As always we hope that this edition of Insight helps you keep abreast of the latest technologies and give you updates on Compuware solutions and services.
This edition looks at how Model-Driven, Pattern-Based Development and automated Requirements Management can result in productivity gains of up to 70%.
Other highlights include the announcement of CU2006, our worldwide Uniface Conference, to be held in France in November. You will find this in our development and integration area. Our application performance management area includes a webcast of expert advice on troubleshooting web services applications with Vantage Analyzer. Finally, our enterprise readers will find a Gartner White Paper describing a useful health check for mainframe systems and news of a Compuware service designed to help you eliminate performance problems and cut the costs of application ownership – a service from which many of our customers have already profited, as you’ll see.
I hope you find the articles useful and as always we appreciate your feedback so that we can ensure Insight continues to address your needs.
Up to 70% productivity gains with MDA
In an article from Better Software magazine, consultant and computing professor Timothy Korson describes the practical benefits of Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and Model-Driven, Pattern-Based (MDPB) development solutions (as exemplified by OptimalJ).
Customer acclaim for TestPartner 5.4
Having compared it with nine other test automation products, software developer RightNow Technologies found TestPartner outstripped the competition.
Quality testing: a delicate balancing act
Organisations are constantly working to leverage today’s best practices for testing. If application development projects are to achieve their business objectives on schedule and within budget, we need to make the best possible use of the testing environment.
Vantage technical tip:
track hidden applications with NetworkVantage 9.8
Not all of the applications running on your network will automatically show up on performance monitoring screens and reports. Now, however, you can configure NetworkVantage 9.8 to ‘decode’ any TCP or UDP application that exceeds a given threshold of activity. Read this month’s technical tip to find out how.
No environment too complex for Vantage
It can be hard to establish the cause of poor response times when you’re dealing with a distributed application; most performance tools are too specialised to diagnose a performance bottleneck in today’s multi-layered environment.
Gartner prescribes health checks for applications
Over time, application functionality often moves away from business and technical requirements. If neglected, this departure increases errors and necessitates amendments, driving up the cost of ownership.
New life for your mainframe applications
As mainframe application use evolves – for example, with the addition of web access – support becomes more complex and the business implications of poor performance increase. Our Enterprise Legacy Modernisation service applies proven methods and tools to eliminate performance problems and cut the costs of application ownership.
Making the most of the mainframe: customers’ experience
As described in the previous story, Compuware’s Enterprise Legacy Modernisation service delivers a mainframe environment with which you can confidently face the future.
