The Sammons Financial Group wanted a handle on the information on its network to satisfy compliance, security and privacy requirements.
SOA enthusiasts have been trumpeting a coming generation of composite applications—applications that are composed of multiple, independent, plug-and-play services.
On Tuesday, JBoss and Microsoft announced plans to enhance the interoperability between JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) and Microsoft Windows Server products and to increase JBoss support for the Windows Server operating system.
Fair Isaac this week acquired RulesPower to complement Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor rules management system.
World-class IT organizations spend 10 percent more than other companies, and have fully loaded IT wage rates that are 32 percent higher than their peers, according to 2005 Book of Numbers research from The Hackett Group, a business process advisory firm.
Looking to learn Java? Try Learning Java Through Applications, a new book by Duane J. Jarc, professor of computer of science at the University of Maryland-University College. Learning Java Through Applications’ unique approach “emphasizes Java’s graphical capabilities and the ability to create graphical user interfaces,” according to its publisher.
Versant has enhanced Java support, including an Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 application programming interface, in the new version of its object database.
JBoss recently released a beta version of its development software designed to simplify writing complex Web applications in Java.
Iron Mountain, which provides records management and data protection services, is advising its off-site data protection customers to encrypt their backup tapes.
This week’s new buzz phrase is master data management, apparently a hot topic for the world’s largest companies, according to Kalido.
From a competitive perspective, the Series 8 business intelligence suite Cognos announced last week was not necessarily earth-shattering. After all, one of its biggest selling points is integration: it’s the first Cognos release based on the company’s ReportNet architecture; it boasts a unified user interface; and it delivers what Cognos says is seamless integration between and among its BI functions.
irtualization has gained a lot of mainstream industry traction recently, thanks in part to the success of companies such as VMWare, which nearly single-handedly revived interest in technologies that provide a logical rather than a physical view of computing resources.
AAA Carolinas has about 900 employees across North and South Carolina, serving 1.5 million residents. For years, the company processed all of its customer information through an AS/400-based insurance policy system, manually pushing “a lot of paper” through AAA Carolinas, says Harry Johns, the company’s manager of insurance information technologies.
Oracle president Charles Phillips kicked off the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference, under way this week in San Francisco, with a keynote focused on the convergence of the company's three lines of business—database systems, middleware and applications—which are combined in the company's implementation of a service-oriented architecture called Oracle Fusion Architecture.
Oracle disclosed details of the enhancements planned for the upcoming Oracle Application Server 10g release 3 at this week's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
ClearNova this week introduced ThinkCAP JX, a rapid application development platform that allows developers to build intuitive Web-based applications.
SRC recently released a set of tools for developers that add business intelligence functionality to the Google mapping application programming interface.
Large-scale service-enablement is a doomed enterprise for one important reason, some codejockeys argue: bureaucratic infighting.
Symantec released yesterday its Internet Security Threat Report, for the first 6 months of the year, in which the company says Internet attackers are more frequently targeting desktops rather than enterprise perimeters.
IBM recently released a beta of an executive portal called IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, which allows executives and other members of an organization to monitor their own goals and objectives, link objectives to others in the company, and explain how one objective relates to an organization’s overall strategy.