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?
Oracle unveiled a major platform initiative Tuesday aimed at telecommunications providers. The new Oracle Service Delivery Platform (SDP) is designed to support carriers, network operators and systems integrators who are moving to service-oriented architectures.
Developers working on business process management now have another ally on their side with a major upgrade to Pegasystems SmartBPM Suite.
Compuware is scoring well with both long-time and new users with its recently released TestPartner 5.4, the functional testing module of its QACenter Enterprise Edition suite.
Regardless of how Microsoft spins its recent acquisition of ProClarity, it marks a departure from the back-end-centric (and notionally partner-friendly/vendor-neutral) BI strategy on which the software giant first rode to BI prominence.
SOA Software has begun shipping its Service-Oriented Legacy Architecture or SOLA, a platform that exposes CICS mainframe apps as Web services. The company claims it’s the first to bridge the gap between mainframe databases and apps and the distributed world.
OASIS today announced that it has approved the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.
Salesforce.com's acquisition of wireless software maker Sendia for $15 million in cash is a small deal by industry standards, but something of a milestone in the rapidly evolving software-as-a-service (SaaS) market segment.
Last month, IDC’s FutureScan tracker for IT spending went through the roof, indicative—IDC said—of increasing bullishness among IT buyers. (FutureScan uses leading indicators and customer surveys to measure industry-wide supply and demand). At the time, however, IDC cautioned that its March projections—which exceeded 11 percent—were anomalous.
How do you stay at the top of the heap in the business software game? If you're SAP, you do it through “organic growth,” not blockbuster acquisitions.
EMC has introduced a managed services portfolio that enables customers to manage their information storage infrastructure with help from onsite EMC personnel.
Lumen Software has released two free utilities: Lumenation v6.0 SDK LightBulb, a middleware framework, and AJAX z-Windows engine. According to Lumen, it aims to provide users with business-ready AJAX/LAMP+ app dev, no matter their backgrounds in platforms such as Java, ASP, FoxPro, Access and Dbase.