Balancing Agility and Control: The True Path to Continuous Delivery

Fast Start Video Series; Advanced Consumer Scenario in CSA

Live demonstration of Application Performance Management with HP Business Service Management.

This video forms part of the Fast Start Video Series from HP Software UK; this short set of videos is designed to give a cohesively branded introduction to key compoents of the IT Performance Suite.

Yorkshire Water IT has become a world class IT department with the ability to provide highly available IT services, meeting regulatory and legislative initiatives in a 24 x 7 operation

Yorkshire Water Services Limited (YWS) is the 9th largest Water Utility in the world with a group turnover of more than £725 million. It manages the collection, treatment and distribution of water, serving a population of approximately 4.9 million people as well as around 130,000 businesses.

HP Software and Innovise ESM invite you to join this Webinar briefing to hear how Yorkshire Water IT introduced automation to:

•Implement early detection environment and become more proactive
•Implement best practice network management processes
•Move network infrastructure to known compliant state

During the session you will also discover the key benefits that Yorkshire Water IT gained from implementing automation:

•Centralised management of the IT Infrastructure
•On-demand compliance reporting and analysis
•Reduced network and service downtime

Agenda:
•Introductions and Innovise ESM Overview
•Business Issues around performance and compliance management
•Yorkshire Water case study
•Wrap up and Q&A

A short webinar on how to build a business case for information management solutions.

A short webinar on how to build a business case for ALM solutions.

A short webinar on how to build a business case for security solutions.

A short webinar on how to build a business case for Business Service Management.

The first webinar in the 'Making the Case' series. How to create a software business case, in less then 10 minutes.

Dramatically improve your time-to-market for new functionality and applications. Improve your quality significantly, reducing outages due to production defects and time necessary for problem management due to application defects.
* Gain valuable experience with cloud automation tools that will help you move your production environments into the private cloud.
* Provision complete environments for development and testing teams 6 times faster and generate direct cost savings from increased productivity of development, testing and system administration resources.

Do all this without touching your capital expenditure budget. Curious and want to know how? Then join this webinar and you will see how you can achieve all of the above while implementing a private cloud for your development and testing environment.

Millions of people are already using mobile applications to pay their bills, book travel, and connect with the people and companies they rate. Yet mobile technology is only just being adopted by many companies and according to a study by Localytics 26% of applications downloaded are used just once before being discarded. Hardly surprising when 65% of organisation’s lack the right tools to test mobile applications and a third lack the testing methodologies, processes and specialist expertise necessary to effectively certify mobile applications.

Register for this 45 minute webinar to hear:
• Why organisations need to get mobile demands right or get left behind
• How HP's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) supports mobile application delivery
• And how we’ve helped Telefonica to deliver their BlueVia App store

The first and still the most popular method for doing testing is manually. Over the past decade we have seen the increased adoption of automated testing methods to accelerate those repeatable test cases; however, we still see the vast majority of testing being done manually. Many believe, especially with the advent of development methodologies such as Agile, that full automation of tests is unlikely to be achieved as the very nature of Agile development demands a more exploratory, spontaneous testing regime.

Manual testing is often error prone, test steps are easily missed, test data is often incorrectly entered, and defects are often incorrectly captured --decreasing the overall quality of the application and increasing costs due to the associated work replication.

With HP Sprinter, manual software testing no longer needs to be tedious, error prone, or time consuming.

In this webinar SQS will outline methods of assessing if your organisation is utilizing its testing resources most effectively and HP will show how HP Sprinter software, an easy to use and low cost solution, can deliver accurate and efficient manual software testing, dramatically reducing the time needed to perform manual software tests and increases their accuracy and effectiveness.

Register for this webinar to hear:

- Are you ready for improved Manual Testing?
- Sprinter for improved Manual Testing
- Demo of Mobile Test tools
- Expert Panel Q&A

Enterprise applications are becoming increasingly complex. With modern applications such as mobile apps and apps leveraging Web 2.0 technologies, there are many moving parts, which can easily become points of failure if not tested prior to deployment.

