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This is an accompanying report to the “Evolution of Design and Development: Adobe’s perspective” podcast.

This report profiles the support delivered to improving Enterprise development and operations relations (DevOps) by Serena Software’s Release Management and Automation portfolio. It looks at the vendor’s goals for enabling organizations to better cater for Continuous Delivery for the most appropriate application targets. Tags: Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Release Automation, Release Management

This is an accompanying report to the “Maximising reuse in the delivery of smarter products and systems” podcast. The report summarizes the key points and best practices discussed.

This report accompanies the “Cloud development and delivery realities: Architectural pitfalls to avoid” podcast. The report summarizes the key points and best practices discussed identified.

WANdisco has a highly available, replication engine that underpins their source code control solution, facilitating real-time software development across time zones and continents.

Revelation Software Concepts is an Australian software company whose software portfolio is focused on change management and change control for SAP users. It has a broad customer base drawn from banking, financial, petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.

In this report we look at Static Analysis, an old technology that is rising dramatically in popularity. It is riding on the tide of industry trends such as outsourcing, application security, Agile and ALM. It can play an important role in reducing technical debt.

Perforce is a US software company that provides an enterprise version management system. Perforce’s products are used by solution providers and enterprise organizations across the broad industry landscape.

InterSystems is a US software company that focuses on providing an application platform built on top of the company’s high performance embedded database and analytical software. Its software products are used by solution providers and enterprise organizations across the broad industry landscape.

Creative Intellect Consulting undertook a survey to assess the convergence points between systems and smart products in software and product lifecycles. This report identifies where the collaboration and interaction points are and determines the appetite for Agile methodologies and practices in the two areas.

Highlights the key discussion points and provides guidance and recommendations for those looking to make a case for Agile methodologies and practices within systems engineering projects.

In October 2010, IBM announced a raft of new products for the IBM Cloud platform ranging from planning and preparation to application delivery, and management tools to new Cloud-based solutions. This report examines the impact of the announcements and the potential for IBM and its community going forward.

Governor Technology is an agile, independent web design and development company that builds and supports solutions for clients including Microsoft, Linkedin and the London Development Agency. We met with John Mannix, Technical Director, to talk about some of the latest developer trends impacting the market.

Flexeye Technology markets a development and deployment platform and services model for maximising operational intelligence. In this report we examine Flexeye’s Operational Intelligence platform and services.

IBM’s Pulse 2011 conference held in Las Vegas saw the company announce its aspiration and vision towards Smarter Computing as a strategy and framework for maximizing compute investment, enabling future IT capacity and delivering new applications to support business growth and agility. In this review we examine the fundamentals of IBM’s Smarter Computing initiative and the business value it presents.

CIC undertook a survey to understand the impact of security on the software development and deliver. This report involving members of information security professional body (ISC)2; the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and other software professionals shows starkly just how serious the issue is.

Our new Practitioner Insight report discusses the importance of User eXperience (UX) as the critical success factor in implementing any Enterprise Mobility strategy. The report outlines several important messages including how a great UX is essential to the success of any Enterprise Mobility strategy.

CIC Research Director, Bola Rotibi, speaks to Arno Gourdol, Adobe’s senior director leading the web platform and authoring team at the company, about the opportunities and challenges in this area. The discussion focuses on how organizations and design and development teams can equip themselves to stay current and marketable, against the background of a rapidly changing technological landscape.

IBM's Steve Weaver and Bola Rotibi, Creative Intellects Consulting - DevOps provides visibility for both dev and ops teams to ensure agile productivity throughout the entire lifecycle. Prevent avoidable errors from going to production. (See also Bola’s blog on IBM Pulse 2012)

In this rather risqué titled podcast discussion we address the fact that given all the tooling and technology advances and the design guidance available whether there is now a case for locking up developers for producing bad apps and applications? More importantly is there a case for reforming the warranty and liability clauses when purchasing or accepting software apps.

Points discussed: What challenges and opportunities does a reuse strategy present in the delivery of smarter systems and products? What supporting processes can help deliver a reuse strategy? How can you ensure continuous quality improvements through a reuse strategy? How does one engage the business to invest in a reuse process? What advantages does a reuse strategy hold for convergence between software and hardware discipline concerns?

In this podcast discussion we question whether agile can truly work for complex systems design and development. We will also discuss what needs to be done or put in place to replicate the successes that a growing number of development teams are experiencing.

The podcast discussion looked to understand some of the architectural challenges of moving to the cloud, and to identify important considerations for ensuring a smooth transition and obtaining the right support.

