Welcome to the November issue of Insight, our monthly newsletter for Compuware customers. In our News section, you can sign up for our forthcoming Executive Briefing on IT Portfolio Management. You can also read how the healthcare industry is using Covisint’s new specialist platform to share clinical information rapidly and securely. There’s also an opportunity to register for our expert live webcast series to learn how to optimise your application delivery cycle.

In our Development section, read how London’s University of Westminster is spicing up student life with tabletop bar applications built with OptimalJ, and download a guide to using OptimalJ for model-driven development. Meanwhile, .NET developers and testers should check out the new version of DevPartner Fault Simulator 2.0, which improves the quality of error handling code, and find out why the UK’s PC Plus magazine voted DevPartner Studio 8 its Editor’s Choice this summer.

In our Quality section, we reveal how more than half of Europe’s IT directors believe that there is a high risk of application failure on go-live, and look at the reasons for this. You can also view an on-demand webcast that provides useful hints and tips on taking a collaborative approach to improving software quality. Meanwhile, the Application Performance section outlines how Compuware’s Vantage tool lets ICT services company Northgate proactively run 2,700 servers with just two systems administrators. Find out too how website user experience monitoring complements web analytics, and view our webcast to see how you can make your .NET applications run at Mach 5 speed.

Finally, in our Enterprise section, you can read how a respected Swiss bank ensured its customers’ data privacy when migrating its core applications from IMS to DB2, find out how a new version of Compuware’s Strobe solution can help your organisation to lower running costs for mainframe DB2 applications, and learn how Compuware’s new Value Office can help you improve the productivity of your Compuware mainframe tools.