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Software Intelligence Report

Open source is part of almost every software capability we use today. This report reviews some of the most commonly used open source software projects, comparing them to each other and to enterprise IT. While it is good to take advantage of open source, we must ensure these foundations are Secure, Robust, Efficient and Maintainable.

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The 3 insights to pay down technical debt and build technical wealth

Chances are, your organization is undergoing an agile transformation to remain competitive in today’s industry. Like all journeys, there will be myriad potholes on the way, and I would like to share three insights for your agile transformation.

The following insights will help you make better decisions about where to begin your agile transformation, how to balance features and foundational coding habits, and how to increase speed and velocity.

White Paper

The CRASH 2017 Report Trend on Application Security

This is first CRASH Report describing a distribution of security weaknesses from the Common Weakness Enumeration Repository across a global sample of business applications.

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The Forrester Wave™: Static Application Security Testing, Q4 2017

CAST Was Named A Strong Performer In The Forrester Wave™: Static Application Security Testing, Q4 2017

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The CRASH 2017 Report on Application Security - Executive Summary

We’ve analyzed applications based on CWE standards for software security to better understand how secure applications are across industry, language, development methodology and more.

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Digital Transformation or IT Rationalization: Why Application Cloud Migration Should Have a Balanced Strategy

The intrinsic benefits of cloud have been touted on countless occasions. The question is no longer Cloud or not Cloud, but more about how and when?

This document aims at positioning Cloud in a "dual mode“ - meaning Cloud can be a trigger AND a result. This paradigm shift is meant to describe a balanced strategy where cloud benefits are maximized and created to achieve ambitious goals.

White Paper

IT Health Check: 5 Insights

As every doctor will tell you, it’s critical to get a check-up once a year – and it’s no different with your application portfolio. Over the year you’ve added new applications, moved resources around, and started new projects. It’s easy to lose track of those changes if you don’t have an objective view of the costs, risks and effort hiding inside your portfolio.Companies can run an internal audit through surveys and apply a complex correlation with IT service management activities in order to associate application health with the number of defects in production. Another option is to rely on third party advisors to execute a deep dive into part of the portfolio in order to collect findings and when applicable, set some recommendations.

White Paper

IBM "A Fact-Based Approach To Portfolio Rationalization"

As companies grow through acquisitions and mergers, the applications that support these enterprises grow. Each application brings a set of business rules, business processes and technologies, many of which raise the cost of support. As these applications become more complex, the rate of change slows as a result. In a time when enterprises must be fast and flexible, IT becomes a barrier. The need to rationalize and reduce the duplicate business functionality continues to grow.

White Paper

The 5 insights on Digital Transformation

With new trends like Internet of Things (IoT), software is everywhere. Every business - including retail, manufacturing and banking are now in the software business. They use software to unlock any advantage to streamline, increase efficiency and better engage with customers. Software is everywhere indeed, but it's still incredibly complex (and getting more complex each day).

Application Portfolio Analysis provides a fact-based assessment which is objective, repeatable and cost & time efficient to provide visibility on the products and their evolutions over time.

White Paper

Effective APA: Unlock Business-Driven Source Strategies

Sourcing managers must conduct an applications portfolio analysis as a prerequisite to formulating their applications services sourcing strategy for both internal teams and outsourcing. In this whitepaper, Gartner provides guidelines for the critical data required for an effective APA execution.

White Paper

What you don't know can hurt you: 3 insights to identify & mitigate Software Risk

This document outlines a new approach to fact-based analysis and identifies the top 3 critical insights to keep in mind when targeting software risk exposure across a set of software assets.

White Paper

The 5 Insights On CIO Onboarding

No CIO is hired to maintain the status quo or just "keep the lights on"- It's about innovation and transformation, or at minimum, it's about rationalization and consolidation. You need facts, not opinions to drive your strategic plan.Analysis provides a rapid portfolio assessment which is objective, repeatable and cost & time efficient.
This document outlines the top 5 critical insights to keep in mind when starting a new CIO position.

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