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ITKO Webinar Archive: Lifecycle Virtualization - A New Practice of Optimizing Application Development
January 18, 2012. Featuring voke. Let's face it - today's customer has "no mercy" for a company that can't deliver the services they demand, on time and with uncompromising quality. Keeping IT costs down is no longer a competitive differentiator - it is a requirement for entering the game. Therefore the companies that win in today's economy will be the ones that can innovate and deliver new products and services to market the fastest.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Service Virtualization: Solving the Biggest Challenges in Continuous Testing & Development  
June 15, 2011. With Infosys. As enterprise applications incorporate more composite elements such as SOA, BPM and Cloud-based services, teams struggle to maintain productivity against rapidly increasing complexity and change. This is especially true in large enterprises with the heaviest reliance on IT as part of their core operations, such as financial and insurance firms, Manufacturing organizations, Retailers, Telcos, and other data-driven businesses. A competitive market demands continuous software test and development practices, alongside the new technology of Service Virtualization to enable parallel development and testing lifecycles.

ITKO Webinar Archive: What Makes a DevTest Cloud Fly? (And what is the value?)  
November 10, 2010. So your company is moving its software development and integration activities to the DevTest Cloud. What are some of the new practices you should expect to be able to do in this environment, and what are other companies doing successfully right now? The DevTest Cloud is an essential platform that provides the ability to provision enterprise development and test labs, consisting of Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Service Environments, and automated regression and performance test servers in the Cloud. Examples of utilizing DevTest Cloud for performance tuning, regression testing and continuous integration will be covered in this insightful session.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Addressing a Lack of Capacity: Virtualizing the Performance Lab for Optimal Results  
June 24, 2010 with Accenture. Most major enterprises have invested millions of dollars on software performance lab infrastructure. These huge capital investments have developed recurring maintenance effort and costs, unstable environments, and inter-team conflicts over constrained resources. To combat this drain and deliver meaningful value, companies need to find ways to optimize performance labs and add incremental value. By Virtualizing the behavior and performance characteristics of test lab dependencies, Accenture and ITKO have demonstrated how joint customers can achieve highly available labs that allow earlier performance testing with greater flexibility, at a much lower cost.

IBM DeveloperWorks Webinar: Cloud Computing for Developers
June 23, 2010. ITKO founder/chief scientist John Michelsen discusses "Virtualizing Away Development Constraints in the Cloud"

ITKO Webinar Archive: The 4 Catalysts for Optimizing Enterprise Software Development and Testing  
May 27, 2010 with Cognizant. Enterprise applications are becoming increasingly complex and distributed. Newer software delivery approaches such as Cloud, SOA, BPM and Agile methodologies offer increased flexibility and agility. However, IT organizations become reactive when feeling the heat of increased software failures, delayed timelines and mounting costs. By mapping out the right mix of virtualization and testing tools, and choosing best practices built for today's applications, the software lifecycle can be optimized. Critical IT functionality can be delivered on time and under budget. This webinar highlights 4 primary catalysts that can proactively optimize software development and testing.

