Beginning to incorporate a service-oriented architecture into the enterprise sounds great, but managing the associated services, interfaces and metadata is a critical element. SOA management products, such as those for metadata management, are thus becoming more and more important.
Conventional wisdom about software platforms is that the largest companies run IBM and Java technologies, ceding much of the mid- and smaller business market to Microsoft and .NET. But that’s hardly Big Blue’s view of the future.
Service-oriented architectures are facilitating the evolution of traditional siloed, proprietary call/contact centers into standards-based, multi-channel doorways into the enterprise. So says Brian Garr, program director and segment manager for contact center solutions in IBM’s software group.
If you think dealing with burgeoning data volumes inside the enterprise is a challenge, spend a day with the folks on the front line.
Sun Microsystems officially released to open source the "lion's share" of its Solaris operating system source code—approximately five million lines, including the kernel, networking stack, libraries and commands for the Solaris 10 OS.
Capitalizing on two of the hottest IT topics for 2005 according to Gartner–SOA and open-source software–Skyway Software is shipping a version of its SOA platform for the open-source Linux operating system.
Enterprise build management is an industry buzzword today, but back in 1995,
when Tracy Ragan and Steve Taylor recognized the need for a commercial enterprise
build management tool, no one was talking about it.
Few software companies have beat the security-begins-in-the-application-development-process drum louder than automated software testing solutions vendor Parasoft Corporation. “Prevent errors as you write the code,” is the company mantra (if not exactly its slogan). The advent of service-oriented architectures that support wide-scale use of Web services makes that message even more urgent, says Wayne Ariola, Parasoft’s VP of corporate development.
In the wake of its first-ever worldwide user conference, Wind River Systems
made a spate of announcements around "refreshes" across its product
line. The biggest news for device software developers is the company's plan
to "radically redefine the development tools space" with four new
configurations of its Workbench dev tool.
Swiss company Canoo, is offering developers a free portlet integration code that can be used with Canoo’s UltraLightClient to create and run Rich Internet Applications as portlets on a portal server.
Linking business intelligence to operational processes is one of—if not the most—important goals of enterprises, and the data that is derived is priceless.
In 2002, when IPLocks was founded, the enterprise database security conversation was all about perimeters and encryption, and the company’s products reflected that focus. But the conversation has taken a turn in recent years. Organizations are concerned about internal intrusions, the misuse of sensitive information by trading partners and sustaining regulatory compliance. IPLocks has responded to that shift with a broader approach, says CTO Adrian Lane, which it calls information risk management.
Macromedia's recently announced agreement with wireless telecommunications company Qualcomm to develop and distribute Flash Lite applications and multimedia content to BREW-enabled mobile handsets and mobile operators in the U.S. may be the mass-market mobile opening for technology Macromedia has been searching for, says Ovum analyst Tony Cripps.
Tibco Software and Defywire announced a new partnership to offer Tibco customers real-time access to business processes via wireless devices, using Defywire’s mobile Java-based software.
BEA Systems has unveiled a new line of products for the emerging service infrastructure market, and launched a rebranding campaign to freshen its image.
Is virtualization technology changing the software distribution paradigm for developers? VMware thinks so. As evidence, the company points to its newly launched VMware Technology Network Web site, where some of the industry's biggest ISVs are making their software available prepackaged in virtual machines.
In the fiercely competitive travel industry, where airlines must do all they can to stay afloat, one airline has found a way to turn data into dollars. Independence Air captures more than one gigabyte of operational data per day on such things as flight loads, geographical market, price points, booking curves, seasonality, time of day, timeliness, lost baggage and revenue accounting.
There's a new player in the open-source database game. Startup EnterpriseDB emerged from stealth mode last month to launch the first public beta of its flagship product, a PostgreSQL-based database management system: EnterpriseDB 2005.
If you’re wondering what your organization should invest in, Gartner’s ideas may help you decide. Gartner is encouraging IT firms to make room in their programs and budgets for five key topic areas this year: open-source software, voice/data convergence, service-oriented architecture, IT utility and global sourcing.
Quest Software recently introduced its latest version of Toad for Oracle, used to manage database objects, create and debug PL/SQL, and create, execute and optimize SQL queries. The database tool is aimed at Oracle Real Application Clusters, Citrix and terminal server environments.