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The Power of Patterns
The reality of application development is that it is quite tedious to manually implement design patterns in a large application-maybe not on your first TransferObject, but definitely by the time you hit your fiftieth. A better way to harness the power of patterns is to describe your intended technical architecture in the form of a pattern framework, then have it automatically applied to the problem domain at hand. Over the last couple of years, Compuware has been helping to formalize a development approach that does just that. They call this approach model-driven, pattern-based (MDPB) development. In this session, Mike Burba, Product Manager of Compuware's OptimalJ, will describe how this technique is used to build J2EE applications.
To view the keynote, click register now.
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Compuware and Software Development magazine present: "Web Application Performance: What You Don't Know Can Slow You Down"
If you're building distributed Web applications with .NET, not only do you expect different components to work together, you need them to do so efficiently. But components can come from different developers and diverse teams, causing unexpected bottlenecks. The result? The regular failure of Web applications to function under pressure, scale reliably and provide secure service to their customers. Join Peter Varhol, a widely published columnist and a member of Compuware's senior development staff, John Robbins, cofounder of Wintellect, a training, debugging, and consulting firm, and Alexandra Weber Morales, editor in chief of Software Development, as they discuss why distributed Web applications perform poorly-including some highly visible failures. You'll come away with a solid understanding of how to diagnose these problems at the unit-testing and application-testing level and which analysis tools and techniques are essential to banishing them from your shop.
Webcast was held Wednesday, April 21, 2004.
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Accelerating J2EE development with Oracle9i Application Server and Compuware's OptimalJ and DevPartner Java Edition
Oracle9i Application Server is Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE 1.3) compatible and is the most productive platform for application developers. Through the power of patterns, OptimalJ accelerates business solutions by leveraging predefined and custom pattern modeling and code generation for deployment to the Oracle9i Application Server. It frees architects and designers of J2EE applications from repetitive coding tasks and shields them from the complex underpinnings of J2EE coding challenges. Compuware DevPartner Java Edition helps developers build reliable, high performance Java applications running on Oracle9iAS by resolving runtime-performance memory-utilization problems and other challenges quickly and easily. This seminar demonstrates how Oracle9iAS, when working in conjunction with OptimalJ and DevPartner Java Edition, can help customers model, develop and deploy highly reliable, scalable and performance-ready applications, while also helping reduce the resources needed to bring those applications to market sooner. This session will give you an opportunity to see a live demonstration and a chance to interact with the experts from the two companies. Register today!
DevPartner Studio Professional Edition: Productivity Tools for Microsoft Developers
Are you developing applications in Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio 6 or a combination of both? Then register today for the Microsoft Partner webcast featuring DevPartner Studio tips and techniques. Learn how you can improve application performance and reliability-no matter how you are using Visual Studio. You will see demonstrations on finding bugs early by automating project code reviews and runtime error detection, improving performance by profiling, ensuring complete testing by analyzing code coverage, and techniques to help you correct problems in your distributed applications quickly and easily.
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Implementing Data Privacy Assurance in the Application Testing Environment
With the advent of new government regulations and fast approaching compliance deadlines, protecting sensitive data is of critical importance. Even if you are taking steps to protect your production data, it may not be enough. The same data privacy precautions also need to be applied to your test data. Learn the right processes and procedures to effectively address data privacy requirements in the test environment with Compuware's four-step, best practices approach to developing a data privacy solution.
Code Coverage: A Better Way of Testing to CYA (Cover Your Assets)
What are you willing to risk when deploying an application? Quality? Cost? Performance? Your job? Unless you’ve implemented code coverage into your business, you’re gambling against the odds.
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn how Xpediter/Code Coverage can help you validate your testing performed on an application’s underlying business logic. You’ll also hear how many Compuware customers are using Xpediter/Code Coverage to measure and improve the effectiveness of their testing efforts, while providing management with test-coverage statistics and risk-assessment reports. Sign up today!
