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Requirements Engineering for the Automotive Industry
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

IBM

CFD for Mechanical Design Engineers: “A Paradigm Shift for Better Design”
sponsored by Mentor Graphics
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, including its motivation for use, value and future. It also describes Mentor Graphics’ FloEFD CFD analysis solution that is designed to provide product designers and engineers with direct access to CFD techniques directly in their design (CAD) environment.
Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 10 Jun 2010

Mentor Graphics

Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 23 Jun 2009

IBM

Ten Ways to Establish a Strategic Advantage in Managing Change
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers ways that companies can establish a strategic advantage in managing change. It suggests a structured approach to managing change amid the complexity of smarter product development in which the rapid evolution of software plays a major part.
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Jun 2009

IBM

APIs Drive Opportunity Explosion
sponsored by IntelĀ® Services
WHITE PAPER: Learn how leading UK retailer, Argos, increased sales by via mobile apps by 125% by leveraging a robust API management platform.
Posted: 11 Apr 2014 | Published: 11 Apr 2014

IntelĀ® Services

CIC Guide: Agile Deployment for Embedded Software & Complex Systems
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this informative resource, learn exactly how Agile principles apply to the product delivery lifecycle of an embedded software product or complex safety critical system. Discover the most effective implementation strategy, and get guiding principles for agile success.
Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

IBM

Three imperatives for advancing product and systems development
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Delivering increasingly complex and smarter products in less time and at a lower cost requires new strategies and development techniques. Consult this insightful resource to learn how a "systems thinking" approach facilitates consideration of the functional dependencies and interconnections necessary to produce high quality, "smarter" products.
Posted: 06 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

IBM

Five Tips for Improving the ROI of your Software Investments
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Five tips for improving the ROI of your software investments.
Posted: 22 Apr 2011 | Published: 22 Apr 2011

IBM

The Agile Project Manager
sponsored by VersionOne Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009

VersionOne Inc.

Improving Manufacturing Quality with Integrated Test and Statistical Analysis
sponsored by National Instruments
WHITE PAPER: With test management and statistical analysis integrated into an automated system, organizations can target problem components and processes in less time with more accuracy, reducing the cost of manufacturing quality products.
Posted: 01 Dec 2002 | Published: 01 Nov 2002

National Instruments