Webinar with Forrester: Mobility and the Open Web: Open Standards and Collaboration Redefine Enterprise IT
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012-
Mobility has redefined customers' interaction with a company's products and applications. To address this shift, organizations are leveraging open-source components, development frameworks, open-web technologies; and collaborating by creating developer ecosystems. Featuring Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Research.
Customer Success Story: Financial Services
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012-
A global financial services giant finds that the Black Duck Suite enables it to realize the compelling economics of open source software while solving the significant management, compliance and security challenges that weighed down productivity and exposed the organization to legal, operational and financial risk.
Open Source Governance in Highly Regulated Companies
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012-
Open source software can empower developers, increase innovation and improve competitiveness, and its popularity is growing tremendously. Open source now represents an average of 29% of the code deployed by IT and technology innovators are using 60%-80% of open source code, which can yield cost savings and free-up development resources to improve competitive differentiation. <br><br>
And as open source becomes more common, the need for governance increases dramatically. Without proper controls ...
Open Source Drives Innovation in Financial Services
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012-
The strategic use of open source software can enable a financial services organization to use up to 60-80% open source software in their enterprise and mobility applications so they can do more and develop less. <br><br>
Yet according to Gartner, the average enterprise today uses only 29% open source code. When a financial services organization is able to put strategy, process and automation around finding, assessing, managing and scaling open source ...
Harnessing BYOD Phenomenon: an IT Guide
[ Source: Kony Solutions ]
May 2012-
The reality of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) means IT departments must deliver secure enterprise tools and applications across dozens of popular mobile phones and tablets that employees bring to work. This whitepaper covers key considerations and includes a BYOD checklist.
Bank Improves Crisis Management Communications with Help from BlackBerry
[ Source: BlackBerry ]
April 2012-
With a staff of more than 60,000 people dispersed across the United States, U.S. Bank needed a robust and intuitive program that would allow it to send crucial information in the event of an emergency.<br><br>
The bank turned to BlackBerry® Alliance member Tenet Computer Group Inc. (Tenet) to roll out a customized version of its PINpoint application.<br><br>
The app automatically collects ...
Investment Management - Business Economics
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
Downward pressure on fees, increasingly complex client needs and more diverse product sets are among the new realities requiring investment managers to gain better insight into profitability drivers. Some firms have begun measuring revenue in addition to the traditional profitability proxy of assets under management. However, these metrics are no longer adequate. <br><br>
Capco can help you model and understand the economics of your business today, enabling you to quickly ...
IT Complexity Metrics - How do you measure up?
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
IT Complexity is so important that 'learning through failing' is no longer satisfactory given that this form of complexity so clearly and harshly impacts the cost, delivery quality and flexibility of the IT landscape. <br><br>
We now need a robust and functioning model for complexity measurement and mitigation. This paper describes how Commerzbank, in partnership with Capco, is deriving such a model. We also examine how it can be developed ...
Tunnel Vision and Mobile Payments
[ Source: Universal Secure Registry ]
April 2012-
In this contributed article the author will first briefly set the stage with the evolution of the credit card industry bringing us up to speed with where it is today. Weiss contends that consumers and retailers alike are stuck in the past with tunnel vision when it comes to securing mobile payments. Next, Weiss will identify the reasons why many of the players in the market aren't as concerned as they should be including:<...
Uber Architect
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
What does a Solution Architect do? In deference to traditional deliverable-based architect role definitions, Solution Architecting spans the SDLC. While SAs are responsible for some deliverables, they primarily configure the required building blocks of the working product. They make transparent a myriad of tough decisions, encourage stakeholder collaboration, break deadlock and resolve difficult issues. SAs have a "line of sight" from ideation through implementation. Figure 1 summarizes the major processes by Project Management Institute (...