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Software Configuration Management: New Tools to Streamline Development

Companies turn to sophisticated software configuration management products to help simplify increasingly complex projects.

Dashboard is to envelope, as scorecard is to letter

Although many people use dashboard and scorecard interchangeably, there's a subtle difference.

Software With a Dose of Skepticism

Software subscription offers benefits over traditional licensing models, but software decision makers worry about their data living on someone else’s servers. Part two of a two-part series.

EDITORIAL: Born-again technologies

We didn’t plan it this way, but this month’s issue is mainly about technologies making a fresh start. After a period of opposition or benign neglect, instant messaging is gaining acceptance in enterprises; agile programming is winning new adherents--following years when enterprises focused on control-intensive initiatives; and visual modeling is getting a second look because the newest tools deliver benefits unmatched by earlier tools, such as automatically producing much of the code for an app.