On the verge of shipping Windows Vista, Microsoft is touting a new initiative aimed at using systems integrators to provide enterprise customers with application compatibility testing and remediation in advance of deploying the new system.
Microsoft began shipping the beta test release of version 1 of ASP.NET AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), previously codenamed "Atlas."
ESBs or Web services approaches to integration can work well in many enterprises. However, take a look at a middleware alternative that can successfully streamline integration better.
Technologies for software localization—the process of translating a UI from one language to another and adapting it to foreign cultural references—have been around for about 15 years, but the modern global marketplace has spawned a new generation of specialized localization tools.
Microsoft's release of its Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack for Supply Chain Management is the first in a series of technical resources. OBAs are designed to help guide the development of what Redmond calls "a new breed of applications" that use Office 2007 as a platform.
As expected, Microsoft released what it terms Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 on Friday. The move was widely predicted after at least two Microsoft-focused Web sites jumped the gun and released information and links pointing to the download earlier in the week.
Dallas-based iTKO is releasing an upgrade to its SOA testing platform this week. The LISA 3.5 Complete SOA Test Platform is a Java-based toolset designed to automate testing without requiring any coding.
ESBs provide a multitude of services for an enterprise committed to optimizing IT in support of business processes.
Release targets software reuse and Simulink model integration.
Building and executing workflows without a traditional Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is possible using Microsoft .NET 3.0 technologies.
Is wrestling with your software builds a fact of life? Not necessarily.
More beta testers are welcome to take the final pre-release version of Windows Vista, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), for a test drive, the Redmond software maker announced on Friday.
OnWeb for Customer Information Control System transforms CICS data into standards-based XML for integration and SOA initiatives.
ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft's target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006.
According to the Yankee Group, 60 percent of businesses cling to legacy software for four to six years. Research fellow Laura DiDio says that’s because enterprises are concerned with the cost of migration. But should they be?
Oracle has just released a new version its free, browser-based app dev tool: Application Express 2.2. Known internally as APEX, the tool has been integrated with all editions of Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database Release 2.
It’s a challenge to bring the mainframe into the modern age of service-oriented architecture but there’s a huge payoff once the job is done.
Skeptics might have scoffed when Business Objects SA announced plans to develop a version of its ubiquitous Crystal Reports reporting tool for Eclipse, but—as savvy industry-watchers note—there is a certain undeniable logic to this move. After all, the development world isn’t an Eclipse-only enclave.
Web services can be a tangled web indeed when developers are responsible for building them with legacy data. But move over mainframe experts, a new solution eases the process for users working within any dev environment.
Companies are already using Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX features, a few even in production environments. Microsoft reports more than half a million downloads of the free "Atlas," now available as a Community Technology Preview, with Go Live license.