Sun Microsystems unveiled a new solution this week designed to consolidate and virtualize an SAP environment and the applications around it. And that’s only the beginning.
ePartners released a desktop scorecard tool customized to each customer's business and features key performance indicators for three roles: Executive Dashboard for CEOs, Sales Dashboard for sales execs, and Financial Dashboard for CFOs.
The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 specification was approved by the Java Community Process Java EE/SE Executive Committee in a unanimous vote last week. The spec brings ease-of-development features and a simplified component model to the platform.
JBoss has released JBoss Portal 2.4, which adds support for the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) spec.
Tax preparation software provider Orrtax is already working on the next release of its IntelliTax suite of products for the 2006 tax year. To streamline product development, Orrtax will use change management tools from Seapine Software.
Microsoft and SAP plan to ship their jointly developed Project Mendocino software, now known as "Duet," in June. The software is designed to allow users of Microsoft's Office applications to access selected SAP business processes and data.
Innovation is globalizing, and more than 75 percent of new research and development sites planned over the next 3 years will be established in China and India, according to a recent survey. However, it reports few companies growing their R&D networks have the internal capacity to run them efficiently and effectively.
Later this month BI powerhouse Business Objects will release two products extending its Crystal family of reporting and analysis tools. The company is also expanding its offerings in the enterprise information management market with data aggregation, metadata management and data quality apps.
The Ubiquity Developer Network, a community of developers, partners and customers who share an interest in developing services based on the SIP standard, was launched Monday. Ubiquity claims UDN will shorten time-to-market and expand the availability of a broader range of new multimedia Internet apps, such as VoIP, multiplayer gaming and location-based services.
Above All Software is rolling out a Knowledge Pack that will enable companies to mine services from their existing implementations of SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7 and automatically generate business services.
Unemployed, underemployed, or just looking to turn your IT career around? Starting late last year, management consultancy Foote Partners LLC says, premium pay for non-certified IT skills skyrocketed, growing 300 percent faster than pay for certified IT skills.
People chuckle at the phrase “end-user programming,” yet, IBM's new PHP-based QEDWiki project (“quick and easily done wiki”) is focused on that very concept.
“Data is useless unless risk managers can turn it into actionable information," says Tim Heinze, product and field ops leader for GE Insurance Solutions Global Asset Protection unit. GE just unveiled two new releases of MyAnalysis, a real-time, Web-based data analysis tool for enterprise risk management.
Several service-oriented architecture vendors have joined forces to support SOA Link, an end-to-end SOA Governance Interoperability Initiative.
CA is taking its cue from car dealers everywhere. The software giant plans to let DBAs take a test drive—on a more or less permanent basis—its database management console.
“The devil you know:” a loaded reference from one analyst referring to the promotion of Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz to CEO on Monday. Rob Enderle says Sun remains “largely a damaged property” in need of a turnaround.
JasperSoft announced yesterday at the MYSQL User Conference that JasperServer, the company’s new open-source BI server, is available now.
The IT industry has caught on to something that mainframe pros have known for years: virtualization—of CMOS resources, especially—matters.
Two trends in the embedded systems space are underscored by Vitutech's release of a simulation model of the Freescale MPC8641D dual-core processor: the advent of multicore processors and the growing demand for "concurrent" development.
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. both want your business intelligence (BI) dollars, and they don’t care who knows it. In fact, both vendors recently made moves that—to varying degrees—put them at odds with their partners in the broader BI tools space. This begs an important question. They already own the database tier and have been steadily building BI capabilities into their RDBMSes for nearly a decade, so can BI market dominance be far behind?