An Innovative Approach to Managing Software Requirements
(MKS)
Paper
Requirements may be the most critical aspect of the
software development cycle. Studies point to a more than
60% failure rate for software projects in the U.S., with
poor requirements as one of the top five reasons.
Managing requirements must be an integral part of an
organizations overall development process, and is vital
to mitigating risk on large development projects.
This paper introduces you to MKS Integrity for
requirements management, the only solution available
today built as an extension of an application lifecycle
management platform. Further, this paper reviews the
current state of the requirements management tools
landscape and details how requirements are authored,
captured and traced through the downstream lifecycle,
how companies can utilize best practices such as
parallel development and reuse in relation to
requirements and how configuration management concepts
such as versioning and base lining can be leveraged for
advanced requirements management practice.
Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP Application Lifecycle Management
(Newmerix) Oracle:
pdf PeopleSoft:
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SAP:
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Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and SAP provide
customers with best practices pre-configured into
end-to-end business processes. Many companies
change these configurations as business requirements
change. Newmerix™ Automate! provides comprehensive
application lifecycle management solutions designed to
manage the entire lifecycle of change
across Oracle, PeopleSoft or SAP application
environments. Newmerix's approach delivers
Configuration Management, Change Management and Release
Management effectively and efficiently. What’s the
bottom line? You will see a 72% reduction in the number
of hours required to configure and deploy changes
related to Oracle, PeopleSoft or SAP upgrades and
maintenance.
Repository-Centric Enterprise Architecture (Enterprise
Elements)
pdf
Enterprise Architecture modeling tools are used to capture
complex knowledge about organizations and technology. Recently,
the focus of enterprise architecture has shifted to a more
holistic view necessitating the use of a repository-centric
approach to analyze and optimize the portfolio of business
strategies, organizational structures, business processes /
tasks and activities, information flows, applications, and
technology infrastructures across disparate modeling tools. This
paper discusses the business value realized from consolidating
of enterprise architecture artifacts into a single repository to
support enterprise analysis and optimization using the Elements
Repository.
Why Organizations Are Not Fully Protected by Standard Security
Technologies (Vericept)
pdf
Spam filters, anti-virus scanners, web blockers, and
intrusion detection/prevention technologies are important
security tools, but they still expose organizations to
substantial risks of data loss while often lulling IT leaders
into a false sense of security. Increasingly, security
professionals are realizing the extent of damage caused by gaps
in the capabilities of traditional security technologies.
This paper documents how these risks pose real dangers to
organizations that need to protect their customer data as well
as their own business strategies, intellectual property, and
non-public financials. It concludes by explaining how Vericept
products prevent needless data losses that can result from gaps
in standard security technologies.
Hybrid Analysis An Approach to Testing Web Application Security
(SPI Dynamics)
pdf
Testing Web applications for security defects is now
considered a necessary part of the development process. However,
none of the traditional methods of automated security testing
provides comprehensive security coverage and accurate results
for Web applications. Only an approach that combines the
strengths of both source code analysis and black box testing can
be used to produce secure Web applications. This hybrid analysis
approach can provide broad code coverage, identify all points of
input to an application, track data as it moves through an
application, and then validate the vulnerabilities it does find,
ultimately resulting in more accurate results.
Intelligent Engines – The Next Generation in Web Application
Security (SPI Dynamics)
pdf
Today’s Web application and Web services assessment products
boast thousands of static checks for security vulnerabilities like
Cross-site scripting and SQL Injection. The Web application assessment software
vendors have essentially been in the game of who has the best vulnerability
database with the most checks. At the rate the industry is currently
going with the growing number of checks, vulnerability databases
will have tens of thousands of static checks in a few years.
With that many checks, application scans will simply take too
long. The industry has needed new technology to revolutionize
the process of finding vulnerabilities.
Effective Requirements Definition and Management (Borland)
pdf
Software requirements engineering is a
communication-intensive activity, at a minimum involving
analysts, developers, business stakeholders and end users.
Effective communication demands skilled requirements analysts,
effective practices for requirements definition and management
and tools to assist with these critical activities. This
paper describes some of the key requirements issues that affect
nearly every software and systems development project. The paper
also outlines practical strategies and an effective solution to
help address many common problem areas.
Assuring Quality Business Processes through SOA Testing
(Solstice Software)
pdf
Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is the latest attempt to
better link the business with technology. To achieve a SOA
environment, the technology function first must decouple its
systems so individual components and services can be
reformulated by the business. As the technology is recompiled,
it must be tested. Testing for the new components is similar to
traditional application testing, but testing the assembled
processes requires new and more extensive testing approaches.
Increasing Business/IT Relevance and Adaptability: Adopting Requirements Visualization (a META Group white paper)
pdf
By simulating applications before they are built, business analysts
and IT managers can cut costs, reduce risk, and facilitate user
adoption. Furthermore, improved requirements-gathering
processes, including iterative approaches and simulation, can
help organizations better manage outsourced or offshore
development. This white paper will focus on the ways in
which improvements to requirements management processes —
including simulation — and the adoption of appropriate automated
tools can improve efficiency, increase business adaptability,
and reduce costs.
Innovation Through Visualization
The Business Case For Software Simulation (iRise)
pdf
Using real world scenarios, this white paper will discuss how the iRise
visualization platform can help businesses significantly reduce
product risks, deliver applications faster, quickly taking
advantage of new business opportunities and drive predictable,
effective results. iRise® offers an innovative software
platform that enables business and IT analysts to quickly
simulate and “test market” business applications before a single
line of code is written.
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