Key Findings:

• Development Teams with 50% of the teams members certified on relevant Sun technologies and processes perform at the top tier of operational performance.
• Having 50% of a development team certified in Java (Sun certified) can improve performance in application development by more than 40% over teams with no certified team members.
• For system administrators, for example, teams with high concentrations of certified staff had about 20% more of the corporate servers centrally managed, increasing efficiency and reliability.
• Teams with Sun certified system administrators met their deployment commitments up to 88% of the time (30% more often than teams without Sun certified administrators) which is particularly important in high availability or shared services environment.

This Webcast, brought to you by Sun Microsystems, will present IDC research on key behaviors and trends in successful IT performance. It will draw on specific examples in the areas of application development and system administration. IDC analysts Steve Hendrick, Group Vice President, Application Development and Deployment Research, and Cushing Anderson, Program Vice President, Project-Based Services, will present their findings and opinions of key behaviors and how those key behaviors help IT organizations specifically related to developing new applications and managing systems and applications.