This book helps you understand DevOps and how your organization can gain real business benefits from it. You also discover how a holistic view of DevOps that encompasses the entire software delivery life cycle.

EMA is very much aligned with the directions that IBM is taking in its IT operations analytics strategy and product portfolio. While there is room for improvement, EMA remains optimistic that Netcool Operations Insight is the next step in a continuing set of leadership moves by the company.

This report looks at recent trends in analytics and IT service management (ITSM) to underscore the need for more cohesive, multipurpose, and multistakeholder support—as informed by enhanced analytics and automation. We then introduce IBM’s recent extension of its powerful IT Operations Analytics capabilities to enable what it calls “Trouble Ticket Analytics.” The report also examines IBM’s emerging Control Desk integrations with Watson Explorer, another prime example of how IBM is addressing, and even advancing, integrated service management requirements.

Today, business growth is centered on human creativity and innovation. Business leaders can take advantage of PaaS solutions such as IBM Bluemix to help address the challenges posed by the innovation economy, implement new business models and help increase customer satisfaction.

Modern business ecosystems need to rethink their approach to innovation and integration. This book is your guide to applying the power of APIs to business challenges ranging from changing business models to embracing a world of devices and sensors.

This 10-page eBook includes three short articles discussing how Web APIs and Web API Management are changing how organizations are competing in the marketplace as well as new approaches to growing revenue. Article highlights include:

• Externalizing the Enterprise
• Effective Executive Strategy with Web APIs
• A Guide to the Technical Execution of a Successful Web API Strategy

This solution brief describes how IBM Integration Bus (formerly WebSphere Message Broker) can simplify the connectivity between IT assets and add direct value to your organization.

IBM PureApplication System converges compute, storage, networking components, and software into a preconfigured and pretested system. This Forrester paper helps to better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with the IBM PureApplication System.

The JEE Application Server markets continue to expand and adapt to multiple market factors including increased demands for uptime, lower total cost of ownership, ease of administration, enhancements and innovations within the Java runtimes, and stronger competition between commercial and open source vendors. These factors are all playing their part in driving providers like IBM, Red Hat and others to push product advances to the market quickly while also balancing the other demands. Today, there is a hybrid software market. Open source originally meant software developed and maintained by users for their own benefit. Today, however, many open source products are actually “owned” by corporations who provide support and development services. This paper focuses on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND) version 8.5 and the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) version 6.

In April, 2012, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying WebSphere Application Server. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the WebSphere Application Server on their organization within a production environment. Readers may use this analysis as a basis to calculate their own impact of investment in WebSphere Application Server across a variety of client industries.

Today, business growth is centered on human creativity and innovation. Business leaders can take advantage of PaaS solutions such as IBM Bluemix to help address the challenges posed by the innovation economy, implement new business models and help increase customer satisfaction.

This solution brief describes how IBM Integration Bus (formerly WebSphere Message Broker) can simplify the connectivity between IT assets and add direct value to your organization.

Today as customers increasingly turn to digital channels to research products, shop and purchase--and as employees arrive in the workplace conditioned by engaging consumer Web mobile and social experiences-- organizations can't afford to be left behind because of legacy investments. Customers and employees alike expect an exceptional digital experience. The good news as our TCO study shows is that most organizations can justify the cost of IBM Exceptional Digital Experience solutions based on quantifiable savings within a short period of time.

This webinar will discuss the challenges of designing and deploying new network services in a Telecommunications Service Provider environment. It will describe the advantages of exploiting a Cloud environment to implement these services and ongoing efforts in the Open Community to address the associated challenges.

Learn how to gain end-to-end insight into critical applications and infrastructure while reducing event storm noise. Quickly identify and resolve problems for increased quality of service and reduced costs.

IBM IT Operations Analytics solutions analyze the terabytes of big data from your IT operations. These solutions turn your data into understandable, relevant information that provides insights that you can act on immediately.

This webinar will discuss the challenges of designing and deploying new network services in a Telecommunications Service Provider environment. It will describe the advantages of exploiting a Cloud environment to implement these services and ongoing efforts in the Open Community to address the associated challenges.

This survey was conducted by IEEE Computer Society on behalf of IBM. The purpose of this survey was to better understand how the IEEE Computer Society Members and community has adopted a continuous delivery environment with DevOps. The survey also measured the usage of cloud services to develop and run web and mobile applications.

This survey was conducted by IEEE Computer Society on behalf of IBM to gain insight from the IEEE Computer Society members as well as its community of developers who lead decision making as it relates to building mobile applications while better understanding the challenges they face. The survey was conducted from the end of May and was closed on June 22, 2015.

Key Takeaways: Learn from real experiences in transforming large organizations for increased speed and quality using a DevOps approach. Explore the characteristics and behavior of fast-moving companies, based on hundreds of assessments, interviews and implementations. Begin a self-assessment designed to give you a better understanding of your organization's readiness and next steps to continuous innovation.

Confused by all the agile advice? Relax! With Agile For Dummies by your side you’ll learn the fundamentals of agile and how to increase the productivity of your software teams while enabling them to produce higher-quality solutions that better fulfill customer needs much faster.

