Sun Microsystems honored the winners of its 4th annual Duke's Choice Awards last week at the JavaOne conference. The awards are given to the most innovative Java-based apps of the year. The contest attracts a wide range of submissions from developers and companies around the world. The winners are selected by James Gosling, VP and Sun fellow, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun.
Open-source application integration software is getting accolades from end users who previously spent “weeks and weeks of man hours coding integration tools and utilities to process data.”
Apparel manufacturer The Marena Group had relied on in house programming talents to exchange orders and product information data with business partners. Jitterbit changed all that.
Sunbelt Software recently released Sunbelt Messaging Ninja, its new third-generation enterprise messaging security solution for Microsoft Exchange. The product includes antivirus, antispam and antiphishing features, and attachment filtering, which is free for a limited time.
Application integration has become a crucial challenge, both for developers designing the apps, and businesses acquiring them, says Gartner. The analyst firm examines the five major trends affecting app development in the face of widespread integration.
QualityLogic launched XPSLab, a developer toolset for document testing and analysis in the new Microsoft XPS format. It features utilities for statistical analysis, for editing PrintTicket settings and attaching them at any level, and for reassembling XPS files that have been separated for rendering and printing, so that users can view, analyze and edit them.
Oracle says it’s growing faster than SAP. It points to more than 500 companies that have invested in Oracle over SAP in the last 9 months, as well as documented SEC filings on market share.
Dicom Group recently announced the Kofax Document Scan Server, a product that adds scanning capabilities to business apps without the need for additional hardware, software or process disruption. Eliminating specialized drivers, the company claims, saves money previously allocated to IT setup, training and troubleshooting.
Nearly two-thirds of IT decision-makers aren’t confident they can prevent bots from infecting company PCs when they are not connected to the corporate network, according to a new survey.
COBOL remains the most widely deployed programming language in big business, accounting for 75 percent of all computer transactions. These apps can now integrate with SAP NetWeaver, according to Software AG, which recently announced the extension of its Legacy Integrator adapter family.
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.