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cVidya to Drive Revenue Assurance, Fraud, and Cloud Sessions

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:39:15 EDT

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers will be sharing insights and showcasing new solutions at TM Forum's Management World from May 22-24, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. cVidya will demonstrate their latest, innovative solutions designed to help CSPs in different aspects of their businesses. Demos will include the ProactiV Operational Risk Management solution, Mobile Dashboard for Executives, the new Enhanced Bypass Fraud Package, and IRIS for Cloud Services.

cVidya Announces New Big Data Capabilities

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:04:47 EDT

cVidya Networks on Monday announced the addition of new capabilities for its IRIS and cVidyaCloud suites which enable CSPs to monitor and analyze data on a massive scale over distributed architecture for parallel processing to help maximize the value of telecoms big data. The announcement was made at cVidya's 2012 user conference in Athens earlier this month. Using these new capabilities, cVidya brings the power of Big Data to its pricing analytics application for Next-Best-Offer recommendation. OfferAdvisor, which is already deployed at leading operators, enables marketing managers and retention teams to offer the optimal offer or price plan to help decrease the retention costs of existing subscribers as well as identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities. With these new capabilities, cVidya's OfferAdvisor is a unique Next-Best-Offer application that analyzes structured data (such as actual subscriber usage) and unstructured or semi-structured data types (such as log files, clickstreams and text from e-mails) with new data sources to be added to the application capabilities in the coming months. Consequently, OfferAdvisor has an even more powerful and accurate recommendation engine, taking into account churn risk, ability to match price plans, and add-ons based on customer preferences and behavior (e.g. sport add-on for sports fans and one month of free audio books for commuters).

cVidya to Deploy Its Revenue Assurance Solution at HOT

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00:29 EDT

Vidya Networks, a provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, has announced that their MoneyMap® Revenue Assurance solution will be deployed at HOT, the Israeli triple-play service provider. HOT is the largest cable television provider in Israel with additional internet and telephony offerings as well as video-on-demand. With this deployment, cVidya will be providing complete Revenue Assurance services and business consulting for HOT’s TV, broadband, telephony, and VOD operations. cVidya will assist HOT in upgrading its Revenue Assurance operation and setting up its relevant methodologies by developing with them a dedicated department to handle these activities. Among the numerous aspects of this Revenue Assurance contract with HOT, cVidya will specifically focus on delivering provisioning assurance between network and billing components for TV, internet, and telephony services, traffic and usage assurance from “switch to bill”, and video-on-demand transaction validation.

cVidya Releases Enhanced Bypass Fraud Module for FraudView

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:54:52 EDT

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today the release of their enhanced bypass fraud module which seamlessly integrates into their FraudView Fraud Management solution. With the new module, CSPs are able to detect both "under-the-radar" methods and those exploiting SIM boxes, to make as many calls as possible in a short period, with advanced alert and aggregation methods. As the complexity of bypass fraud schemes continue to develop, it is crucial for CSPs to detect these fraudsters efficiently and effectively. Bypass fraud has become the number one fraud type in developing countries as fraudsters continue to find new ways to disguise their operations by using prepaid SIMs, making only a few calls, and limiting call times. In order to help CSPs prevent losses from these new techniques, cVidya has made many improvements for instantly detecting bypass fraud. Real-time detection, within one hour, enables most bypass scenarios to be proactively blocked, and a new set of bypass predictors, based on summarized data, was also added. In addition, long-term summarization, along with an offline investigation tool, detects even the most evasive bypass practices, making cVidya's module the most complete bypass fraud tool for CSPs.

cVidya Wins Oracle PartnerNetwork UK Specialized Award

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:08:21 EDT

Oracle has awarded cVidya with its 2012 Oracle Annual Excellence Awards: Specialized Partner of the Year - for ‘Most Innovative Use of Oracle Software and Hardware'. The award reflects cVidya's success in adopting OPN's Specialized approach which is aimed at enabling partners to establish industry recognition by following a formal process to become Specialized in key Oracle solution areas. cVidya was presented the Oracle Excellence Award: Specialized Partner of the Year - UK - Most Innovative Use of Oracle Software and Hardware for demonstrating an outstanding and innovative solution based on Oracle products including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Weblogic Server, and Oracle Database 11g. The Oracle Excellence Awards: Specialized Partner of Year - UK encourages innovation by Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members, who use Oracle's products and technology to create value for customers.

