IBM is aligning its software and consulting arms to address an emerging business opportunity. The plan is to help companies-driven by globalization, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance-to master their growing data and information management issues.
Software AG has introduced next-gen versions of its Adabas transactional database and Natural development platform.
Microsoft has announced the lineup of its 2007 Microsoft Office system products, previously code-named Office “12.” They include new and improved suites, apps, servers and services. General availability is expected by the end of year.
SAND Technology has upgraded its data archiving and analytics technology, repackaged it and gained certification for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence.
webMethods has taken the wraps off webMethods Access, a new component of webMethods Fabric, which is designed to give enterprises a framework for the rapid assembly of new processes from existing apps and Web services.
Altova said earlier this week that it has come up with a new approach to accelerating the creation of reliable Web services.
According to Gartner, worldwide BI software license revenues should reach $2.5 billion this year-a 6-percent increase from 2005.
rPath is rolling out its rBuilder platform for building Linux software appliances.
Microsoft announced the beta availability of its three MS Office Live services. Previewed last fall, Office Live combines the power of software and services for small companies that want a presence online.
BI vendors say there's been little demand for versions of their software designed to run on Linux or other open-source operating systems. That could change this year, says Mark Madsen, a consultant, who notes there are quite a few open-source BI projects of note.
Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released its beta Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).
Given Borland's announcement of its intent to exit the development tools business, REAL Software announced that Borland Delphi users can receive a free license for REALbasic 2006 for Windows Standard Edition through February 28, 2006.
nVision Software released yesterday an enterprise continuous-availability app called AppVision-CA.
BearingPoint announced an agreement with Google to offer enterprise search solutions.
HP has signed a new open-source bundling license agreement with Novell to offer HP customers a bundled Linux solution based on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and that is certified to run on HP's ProLiant servers and BladeSystem technologies.
Sun Microsystems announced a new suite of infrastructure software, within the Sun Java Enterprise System, designed to help enterprises address the most challenging business integration and Web 2.0 development projects.
Rally Software Development announced the availability of Rally Agile Team and Rally Agile Pro, two editions designed to give software development teams the visibility and collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in short, rapid iterations.
Software AG announced a new service-oriented development environment for its Natural app dev platform as the first new product under its Natural 2006 product line.
An Osterman Research survey of email management practices at 116 companies-averaging 9,400 mailboxes each-found that many orgs still face legal and compliance risks, as IT managers battle a variety of management problems.
Last week, Information Builders (IBI) announced iWay SOA Middleware, an SOA-ready bundling of several iWay components.