Developer Support

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Premier Support for Partners: A Winning Strategy

David Weiler, Application Development Manager, explains how the Premier Support for Partners relationship provides value above and beyond traditional technical support. Most already know about Premier’s fantastic support for Enterprise customers and Software Development Teams. If you are running a business that relies on Microsoft...

Premier ITSM Testing Services: Features and Benefits (Part 1)

Sanjeev Gogna and Charles Ofori, Senior Application Development Managers, discuss the features and benefits of ITSM Testing Services provided through Premier Support for Developers.   This is the first of a three part series to discuss the importance of testing and spotlight the resources available through Premier Support and our IT ...

What’s next for Developers in 2015?

2015 is positioned to be an exciting year for developers.  Considering the momentum around announcements at Connect and with Build 2015 right around the corner, now is a good time to be thinking about modernization and cloud strategy.  If you haven’t significantly revised the way you build apps and run development projects...

Why you are failing with Waterfall – Consider Agile and Scrum

Rick McGuire, Senior Application Development Manager, shares what many development teams are discovering in their effort to build better software: Agile has many advantages over traditional waterfall methodologies. Surprisingly there are still a lot of development teams clinging to the old Waterfall methodology for software ...

Development practices to minimize OS end of life risks

Derrick Sharpe, Senior Application Development Manager, talks about application compatibility and how to minimize the risk associated with OS end of life transitions. In case you haven’t heard by now Windows Server 2003 support ends on July 14, 2015.  Microsoft will no longer patch Windows Server 2003 for new security ...

When QA Testing isn’t enough to keep your application error-free

Linkai Yu, Senior Application Development Manager, discusses his experience with enterprise applications that fail after being deployed in production and how Premier Developer works with customers to resolve and prevent these types of issues. Even though Applications Go Through Rigorous Tests It’s true that most applications ...