the value out of an automated build system. Get the latest in agile modeling!
A Guide to Business Rules Management

This guide explores the trend toward standardizing and automating business processes. Find out more about this hot topic.

A Guide to Application Quality & Performance

This LBS guide focuses on ways to address security, from planning during software deployment to implementing products that thwart technology-based attacks. Get this guide!

A Guide to Risk Analysis and Testing in the Application Lifecycle

This guide takes a careful look at critical risk factors and important planning and testing issues that need to be analyzed to ensure successful software projects. Get it now.

A Guide to Enterprise-scale Java Applications

Read this paper for guidance on making the right choices for deploying a "successful" enterprise Java application. Get this guide now.

A Guide to Developing & Managing Large-scale Java Applications

To learn about the processes and practices that have become critical in deploying successful Java applications, read this guide. Get it now!

A Guide to Database Management and Performance

This guide explores the issue surrounding database management and performance and how best to leverage these solutions to ensure effective data availability for real-time decision making. Don't miss this guide.

A Guide to Implementing Data Modeling Solutions

Modeling enterprise systems is no easy task. This guide delivers practical insights to the modeling challenge and identifies the intricacies in building models. Read on.

A Guide to SOA and Web Services in the Enterprise

In this guide we take a closer look at Web services and implementing SOAs for new solutions to IT development manager challenges. Download the guide now.

Free resources from our Sponsors

Borland

Using Software to Support Agile Software Development

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. Get this paper.
Oracle

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. Download now.
Actuate

Enable Users to Access Data Directly in Reports

This white paper focuses on the data access challenge and how to best address and enhance reporting on the application’s data. Download this white paper today.
Actuate

Integrating Rich Reporting Into OEM Applications

This white paper focuses on best practices, solutions and technology for successfully integrating and deploying reporting in OEM applications. Learn more today.
Oracle

Oracle Database 11g Architecture on Windows

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. Learn more now!
Actuate

Tapping into Spreadsheet Logic from Java: Four Server-based Approaches

Java applications often need to tap into logic in a spreadsheet. Developers are challenged to do this in a way that fits into the Java architecture. Learn four approaches for automating Excel logic, along with advantages and disadvantages of each. Get the approaches now.
Actuate

Automating Excel Reports: Five Approaches for Java Developers

Java developers are often asked to automate the delivery of Excel-based reports. This paper outlines five approaches Java developers can use, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and where each can be best applied. Find out more!
Oracle

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. Get the paper!
Sybase

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. View it now.
Borland

Taming Software Quality Complexity with Virtual Lab Automation

Don’t let distributed development, SOA and shifting methodologies sabotage software quality…or turn your QA teams into IT managers! Virtualization can provide a better alternative to physical testing. Learn how to get more out of virtualized testing by integrating it within testing processes. Get it now!
InnerWorkings

Many .NET teams are underperforming…is yours?

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. Read on.
IBM Rational

Announcing Rational Asset Analyzer V5.5

Learn how to accelerate discovery and understanding of mainframe applications with Rational Asset Analyzer. Get the details today.
IBM Rational

Announcing the Opening of New EGL Café

Check out IBM's newly announced community portal for business developers and partners looking for resources and best practices for building EGL based application on System z, IBM i and distributed platforms. Visit now.
IBM Rational

Accelerate Modernization of Enterprise Assets Using IBM's Discovery and Transformation Tools

When implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), you’ll soon face some critical tasks. Learn how IBM tools can help you address such issues as asset reuse, extracting code and business rules, and best practices. Learn more now.
IBM Rational

Expanding the value of IBM Rational Team Concert Software with IBM Business Partners

The 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. Download now.
IBM Rational

IBM Rational Quality Management v8.0 Open Beta

Get started today! Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative, customizable software test management environment that enables teams to deliver greater quality software, improve operational efficiency and continuously lower risk. Download now.
Smart Bear

