ISV products are entering a new age where consumer applications are setting the standards for user experience, self service and efficiency by leveraging new innovations in information visualization and web application development. Because of this change, end users are starting to demand the same level of user experience and interactivity from their business applications.

BIRT provides a rich information application development environment from which ISVs can, in a robust and cost-effective fashion, deliver compelling applications that engage users, reduce costs and create competitive advantages. This web seminar will discuss how ISVs can easily add content using BIRT into mashups, external applications and dashboards. A live demonstration will showcase multiple ways to "mash" BIRT into OEM applications including how to provide a complete, easily configured view of the enterprise through a dashboard interface.

Attend to learn how to:
• Provide flexibility through reusable graphical displays, end-user interactivity and personalized content

• Quickly assemble new OEM applications that display information from different sources by integrating content at the presentation layer

At peak traffic, it’s main consumer site – AutoTrader.com – is serving up more than 20,000 pages per minute, attracting more than 800,000 unique users daily. Needless to say, the challenges in scaling their applications and delivering optimal performance are not insignificant. Keeping all those daily users happy with an enjoyable site experience is not only important for customer satisfaction, but is critical to AutoTrader.com’s bottom line.
In this informative webinar featuring experts from Autotrader.com and dynaTrace, you will learn how the increasing complexity in modern enterprise applications presents challenges to scalability and performance that cannot be met by traditional APM, and require a new approach.

Learn how AutoTrader has overcome the performance challenges inherent in such a highly-trafficked site by adopting Continuous Application Performance Management across the lifecycle.

Industry Trends, Adoption Rates and Key Best Practices

Building Software Products is not easy. Many organizations now benefit from Agile methods that blend engineering practices with social, collaborative approaches and provide faster delivery and higher quality resulting in improved ROI. How can today’s distributed organizations harness the power of Agile methods while outsourcing and offshoring product engineering? In this webinar we provide practical advice from organizations that are doing that very thing. Forrester Analyst Dave West sets the scene for offshore Agile development, describing industry trends, adoption rates and the key principles that need to be followed to effectively support such an approach. Dusan Kocurek, Software Product Lab Manager from Ness Technologies then describes real world examples of how Agile methods enhance offshore distributed software product engineering.

The agenda:
1. An overview of Agile adoption.
2. What makes Agile hard for distributed product engineering?
3. The key principles of distributed, offshore Agile development.
4. A reality check: Best Practices and Agile Methods and their integration into offshore software development. How to get started!

Hear from leading experts on Agile development and Product Engineering

If these challenges sound familiar to you, we encourage you to join this live panel discussion, sponsored by Serena Software. Esteemed panelists are:

• Jeffrey Hammond, Senior Analyst, Application Lifecycle Management, Forrester Research.
• Summer Ficarrotta, Senior Manager, Serena Software.

This live panel will discuss today's best strategies for managing software changes while driving up visibility, improving developer productivity, and lowering costs. In addition, you'll hear stories from the development process management trenches.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Create standardized processes for all types of change requests.
• Get visibility in one place to all software change activities.
• Reduce time to resolution for issues, bugs, and defects.
• Link issues directly to code changes across a variety of SCM tools including Subversion.
• Quickly prepare for audits.
• If you'd like to make sure your application development group is predictably delivering value to the business, this is one webinar you won't want to miss.
  
  
  
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The average project overruns its planned budget and schedule by 50%-80%. In practice, little work is done that could truly be called "estimation." Many projects are scheduled using a combination of legitimate business targets and liberal doses of wishful thinking. In this talk, award-winning author Steve McConnell presents 10 of the worst ways estimates go wrong, and presents time-tested rules of thumb for dramatically improving estimation accuracy