Typemock Survey: Unit Testing Is Effective in Reducing Software Bugs

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:41:00 EDT

Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) a provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, released today the results of their developer survey, finding that over 90 percent of developers agree that unit testing is an effective practice to reduce software bugs. Typemock surveyed developers from around the world to gather their opinion on the impact of software bugs. The global online survey showed that developers think that unit testing was more effective in reducing bugs than other practices, such as integration testing, pair programming, and QA. Only 50-70 percent of respondents find them to be effective in reducing bugs.

Swisscom to Speed Benchmarking

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:30:30 EDT

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) an innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today that Swisscom is the first Communications Service Provider (CSP) to use TM Forum’s Business Metrics Automation—through cVidya’s certified MoneyMap solution. In October 2011, MoneyMap Release 6.5 was the first Revenue Assurance product to receive TM Forum’s Business Metrics Automation certification. Through TM Forum’s Business Metrics Automation program, TM Forum works with software suppliers to incorporate its standardized Business Metrics into products and solutions, allowing service providers to automatically upload metric data into TM Forum’s Business Benchmark Database rather than collating and entering that data manually.

Jobs Posted on Social Networks Not Listed on Leading Job Search Sites

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:55:28 EDT

JobsMiner, (www.jobsminer.com) the pioneer of social job search engines across all social media platforms, announced today that on average, over 50 percent of job opportunities found through their social media search engine were "hidden" and not listed on top job search sites. The sampling was based on continuous aggregation of the most popular job postings on social networks that were analyzed by JobsMiner.com in comparison with leading conventional job search sites. JobsMiner aggregated about 1 million total job postings over the last month from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Plus, blogs and forums.

cVidya Launches Executive Mobile Dashboard

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:58:36 EDT

Vidya Networks, an innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced on Wednesday the launch of cVidya Mobile Dashboard, the most complete and advanced mobile application for Revenue Assurance, Fraud and Risk Management designed for executives. The dashboard application integrates with cVidya's suite of Revenue Intelligence solutions enabling senior level managers to easily access complete present and forecasted operational data in order to make informed business decisions. cVidya's Mobile Dashboard application enables CSPs to get detailed information on any aspect of their Revenue Assurance, Fraud or Risk Management operations through fully customizable mobile dashboards with the ability to drill-down to the most minute detail. The dashboards present a wide range of information on all Revenue Intelligence business aspects enabling management to evaluate levels of risk, fraud controls, coverage, and leakages against the desired targets predetermined by the CFO, and decide which areas need more focus in the business.

Typemock Introduces Isolator V7

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:59:31 EDT

Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, has announced today the launch of Isolator V7 for .NET developers. Isolator V7 enables developers to find and fix bugs by immediately identifying them, and automatically running relevant tests after each build. Isolator V7 dramatically cuts the bug fix time by pinpointing the location of the bug in the code, based on the failed tests and offers guidance on how to repair it. Isolator V7 is available free for existing Typemock customers and for a free trial at: http://www.typemock.com/isolator-product-page/. Software bugs lead to security vulnerabilities and unnecessarily high economic costs. Unit testing is a proven methodology to help prevent bugs in production systems. Isolator V7 enables programmers to develop code more efficiently by enabling them to identify bugs during the early stages of development. Isolator V7 will give your developers the result of unit testing masters. V7 introduces features that Typemock developed for internal usage, such as the Autorunner, automatic bug location with the Failed-Test Analyzer, and Visual Code Coverage. The Autorunner automatically runs only the relevant unit tests after every build providing instant feedback to the developer when a new bug is introduced. The Failed-Test Analyzer points the developer to the exact location of the bug in the code by analyzing the failed unit tests, cutting the time finding and fixing the bug significantly. Visual Coverage allows developers to know what code is covered by unit tests, so a developer w

