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.
Nokia's announcement that it joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member should come as no surprise to anyone watching either the software development tools market or the embedded systems space, says Nasser Iravani, director of the developer support network, Forum Nokia.
IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications.
Just in case you weren’t paying attention: webMethods released on Monday the results of a survey that reveals SOAs and Web services are catching on with global 2000 companies.
Pacific Edge Software recently introduced new IT governance software that allows companies to develop products for project portfolio management.
Have you noticed how lately, when the conversation turns to distributed computing, grid and cluster are used as synonyms? These two words do have different meanings, Donald Becker reminds us.
Compuware said on Monday it will introduce a new version of Compuware DevPartner Studio that will integrate with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 IDE.
Forum Systems recently introduced its Unified Policy Management application, which creates, manages, deploys and governs service-oriented architecture security policies and Web services.