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. Read it now.
CA

Beyond the Data Model: Designing the Data Warehouse

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. Get this paper.
Compuware

Application Development Executives Need Better Visibility To Become More Reliable Business Partners

This survey of 417 executives in the US, Britain, France and Germany, conducted by Forrester Consulting, explores the challenges of application development and how IT leaders can use better metrics to communicate project status, manage business expectations and improve outcomes. Read the survey.
Compuware

Requirements definition and management—The cornerstone of quality software

Read this new white paper from Compuware outlining a requirements-led approach to quality that supports early and effective involvement of QA throughout the application life cycle. Tackling problems early, in the requirements definition stage, reduces costly rework downstream. Download now.
MicroFocus

Extend, Replace, or Convert; which is the best way forward for COBOL Applications?

There are a number of choices when looking at ways to take existing COBOL applications forward. This white paper discusses the most common three options- Extend, Replace, and Convert. It examines the benefits and problems both real and perceived with each option and demonstrates the most cost effective method to modernize applications to address current and future business needs. Get it today.
MicroFocus

Extending COBOL to SOA, Web Services and Beyond

Most businesses have come to realize that recycling or reusing proven processes in combination with newer technologies addresses current and future business needs. This white paper focuses on creating web services as well as the strategic systems architecture to deliver renewed business value from existing COBOL applications running on either mainframe or distributed platforms. Read it.
Coverity

Improving Software Quality to Drive Business Agility

This white paper presents IDC’s analysis of current quality and defect amelioration strategies and market trends, and it offers guidance for best practice approaches. Download this analysis now.
Attunity

Real Time Data Integration

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. Read on.
Mark Logic

MarkLogic Server as an Embeddable Search Platform

When Lucene is not enough, rely on the industry’s leading XML content platform. MarkLogic Server is the only embeddable search solution that scales to hundreds of millions of documents with complete accuracy, and provides fully transactional indexes, programmable relevance ranking, automatic indexing of metadata and more. Read the white paper now.
MVP Systems

Batch Job Scheduling and Process Automation in 2008

This paper discusses the central role that batch job scheduling has played over the years and how that role is evolving, and highlights what users should look for as the market moves from traditional batch job scheduling to cross-platform and event-driven capabilities. Get it now.
V.i. Labs

Anti-Piracy Strategies: Criteria for Choosing a Preventative or Lead Generation Approach to Piracy

Software piracy is here to stay and there is no magic bullet to stop it. Prevention strategies can reduce the rampant piracy rates in emerging markets. Implementing a Piracy Business Intelligence strategy can quantify the specific piracy problem for a given ISV software release and be leveraged further as a sales tool to recover revenue from unlicensed businesses. Learn how to choose the right approach for your organization, products and market.
V.i. Labs

Assessing Your Software Protection Needs: Weighing the Risks and Threats

Learn how to assess your software protection needs given the various risk factors to their organizations’ deployed applications and how to layer your protections against these threats. Read on.
Visual Numerics

Scripting Environments and the IMSL Libraries

Developing numerical applications in a scripting language? This White Paper will demonstrate the ease of calling the IMSL Numerical Libraries, powerful, embeddable pre-built math and statistics algorithms in Java, .NET or C in Jython, Groovy, IronPython and F# scripting environments. Read on.
Visual Numerics

Interactive Java Numerics Studio for JMSLâ„¢ Numerical Library

JMSL Library, pre-written math, stats and charting algorithm in 100% Java. Sample the range of functionality for Time Series Data Analysis, Heat Maps, Portfolio Optimization, Monte Carlo Simulation, Charting and more through the Interactive Java Numerics Studio. Get inside now!
IBM Rational

ClearCase Innovator's Series eKit

Find out how developers and 'power users' of IBM Rational ClearCase use it to be more flexible, innovative and deliver higher quality code. Get the complimentary eKit now.
Mark Logic

XML Processing for Investment Banks

Learn about a reliable, scalable XML platform for analyzing multiple derivatives based on FpML, FIXML, SWIFT MX and ISO 20022. MarkLogic Server supports trade messages in multiple structures, provides fine-grained search and retrieval, is fully transactional and based on open standards. Get it now.
Mark Logic