cVidya Sees 25% Revenue Growth in 2011

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:51:13 EST

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today that the company has seen growth of 25 percent in revenues and 20 percent in sales compared to 2010. Since their acquisition of ECtel in January 2010, cVidya has shown a consistent increase in its global customer base. In 2011, cVidya added 26 new customers, including some tier-1 CSPs in Europe, Africa and the US. In addition, cVidya extended its offering to include Analytics and Sales Performance Management beyond its traditional Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management solutions. During 2011, cVidya has launched ProactiV, the first solution that incorporates risk management methodologies within Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management, which has been deployed at several operators in North America, Europe and APAC. In addition, cVidya introduced its data retention solution, DRMap, jointly with Oracle Exadata, which ensures CSPs are compliant with EU Regulations to support the growing threats of terrorism faced by governmental bodies. cVidya deployed its Sales Performance Management Solution which enables CSPs to monitor and control all operational aspects of their sales force through data analysis and predefined reporting tools therefore optimizing their commissions costs. In its 2011 implementations of the Pricing Analytics solutions, CSPs were able to learn from current behavior and anticipate how customers will react when they change a price plan or a competitor introduces new rates.

JobsMiner Offers Job Search Engine Covering Social Networking Platforms

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:15:37 EST

JobsMiner, the pioneer of social job search engine across all social media platforms, announced today the launch of JobsMiner.com, the first search engine enabling users to find hidden job postings on all social media outlets including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Plus, blogs, and forums. JobsMiner.com gives job seekers access to all job opportunities that appear on social networking platforms, in one place, without the need to be part of a specific social community. In the last month alone, JobsMiner’s listings grew by 700,000 US job postings. According to a recent industry survey, one in six employees used social media to find their current job and about 54 percent of all job seekers use Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to find jobs. However, many job offers listed on social networks are informal listings and hidden from users that are not connected with the poster. JobsMiner unlocks the closed circle of friends and expands it by finding all job postings on the social media sites, even wall postings on Facebook (posted ‘public’) or blog and forum posts. This allows job seekers easy access to many more hidden postings they would normally not find in their regular social media job search. Many of JobsMiner’s listings are found before the position is even posted on a company website or job board.

Three Buzzwords That Every CIO Hears but One They Should Listen To

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 EST

Anyone that's managing an enterprise IT with aging or outdated client/server systems is starting to feel the heat. Soon, their systems and applications will be obsolete and unsupported. At the same time, the industry as whole is seeking the fastest gateway to the latest .NET, HTML5 and mobile deployments including SaaS models. Right about now, there will be a knock on your door with team members offering their advice as to what you should do to ‘keep up' with the latest trends and supported architectures. Here are three of the buzzwords they will have probably used, and what they actually mean.

Banks and Financial Institutions See Unit Testing Solutions as Critical

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:46:58 EST

Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, announced that over 50% of the largest European banks and over 35% of global leading financial institutions consider unit testing critical and have implemented Typemock’s unit testing solutions. Unit testing is considered to be a best practice in software development and is used by financial institutions as a way of ensuring compliance with software standards and to prevent bugs. Institutions that rely on software for their core business see unit testing as a strategic necessity in order to ensure that their business runs. In addition unit testing provides the ability to respond to business changes rapidly. This allows for changes to be made on time without QA processes slowing this down. Unit testing also ensures a 70-80 percent reduction in the time developers spend on debugging, leaving more time to write innovative software. Unit testing is important in order to ensure regulatory compliance in the financial industry. For example, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires assurance of IT controls in electronic financial documentation as well as documentation of code coverage. A comprehensive testing plan, including unit testing, can ensure compliance with this important financial regulation. Unit testing also helps developers understand what the code is intended to do, ensuring that it can be designed to ensure compliance and help verify compliance.