When is Enough "Enough?" Automated End-to-end Testing With QACenter
It's no surprise that testing can be a tedious task, especially when you don't have a comprehensive view into your complex systems and you can't determine when you have tested enough. Hear how large organizations are performing realistic, economical and thorough testing across their multi-tier environments. Learn how you can improve your ROI by streamlining your testing process. Sign up today!
Next Generation Performance Testing Solution
How can you be certain your applications will deliver once they go live? Comprehensive performance testing and monitoring is the best way to determine application readiness. View this presentation to learn how QACenter Performance Edition can provide measurable application performance and reliability information before going live.
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J2EE Application Service Management - Necessary Steps to Keep Your Eye on the Prize
Businesses of all sizes are aggressively choosing Java as the programming language of choice for rapid, low-cost application development. What they have realized is that J2EE will ultimately yield a prize—a high-performing, scalable application delivering all the value at a fraction of traditional prices.
"Best Practices for service-sensitive cost optimization" An Accela Communications web cast sponsored by NetworkWorld
IT's mission is to deliver excellent application service in support of mission-critical business activities. At the same time, IT management seeks to optimize operating and capital costs of the underlying infrastructure through projects such as WAN rightsizing and server consolidations. The implicit challenge in this scenario leads to the question, "How can we optimize infrastructure and administrative costs without compromising application service?" Learn how by registering to view this pre-recorded web cast, featuring Dennis Drogseth of Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
"Connecting IT Value to Business:
The Power of Application Service Management"
An InformationWeek Web Cast Sponsored by Compuware Vantage
There is a growing trend in the business world: Corporate executives want clear-cut proof of the value that IT brings to the business. This web cast shows how West Bend Mutual Insurance improved the communication between IT and the business, and delivered better service using Compuware Vantage.
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Live Demo for Corporate IT Departments
Featuring a LIVE demonstration of Compuware Changepoint, this session provides a comprehensive product overview of the Changepoint product. This Web Cast is suited to individuals who are interested in learning how portfolio management and business process automation play a critical role in the maximizing IT value, enabling effective IT Governance; and the proactive management of efficiency and quality of IT service delivery.
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Margo Visitacion, Forrester Research: Integrated IT Management
Dashboard-type views permit business managers and executives to see business events, to understand their subsequent impact, and to take corrective action. It is ironic, then, that IT - the enabler of many dashboard views - lacks any comprehensive view across the existing applications, infrastructure, and planned projects that encompass its sphere of responsibility. Infrastructure-monitoring software has existed for a decade or more, and two emerging disciplines-application portfolio management (APM) and project portfolio management (PPM)-provide visibility within their individual domains. However these colloquial views-where they exist- are insufficient.
In this Webinar, Margo Visitacion will discuss how convergence across these three areas in the next 24 to 36 months will culminate in integrated IT management (IIM) dashboards, which will enable IT management to reduce IT budgets by as much as 30% while realizing value increases of 10% to 15 % in the first year.
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Robert Gold - Follow the Money: How Enterprise Finance Policy Impacts IT Alignment
Robert S. Gold, Vice President and Practice Leader for Strategic Information Technology Management, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc
What makes businesses and their IT organizations poorly aligned? The reasons vary: leadership style, enterprise culture, organization structure, and history are typical causes. But to better understand the challenge in achieving strategy-focused IT, heed the advice of the secretive Watergate-era insider "Deep Throat" and follow the money. In this WebCast, IT strategy expert Robert Gold describes how enterprise finance policy impacts strategic alignment of IT, and how the Balanced Scorecard strategic management discipline is helping leading organization improve IT value and effectiveness.
Bio: Robert S. Gold, Vice President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc.
