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- Independent Software Vendors: Open Source as a Competitive Advantage
- Open source offers great promise to independent software vendors. Increasingly facing a world of margin compression, time-to-market pressures, and the need to focus scarce engineering resources on distinctive functionality, forward-looking ISVs are incorporating open source components into their products to improve their competitive position. With a plethora of open source...
- White papers 2005-06-24
- Towards An Approach For Managing The Development Portfolio In Small Product-Oriented Software Companies
- Managing product development activities as an explicit portfolio is crucial to the long-term success of product-oriented software companies. Portfolio management has been studied in the field of new product development for over two decades, but existing approaches transfer poorly to small software companies due to contextual differences. Based on new...
- White papers 2004-09-14
- Firms See Development Cycle Shortened
- From the executive summary: ‘While some companies continue the tradition of giant new product releases followed by upgrade cycles, the pattern at most software companies are more likely to be perpetual permutation. The software companies involve teams of developers, product managers, and marketers on an endless runaway train of product...
- White papers 2003-12-05
- Analysis Of A software company's Business Network
- Software companies live in the middle of complex business networks. It seems often to be quite unclear what is the role or position of different players in such networks. This paper addresses business networks in the context of mobile services that are emerging despite of the bursting of the Internet...
- White papers 2003-08-26
- The Urge To Merge
- The article focuses on the question that as the software companies fight it out, should customers pay the price as a result. The situation may not be all bleak for customers. For one, the continuing aggregation of disparate software products could solve a major technical problem for users, that of...
- White papers 2003-08-05
- The Roadmap to Offshore Success: Strategy and Best Practices for Enterprise Software Companies
- This report explores the benefits realized by today's offshoring software companies: access to a highly skilled workforce, quicker time-to-market for new initiatives, and bottom-line savings of 40 percent - or greater. More than 60 software executives share their offshore experiences and best practices. They represent a broad cross-section of the...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Software Companies: Get Real With Revenue
- Recording revenue up front does not help determine the true health of a company. The push to make the quarter" becomes a driving business strategy simply because traditional revenue recognition has created this dynamic. And because the biggest players in the industry- IBM, Oracle, Siebel Systems do it, so does...
- White papers 2003-07-01
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- Teaching Software Process Improvement Through A Case Study
- This paper describes the main design choices of a software process improvement course. The course is organised around an industrial case study. In addition it is based on lectures and group exercises. The case study is centred around four questions: Why is process improvement important [in your company]? Which processes...
- White papers
- Business Models That Last: Balancing Products and Services in Software and Other Industries
- Entrepreneurs and managers in software and many other technology-driven businesses such as computer hardware, telecommunications equipment, and industrial machinery, often debate which is the best business model: that of a products company or a services company. People generally come out in favor of being a products company, particularly in software....
- White papers 2003-12-01
- What Are Intranets?
- An intranet is a company-wide software and information distribution system that uses Internet tools and technology. It could be a simple HTML file linked on a LAN, a full-blown sophisticated system with dedicated server hardware, or anything in between. A person can use an intranet to give employees access to...
- White papers
- Software Maintenance Productivity Measurement: How To Assess The Readiness Of Your Organization
- In this paper the prerequisites for Software Maintenance productivity analysis are described with the use of the experiences at the Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco). First the differences between software maintenance activities and IS (Information System) development projects are described. Then a basic trend model is applied as well as ways...
- White papers 2004-11-21
- Software Process Improvement In Lithuania - UAB Sintagma Case Study
- Lithuanian IT companies have a growing interest in the software quality assurance and software process improvement. However, specialized software process models, such as CMM (Capability Maturity Model) or ISO 15504 (SPICE), are not widely known. The object of this paper is a case study of the software process improvement effort...
- White papers 2005-07-05
- Implementing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Controls With Scriptlogic
- For companies implementing internal controls in order to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, ScriptLogic software solutions give IT administrators the tools they need to secure and audit all aspects of their Windows-based infrastructure. In order to bring a company into compliance, there are a number of software solutions that need to be...
- White papers 2005-07-21
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) In Learning And Talent Management Software: The Pros And Cons
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions are the fastest growing area of enterprise software. SaaS is defined as model of delivery where the software company provides hosting, maintenance, daily technical operation, and support for the software provided to their client. We've seen SaaS disrupt the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) industry. And now we're...
- White papers 2007-02-14
- Software Business Models and Contexts for Software Innovation: Key Areas for Software Business Research
- This paper examines business, design, and product development aspects of software business models. Contexts of small and large companies for creating software innovations are also analysed. Finally, software business research is called for and an agenda for software business research is presented to better understand the dynamics of the software...
- White papers 2002-11-04
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) In Learning And Talent Management Software The Pros And Cons
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions are the fastest growing area of enterprise software. SaaS is defined as model of delivery where the software company provides hosting, maintenance, daily technical operation, and support for the software provided to their client. The others observed SaaS disrupt the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) industry. And now...
- White papers 2007-02-14
- Does "Upgrade" Rhyme With "Headache?"
- In the case of most shrink-wrapped software packages, upgrades are relatively straightforward. The company sends an individual a self-installing CD. The person puts it in the drive, it starts up on its own, the person clicks OK a couple of times, reboots the computer and voila the person's software has...
- White papers
- Bursting the CMM Hype
- With CIOs increasingly dependent on outside service providers to help with software projects, some have come to view Capability Maturity Model (CMM) (and its new, more comprehensive successor, CMM Integration, or CMMI) as the USDA seal of approval for software providers. Yet CIOs who buy the services of a provider...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- The Future of Enterprise Software: How Software Companies Can Achieve High Performance in an Era of Disruptive Change and Uncertainty
- The enterprise software industry, after several years of declining growth, stands at the verge of what promises to be a tumultuous time. Just as the Internet was responsible for the last explosion of growth in the industry in the past decade, it is now laying the groundwork for dramatic change...
- White papers 2005-11-04
- Selecting Software For Your Nonprofit
- In planning for the coming years, have you considered how your software system could be more useful? As leading technology becomes more affordable, software is likely to be on your organization's list of research projects. Maybe your organization tracks contributions using donated software and hardware, or you may employ a...
- White papers 2004-06-01
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