cVidya Unveils Data Retention Solution

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:40:22 EST

cVidya Networks, a provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, has announced the release of DRMap, a complete data retention solution that enables CSPs to comply with current regulations and swiftly fulfill law enforcement requests. With its current positioning in the revenue assurance and fraud management spaces, cVidya was able to leverage its capabilities to create a solution which by nature collects richer sets of information as part of existing applications deployed at CSPs. With the necessity to ensure compliance with increasing regulations, such as the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC requiring CSPs to store data for up to 24 months, it is imperative that CSPs have fast, secure, and compliant data retention systems. According to a leading research firm white paper, the majority of CSPs are spending a lot of time and money trying to adapt their current systems to meet the regulations. cVidya is leveraging Oracle Exadata Database Machine, allowing CSPs to benefit from the extreme performance, speed and scalability offered by Oracle. cVidya's DRMap V1.0 has also achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). This demonstrates that cVidya has fully tested and supports DRMap V1.0 on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Typemock CEO Predicts Unit Testing to Grow in Importance

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:15:30 EST

Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, announced today their prediction that a rise in unit testing will occur in 2012 as software development continues to climb significantly. Eli Lopian, founder and CEO of Typemock , speaking at a developer seminar said, "In 2012, we will see a major shift in the efforts of software developers to focus on better code. Unit testing is significantly more important today as we see an eruption in software development in the coming years." In addition, Lopian added "Unit testing is a key aspect of all Agile methodologies, and, in order to remain agile, unit testing must be properly executed." Software development has grown exponentially in recent years as more companies lean toward becoming software providers as well as product vendors. This rise in software increases the risk of faulty programming code which can lead to mission critical failures that cost organizations both in financial damages and consumer satisfaction. Software quality and on time releases are critical to any organization and unit testing, as part of Agile development, enables developers to produce improved software within deadlines.

cVidya’s Tal Eisner Deputy Chair of TM Forum’s Fraud Management Group

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:57:25 EST

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) the global provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, is proud to announce that TM Forum has appointed Tal Eisner, Senior Director of Product Strategy for cVidya’s, as Deputy Chair of the Fraud Management Group. TM Forum is a global, non-profit industry association focused on simplifying the complexity of running a service provider's business. As an established industry thought-leader, the Forum serves as a unifying force, enabling more than 800 companies across 195 countries to solve critical business issues through access to a wealth of knowledge, intellectual capital and standards. TM Forum’s Fraud Management Group maintains best practices in fraud operations management, fraud detection and resolution management through enhancements and revisions to TM Forum’s Frameworx suite of standards with the goal of guiding service providers in fraud protection and prevention.

cVidya Introduces Fraud Management eLearning Course

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:31:20 EST

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) the global provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today the launch of their Fraud eLearning Course. cVidya’s new course will teach Telecom Fraud Management in an eLearning format and will consist of lectures and presentations delivered by professionals with more than 10 years of expertise in the field and involvement in over 100 projects. cVidya’s Education Center was created to address the market demand for expert training in Revenue Intelligence. The Fraud Associate Course consists of 28 academic hours of recorded video and presentations taught by industry experts with deep understanding of fraud management best practices. Graduates are rewarded certification upon completion of the course and exam, verifying that they are proficient in key areas of fraud management as well as controls and risks, organizational challenges, and process and workflow investigation.

Typemock Joins Red Hat Innovate in Israel

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:14:36 EST

Typemock, a provider and pioneer of unit testing solutions, has announced it has been selected to participate in Red Hat Innovate, a new initiative launched by Red Hat in Israel. The initiative is designed to assist software development start-up companies based in Israel to leverage the power of open source communities. Red Hat Innovate offers numerous benefits, including joint marketing activities and access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and JBoss Enterprise Middleware for development.

Typemock Releases Isolator 6.2 with JetBrains dotCover Integration

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:16:06 EST

Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, has announced today the launch of Isolator 6.2. The new version integrates with two popular .NET tools from JetBrains: dotCover for code coverage analysis and dotTrace Performance for performance profiling. dotCover and dotTrace Performance enable developers the benefits of full code coverage and identification of performance bottlenecks which ensure a complete and easy unit testing experience. Typemock has also added a risk-free trial feature, to enable developers the ability to continue running any unit tests they write, even after their trial period expires. Typemock Isolator also includes improved IntelliTest productivity tool which adds the benefit of test code auto-completion. IntelliTest makes writing unit tests easier and more productive by actually generating the test code, instead of the developer writing it by himself. In addition, Typemock Isolator Server includes easier integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

