International Business Machines Corporation

Ian D Stewart

Jonathan D Dunne

Jeffrey B Sloyer

Jason Flood

Jeremiah O'Connor

Paul Henry McCann

Morten Kristiansen

Risk assessment for a computing system being developed can include receiving a user input specifying a proposed topology for a computing system. The proposed topology is defined by a first software product to be used and an architecture having a first non-functional component. A problem knowledge repository is searched using a processor for records of problems correlated with the proposed topology. A level of risk in implementing the computing system using the proposed topology is calculated according to the searching using the processor.

Graphical user interface for receiving proposed and displaying alternative computer architectures

Project modeling is conducted using variable defect arrival rate or variable defect rate density parameters. These defect rates may be updated on an iteration by iteration basis and may be used to provide remediation and further project modeling, remediation, and prediction.

Project modeling using iterative variable defect forecasts

Historical content corresponding to activity of a user in at least one social networking service is aggregated. The historical content indicates a plurality of collaboration partners with whom the user collaborated via the at least one social networking service in an occupation context. Based on the aggregated historical content, at least one of the collaboration partners can be identified as at least one priority collaboration partner. Whether the user currently is not in a facility where the user works can be automatically determined. Responsive to determining that the user is not in the facility where the user works, a message indicating that the user is not in the facility where the user works can be automatically sent to the at least one priority collaboration partner.

Sending an out-of-facility notification based on aggregated content from a task management system and communications with at least one collaboration partner in an occupation context

Implementing security in social applications includes inferring a closeness level of a connection to a user's profile of a social application based on a closeness policy and implementing a security level individualized to the connection based on the closeness level.

Implementing security in a social application

Sending an out-of-facility notification based on aggregated content from a task management system

Methods and computer program products relate to single sign on (SSO) availability including identifying a set of single sign on applications in a system in which a user authentication for a first application is used for other applications in the set of applications monitoring the set of applications to determine availability of single sign on for each application, and providing an indication of the availability of single sign on for each application.

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