Kaizen, BPM, and Agile Methodologies
by Reza Shafii
This article explores the ways in which BPM can be used as an implementation of Kaizen principles and how this solution can be optimized through application of Agile development methodologies. 2008-05-07 | Discuss (0)

Measuring AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) extends the concept of entitlement policies beyond what is possible with WebLogic Portal alone. Learn about the performance aspects of using ALES as the entitlement engine for WebLogic Portal. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (0)

State of the Portal Market 2007: Portals and the Power of Participation
White Paper
CIOs are looking at portals for consolidating applications and introducing Web 2.0 capabilities. See for yourself: BEA Systems' annual report on the enterprise portal market includes survey data on deployment and adoption from more than 540 BEA portal customers, plus a synthesis of more than 100 analyst reports and industry articles. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (0)

Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software
White Paper
Two Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports are now available for download: "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007" and "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007". 2008-03-12 | Discuss (0)

Racing to Release: Automated Application Promotion
by Paul Nixon
Without properly prepared environments and successful application deployment, delays to your project will occur at a time when the project has little slack left in its delivery schedule. Paul Nixon shows how to avoid these pitfalls. 2007-05-03 | Discuss (4)

Introduction to the WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF)
by Rebecca Sly
IT managers and system administrators need better ways to monitor and analyze the performance of their servers and deployed resources than scraping log files. WLDF provides such an approach, with powerful instrumentation, data harvesters and persistence features. 2006-06-21 | Discuss (2)

Managing Applications with HP OpenView
Tutorial
by Grace Lin
Java Management Extensions are an ideal way to instrument applications so that they can be embedded in a managed environment, providing peace of mind to line-of-business managers. In this tutorial, Grace Lin introduces the basic ideas behind JMX, and shows how you can use JMX Metric Builder and HP OpenView to monitor applications. 2006-02-20 | Discuss (1)

An Introduction to JRockit Mission Control
by Marcus Hirt
JRockit Mission Control is a set of powerful JVM management and analysis tools provided with the JRockit 5.0 R26 JDK. In this article, Marcus Hirt introduces the various components, including the JRockit Management Console, Runtime Analyzer, and Memory Leak Detector. 2005-12-12 | Discuss (3)