TV-Show Production Company Engages cVidya's Consulting Services

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:59:14 EST

cVidya Networks (www.cvidya.com), a global provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today that they will be consulting Keshet, an Israeli Television-Show Production Company, regarding fraud in tele-voting. cVidya will provide consultation on issues including, securing mobile payment transactions and preventing user fraud activities across multi-platforms such as mobile, internet and tele-voting applications. Following an examination of Keshet's systems, cVidya will provide Keshet with the strategies and tools they need to maintain a secure voting platform which contends with potential fraud threats and assures voting revenues.

cVidya Achieves Oracle Exadata Ready Status

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:37:00 EST

cVidya’s MoneyMap® Version 6.5 has achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). This will significantly assist clients with the extreme performance available only with Oracle Exadata Database Machine. This announcement demonstrates that cVidya has fully tested and supports MoneyMap Version 6.5 on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, including Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Linux. This milestone follows cVidya's recent participation in the OPN Forum opening keynote session at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 where cVidya's executives highlighted the benefits of the Oracle Exastack Program and cVidya's achievement of Oracle Exadata Ready status. cVidya is also on track to achieve Oracle Exastack Optimized status as part of the Oracle Exastack Program. Third party applications that are Oracle Exastack Optimized signal to customers that they have been tested and tuned to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability.

cVidya to Share Insights on Performance Metrics, Smart Grid, Cloud Security

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:47:44 EDT

cVidya’s executives and customers will lead and participate in different events on various thought leadership topics including business performance metrics, cross-industry collaboration, cloud-based fraud detection and delivering security to the cloud. cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) the global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers will showcase and share solutions at different engagements at TM Forum’s Management World Americas 2011 from November 7 - 10 in Orlando, Florida. cVidya’s executives and customers will lead and participate in different events on various thought leadership topics including business performance metrics, cross-industry collaboration, cloud-based fraud detection and delivering security to the cloud.

cVidya Receives First TM Forum Business Metrics Automation Certification

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:05:23 EDT

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) the global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today that it has successfully completed TM Forum's Business Metrics Automation certification for revenue assurance. cVidya is the first supplier to become certified in the program. cVidya will demonstrate its certified MoneyMap® at TM Forum's Management World Americas 2011, Orlando, Nov. 8-10. Through the Business Metrics Automation Certification program, TM Forum works with software suppliers to incorporate its standardized Business Metrics into products and solutions, allowing service providers to automatically upload metric data into the TM Forum Business Benchmark Database rather than collating and entering that data manually. By participating in the Business Metrics Automation Certification program, software suppliers can certify the ability of their product to interact securely with the TM Forum Business Benchmarking Database.

cVidya MoneyMap to Receive TM Forum’s Product Conformance Certification

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:09:19 EDT

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) the global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today that their MoneyMap® solution is the first Revenue Assurance (RA) product to be awarded to be awarded TM Forum Frameworx Conformance Certification. MoneyMap® enables CSPs to identify and manage areas of revenue leakage. The certification affirms cVidya MoneyMap's conformance with the Frameworx suite of standards, which has already been adopted by 90% of the world's largest service providers.

Typemock’s Isolator Unit Testing Solution Now Available for ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:57:55 EDT

Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, announced today that its flagship Typemock Isolator unit testing tool will now enable developers to unit test their ASP.NET MVC code in conjunction with the Ivonna add-on. Now the Ivonna add-on for Typemock Isolator .NET ensures easy unit testing of ASP .NET MVC code. Web development on ASP.NET was always hard, and without proper tools developers ran browser based tests, which are slow, and don't provide proper coverage. The Ivonna add-on to Isolator makes writing tests for web applications even easier. Ivonna simulates the web server and allows testing ASP.NET code-behind, without the need for a complex setup. Now Ivonna adds its capabilities to aid writing tests for ASP.NET MVC. Although ASP.NET MVC was written with unit testing in mind, it is still a difficult task and there are still areas where tools like Isolator and Ivonna fill in a much needed gap. Typemock Isolator offers writing unit tests easily, quickly and effectively, thus reducing the time spent on bugs and raising code quality.

