White Papers & Analysts

» Assessment Report "Application Development Performance Measurement" 16 pages (Format PDF - 120 Ko ) Discover why Metrixware's solutions are considered by CIOS & IT Executives of large companies as a valuable investment, and how it helps them to measure, manage and optimize their Application Portfolio. » Software Quality: Tackling Costs at the Root Cause 6 pages (Format PDF - 1 Mo ) As spectacular as the spread of IT in corporations from the beginning of the 1980s, the industrialization of information systems continues to gain ground. In parallel, the ever more rapid changes in technology are forcing IT management to really take a long-term view concerning the governance of application assets. It is not sufficient to look at a snapshot of the functional viability of an application. At the risk of premature obsolescence, an application today needs to provide excellent agility to respond to changes over time and in economic conditions. This agility is absolutely dependant on application components being of an impeccable quality, a quality built-in as early as possible in the component life, in the first days of the project. » TPAM & Code Quality: The Other Side of the Coin? 30 pages (Format PDF - 340 KB ) Outsourcing application maintenance activities has already convinced a large majority of IT departments, allowing them to concentrate investments and resources on new projects that create added value for the company. Flexibility, reactivity and cost-reduction are the main arguments used by actors in an ever more competitive market. But what commitments are made about the quality of deliverables, basically the code? What are the technical risks in not controlling – and monitoring over time – the level of maintainability and upgradability of an application? What will be the financial impact of four million lines of code not conforming to the new SOA architecture of your information system? Important questions, which nevertheless are all too often, even these days, left open, and in the end unanswered. Specialist in quality metrics and information system governance since its creation in 1995, Metrixware examines in this white paper the third-party application maintenance (TPAM) market and its dynamics, analyses the risks inherent in the absence of applications' quality-metric control, and focuses on the good practices to implement between companies and their TPAM suppliers. » Defining and assessing the application value to a business 5 pages (Format PDF - 980 Ko ) The time when IT development teams pleased themselves toying with the latest technology is over. IT projects need not only to support business activities, but above all to optimize and boost them. What counts now is the “Business Value” when deciding the development roadmap and the choice of application portfolios. First, it is necessary to define this “Value” which is added to “Business”. » Application Portfolio Governance: A well-informed CIO is on in a million... 29 pages (Format PDF - 11 MB ) For a long time perceived merely as a “cost centre”, company computer systems are gradually gaining letters patent of nobility. Especially because of a view of the application portfolio which comprises them. Thus, like all of the components which comprise them, this application portfolio may play a part in building up company value. Provided that it is strategically controlled, maintained to a tee and meets users’ expectations and requirements. Hence the expression Application Portfolio Governance. This redefinition of computer systems in their widest sense, and the application portfolio, in particular the projection of these components in the long term, is not without consequence on company organisation as a whole. From one role apart, even marginal in some cases, the Information Systems Management (ISM) is becoming an interdepartmental entity, essential to the smooth running of all company operations. A new role requiring the ISM to open up to the sometimes alien world outside. As indeed, beyond mere maintenance of applications and even the appearance of new technologies, the ISM owes it to itself to improve its communications with its direct environment, both in terms of overall company strategy with the General Management, and in terms of changes to user requirements with Specialist Departments. To do this, it has a number of indicators and key areas, directly influenced by approaches which vary according to specialisations, markets and the company’s priorities. How are the objectives of a governance procedure defined? What methods should be used and in what situation? What indicators need to be concentrated on? What is the best way of going about application governance? » ITIL & IT Governance: Complementary or Competing Approaches ? 19 pages (Format PDF - 9,9 MB ) More often than not the relationship between IT Governance and ITIL best practices is considered by Consultancy Agencies to be a bilateral relationship between Management and IT departments, without any prior analysis of the real nature of this relationship. The risk is either to develop mechanisms that respond to different issues, or to favor one approach over the other. Therefore, each level creates rules and processes according to its own logic and view of the firm. The aim of this White Paper is to show how ITIL V3 addresses IT Governance, and how it represents a solid foundation on which IT Governance can be built. Combining IT Governance expertise and ITIL best practices within the same project offers every guarantee for successful implementation of effective Governance for IT management.

Open Source Quality Report

» Framework Spring 2.0 Quality Report 20 pages (Format PDF - 5 Mo ) Spring is an open source framework written in Java. Download the Open Source Quality Report to discover the code analysis, indicators and quality diagnosis delivered by System Code. » Checkstyle 4.1.1. Quality Report 19 pages (Format PDF - 2 Mo ) Checkstyle is a code control tool integrated within the Eclipse IDE and used in software development to check conformance of projects with the programming best practices. Download the Open Source Quality Report to discover the code analysis, indicators and quality diagnosis delivered by System Code.