Content-Driven Applications in the Federal Government

Get this whitepaper for real-world examples of how defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies are using an XML content platform to meet their unique mission goals and deliver useful information hundreds of times faster than with search engines and relational databases. Read on.
Sybase

Advantage Database Serverâ„¢ 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. Read on.
Sybase

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).Get it now.
Citrix

Security Beyond Corporate Boundaries

This exclusive guide shows you how delivering data from the datacenter improves security, gives you granular control of user access privileges and streamlines compliance. Get your complimentary guide NOW.
Citrix

The End of Application Deployment

Secure and Manage delivery of mission critical business applications. Learn how to reduce the cost of delivering them anywhere, on any network or device. Increase security and performance. Download this Free White Paper Now.
Quest

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. Read the paper now.
Mark Logic

MarkLogic Server Overview: An XML Content Platform for Storing, Processing and Delivering XML

This white paper discusses how to choose the right technology to meet your content architecture requirements. It explores key challenges organizations face today for storing, repurposing and dynamically delivering XML content; how to address these challenges of content; and how MarkLogic Server can help Get it now.
Vitria

From Interruption to Resolution: Reducing Risk with Exception Management

Every company relies on well-designed, properly executed business processes for success, but what happens when those processes fail? What is the cost? How do you manage that risk? Learn a better approach to get the upper hand with this complex problem. Download now.
Coverity

Boolean Satisfiability: The Next Generation of Static Analysis

This white paper provides a brief overview of the history of static analysis and explains how the use of Boolean Satisfiability in static analysis is enabling developers to improve the quality and security of their code by identifying a greater number of critical defects in their code with the lowest rate of false-positive results in the industry. Read on.
Coverity

Controlling Software Complexity

This paper describes how development teams can gain control over the complexity of today’s applications by detecting and eliminating critical defects in their source code. Get it now.
Data Direct

Improve .NET Application Performance and Reliability

This paper focuses on ADO.NET and how you can best implement it in your environment, what things there are to consider as you select your data connectivity middleware, and how your choices impact the development, deployment, and production-use of your application. Read it.
IBM Rational

Mitigating Software Configuration and Software Build Risks

This white paper describes two methods for mitigating the software configuration and software build risks currently exhibited at many clients by not having configuration control of software build machines.Read it now.
IBM Rational

Build Web services with transport-level security using Rational Application Developer V7

Build secure Web services with transport-level security using IBM® Rational® Application Developer V7 and IBM WebSphere® Application Server V6.1. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this three-part series. Get the instructions today!
Rally

Mastering the Iteration: An Agile White Paper from Rally

The heartbeat of Agile software development is the iteration. Mastering this skill takes guidance and practice. In this paper, Dean Leffingwell describes the iteration pattern and the activities that a team engages in to meet this key challenge. Learn more!
Curl

RIA Development Strategy Kit

The updated RIA Development Strategy Kit includes three white papers that will help you choose the best RIA development strategy for your company, including a newly released Forrester RIA Best Practices Report “Integrate RIAs Into User Experiences†valued at $379. Get the kit now.
Data Direct

Data Access Middleware Security Simplifies Business Process Applications

Do you have a need to provide pervasive security across your organization? DataDirect Connect provides a solution that decreases development and operations cost, while allowing for great versatility. Read how to exponentially increase the security of your applications. Get this paper!
Coverity

Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-threaded Applications

This paper explains how development teams can avoid catastrophic failures in multi-threaded applications by understanding how to identify and eliminate these deadly problems early in the application development lifecycle. Get this paper now!
Sybase

SQL Anywhere 10 Developer Edition: Enterprise database power anywhere!

SQL Anywhere provides data management and data exchange technologies that enable the rapid development and deployment of database-powered applications. SQL Anywhere is offered at no cost for development and testing. Register now!

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