cVidya Introduces ProactiV

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:47:27 EDT

cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) an innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today the release of ProactiV, the first solution which integrates Risk Management methodologies into Revenue Intelligence products. The new solution, which is based on the TM Forum's emerging standards, enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to proactively prevent revenue leakage by providing automated tools for ongoing monitoring on the risk level. Currently Revenue Assurance (RA) and Fraud practices are mostly reactive in nature and focused on retrospective experiences, therefore their effect on preventing leakages is limited. In addition, operators usually rely on intuition to identify high leakage areas or utilize one-off consulting services when initially deploying the RA and Fraud solutions. In reality there is a need for ongoing consulting and business support with the use of automated tools which have the capabilities to identify, measure, and mitigate risk. cVidya's ProactiV provides these capabilities.

Typemock to Host ‘10 Secret Unit Testing Tips to Become Agile’

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:16:05 EDT

Typemock (http://www.typemock.com), the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, will be hosting a webinar titled: 10 Secret Unit Testing Tips to Become Agile. The webinar will include insights from Typemock's top developers on how to take unit testing to the next level in agile teams. Typemock, as a company, not only preaches unit testing as a core agile value but incorporates unit testing practices in all its product development. Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager of Typemock said: "I'm looking forward to presenting this webinar. It's an opportunity to discuss the real life aspects of Unit Testing and concentrate on how to succeed with lessons learned by developers who do that for a living."

Replacing Excel with a Web-Based Project Time Solution

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:11:00 EDT

Herrmann is an innovative company that offers intelligent, economic and future-oriented solutions. The pillars on which the company was founded 30 years ago and still cherish are intensive consultation, cooperation and consistent orientation to the needs of customers. The company used to manage its projects by collecting information from each employee into excel sheets. About two years ago it decided to build a centralized application to manage and monitor this data and also add functionalities in order to be able to analyze and export the working time data of projects.

Typemock Offers a ‘Power Mocking’ Unit Testing Bundle

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:44 EDT

Typemock, a provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, has announced today the launch of ‘PowerMocks for Windows', a product bundle which includes Typemock's easy unit testing solutions for Windows .NET and C++ (Isolator .NET and Isolator ++) and enables organizations that develop on multi-platforms to benefit from parallel and powerful solutions whilst saving over 25% on the list price. The Isolator tools enable easy unit testing - the foundation of agile development - of any Windows .NET, C/ C++ code (including complex code such as statics, C globals and non virtual method) by allowing the test to intercept and fake behaviours. Isolator .NET and Isolator ++ API's are specifically designed to make tests more concise, more resistant to production code changes and easier to understand for new users. They provide clear guidance and error messages to help with writing unit tests which ensures that time is not wasted re-writing them.

cVidya Appoints Amit Daniel as EVP of Marketing and Business Development

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:25:00 EDT

cVidya Networks,provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced on Tuesday that they have appointed Amit Daniel as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Amit has over 17 years experience in senior marketing and commercial positions in the Communications and Telecoms industries worldwide and her responsibilities will include strategic marketing, product management and business development. “We are delighted to welcome Amit Daniel to cVidya and are looking forward to the impact she will have on our company”, commented Alon Aginsky, President and CEO of cVidya Networks. “Amit has been responsible for various product offerings and roadmaps throughout their product lifecycle and brings rich market and product experiences from her previous executive positions to our organization. We are confident that she will help us with our long term strategies as we enter the next stages of growth, namely, maintaining our leadership whilst entering new markets.”

The Importance of Unit Testing in C++

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:15:00 EDT

Unit testing is a best practice in any modern methodology, including Agile development. With automatic unit testing in place, if we introduce a bug into the software, one or more tests will fail and we'll know about it immediately. We've been writing in C++ for almost 30 years now, and we use software development tools, which improved over time. Yet, because of the intricacies of C++ and its different variants, testing tools did not become as advanced as Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET tools, or Eclipse for Java. For example, the testing tooling for C++ in Visual Studio lags behind the tools for the other languages supported in Visual Studio.