This white paper digs deep into the reasons testing mobile apps is fundamentally harder than traditional web or desktop applications. A collaboration by Tina Zhuo and Dennis Schultz from IBM along with Yoram Mizrachi from Perfecto Mobile and John Montgomery from uTest, these experts explore the complexities of mobile test environments, the value of the mobile device cloud, the unique role crowd sourcing can play, and how teams can leverage automation to help deliver quality apps.

Discover service virtualization and how it fits into the big picture of software quality. In this book, Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition written by industry analysts Marcia Kaufman and Judith Hurwitz, learn how to deliver higher quality software by increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your testing processes while reducing testing downtime and testing cost. The book covers the following topics and more: (1) Understand the changing relationship between IT and business — quicker delivery is required (2) Examine today’s complex applications — mobile, web, social meet middleware, packaged apps, databases, and mainframes. (3) Discover how to begin with service virtualization — build your business case. (4) Realize the benefits of service virtualization —enable earlier testing to eliminate surprises and reduce risk.

Speaker: Marek Sadowski

MobileFirst brings best of breed end-to-end enterprise grade security for mobile apps. Through a hands-on walk-through we will explore how to secure your app , featuring an iOS app. Crucial steps, including app store considerations, leveraging an enterprise app store, through building in-app authorization, scanning for app security issues, providing the access to the cloud and enterprise services and data as well as app management and access control will be covered through a series of rapid demonstrations.

Attendees will learn:

• areas to focus on for end-to-end mobile app security
• techniques to control access and manage security at various points in the system
• how to leverage technology in the IBM MobileFirst Platform to integrate security at all stages of mobile app development

Speaker: Andrew Trice

Building mobile apps doesn't have to be hard. With proper architecture, planning, and adhering to best practices, you can build pretty much anything that your mind can dream up. Through extensive demonstrations, we will explore best practices for building real-world mobile applications leveraging the latest in mobile platform technology from IBM. This includes exposing data, securing cloud and enterprise systems, managing versions, understanding what your app and users are doing through analytics, and cloud vs on-premise considerations. Both native and hybrid development strategies will be examined and discussed for the benefits they each bring to you as a developer.

Key takeaways include:

• Critical considerations in native and hybrid development
• strategies and best practices to integrate with cloud and enterprise systems
• strengths of IBM Platform technology for building truly engaging mobile experiences.

Speaker: Chris Brealey & Mike Melick

As mobile app users, we want to love the apps we use; and when we don't, we tend to make noise about it. This is why the reputation and success of your business can blossom or collapse on the quality of your mobile channel. Are your apps fast, elegant and intuitive? Are they secure and reliable? Are they fun to use? Do you know? Can you turn around a better app before the flames erupt and your customer base erodes? In this session we will discuss the importance of and impediments to delivering high quality mobile apps, and explore solutions from IBM that can help you continuously assure the technical and emotional quality of your mobile apps.

Attendees will learn:

• The importance of high quality mobile apps to business health,
• The consequences of a poor mobile system of engagement.
• Unique and difficult aspects of mobile app quality,
• How IBM Mobile Quality Assurance can help them actively and continuously collect feedback and insight into app quality

IBM DevOps for Bluemix provides an integrated set of DevOps services in the IBM Bluemix PaaS. This session provides an overview of IBM DevOps services on Bluemix, focusing on quickly getting started with new projects and collaborative development with agile tracking and planning.

IBM is providing developers an open, flexible cloud environment connecting the enterprise and born-on-the-web developers using their choice of tools, whether IBM, third-party, or open technologies, in a scalable environment. This session provides an overview of IBM Bluemix capabilities.

Enterprise applications are becoming increasingly complex, leveraging components across multiple platforms, including cloud. Learn how you can leverage IBM DevOps Services for Bluemix to provide full multi-stage release and deployment management to facilitate development.

Like it or not, you will hear from your vocal users. It’s not unusual to see ratings from 1 to 5 stars for the same app. How do you track and compare actual and perceived quality? How can you get actionable insight from user feedback to develop mobile apps that engage users?

Enterprises adopt mobile application platforms to help develop and deliver a portfolio of mobile applications systematically. Today’s new crop of easily consumable cloud based mobile services is also changing the way in which apps are developed and maintained.

How can you get actionable insight from user feedback to develop mobile apps that engage users and deliver what matters to them? The answer lies in cloud-based services that enable rapid collection and analysis of user feedback combined with automation enabling faster response.

Software-defined environments expedite software delivery for all layers in a platform and for multiple clouds. This paper discusses SDE benefits and use cases and ways to transition to this approach.

As development lifecycles get shorter and complexity increases, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools provide transparency and automation in a process agnostic context.

The IBM solution for DevOps helps an organization collaborate across a broad group of stakeholders that includes not only development, but also line of business, clients, and operations teams. This paper explains the IBM approach to DevOps.

The pressure to develop and deliver quality software has entered a phase of new intensity. It’s no wonder. Demands for customer-oriented software, systems to counter digital competitors, and software-driven business innovations make application development crucial to business success.

Delivering applications that meet the needs of the business can be a challenge in a complex business climate that is constantly changing. Diverse, multiple heterogeneous environments are the norm, all of which must be maintained and deployed.