As a customer's overall experience becomes the biggest driver of profit growth, corporate technology departments increasingly look to service-oriented architecture technologies to make the entire organization flexible and market-centric, according to the results of a survey of almost 150 participants attending the recent Siebel Customer World conference.
ORLANDO—Appistry, Axentis and Opsware are some of the vendors that took advantage of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to introduce new product upgrades.
Sen. Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, introduced on Tuesday a nonbinding resolution intended to keep Internet oversight out of the hands of the United Nations.
Tableau Software probably isn’t the first name that comes to mind when you think of data visualization software, but the company Monday announced version 1.5 of its data visualization suite, touting usability and connectivity improvements, such as out-of-the-box support for Microsoft’s forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database release.
Service-oriented architecture and enterprise service buses will affect app dev and integration over the next 5 years, according to Roy Schulte, a Gartner analyst, at this week’s Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla.
Symantec’s biannual Internet Security Threat Report highlights the degree to which computer systems attackers now rely on modular code. Although the number of new vulnerabilities is beginning to level off, the number of malware variants is increasing.
The Free Standards Group, a not-for-profit org that promotes open-source software standards, and the Linux Standard Base workgroup announced Tuesday it formed the LSB Desktop Project.
Web enabling or exposing mainframe applications to new and different constituencies—including non-mainframe applications—is supposed to be easy, provided organizations have prepared by separating their app’s business logic from its presentation logic.
Market researchers at IDC have come up with eight significant, industry-changing trends they say will reshape the enterprise software industry.
The SOA Leaders Council, a community of SOA end users, announced the findings of a survey it conducted at SOA Leaders Council meetings in June and July of 2005.
Service-oriented architecture is helping companies expand the capabilities of their supply chain, according to a report released by the Aberdeen Group.
Siebel Systems announced on Monday a new online self-assessment tool intended to guide organizations in determining their preparedness to complete stages of the Siebel Customer Experience Blueprint.
CEB is a six-step process that Siebel recommends businesses follow for front-office solutions, notably CRM.
Macromedia and Mercury Interactive announced on Monday a plan to integrate Mercury’s Quality Center and Performance Center products with Macromedia’s Flex 2 product line.
On Monday, Software AG cut the ribbon to its new North American SOA Competency Center, which it says will help orgs understand how SOAs, within their environment, implement SOA and measure results. The company says it assists businesses reduce the time and cost of implementing SOA.
U.S. organizations will open their wallets to increase IT spending next year, growing 5.5 percent, according to a preliminary results from a Gartner survey.
Security software maker Trend Micro says the majority of corporate computer users is familiar with the risks of spyware, but half think IT should be doing a better job educating them to deepen their understanding of the threat.
Healthcare providers and insurance companies won't be the only ones facing challenges brought on by our aging population. Software developers are increasingly called upon to provide applications and systems that take into account age-related disabilities and other physical limitations.
Twenty-seven leading manufacturers of wireless LAN equipment this week announced an industry coalition to push the acceptance of a new, faster Wi-Fi standard.
Big Blue this week plans to contribute software development blueprints to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers make fewer coding mistakes.
Oracle and Zend Technologies began working together in May to develop a PHP 5.0 distribution integrated with the Oracle database client library.