Platform Integration: The Future of Independent Software Vendors and Financial Institutions

Technology is a business enabler as well as a key business driver for banks and financial institutions. Today, technology is core for banks to manage spiraling customer expectations, create new products, meet regulatory demands and contain operating costs in an environment of unrelenting competition. The key to successful adoption of financial technology and tools is responsiveness and flexibility of processes, products and services that maintain competitiveness and achieve growth. Parallel to this, Financial Institutions need to adhere to and easily incorporate growing compliance demands to minimize risk and protect profitability.

Adaption to Agile Methodologies

The absence of a baseline prescription of the practice makes Agile an incomparable process between two teams, even within the same organization. Read more about measures that support the productivity and quality assessment of vendor teams in an Agile environment.

Root Cause Analysis for Bottlenecks in Web Applications

As we enter the age of Cloud Computing, where more and more software is delivered as a Web-based service, user response time becomes the most common bellwether for software quality. If a user’s wait time stretches beyond a typical three-second comfort zone, we all know that something’s wrong.

Function Point Analysis-Best Practices

Software estimates lie at the heart of the business of software development. These estimates help determine three critical things:costs, resources, and schedules. And yet with so many critical business decisions made from these estimates, the science of estimation remains a combination of art and mathematics.

SIIA Global Software Development Survey Report

Global software development, along with technology and new business models, is a prime enabler of globalization. It is also in the process of transforming the nature of the U.S. software industry. This phenomenon is having one of its most significant impacts on the development and servicing of software. Not only customer service and technical support, but core product development is now routinely conducted thousands of miles away from the "home" firm.

Partner or Go It Alone?

The Evolution of Global Distributed Commercial Software Development: The New Conventional Wisdom

Should software companies going offshore establish their own Captive center (a subsidiary company) or partner with a leading Provider (an established software product development and services company)? A new survey of Captive and Provider centers in India shows overwhelming short-term and long-term advantages of partnering with an established Provider.