Enterprise IT departments strive to contribute to the competitiveness of the business organization, developing and deploying innovative applications that can help benefit the bottom line and drive top-line growth. Too often, however, IT managers find themselves unable to develop and deploy applications with the agility they would like. The skills needed to quickly design, test, configure and integrate applications into complex IT environments can be difficult to find, and expert IT staff can quickly become overwhelmed by demand. Virtualization technology has helped drive efficiency improvements through consolidation of workloads and to a lesser extent through the management of systems and workloads. Now virtual application patterns from IBM take these capabilities a significant step further. This paper shows how IT organizations can use patterns of expertise provided by virtual application patterns to speed deployments, reduce the risk of error, and help simplify and automate tasks across the management and maintenance life cycle.

If you’re an executive responsible for delivering line-of business solutions to market, then you understand the challenges. Whether they take the form of code delays due to API creation, deployment bottlenecks, or challenges around rapid scaling to meet demand, all the weight is on your shoulders.

Fortunately, there are solutions that can help. In this white paper you’ll:

• Learn about managing “two-speed IT” and how you can use DevOps strategies to help your developers get far more rapid-turnaround through continuous test and deployment
• Explore how you can build apps that meet your customers’ needs quickly using “right-fit runtime,” and how you can define and develop APIs with tools to help you manage API traffic and security
• Discover how your operations teams can reduce their workload, increase their productivity, and boost user satisfaction through the power of patterns and self-service IT.

Enterprise-grade mobile apps can have a major impact on the bottom line, with capabilities that include continuously improving mobile apps, making them secure, conceptualizing and personalizing mobile apps, and enriching them with enterprise data. Forrester Consulting evaluated the potential financial impact of MobileFirst on organizations and how this mobile enterprise application platform and associated application deployment and management capabilities can be leveraged to win, serve, and retain customers.

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In this webinar, we will share best practices for testing mobile apps for security vulnerabilities and protecting them at runtime, with a special emphasis on iOS applications.

Learn how to test application source code for potential security vulnerabilities, so you can confidently release your organization’s applications.

Hear the pros and cons of application security testing and penetration testing techniques. Learn how you can combat application security threats conveniently and effectively in the Cloud.

With this survey-based research, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) analysts set out to assess the API economy from multiple dimensions.

Examining both the “consumer” and “provider” sides of the equation, the study explores the challenges of API usage in today’s production environments.

This white paper summarizes the survey findings on the deployment, management, and governance-related challenges of delivering API-driven services.

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Businesses are wallowing in data from an increasing number of sources – both internal and external. However, turning data into actionable information becomes harder as both IT and business users try to keep up with the data deluge.

This Battlecard looks at the evolution in analytics and business intelligence solutions today, especially the bifurcation into Traditional BI vs. Exploratory Analytics, why BOTH are important, and lists three key factors that users – both business and IT – must consider when evaluating a BI solution.

Key points will include:

• How User Experience Matters
• BI and Hybrid IT: Cloud, On-Premises and Both
• Supporting Self-Service: The Data Scientist in the Software

By 2017, 80% of enterprises will have adopted a hybrid IT strategy composed of public cloud, on-premises and private cloud components. In an increasingly “cloud-first” era, agile, scalable infrastructure matters more than ever.

This Battlecard looks at the changing nature of business, the growing importance of data to all parts of the enterprise, and offers five key considerations when evaluating database options for tomorrow’s enterprise.

Key points will include

• Supporting Next-Generation Applications
• Big Data and the Enterprise
• What Hybrid means to the database
• The Economics of Cloud
• Security and the Database