Gizmox Receives Strategic Investment from Citrix Systems

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EDT

Gizmox, the developer of the award-winning Visual WebGui (VWG) web, cloud and mobile delivery platform, has announced that it has received a strategic investment from Citrix Systems. As part of the investment, Gizmox and Citrix are working together to enable enterprises to deliver existing and new applications to the rapidly expanding set of HTML5-enabled devices. This will drive further innovation in delivering applications to any device, anywhere. VWG technology enables data-centric enterprise applications to run on HTML5 Web, Cloud and Mobile platforms as secured-by-design rich applications without plug-ins. In 3 years, Visual WebGui has more than 1,000,000 downloads of its software and over 35,000 VWG applications that are already in production, at first tier organizations such as SAP, IBM, Visa, Thomson Reuters, Shell, Texas Instruments, Good Year and major banks, medical, government and military institutions.

Typemock Launches Easy Unit Testing Framework for Linux

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:00:00 EDT

Typemock, a provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, announced on Tuesday the launch of Isolator++ for Linux. Isolator++ for Linux enables easy unit testing of C++ on the Linux distributions, Ubuntu, Fedora (Red Hat) and SUSE (Novell). This release marks Typemock's ability to offer unit testing tools and mocking frameworks for multiple platforms and enable organizations that work on Windows and Linux to benefit from one solution for both platforms. Isolator++ for Linux enables unit testing - the foundation of agile development - of any C/ C++ code (including complex code such as statics, globals and non virtual method) by allowing the test to intercept and fake behaviours. The API is specifically designed to make tests more concise, more resistant to production code changes and easier to understand for new users which ensures that time is not wasted re-writing unit tests. It also protects the code from regression bugs and allows organizations to feel confident that their final product meets industry standards.

Developing a “Desktop-like” SaaS Contract Management System for USA Today

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:00:00 EDT

When SaaS Web Apps was approached by the top coaching agency, Premier Stinson Sports, to develop a Sports Contract Management System to be used by their firm in partnership with USA Today and the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University Law School they knew they would need to find the right solution to that would enable them to create a customizable rich web application that operates like a desktop one. The sports contract management system would be needed for collecting, analyzing and recording college coach and athletic directors' employment contract data and each partner had unique requirements as well as common ones in the usage of the system.

How to Start Unit Testing .NET Projects

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:00:00 EDT

The benefits of unit testing such as shortening the development time, reducing development costs and releasing higher quality products, are well known. Below you can see a Software testing guide about how to start unit testing .NET projects. The first tool you need is a testing framework. You have a couple of choices there. If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional or above, you already have the Microsoft unit testing framework installed. The framework comes also with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

cVidya Launches Solution to Help Service Providers Monetize Cloud

Tue, 24 May 2011 15:53:00 EDT

cVidya Networks, a provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, has launched IRIS for Cloud Services, its integrated revenue intelligence solution suite to help Communications Service Providers and other Cloud Service Providers monetize their Cloud Services. The announcement was made at the TM Forums' Management World in Dublin. ‘IRIS for Cloud Services' allows Cloud Service Providers to generate more revenues from their cloud services, whether SaaS (software-as-a-service), PaaS (platform-as-a-service) (PaaS) or IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-Service), without compromising margins. It provides a solution for combating fraud, stopping revenue leakage, assuring margins via pricing analytics, as well as channel and ecosystem relationship management.

The Difference Between Unit Testing and Integration Testing

Tue, 24 May 2011 12:15:00 EDT

What is a unit test? A unit test is: Repeatable: You can rerun the same test as many times as you want. Consistent: Every time you run it, you get the same result. (for example: Using threads can produce an inconsistent result) In Memory: It has no "hard" dependencies on anything not in memory (such as file system, databases, network) Fast: It should take less than half a second to run a unit test. Checking one single concern or "use case" in the system: (More than one can make it harder to understand what or where the problem is when the problem arises.) By breaking any of these guidelines, you increase the chance of developers either not trusting or not believing the test results (due to repeated false failures by the tests), or people not wanting to run the tests at all because they run too slowly.

