Enterprises vying to take advantage of the capabilities in service-oriented architecture now have another product to choose from—Allen Systems Group recently released its SOA starter kit.
In an effort to help enterprises comply with government regulations and join the service-oriented architecture drive, Hewlett-Packard introduced new software to its OpenView line, targeting these areas.
The Eclipse Foundation says the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project version 1.0 is now generally available.
JBoss has introduced a program for its partners that it says will help them handle demand for JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) in mission critical deployments. Certified partners will provide third-party technologies, integration, migration and services to support JBoss products.
It’s no secret that developers dabble in open source even if their primary development environment is Microsoft’s .NET. According to a study by Evans Data, one in five developers whose primary IDE is Visual Studio .NET has also written at least one Linux application. The study also indicates that more than half the .NET developers surveyed used open-source components in their application development.
When Iron Mountain lost 40 backup tapes containing personal information about 600,000 current and former employees of Time Warner earlier this year, it grabbed headlines, but it wasn't such big news. The Time Warner incident came just weeks after Bank of America reported losing backup tapes containing financial information about more than 1.2 million federal employees, including 60 U.S. senators. And a month before that, Ameritrade acknowledged losing backup tapes containing information about 200,000 clients.
Oracle has unveiled its product information management solution. Announced last year, the Oracle PIM Data Hub is designed to enable customers to centralize all product information from heterogeneous systems, creating a single product repository that can be leveraged across functional departments.
In response to customer demand, IBM announced its strategy to address the software as services market. IDC forecasts the market will grow at an annual compound rate of 21 percent to $10.7 billion in 2009. The growth is largely attributed to customers’ increased desire for flexibility and the ability to access business functions remotely as a service with usage-based pricing.
Lifecycle management tops the industry buzz phrase list these days, but the notion that companies need to integrate the various roles in the software development process—from business analysts to system architects, designers, developers and testers—isn't just marketing speak.
The process of developing embedded systems software and the process of developing software for desktops and servers have a lot in common. But the differences are dramatic. Embedded software is usually targeted to specific hardware. And often, the software and hardware are being developed at the same time.
IBM Rational has announced two new tools to bridge the traditional gap between enterprise IT operations and application development by integrating its testing and development tools with its Tivoli application management software.
IBM launched its alphaWorks Web site in 1996 as an emerging technology showcase for developers. A component of IBM’s developerWorks, alphaWorks is where IBM publishes early implementations of technologies and research prototypes, primarily for early adopters.
IBM recently introduced software it says will allow companies to share and compare information, while protecting private and sensitive personal information.
All states face compliance regulations when it comes to taxes. Tax gaps usually arise between the tax owed and the amount collected, which is the thrust behind tax audits: to reclaim that missing money. The state of Texas took a proactive approach to reducing its tax gap by implementing SPSS predictive analytics technology to aid in the process.
It looks like gloomy skies ahead for IT professionals, if the crystal-ball gazers at Gartner turn out to be right—5 years from now. Analysts at the market research firm predicted at a conference in Barcelona earlier this week that the number of IT pros will shrink by 15 percent come 2010.
IBM and Nortel Networks have signed a new agreement to collaborate on product development and marketing. As part of the agreement, the two companies are establishing a development center in Research Triangle Park, NC.
The watchword of Sun Microsystems' new specialized service-oriented architecture practice is pragmatism.
DirecTV Group kicked off its enterprise architecture project last July with the idea of putting silos of information into a uniformed system.
Throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, goes the old saw, and it'll jump right out. But drop him in while the water is cold, turn up the heat very slowly, and he'll never know he's being boiled. Although it turns out not to be true (according to Dr. Victor Hutchison, a professor from the University of Oklahoma), that story is an apt metaphor for the way developers have come to accept a very high level of complexity, says Mills Ripley, marketing manager at Appistry.