Coupled with the additional issue of just how secure is the application when it is known that 75% of all data breaches from cyber attacks are at the application layer, it means that Quality Assurance teams need to quickly respond with proven solutions to these challenges but ensuring that customer satisfaction and confidence isn’t impacted.

This Webinar will look at the Strategies that clients can pursue to ensure their client facing applications are Performant and Secure and will show how they can assess these attributes through the use of the complete HP Toolset for Performance and Security being made available through the HP SaaS Model.

Register for this webinar to hear:

-How to take the guesswork out of web-based application testing, incl. Performance & Security Testing.
-Demo of Performance & Security Test tools
-Expert Panel Q&A

More and more applications being developed today are designed for use on mobile devices. Businesses recognize that these applications create new growth channels to market and sell to a next-generation, real-time audience.

As with enterprise software applications, mobile applications are a foundation for good customer experiences, so they must adhere to the same rigid quality standards.

Mobile applications under test use entirely different methods, objects, and controls than contemporary enterprise software applications. So, in order to test mobile applications, QA teams have to test them individually for each operating system (OS) on each mobile device. Not only is this process not ergonomically friendly, but high levels of automated testing has been difficult to achieve because of the sheer volume of combinations to test.

This Webinar will look at how you can more effectively test you increasingly complex applications, which are demanding faster time to market, through automated functional and performance testing tools which have been recently enhanced for mobile testing through solutions from Perfecto.

Register for this 45 minute webinar to hear:

- How to take the guesswork out of Mobile Testing, incl. Performance & Automated regression Testing
- Client Case study
- Demo of Mobile Test tools
- Expert Panel Q&A

An Essential Update on Testing Trends

Capgemini, Hewlett-Packard and Sogeti are pleased to announce the imminent release of the latest annual World Quality Report. Register for this 45minute webinar to get an understanding of:

• The current state of application quality and testing practices across different industries and geographies, but with a focus on the UK market
• The latest trends in application quality, methodologies, tools and processes
• Industry benchmarks and insights that will help shape your future planning and decisions on quality management, and the opportunity for TaaS (Testing-as-a-Service).

The full World Quality report will be made available after this webinar. Register today to reserve your copy.

About the World Quality Report:
This is the 4th annual report presenting the findings from a global survey of more than 1,500 CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, IT directors, IT managers, and quality assurance and application development professionals. It is the only major global report on application quality, outsourcing trends, tools, technology, providing industry benchmarks and insights that will help you to make better quality decisions.

Agenda:
What will a future data center look like?
Will it be different and why?
Will there be just one kind of data center?
Future drivers and requirements
How will future data centers be operated?
Measures, management and efficiency
Future Mechanical & Electrical Systems
Cooling and Power
The Data Center ecosystem inside and out
Servers, Storage, Networks
What can we do now to get there?
Key activities

Software is eating the world. It is almost impossible to deliver new business capabilities without significant software innovation. Software agility directly affects business capability. Software delivery is a key business process for most organizations. But for many companies, software delivery is poorly understood and is not treated as an integrated, visible business process. Governance and control directly compete with agile methods and improved release models. To navigate to the nirvana of business agility requires a different way of approaching the whole value chain of software delivery.

This debate will discuss the following:
•What is the nirvana of software delivery?
•What are the challenges to getting there?
•What is the reality of agile development?
•How does continuous delivery fit with agile?
•What is the future of Application Lifecycle Management?
•And, how do you get there from your current position?

Join moderator Hans Jörgen Dekker, Managing Consultant at QUINT and panelists:
•Dave West: former Research Director at Forrester Research and now Chief Product Officer at Tasktop;
•Toby Marsden: Director of Application Solutions and Strategy at HP Software;
•Fil Zanasi: Financial Services Market Specialist at HP Software.