This guide presents directions for Agile deployment strategies in the delivery of embedded software products and complex systems. It provides an analysis of the maturity of Agile implementation and gives some insights into the prevailing trends, tools in use, experiences gained and common practices in play. Tags: Sponsored Research, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Release Automation, Release Management

This guide offers directions for improving the collaboration between IT development and operations teams, and a path towards Continuous Delivery. It looks to identify the various applications and deployment models for Continuous Delivery, with a focus on exploring the different points of “trust” when Continuous Delivery can occur effectively. Tags: Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Release Automation, Release Management

This eBook report offers guidance on the methodologies and best practices for developing on Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform, as well as extending the capabilities of the Salesforce.com Cloud-based applications that are underpinned by the platform.

In this Shorts report we provide a summary analysis on key Microsoft BUILD 2011 announcements.

IBM hosted a Cloud Day event in Dublin at the end of October 2010. This Creative Intellect Consulting “Shorts” Report summarises our key opinions as a result of that briefing as well as subsequent Cloud announcements and insights from IBM.

In this report from our Creative Shorts series on Application Lifecycle Management, we put forward an un- bureaucratic approach to QA and testing management that supports ALM and improves business insight into IT.

In this report from our Creative Shorts series on Application Lifecycle Management, we propose a strategy for employing Agile lifecycle practices to ensure end-to-end agility for IT application and service delivery.

In this report, the first of our Creative Shorts series on Application Lifecycle Management, we provide the business case as to why ALM is a business critical service.

In this report, from our Creative Shorts series on Application Lifecycle Management, we put forward the business value of Requirements traceability and its role in supporting the ALM process.

In this report, from our Creative Shorts series on Application Lifecycle Management, we put forward the business value of Release Management and its role in supporting the ALM process.

In this report from our Creative Shorts series on Application Lifecycle Management, we put forward a strategy for unified governance through process orchestration and management and its role in supporting the ALM process.

In this report from our Creative Shorts series on Application Lifecycle Management, we suggest principles for Cloud development and lifecycle management that will ensure maximum benefits for multiple Cloud computing models.

In this spotlight review report we assess Serena’s support strategy for improving the change management of mainframe application assets and enabling a broader community of developers to support the mainframe platform.

To make it easier for developers to address the sprawl of Git repositories, version control software provider Perforce, has released Git Fusion. In this spotlight, we take a closer look at Git, Git Fusion and why the deployment of local version control systems extends far beyond the developer community.

Back in March 2011 at its annual Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas, Microsoft corporate Vice President, Brad Anderson, laid out a new direction for Microsoft's management tools which would have to focus on "what is doing the compute.” What did he mean?

The launch of Office 365 gave some insight into a company strategy consistent with its software plus services vision whilst leveraging much of its historical powerbase. But it also saw Microsoft take on new responsibilities as a service provider.

In this spotlight report we look to assess Compuware Uniface’s releases of Uniface 9.6 and Uniface 10 and determine whether they can address the needs of its existing audience, satisfy the expectations of a more demanding market place and provide the long term growth goals of the Uniface management team.

In October 2011, Bull made two announcements around their cloud strategy. In this report we examine these cloud announcements by Bull and their announcements since, to see what impact they will have on enterprise customers and partners.

In this article we look at some of the things announced and demonstrated in the Build 2011 first day keynote presentation.

In this commentary article we examine Microsoft’s App Store goals and directions announced at Build 2011, and determine some of the issues they must resolve to improve on previous attempts in this market.

With the arrival of Windows 8, Microsoft realises that it cannot control the quality of apps developed for older versions of Windows, but decides it has to take four big steps to ensure a better user experience here on out.

Since its Worklight acquisition, IBM has delivered a foundation that is attuned to the needs of enterprise organizations in a variety of mobile pursuits. However, there are still holes that the mobile team must quickly look to fill.

In this article we discuss Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility and analyze the likely impact to the company as well as the market as a whole.

As we have begun to closely define the technologies that make up Cloud computing, the overuse of the phrase is causing confusion and no where moreso than in the crucial area of security in the Cloud. This reports examines what it really means in detail.

In this report, we put forward the business value derived from connecting ALM with ITSM and the need for greater alignment and collaboration in strengthening development and operations interactions.

This paper looks at the business drive towards smarter IT and computing and explains why the role of good architectural management, governance, and planning for Smarter IT is crucial.

Talk delivered by Bola Rotibi at ARTEMIS Technology Conference in March 2012.

Talk delivered by Bola Rotibi and Jamie Thomas at IBM Software Impact in April 2012.

Talk delivered by Bola Rotibi at IBM's Enabling the Agile Enterprise in North Carolina in November 2012

Talk delivered by Paul Herzlich at the Micro Focus 2012 Developer Conference about the changing landscape for COBOL developers.

We examine the benefits and challenges of testing early for a cluster of technical test types, commonly known as performance testing. The aim is to bring managers up to date on the latest thinking on the subject and practice in the field, with a view to cutting away the myths and removing obstacles blocking adoption.

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In March 2011 Microsoft announced that high end Visual Studio customers would get unlimited virtual users for load testing. In theory, this should transform the economics of load testing tools. We describe here exactly what Microsoft offered and examine its implications for the testing world.