E-Commerce Blog

Information technology plays a vital role in today’s business environment. Well-designed and developed applications are a key element for success — particularly for organizations that rely on the Web and intranet for conducting business with customers and communicating with partners and employees. The process for launching new applications begins with software developers’ handing off their applications to network professionals for deployment over IP networks. However, in most cases the applications have not been optimized to run on a network.

Originally posted here:
Wrangling and Roping Network Traffic With App Delivery Controllers

End-user organizations are looking to leverage enterprise applications to achieve competitive advantages, operational efficiencies and improve information flow in their value chains. In order to maximize the return on investment from these deployments, organizations are optimizing their networks and ensuring a high level of performance. Two recent benchmark reports show that organizations are deploying various tools for prioritization of network traffic and traffic compression.

View post:
Network and App Management: Going Wide vs. Drilling Down

Interoperability is fast becoming a key watchword in business computing circles. Open source products continue to gain enterprise acceptance. With that acceptance comes an increase in users who demand that data produced with one application to work with data produced for another application — or even another operating system. Open source advocates want maximum interoperability, which allows them to use whatever software they choose. For instance, a company using an open source business application expects the files it creates and works with to be compatible with Microsoft’s wares.

Read more:
Sharing Platforms, Sharing Flaws: Does Interoperable Mean Vulnerable?

Facebook’s new look is all about the Wall, the blank space on a profile page that the social network’s users can fill in with stories, photos, links and the ever-popular Status Updates. In turn, Facebook executives hope a less-cluttered Web site will eventually fill in their bank accounts with more advertising revenue. The second-ranked social network is slowly introducing its users to its redesign, keeping in mind the public relations disaster that was Beacon, Facebook’s controversial attempt to link customer data to advertisers.

Read more:
Facebook Repaints Wall in New Design

In an effort to shine more light on the traditional “dark art” of software development, Borland Software on Monday announced Borland Management Solutions. The three-pronged product leverages Borland’s Open Application Lifecycle Management framework, and is designed to enable users to better orchestrate, measure, predict and improve software delivery. BMS, according to the Austin, Texas, company, plugs into a customer’s existing ALM tooling infrastructure and provides what Borland calls a “cockpit” to give visibility and control over the entire application lifecycle.

Go here to see the original:
Jumping Into the Software Application Lifecycle Cockpit