Corporate

Agile R&D

Using Agile Methods to Develop Better Products:

Agile development methods such as Extreme Programming, Scrum, DSDM and Adaptive Software Development have recently come into favor due to their adaptive, iterative approaches to software development. This white paper describes how Agile development methods ensure higher quality products and faster time-to-market.Testing in an Agile environment offers a completely different perspective and is packed with multiple challenges, especially if the concept of Agile is new to the testing team. GlobalLogic was recently involved in a project that helped us develop a new approach to Agile testing. In this paper, GlobalLogic demonstrates the benefits of this new approach over traditional testing methods and identifies improvements that, if adopted, will make the approach ideal.  Download

Overcoming Testing Challenges in an Agile Environment

Testing in an Agile environment offers a completely different perspective and is packed with multiple challenges.GlobalLogic has been involved in multiple projects that have guided us in devising an altogether new approach to overcome these challenges. In this paper, GlobalLogic demonstrates the benefits of this new approach over traditional testing methods and identifies improvements that, if adopted, will make the approach ideal.  Download

Finance

Challenges in Lending & Leasing Software

With IT budgets on the rise, leasing companies are once again looking to upgrade or replace their lease administration software. Their goal is to further streamline their operations and support new financial products. This white paper will focus on the problems faced by changing scenarios within the leasing industry, and it will propose a solution with components that increase the configurability of lease administration systems.   Download

Business Intelligence

SQL Performance Tuning

Database performance is one of the most challenging aspects of the operations of your database. You can usually recognize bad performance easily, but good performance is more likely the absence of bad performance. SQL tuning is of paramount importance to the system's health and performance. No amount of database tuning is going to deliver the benefits that an optimal SQL statement will provide.   Download

ETL Tools: A Comparative Analysis

Gone are the days when a data warehouse was just a static dump of data or used simply as another data storage area. Today, more companies are working to overcome increasingly complex data integration challenges to make their data warehouses operational and active through the use of efficient ETL tools and their data integration capabilities. This white paper will review the trends that are driving the data warehouse towards ETL requirements, evaluation of approaches and available ETL tools in market.   Download

Open Source Databases: A Comparative Analysis

Open source databases have become increasingly attractive to software developers because they are free, customizable and readily available. This white paper provides a background on open source technology to help you choose a database that best suits your needs.  Download

Globalization

Outsourcing Challenges, Myths & Realties:

Although in the past software product companies typically only leveraged globalized development for fringe projects, there has been a growing trend to outsource even core product development. This white paper describes this trend in detail and addresses the common challenges and myths associated with outsourcing.  Download

Digital Media

The Semantic Web: Trends & Technologies

The Semantic Web is a set of technologies that will enable the evolution of the Web. In this vision of the future, all knowledge will exist on the Web in a format that software applications can understand and reason about, thus enabling the next generation of collective intelligence. This white paper provides an overview of the Semantic Web and explores future applications that will deliver next generation services (i.e., "semantic services").   Download

Introduction to the Online Video Market

Digital video technology defines a method of representing video image signal by using binary numbers. This white paper will provide an introduction to this method by discussing the major components and functions of present-day digital video technology.  Download

Online Social Commerce Trends

Social commerce, a subset of e-commerce in which the active participation of customers and their personal relationships are at the forefront, has had a significant impact on online commerce in the last few years. This white paper explores the changing paradigm of online commerce, as well as how analysts and evangelists are taking this change forward.   Download

GlobalLogic's Product Usability & Design Group

GlobalLogic has invested in a dedicated Product Usability & Design Group (PUDG) to provide clients with on-demand expertise in new concept UI design & development; usability review & redesign; future extension UI design & development; and specialized individual services.  Download

Cloud Computing

GlobalLogic's SaaS Capabilities

GlobalLogic helps clients build scalable and secure on-demand solutions, as well as migrate existing products to a software-as-a-service model.   Download

Telecom

Network Processors

This white paper researches the role of the network processor in the past, present and future. It discusses the functional components and applications of the etwork processor,as well as its evolution and architecture.   Download

Introduction to IMS-P Multimedia Subsystem

New trends in wireless technology have led mobile operators to seek to converge business services. This need led to the development of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a common IP-centric network core that is access independent. This white paper explores the IMS Subsystem's development and discusses its functional elements, interface points, protocols and detailed call flows.   Download