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With enterprise applications playing a vital role in mission-critical business processes, managing their performance and availability has never been more important. In this special edition of In The Know learn how to optimize business performance by delivering and managing quality throughout the lifecycle of your applications.

Application Management: The New Operations Imperative
Failure of key applications, even for a short time, can be devastating in terms of cost, market position, and long-term business success. With nothing less than the viability of the business at stake, application management has proven essential for aligning IT infrastructure with business priorities. In this white paper, learn about an innovative application management approach that integrates business, end-user, and system perspectives, while providing an accurate and timely representation of the complex infrastructure that underlies key business processes.

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Application Delivery: The Game is Changing
Application delivery refers to all of the processes, including development, testing, and tuning, that must be performed before production deployment. But for many companies "application delivery as usual" has actually become a competitive disadvantage, and in some cases an obstacle to business success. Learn how the Center of Excellence (CoE) model, combined with a collaborative, integrated set of processes, provides a foundation for next-generation application delivery.

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Optimize IT Governance: In Control, In Compliance, In Alignment
Effective IT governance is an essential part of business technology optimization, which transforms IT into a business driver within your company and a differentiator against your company's competition. In this white paper, learn to optimize your governance approach by implementing strategies and software to manage the priorities, processes, and people required to run IT like a business.

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Implementing an Effective Test Management Process
Growing complexity of today's applications, combined with increased competitive pressures and skyrocketing costs of application failure and downtime, have catapulted the need for testing to new highs. This paper explores the challenges and rewards of test management and provides practical ways to help put in place an organized and structured testing process. In addition, this paper discusses the benefits of the industry's first tool to address the need for global test management.

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This special edition of In the Know is brought to you by Mercury Interactive. Mercury Interactive is the global leader in business technology optimization. We are committed to helping customers optimize the business value of IT.