Robert Gold brings over twenty-five years experience to his role as Vice President and Practice Leader for Strategic Information Technology Management with Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (the global professional services firm led by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, originators of the Balanced Scorecard discipline). In fifteen years of management consulting, Mr. Gold has advised and enabled such clients as Allstate, Anheuser Busch, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, British Petroleum, Canadian Blood Services, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Disney, EDS, Eli Lilly, ExxonMobil, Ford, Genentech, Hallmark, IBM, Intel, Lockheed-Martin, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, Panasonic, Petro-Canada, Sabre, T. Rowe Price, Texas Instruments, U.S. Treasury, and many others in the disciplines of strategic planning and alignment, performance improvement, operations and IT management, and continuity planning.
Mr. Gold earned his MBA (cum laude) in Management Strategy and Organization Behavior at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and earned his BS (summa cum laude) in Organization Behavior, also from Northwestern. He is a frequent public speaker and is quoted often in IT industry publications. His most recent articles on Strategic IT Management appear in CIO Insight magazine and Harvard Business School, Publishing's Balanced Scorecard Report
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Melinda Ballou, META Group - Establishing an Approach to Enterprise Portfolio Management: Coordinating Project & Assets for the Adaptive Business
Typically, G2000 organizations struggle with project portfolio management – prioritizing the overall portfolio and establishing adaptive approaches to the allocation of financial and human resources. Yet the lack of coordination and lack of strategic, proactive management of both the asset portfolio and the project portfolio remains both extremely costly to many organizations and hidden. The application development staff that manage the project/program portfolio do not communicate well (or at all) with the operations staff that deals with the asset portfolio and vice versa. Neither group has an adequate inventory or approach to managing the portfolios separately let alone an integrated approach that encompasses the impact of, and relationship between, the project and the asset portfolios. In addition, the relationship between the application portfolio (which resides on the asset side) and the project portfolio is visceral, yet the understanding of that relationship is woefully inadequate. IT software projects, when completed, reside in the application portfolio (along with purchased and customized applications). In the vast majority of organizations, the application portfolio is poorly managed (if at all), so these organizations bear the tremendous cost and burden of continuing to support and maintain applications that may no longer be of value.
In this Webinar, we will address the following critical areas:
- Understanding the challenges and advantages of coordinating project and asset portfolios;
- Establishing effective processes and organizational strategies for enterprise portfolio management;
- Incorporating automated tools solutions to manage the portfolios
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Theresa Lanowitz, Gartner and Gerry Smith - Defining the Principles of Effective IT Governance: Maximizing the Value of Your IT Portfolio
Join Theresa Lanowitz, Research Director, Gartner Group and Gerry Smith, Compuware Corporation as they discuss the need for a holistic approach to IT management and governance. Managing IT as a whole rather than in operational silos provides organizations with complete visibility into the distribution of IT effort and performance. It is only through this comprehensive approach that organizations can align all IT investments with corporate strategy and manage with greater efficiency.
Tune in to this informative TechWebCast and learn why effective governance requires:
- IT organizations to manage IT like a business, tracking and managing all of the work of IT with integrated business systems to control costs, manage risk, measure and communicate value and performance
- IT management to align and manage the value of the entire IT portfolio, including projects, applications and infrastructure investments
- A client focus within IT - understanding the needs of the business and managing internal clients like an external services organization
- The ability to drill down into key functions of IT such as the application development lifecycle, and leveraging business-critical information to manage value, performance, risk and quality
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Randy Remme, Compuware - Metrics-based Performance Management for Software Development Organizations
Randy Remme , vice president of product development at Compuware, is responsible for the strategic management and development of the Changepoint and Changepoint PSA product line. In the spring of 2003, Remme introduced a metrics-based performance management program into what was then Changepoint Corporation's 70 person development team. This webcast outlines the implications of metrics-based performance management on software development organizations, the results and impact on code quality and overall organizational performance.
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Dr. Howard Rubin, META Group - IT Portfolio Manager’s 2005 Outlook and Advice for IT Investment Management
It appears that 2005 will yet again be a complex and volatile year for those charged with IT portfolio management. The most recent data from META Group's Worldwide IT Trends and Benchmark Report indicates that while many firms are optimistic about the potential for increased investment in IT, most are being conservative and are planning limited spending growth. This means that IT dollars will be tight and budget/investment planning must be very focused. Register now to learn how competitive pressures are pointing the way to more use—and more leveraged use—of technology to achieve business results.
