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Free White Papers

Please select the IT white papers available for FREE download. All IT best practices are based on Altoros's experience gained during several years of software product development and design. These IT white papers also explain how industry leaders accelerated time-to-market, increased productivity, and improved return on investment (ROI) with our software development best practices.

 
Comparing Ruby on Rails Public vs. Private Cloud Options (New!)
 
With the growing number of public and private cloud solutions for Ruby on Rails applications, it becomes quite challenging to choose the solution that will suit your needs best. This white paper is intended to help you make the choice. It will show you when you can benefit from running your Ruby on Rails application in the cloud, explain the differences between a public and a private cloud, and help you choose between the two.
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How to Design and Manage Strategic Outsourcing Program and Avoid Common Mistakes
 
Independent Software Vendors and Application Service Providers have become increasingly pressured by external market conditions in developing an offshore outsourcing strategy, yet few succeed in designing a strategic, not just tactical cost-savings approach. This outsourcing white paper will help you learn how to create efficient offshore governance model and avoid the most common mistakes.
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Five Ways to Measure Your Programmers' Performance
 
When a company has dozens or hundreds of employees, or when face-to-face communication among team members is limited, the method of personal feedback as a means of employee evaluation becomes unreliable. This IT white paper describes effective, consistent methods of employee assessment and motivation based on best practices, conducted interviews, and hours of discussions – as well as some trial and error.
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Five Mistakes to Avoid in Creating User Interfaces for Mobile Devices
 
When creating a mobile user interface, developers inevitably face a number of challenges. Most of them are caused by the difference in developing user interfaces for mobile and desktop applications. This IT white paper will explain how to create an effective user interface for mobile devices and avoid the most common mistakes.
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Engaging Social Networks: A Review of Five Marketing Campaigns and Five Tools
 
To remain competitive, both industry leaders and smaller companies are forced to engage social networks to accelerate project delivery. When carried out thoughtfully, social network marketing can inspire the audience itself to further promote and even spread the product. This IT white paper provides a review of five successful marketing campaigns that involved social networks, and five tools that can be of use when implementing an interactive marketing campaign.
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How to Integrate Independent QA Testing to Shorten Development Cycles
 
When it comes down to assuring software quality, companies find it difficult to give up the valuable time and strategic focus that get consumed by internal test efforts – a problem that escalates as development projects advance in both scope and complexity. This outsourcing white paper will provide you with a "How To" guide, tips, and IT best practices for integrating independent Quality Assurance and testing across the product life-cycle to shorten software development cycles.
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How to Identify and Mitigate Security and Intellectual Property Risks When Outsourcing Offshore
 
When developing an offshore sourcing strategy, few Independent Software Vendors and Application Service Providers properly understand and mitigate the associated security and intellectual property (IP) risks. This outsourcing white paper discusses the vulnerabilities in the distributed software development environments and addresses critical business issues to mitigate those risks with qualified risk management techniques, team collaboration tools, and, critically, a verification and audit process, which result in greater visibility of the software development process, improved security, and reduced risk of IP exposure.
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Remote DBA Program: 6-Step Guide and Most Common Mistakes
 
Enterprises have become increasingly pressured by external market conditions in developing a remote database administration strategy, yet few succeed in designing an effective cost-saving approach. This whitepaper will explain how to improve return on investment using remote DBA, and avoid most common mistakes implementing and managing it.
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How to Optimize ROI Using Remote DBA and Avoid the Most Common Mistakes
 
In response to increasing external market conditions, more enterprises are forced to turn to remote database administration (DBA) to reduce their bottom lines, yet few succeed in designing an effective cost-saving approach. This white paper will explain how to improve return on investment (ROI) using remote DBA and how to avoid the most common mistakes.
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