IDC White Papers: The Sun Certification and Team Performance

Sun explored the impact that certification on team and organizational performance in recent research conducted with IDC. This research is available in two white papers that can be accessed via the links below.

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 .

White Paper Abstract The Sun Certification and Team Performance: The Impact on System Administrators Historically, there has been little research that attempts to describe the impact of certification on specific system administration metrics. Based on a global research study of 75 IT teams responsible for system administration, this white paper identifies several performance metrics for system administrators and compares the performance of teams with various concentrations of certifications. View the entire White Paper The Sun Certification and Team Performance: The Impact on Application Developers Based on a global IDC research study of 293 IT teams responsible for application development, this document identifies 10 key performance metrics for application developers and compares the performance of teams with various concentrations of certifications. View the entire White Paper