Product Development

requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.

It's easy to plan meetings or events when there are few people and resources involved. But when either the number of people or the required resources grows, planning can quickly become...

Management, Defining Features, Req... The software product development industry has evolved to become one of the most important industries of our time. Employing millions of practitioners throughout virtually every developed country worldwide, this industry creates some of the most essential products we use to maintain and extend our lifestyles.

From controlling the production of the food we eat, to providing safety and control of the vehicles we drive, to providing life...

design partners and suppliers. As a result, innovative product development requires an approach that supports tight collaboration and increasingly complex value chains — an approach IBM calls integrated product management (IPM). To learn more, download this white paper.

Systems Manufacturers - Finance - Technology - Software Development - Semiconductor and Manufacturing

SAP customers. With SAP’s decision to focus its future product development on the former BusinessObjects (BOBJ) BI product line, and discontinue most SAP query and reporting products, including SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP BW) front-end tools like (BEx), customers are being asked to re-develop their BI solutions.

This challenge isn’t all together a bad thing. Since there is no automated migration to BOBJ or any other BI tool, it’s the perfect time to re-think your company’s application strategy...

approaches often lead to architectural rigidity, lagging product development cycles, a lack of responsiveness to customer demands, and less-than-optimal application performance. 

Read this white paper to learn how ISVs can embed drivers and data providers with their own offerings to build and deploy more marketable, more competitive products that ensure customer satisfaction.  Discover the benefits of this strategy, such as:

• Reduced IT maintenance and support costs
• Reduced complexity while

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market as a whole continues to support internal IT (IT PPM), new product development (NPD), professional services administration (PSA) and traditional engineering and construction (E/C) environments. The market has matured extensively from project time and schedule support to the holistic management to IT as well as business initiatives, resources and spending.

Read this Gartner report for in-depth information about PPM in today's market.

approaches often lead to architectural rigidity, lagging product development cycles, a lack of responsiveness to customer demands, and less-than-optimal application performance. 

Read this white paper to learn how ISVs can embed drivers and data providers with their own offerings to build and deploy more marketable, more competitive products that ensure customer satisfaction.  Discover the benefits of this strategy, such as:

• Reduced IT maintenance and support costs
• Reduced complexity while

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Download your free, 15-day trial of Genius Project and discover the benefits of a system designed to eradicate common project portfolio management (PPM) challenges such as a lack of visibility and poor collaboration. Realize the advantages of a system consolidates all project information and provides you with complete 360-degree visibility. ...

disciplines - vision and a demonstrated commitment to product development were highly weighted.

Customer Feedback - analyst interactions with enterprises (including surveys, focal interviews, case studies and input from EMA Enterprise IT Consulting clients) provided many objective measures including market penetration and customer satisfaction. Also, specific feedback from companies using a vendor's technology played a significant part in the evaluation.

The EMA Perspective - a...

traditional IT and the data acquired can be used to improve product development.

 

Could cloud hold the key to the next generation of security systems?

Security continues to hinder organisations in adopting cloud computing, at least for mission-critical or sensitive data applications. Concerns about sensitive data sitting on infrastructure shared with competitors linger, but the power of cloud computing is now being put forward as an effective way of dealing with increasingly dynamic and...

and managing requirements is a challenge for IT, systems, and product development projects or indeed for any activity where you have to manage a contractual relationship. Organizations need to effectively define and manage requirements to ensure they are meeting needs of the customer, while proving compliance and staying on schedule and within budget.

The impact of a poorly expressed requirement can be devastating; it can have a domino effect that leads to time-consuming rework, inadequate...

Effective governance for lean development isn’t about command and control. Instead, the focus is on enabling the right behaviors and practices through collaborative and supportive techniques. Learn how to form a lightweight, collaboration-based framework that reflects the realities of modern IT organizations.

Effective governance for lean development isn’t about command and control. Instead, the focus is on enabling the right behaviors and practices...

operations, supply chain management and commercial product development, IT is under-managed. Just like any other important business tool, if your IT investments are not maintained and updated, the rest of your business will suffer.

Read this white paper to learn more about how to improve your IT investments for better business. Included is advice on increasing the performance of IT management and how data warehousing can assist with performance.

SAP's unique Product and Service Leadership framework is a strategy for companies to bring innovative products to market faster and to drive value for their customers. Learn more about it in this whitepaper. SAP's unique Product and Service Leadership framework is a strategy to foster speed, agility, and market orientation for companies across various industries to bring innovative products to market faster and to drive...

This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products. You’re invited to this 2-hour complimentary virtual event on October 21 and continuing on November 4. Join us and learn how performance management...

Joe, a third party, non-IBM employee discusses some of Oracles product claims and points out holes in their systems product positioning.

Commentary report from analyst Joe Clabbyst.  Joe, a third party, non-IBM employee discusses some of Oracles product claims and points out holes in their systems product positioning.

And while rates of revenue growth are flattening in many product businesses, service income is accelerating. In short, service delivery is a moment of truth that can determine customer loyalty and profitable growth.

This paper explores the crucial links between customer service and customer satisfaction.

for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.

SAP is a customer-focused company. That's why SAP has grown organically, while other enterprise software companies have shrunk or stagnated. Even though these competitors believed they understood their customers, in reality, SAP knows its customers better...

with the substantial consulting fees associated with the development of custom solutions that could access his company's data that was stored on IBM iSeries, and MS SQL Servers.

Ferrari and Maserati of North America successfully deployed Tableau Desktop to key users without the need for external resources, which kept the cost of deployment within budget. Users have the ability to interact with company data in real-time and can access personalized views and dashboards from its...

This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

This white paper highlights how organizations can derive strategic advantage by embracing sustainability as part of their business.  There are three ways in which companies can embrace sustainability:

 

• Through

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Get the help your organization needs to link product paths into an intelligent whole, using software as the invisible thread to make it happen. This white paper examines software delivery for smart products, plus strategies for turning software development evolution into a business practice, and more.

Get the help your organization needs to link product paths into an intelligent whole, using software as the invisible thread to make it happen. This white paper examines...

less frustration, fewer errors, and faster planning and development cycles. Read this guide to learn about seven essential tips to help you be more successful with requirements management and software development.

Whether you’re building a revenue-generating product or an internal system, your company’s overall success largely relies on your software team’s success. And, the path to building great software goes through requirements management. Organizations that embrace this...

provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. Combining a clean interface for organising issues with customisable workflows, JIRA is the perfect fit for your team.

Product Type: Bug and Project Tracker

Target User: Software Developer or Engineer

IT Problem: JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. Combining a...

Channel Marketing Funds. These range from Marketing Development Funds to co-operative funds, depending on the organization and the type of channel partners used. In this paper, we will focus primarily on one type of popular channel incentive: Channel Marketing Funds. These range from MDF to co- operative funds, depending on the organization and the type of channel partners used. There are four types of marketing funds commonly used by vendors:

• Marketing Development Funds

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