ITKO Webinar Archive: "No Free Beer" in Modern and Cloud-Based Application Performance and Quality  
March 3, 2010 with Accenture. Today's distributed development and deployment approaches make it much easier to pour "apps on tap" -- rapidly available software components built for flexible assembly as Services or Cloud-based applications. However, there is simply "no free beer" when it comes to consuming these applications for serious business purposes.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Aligning Business Goals for Software Quality, Schedule and Cost in Complex IT Environments  
February 18, 2010 with Capgemini. Business leaders are constantly seeking new competitive advantages in a rapidly changing marketplace, including advantages provided by new business applications. However, there is a growing gap between business leader's expectations for software quality, adherence to requirements, and on-time delivery versus the reality of what's delivered in an increasingly complex and changing enterprise IT environment.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Leveraging Modern Software Quality to Prevent Cost and Schedule Overruns  
December 15, 2009 with TCS. Test Smarter, Release Faster, and Achieve Cost Reduction Goals. As the year comes to a close, many organizations are dealing with the difficult reality of cost and schedule overruns in the test and delivery stage of their software projects. Distributed, service-based enterprise applications are being developed and assembled at increasingly high velocity by leveraging reusable components and newer integration technologies.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Are Testing Costs eating up your Development Budgets?  
December 1, 2009 with CSC. New composite application development approaches such as SOA, BPM, and SaaS can provide greater flexibility and speed in assembling reusable components and services into applications. While platform vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and TIBCO have made innovations that have brought integration time and development costs down, the unintended consequence is that testing these systems is becoming harder than ever.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Accelerating Modern Application Quality  
October 27, 2009. Testing Strategies for Reducing Risk and Cost in today's Distributed Application Environment. Join ITKO's John Michelsen and Aparna Sharma, Worldwide Head of Client Services, Independent Validation & Testing, Infosys Technologies for this insightful discussion on how to help you learn how to speed time to market for your business applications, while minimizing project risk and cost.

ITKO Webinar Archive: "Overcoming Critical Gaps to SOA Quality and Efficiency"  
September 23, 2009. Join ITKO's John Michelsen and Perficient's Chief Technologist and SOA Blogger Eric Roch for this insightful discussion on how companies are testing and modeling robust test environments for modern applications, including ESBs, integration servers, web services, complex data scenarios and more.

ITKO Webinar Archive: "Achieving Quality & Agility Across Distributed Test & Development Teams"  
September 17, 2009 with Accenture. Join ITKO's John Michelsen and Accenture's Jeff Wilkinson for this discussion on how to improve software quality and agility and strategies to cope with software's growing complexity.

ITKO Webinar Archive: "Removing ALM Obstacles for Greater Agility, Cost Savings, and Lower Risk"  
June 18, 2009 with Forrester. Experts from ITKO and Forrester Research present trends / technologies behind automated testing and validation to streamline ALM for higher productivity, accuracy and agility. Attend and Learn how Testing, Validation and Virtualization are being employed to support the best practices of Dynamic SQA (Software Quality Assurance). With with strong Dynamic SQA in place, enterprise IT teams are poised to deliver predictability, patterns and reuse to better manage complex software projects.

ITKO Webinar Archive - Building your SOA Center of Excellence  
April 29, 2009 with CSC. SOA-based enterprise application projects today struggle with ever increasing complexity while being asked to deliver up against extremely difficult cost and time constraints. CSC and ITKO have collaborated to offer a SOA testing service and SOA Testing Center of Excellence so that SOA-based application development projects achieve higher quality, faster time-to-market, and lower costs.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Realizing the Benefits of Enterprise Integration and SOA at Lower Costs.  
With Perficient. Experts from ITKO and Perficient will share how you can make powerful adjustments to your software development lifecycle to cut complexity, save costs and cut time for testing and deployment. You'll also learn how to assure your software and SOA services are always agile and meet high-quality, mission-critical requirements.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Reducing SoftwareAG Implementation Costs and Risks Across the Lifecycle  
Enterprise software implementations today are up against extremely difficult cost and time constraints. The need for greater cost savings, risk mitigation, quality, and end-to-end control for SoftwareAG/webMethods implementations is driving more customers to evaluate new solutions to optimize their software testing and delivery lifecycle.

ITKO Webinar Archive: Eliminating Risk, Cost & Dependencies from SOA  
Jan 2009. Are you in the process of adopting SOA to more flexibly meet business needs? If so, chances are you have already encountered serious roadblocks in getting the access and quality coverage you need for all of the layers in these complex, interconnected application workflows.

Podcast: SOA & Virtualization Futures - Michelsen with Schooff
Dec 2008

eWeek Podcast with Mike Vizard and John Michelsen: Application Development in the Clouds
Nov 2008