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Excellence in IT Governance Web Cast Series: Richard Nolan, Harvard Business School - Board-Level IT Oversight: The Next "Big Thing"
Register today for an exclusive series of Web casts in which industry experts in Corporate and IT Governance share their research findings and reveal what's working for top performing organizations. Board-level IT oversight, with certified IT experts holding a seat on the Board, may be the next big thing in corporate governance. FedEx was among the first to set up such a board. Dick Nolan reveals his latest research, and experience in establishing and serving on board-level IT Oversight Committees. He explains why these committees are being established, and the process of their workings. With the increasing importance of both operational and development IT, we can expect to see more IT oversight at the highest levels in corporations.
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Excellence in IT Governance Web Cast Series: Margo Visitacion, Forrester - The Role of IT Portfolio Management in IT Governance
Register today for an exclusive series of Web casts in which industry experts in Corporate and IT Governance share their research findings and reveal what's working for top performing organizations. IT portfolio management plays a key role in IT Governance by providing visibility in the strategic planning and execution practices. By centralizing and automating the planning and initiation processes, IT Portfolio Management provides a foundation for realistic and value based analysis by making processes visible and by inserting feedback loops into the planning process. Employing this, companies can collaborate in decision making and value realization. The realization that IT Portfolio Management can increase effective governance is growing quickly, but due to organizational maturity, adoption practices remain inconsistent. This presentation discusses the nuts and bolts of IT Portfolio Management, the organizational structures to facilitate IT Portfolio Management and how maturity places a key role in adoption and automation.
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Excellence in IT Governance Webcast Series: Peter Weill, MIT - The One Page Guide to Effective IT Governance
Register today for an exclusive series of Web casts in which industry experts in Corporate and IT Governance share their research findings and reveal what's working for top performing organizations. Although building and refining IT governance frameworks is a key focus for some organizations, effective governance that leverages the ingenuity of all employees in using IT, while ensuring compliance with the enterprises overall vision and principles, is elusive for many. Join Peter Weill, director of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), MIT, as he presents a framework for effective IT governance derived from a new MIT CISR study of 250 enterprises in 22 countries. These top performers have custom-designed IT governance to suit their business strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions around all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and accountability.
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Dean R. Nelson, Deloitte & Touche - The Changing Role of CIOs: Aligning IT with Business Strategy
Today CIOs are required to maintain a broad business perspective rather than a technologycentric view, especially as IT is beginning to shape the business strategy and more than half of all capital expenditure involves IT. In general, IT executives have had difficulty measuring and communicating the value of IT and are challenged to align IT with the business strategy. Join Dean R. Nelson as he outlines strategies and processes that enable IT executives to overcome these challenges and manage the IT portfolio for greater business success.
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Panel Discussion, DiamondCluster: IT Governance: Strategies for Success
Join four IT leaders for an interactive discussion of the strategies, systems and processes that have contributed to their success in managing IT value for industry leading organizations.
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Robert Frances Group - The Politics of Governance
This Web cast discusses how IT executives can utilize a governance board to communicate status of ongoing projects to key executives so as to build consensus and make these executives part of the decision making process. How a governance board can improve an IT executive's image and earn key executives' trust will also be covered.
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Howard Rubin, Meta Group - Portfolio Management for CIO's
Investment in IT is often the largest single are of expenditure for companies. Ensuring that the business receives the highest value possible from that investment is no longer just the CIO's responsibility. Understanding the value potential of IT assets and projects is now essential for success. Problems facing IT organizations with respect to competing business initiatives are compounded by the need to make decisions quickly, as business cycle times continue to decrease.
