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ITKO Insights | Winter 2011
Featuring content from Gartner and ITKO. Read the ITKO Insights Newsletter, featuring Gartner analyst content. Get yourself educated on how companies are taking steps to reshape their development lifecycles. This issue is all about "agile" - but not just in the software development sense. We are talking about optimizing IT software practices across the entire company and its extended partners that it must work with to deliver new service and capabilities for customers - what we call "Enterprise Agile.".

Analyst Category SnapShot Report: Lifecycle Virtualization
by voke Research. Most organizations struggle with the challenges of application and product development and delivery. Lifecycle virtualization fundamentally transforms the lifecycle and eliminates many of the common challenges faced by development and test teams.

Analyst Report: Ovum - LISA Suite v5.0 Technology Audit  
The ITKO LISA Suite, comprising LISA Test, LISA Validate, LISA Virtualize, and LISA Pathfinder, provides capabilities around testing, validation, defect discovery, and simulation of services in a distributed multi-tier component-based infrastructure. It addresses the need for comprehensive testing in SOA or other component-based development environments, including heterogeneous distributed environments. It enables regression, performance, and functional testing of individual services or complex composite applications, including testing of composites where some services are not yet available

Analyst Guide: "Design & Validate SOA in a Heterogeneous Environment"  
David Linthicum and ZapThink present this new guide on best practices for architecture and validation of services-based applications, starting with the Integration and ESB technologies you might already have, and ending with better SOA Governance, Validation and Virtualization of your IT environment. Free download sponsored by ITKO. Paper written July 2008

NEW: ZapThink Whitepaper: "SOA Quality Across the Service Lifecycle"  
As organizations move beyond straighforward implementations of Web Services to the more complex world of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), maintaining the quality of the implementation in the face of changing business requirements becomes an increasingly difficult challenge. In the final analysis, quality represents how well a system meets the needs of the business, so when the business case for SOA calls for business agility, SOA quality means meeting business requirements as those requirements are in an ongoing, continual state of change

Zapthink Zapnote^tm ITKO Ensuring Continuous SOA Quality
Quality means far more than simply reducing defects. Fundamentally, quality means building something that meets the requirements of its users, now and into the future. However, requirements continue to evolve, both during projects as well as once the projects are complete

Aberdeen: SOA and Web Services Testing: How Different Can It Be?
iTKO, Inc., a leading provider of testing solutions for integration and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced the availability of a co-sponsored Aberdeen Group Research report titled, "SOA and Web Services Testing: How Different Can It Be?" The research notes that it is necessary for companies who implement a Service Oriented Architecture to take a much more advanced approach to their testing and quality assurance strategy

Aberdeen: "The Composite Applications Benchmark Report - How SOA Standards are Accelerating Business Change" January 2007
Application integration is a major IT headache and takes up about 40% of the typical IT budget, according to recent Aberdeen research. A typical enterprise's business processes are found in multiple IT applications, and the service-oriented architecture (SOA), which can encompass web services as well as the integration, business logic, and legacy technologies behind it, is seen as the technological means to solving the application integration problem

The Aberdeen Group SOA Governance Report: Planning for an Optimized SOA Application Lifecycle 
How are the Best in Class companies driving down IT maintenance and development costs, increasing reuse and getting better results? Measure your own SOA progress against the market with this fresh and insightful fact-based research from Aberdeen Group. A $399 value, with complimentary download sponsored by ITKO.