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What Is the Purpose of Configuration Management? Joe Townsend attempts to find out: What is the purpose of configuration management (CM). This seemingly simple question is the one we CM professionals are often asked, and at times we stumble to offer the answer that really drives home the true purpose of what we do as configuration managers. |
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Don’t Be Afraid of Big Data It's starting to look like big data isn't as scary as organizations might have once thought—especially when heavyweights like IBM are rewarding those who are willing to spread "data literacy" to anyone who will listen. Learn how you could be your company's hero by standing up to big data. |
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Tips for Picking the Right Software Technology When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You may have heard this quote before, but it applies well to software technology choices. The key to choosing an appropriate technology for a software solution is to avoid bias and carefully consider the requirements you know. |
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Computer Error Shuts Down NASDAQ Stock Exchange The NASDAQ stock exchange experienced a halt in trading Thursday, and a computer glitch is to blame. The outage was only the most recent of several very public technical failures in the US stock market system, prompting calls for testing requirements, safeguards, and trading software updates. |
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What ALM Tool Features Best Support Agile Software Development? Joe Farah details the key features necessary in application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to make them practical for agile development. At a minimum, agile-friendly ALM tools must support user stories, prioritization, traceability, continuous integration, and metrics for post-iteration analysis. |
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Predictive Software Helps Police Stop Crimes Before They Happen Police are attempting to beat suspects to the scene of a crime with a computer program that indicates where criminal activity is most likely to happen. It’s called predictive policing, and the software uses past statistics and continually calibrated data to predict when and where crime will strike. |
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New Software Helps Scientists Identify Animal Sounds Thanks to software, scientists now have the ability to record massive amounts of audio samples from ecologically diverse areas and use technology to help in the species-identification process—a labor-intensive task, given the difficulty in deciphering the sounds in many hours of recordings. |