Migration for Dummies

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:34:28 EDT

There are a number of top 10 lists of considerations for the cloud, which primarily are designed to help you decide if you should move to the cloud or not. But once you have made the important decision to migrate your app to the cloud, the below offers a list of important things to check before moving to the cloud.

No Developer Will Be Left Behind

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:30:39 EDT

SME’s now find themselves on the same playing field as large companies in developing and migrating web and cloud applications

A Second Chance for Desktop Developers

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:50:21 EST

Are experienced developers increasingly obsolete as younger, new developers come on the scene? Visual WebGui CEO Navot Peled doesn't think so.

Visual WebGui Joins ASCII Group’s Solution Alliance Network

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:18:03 EST

The ASCII Group, Inc. (ASCII), the nation’s oldest and most established community of independent managed service providers, system integrators and solution providers welcomes a new edition to their growing Solution Alliance Network – Visual WebGui. This alliance will provide additional benefits and education for the ASCII membership in targeting the growing Rich Internet Application and Cloud Computing market.

Independent software vendor cuts development budget for internal timecard application by 66% using Visual WebGui

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:36:18 EST

When Embedded Resource Group (ERG), an engineering contract, consulting and full-time placement corporation headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, sought to create a new system for submitting on-line timecards for employees, it’s search successfully led to an implementation with Visual WebGui.

Visual WebGui platform enhances its SDK with the integration of jQuery in its new 6.4 version

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:37:13 EST

Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform announced today the release of its Visual WebGui 6.4 beta 1 version. The new version offers enhanced performance as well as enhanced customization, extension and user interface designing capabilities. The expanded capabilities include the integration of the jQuery library for faster behavior customization and user interface extension.

No New Skills or Training Required

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:45:00 EST

"The ease of designing a web page in Visual WebGui is unmatched to any other web solution I have evaluated… Visual WebGui was easy to get acquainted and got me started with building an architectural plan within few working days." ISG always looks to update and upgrade its ERP solutions to the latest technologies available. Dhruv is a tour costing system that was designed for a tour operator which provides custom-designed holidays to their clients. The product has been developed using Visual WebGui and uses MS SQL 2005 as the database. The solution integrates into the client's CRM that was developed by another vendor and uses PHP and MySQL. Most of the application is in 3-tier and uses NHibernate.

New Year’s Resolutions from a Cloud Platform CEO

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:30:00 EST

Sometimes it seems that on a daily basis there are new technologies, and it is difficult for developers to try everything and figure out what is really ideal. In fact, it often seems that new technologies are released just for the sake of it, as they do not bring any real breakthrough or even progress in functionality or productivity when compared to their predecessors. I resolve this year to work harder to encourage both developers and technological companies to create tools that really make a change, and which allow us to be more productive or achieve what was not possible in the past without the need to learn new skills each time a new tool is released.

Another Visual WebGui-Enabled Business Tool

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Visual WebGui, a platform for developing business and industry tools, announced a new application with the launch of E-grou’s 5.0. Visual WebGui has increasingly become the choice tool for developers creating corporate and management solutions for businesses of all sizes. Its latest success was confirmed by E-grou, an online document management and workflow collaboration service. Since 5.0, E-grou has been providing a secure and configurable vault specific to individual user´s access rights. It enables control of document life cycle information, control of document versions, management of mail and email records, and participation in ad-hoc and structured workflows.

Visual WebGui to Reveal Cloud Application Platform

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST

Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui, today announced that it will reveal its application platform atop Windows Azure and its development framework, VWG platforms offers a push-button .NET desktop legacy application migration path to Windows Azure. With VWG enterprises will be able to migrate to Windows Azure, by reusing their existing Windows software code on Windows Azure without re-write or re-engineering.

German ISP 1&1 Internet Chooses cVidya’s Revenue Assurance Product for Partner Invoice Reconciliation

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:01:43 EST

Verismic increases Green IT with its Visual WebGui based PC Power Management solution

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:01:33 EST