Next-gen enterprise data centers will be smaller, more nimble and efficient, and focused on delivering new and innovative services, according to new research from IDC.
What is workforce performance management and why should it matter to you? A growing number of organizations are investing in WPM solutions to help them proactively identify and retain top IT talent.
Toshiba and MIT’s Media Lab plan to launch the “GlobalMind” project, a large-scale knowledge database designed to promote advancements in the field of AI technology.
Seagull Software, a provider of solutions that transform legacy business apps into service-oriented architecture assets, announced that LegaSuite for CICS supports a migration path for customers using IBM's Message-Driven processor.
Actuate announced the general availability of Actuate BIRT 2.0, a business intelligence and reporting tool, based upon Eclipse BIRT, an open-source reporting project. BIRT 2.0 allows report developers to import styles from existing Web site CSS files and was designed to deliver ease-of-use and flexibility to report developers, who are typically not Java coders.
Performance management be darned-or (at the very least) nudged aside. Business intelligence (BI) vendors have a very different kind of BPM-viz., business process management-on the brain, as both Cognos Inc. and Actuate Corp. recently notched BPM-related deals with IBM Corp.
Partnerships to provide interoperability among products designed to support governance of service-oriented architectures continue to be announced this week. Infravio and Layer 7 Technologies have completed integration between their respective SOA solutions, X-Registry Platform and SecureSpan.
Commercial tool provider Exadel is rolling out a Web component framework for building apps based on JavaServer Faces components. What's new is that the open source IDE takes some of the development work out of creating AJAX-enabled components.
Xerox Corporation today unveiled DocuShare CPX and DocuShare 5.0; both products, separately or together, handle document and content management for business needs. The company promises mix-and-match flexibility with both types of software on the simplicity of a single platform.
A preview of Genuitec's Matisse4MyEclipse GUI Builder plug-in is available for developers. Matisse4MyEclipse is based on the GUI Builder feature recently released in NetBeans 5.0, which was codenamed Project Matisse. The Genuitec implementation of Matisse enables the creation of Java Swing rich-client apps within the MyEclipse environment.
Jinfonet Software, a provider of embeddable reporting solutions for enterprise applications, and Composite Software, a provider of on-demand data integration, Monday announced they partnered to offer JReport OnDemand Integration. The partners say the product will offer out-of-the-box information integration capabilities and will be co-marketed and co-sold.
Reflex Security’s Reflex VSA, which the company claims is the industry's first virtual security appliance for virtualized environments, enables enterprises to secure those networks with firewall protection and intrusion prevention.
As part of a new business model, Microsoft has begun testing display advertisements across Microsoft Office Live, Windows Live Mail and MSN Spaces.
Lawson Software today announced Lawson Release 9, which the company says lays the foundation for a service-oriented architecture and prepares customers for Lawson's next-generation Landmark applications.
SQL Server Reporting Services has become immensely popular and is now poised to challenge third-party reporting solutions for market share. Don’t look now, but the open-source Eclipse Foundation might have a similar Wunderkind on its hands, the Eclipse BI Reporting Tool project.
Autoweb is launching Fusion-DX, a data integration solution that automates the manual processes associated with product data management and global data exchange.
Idera is rolling out two more tools for SQL Server 2005, SQL diagnostic manager version 4.1 and SQLschedule version 2.5.
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle SQL Developer (formerly code-named Project Raptor), a free database development tool.
Service-oriented architecture vendors Blue Titan Software, TopCoder and Metallect have joined forces with LogicLibrary to support an end-to-end approach to SOA governance, from development through deployment.
Amazon Web Services yesterday announced a storage service, aimed at software developers, called Amazon S3, which it says is low cost, scalable, reliable and low-latency.