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Melinda Ballou, Meta Group - Myths of Portfolio Management
As Global 2000 organizations struggle to do more with fewer resources and prioritize the IT project portfolio around key business imperatives (based on risk /value), they are confronted by a broad array of automated tools. Join META Group Senior Analyst Melinda-Carol Ballou as she discusses the challenges that organizations face in their selection process.
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Compuware Changepoint Introduction: Enabling IT Value
Download this brief introduction to Changepoint to learn how we enable corporate IT departments to improve efficiency, manage costs and align IT initiatives with business objectives with its comprehensive software solution providing business process automation, portfolio management and individual performance management.
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Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, Harvard Business School - Leveraging the Balancing Scorecard for IT Investments
Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, Harvard Business School Professor, noted author, co-founder and Chairman of The Balanced Scorecard Collaborative will outline the principals, processes and measurements that organizations must have in place to effectively align IT investments with organizational strategy. Dr. Kaplan will discuss the impact of running a strategy-focused IT organization on the management of business unit value-creation, IT operations and individual employees.
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Dr. David P. Norton, Deloitte & Touche - Strategic Alignment: The Foundation of Value Creation
You can't measure what you can't describe. How do we describe the role of IT (and other intangible assets) in an organization's strategy? Once described, how do we then measure the value of IT? Finally, how do organizations manage the development of IT and other intangible assets? Explaining that alignment must be created through a structural approach to strategic management, Norton drills down into leveraging and managing information capital as a portfolio of assets.
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Robert S. Gold, Balanced Scorecard - Enabling the Strategy-Focused IT Organization
Why is the relationship between Information Technology organizations and the business units they serve so often strained? IT must often focus on reducing cost and keeping systems running, while business units need IT to emphasize value creation. To move beyond merely proving their competence, IT leaders are using Balanced Scorecard to speed their organization's progress in becoming a true partner with business units in executing strategy. This session details this innovative new way of managing IT effectiveness and empowers IT leadership to achieve real change in the IT organization's role and relationships in the enterprise, and to rewrite the vocabulary of cost and contribution of information technology.
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Live Demo for Professional Services Organizations
Featuring a LIVE demonstration of Changepoint PSA. This session provides a comprehensive product overview of Changepoint PSA product. This Web Cast is suited to individuals who are already familiar with business challenges addressed by PSA and are actively seeking a solution.
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Andrew Sobel - The Secrets of Building Lifelong Client Loyalty
Today's services professionals are keenly aware of the important role client loyalty plays in the ongoing profitability of organizations. However, too many still fail to develop the skills and processes necessary to effectively leverage client loyalty for success. In this Web cast, Andrew Sobel will set out a series of innovative, practical strategies that every services professional can use to develop lifelong client loyalty, including:
- How to consistently win repeat business
- The essential attributes of extraordinary client advisors
- The six factors that create immediate personal rapport with a new client
- The nine breakthrough strategies that can distinguish you and your organization
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Changepoint PSA Introduction: Optimizing the Performance of Services Organizations
Download this brief introduction to Changepoint PSA to learn how we optimize the performance of professional services organizations. Through automation and integration of core business processes, Changepoint PSA streamlines operations to maximize efficiency and effectiveness, resulting in reduced costs, increased revenue and improved quality of service delivery.
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David Maister - Maximizing Business Performance through Effective Employee Management
Widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on the management of professional service firms, David Maister will discuss his research of leading services firms which uncovered that the most financially successful firms embodied similar principals for effectively managing employees. Join David, while he discusses practical strategies for the effective management of services professionals.
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Dean McMann - Maximizing the Business Performance of Professional Services Firm
In this session Dean McMann, CEO of Ransford will discuss a variety of performance management and improvement themes critical to services organizations competing in today's markeplace. Dean's interactive session will explore how it is important to not only have clear corporate strategy but also to ensure that every employee is a part of it.
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ePresence: Using Changepoint's PSA to Facilitate Strategic Change
At this live Web Cast, ePresence will discuss how Changepoint helped the organization successfully transition from software provider to leading consulting firm and how they are now using the product for the management of their day-to-day operations.
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