Earlier this week, Microsoft took the wraps off its upcoming CRM 3.0 suite, which includes several new features and the opportunity for customers to choose between on-site licensing or subscription-based licensing for customers that prefer a hosted offering.
There's a deafening buzz in service-oriented architecture around repositories,
which appear to be emerging as a core component of SOA. What is actually emerging,
says Miko Matsumura, is an integrated registry-repository model, which could
serve as the core technology of what amounts to an SOA platform.
Hardware-based two-factor authentication has been around for about two decades, but interest in sign-on solutions that require something you know (your password) and something you have (a hardware token) has recently gotten some serious gotten mass-market attention.
The biggest challenge today’s IT organizations face isn’t selecting the right technologies—it’s finding skilled developers to perform complex, multi-platform integration tasks, often involving legacy systems. That need, in turn, is helping drive the outsourcing of application development.
Caseworkers for the State of Wisconsin needed to access their records, but it was hard to do with the state’s IT infrastructure. Wisconsin operates more than 30 agencies whose staff accesses applications and critical information on about 5.5 million Wisconsin residents that is housed on mainframes and servers.
Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems will serve as co-specification leads for the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 spec, the two companies announced last week (6/29).
When Sentara Healthcare decided to add a manager self-service application for human resources to its Web portal last year, senior business analyst Judy McConnell began gathering requirements for the project.
Oracle recently proposed it will lead the Eclipse Foundation’s tooling project for Business Process Execution Language. BPEL helps simplify the development of service-oriented architecture applications, consequently helping to reduce cost, complexity and inflexibility of integration projects.
IBM is extending its 11-year-old Java licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems for another decade.
Sun Microsystem’s announcement this week of its intent to purchase SeeBeyond Technology shakes up the application integration space, but the impact of the deal will largely depend on Sun’s skill in executing the purchase.
Microsoft MSN and Vodafone have teamed up to launch an instant messaging service between computers and mobile phones. The service will combine some 165 million MSN Messenger users with nearly an equal number of Vodafone customers worldwide.
The World Wide Web Consortium recently approved XML Key Management System 2.0, adding public key management to the W3C XML Security Framework.
Chip designer ARM has unveiled a new version of its Java acceleration technology designed to reduce application memory footprint and increase the speed and overall performance for mobile handsets running Java applications.
The RFID revolution may have a price: network data overload. As radio frequency identification technologies proliferate, the torrent of information generated by the world's burgeoning bevy of RFID tags threatens to clog the corporate net.
It's time for the software industry to recognize that code quality is in a critical state, says Nigel Cheshire, CEO of Enerjy Software. It is, he says, the most underestimated problem facing the industry.
Trilibis Mobile recently introduced SmartPath Mobile Publishing, an app dev platform the company says will enable developers to create an app once that will work on every mobile, application platform, handset and network.
Quest Software has introduced a new version of its JProbe Suite, a performance toolkit for Java code tuning. The new version is intended to help developers and QA teams diagnose and resolve complex memory and performance problems to find and fix problems faster in their J2EE and J2SE applications, the company says.
Sun Microsystems is expected to use its annual JavaOne developer conference, under way this week in San Francisco, as a launch pad for new initiatives aimed at Java jocks.
Sun Microsystems is set to make a number of announcements at the company's annual
JavaOne developer conference this week at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
With a four-person development team spread around the world, the IT department of global medical charity organization Mercy Ships (www.mercyships.org) turned to Borland’s JBuilder 2005 and Together 2005 products to modernize its IT architecture and to take advantage of Web services and open-source systems.