A Business Case for Using Adobe Flex and the Adobe Flash Platform

RIA combines the goodness of instant Web access to centralized data to create a user experience that is both easy to use and enjoyable. Fortune 500 companies like NASDAQ that need to run high-use, high-volume applications that communicate in real-time and complete transactions in milliseconds are increasingly turning to use Adobe's Flex technology to build RIAs. The white paper summarizes Adobe Flex and the Flash Platform as a mature and evolving ecosystem, well suited to your organization's RIA projects. Download white paper.

Boost Game Performance With Threads

This white paper explains how to use functional decomposition to get better performance by using all your processor cores—while making only small changes to your existing code.

Hot and Safe: a Beginner's Guide to Multithreaded Libraries

Most of the discussion of multithreading that emerges from Cilk Arts is focused on creating multithreaded applications.This white paper surveys a variety of strategies for creating multithreaded libraries. Note that these challenges and strategies are not specific to Cilk++, but are important considerations for any parallel programming model.

8 Simple Rules for Designing Threaded Applications

Multithreaded programming is still more art than science. This white paper gives 8 Simple Rules that you can add to your palette of threading design methods. By following these rules you will have more success in writing the best and most efficient threaded implementation of your applications.

EMA™ Advisory Note: IT Speaks: Practices and Trends in Enterprise Application Management (Summary)

A project can descend into chaos if the process is not properly defined, and one such process is testing, and the only way to prevent this anarchy is to have a process which is fully understood by all stakeholders with defined roles and responsibilities...

A Test Process for all Lifecycles

Deploying business applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and vertical industry applications is complex and time-consuming. Managing them is even more challenging...

COBOL and the .NET Framework

Find out how Net Express with .Net v5.1 further expands the capabilities of this popular product, with a range of new features making COBOL and equal player in .Net language...

Enterprise Cloud Services: Deriving Business Value from Cloud Computing

Until recently, much of the discussion around Cloud computing has focused on new, and usually non-mission critical, applications. The ability to apply Cloud economics to core enterprise applications provides, perhaps, the beginning of the tipping point for CFOs...

5 Proven Ways to Reduce IT Costs Now

Continued economic slowdown is placing organizations under enormous pressure to use existing IT assets more effectively. Budgets are shrinking, but IT departments are still expected, perhaps more than ever, to deliver the increased business value required for growth...