Deloitte Consulting, a professional services organizations, and iRise, an app definition software and services company, announced on Tuesday that they have signed a new alliance agreement. The alliance aims to help clients reduce the cost and effort associated with software development projects, while helping improve the effectiveness of these initiatives, the two companies say.
What's the biggest stumbling block for the Symbian device OS? According to D’arcy Salzmann, senior product and tools partners manager at Nokia, it's the lack of a coherent tools story.
IT pros can expect starting salaries in 2006 to increase an average of 3 percent over 2005, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology 2006 Salary Guide.
The next time you feel like complaining about your software management challenges, consider Don Rasure's problem: Much of the software he looks after is in space.
LogicLibrary and AgilePath announced on Monday that the two companies will incorporate AgilePath’s SOA Playbook methodology into Logidex’s metadata repository. The combined offering is intended to be an out-of-the-box solution for service identification and modeling combined with SOA governance and enablement.
The word “consolidation” summons visions of cost savings and operational efficiencies that leave enterprise execs salivating over their balance sheets. Industry analysts report that between 60 and 80 percent of IT departments are pursuing server consolidation projects.
When Dr. Gautam Shroff met CollabNet cofounder Brian Bellendorf in 2003, Shroff's company, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), was in the market for tools to help with internal management of its increasingly distributed software development activities. Neither expected the meeting to turn into a partnership.
Sun Microsystems on Monday said it has integrated Java Enterprise Systems (Java ES) and its suite of developer tools within the Solaris OS to provide developers a complete, open and affordable software solution.
Systinet announced on Monday the release of version 6.0 of its Systinet Server product family for creating Java and C++ Web services.
A group of storage-industry leaders that includes IBM, Cisco Systems, Computer Associates and Sun Microsystems disclosed this week plans to form a new open-source community to build a common platform for managing all brands of storage systems.
Computer Associates is set to port its Unicenter Database Management System to Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 operating system, supporting both Oracle and IBM databases. CA also plans to make its BrightStor storage management solutions available on the OS.
Lots of people talk about the growing success of open-source software, says Winston Damarillo, but few recognize that much of that success comes from technical underpinnings that make open source work.
IBM on Tuesday announced new open-source software and support, based on core technology from the J2EE-certified Apache Geronimo application server.
ObjectWeb, an international nonprofit consortium of companies and research organizations, yesterday announced Petals, a project aimed at developing an ObjectWeb Java Business Integration (JBI) platform.
Healthcare IT specialist DINMAR, in conjunction with the Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, announced on Monday the completion of the first stage of a broad-scale implementation of DINMAR’s Java-based electronic health record platform, Oacis EHR.
The relative success or failure of an IT project may depend on the exact meaning of the word success. That’s one upshot of new research from consultancy Cutter Consortium, which found that IT projects premised on quality improvements—such as increased customer satisfaction, product quality or staff productivity—were much less likely to fail than projects evaluated in terms of other objectives—such as whether they came in on time and under budget.
Cape Clear Software said on Monday that it will host a series of SOA Architects Forums--free, interactive workshops to provide practical guidance for service-oriented architecture implementations.
According to a new Aberdeen Group research report, "Service-Oriented Architecture in the Supply Chain: What Supply Chain Managers Need to Know," companies are adopting SOA to solve their most pressing technology issues.
Think the damage from security breaches can be contained? When it comes to consumer opinion, don’t count on it. According to a recent survey, only 8 percent of consumers who receive a security breach notification do not blame the organization that suffered the breach. In addition, 19 percent of consumers who received a notification took their business elsewhere, and 40 percent were considering doing so.
What’s hot for 2006? According to salary researcher and management consultancy Foote Partners, data management is a sizzling technology sector.